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Geek Learning.

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Clark, Caleb John – TechTrends, 2000

Defines a "geek" as a person in love with technology, computers, and the Internet, and suggests ways that technology-training professionals can discover their "inner geek" to improve their ability to design appropriate learning and performance systems. Presents actions to take and examples for game playing; exploring; embracing technology;…

Descriptors: Computer Attitudes, Computer Literacy, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Software

Psychology Experiments.

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McGraw, Ken; Tew, Mark D.; Williams, John E. – TechTrends, 2001

A goal of the PsychExperiments project was to reduce the financial burden on psychology departments for hardware/software used in their laboratories. In its third year, the PsychExperiments site now hosts 39 experiments. Over 200 classrooms worldwide have signed up as official site users and there have been nearly 10,000 data sessions conducted.…

Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Uses in Education, Experiments, Higher Education

Don't Use a Hammer: Appropriate Educational Uses Based Upon the Characteristics of Network Tools.

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Dennison, Russell F. – TechTrends, 2000

Discusses a typology that can be used to guide educators in selection of cyberspace tools to accomplish specific tasks. The typology consists of four main divisions of properties: number of people communicating; real-time communications; permanency of communications; and automatic delivery to audience. These four divisions result in 16 possible…

Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Networks, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Uses in Education

Learning To Make Meaning without Making "Sense": New Media for Juxtaposing Words To Create Imagery.

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Reinartz, Tom, Jr.; Hokanson, Brad – TechTrends, 2001

The authors recount some challenges associated with teaching poetry to high school students and describe how an interactive software program to generate "found" poetry based on student input helped simulate dialogue about words and word choices. (AEF)

Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Software Development, Computer Uses in Education