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Stock, Mark – School Administrator, 2006
In this article, the author discusses blogging and its benefits. Blog is shorthand for weblog, which is a series of items posted on the Internet for others to read. It usually includes text, images, and links to other websites. Blogs provide a running commentary or conversation. Although many people use blogs as online journals, detailing the…
Descriptors: Internet, Web Sites, Journal Writing, Computer Mediated Communication
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Cawthon, Tony W.; Forney, Deanna S.; Bramhall, Ron; Dagley, John C.; Davis, Tracy L.; Dunn, Merrily S.; Hinton, Kandace G.; Howard-Hamilton, Mary F.; McMahon, Timothy R.; Paisley, Pamela O.; Taub, Deborah J. – New Directions for Student Services, 2004
This chapter offers tips and additional books, films, television shows, Web sites, and other media resources for teaching and training.
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Films, Books, Television
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Miller, Susan; Adsit, Karen I.; Miller, Ted – TechTrends: Linking Research & Practice to Improve Learning, 2005
This study investigates the elements that are currently contained in representative school-based websites and the degree to which various users of school websites value specific features that are included. Participating groups of this study include: third-, fourth-, and fifth-graders at Cloud Springs Elementary (CSE), Ringgold, Georgia; all…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Web Sites
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Bird, Nora – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2006
The World Wide Web (Web), the largest multimedia system in existence, has been heralded by many as the perfect tool for lifelong learning. One topic mentioned in this regard is science, since many adults have little prior knowledge about it and the field is constantly changing. Yet little empirical research has been done to examine how web…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Learning Theories, Lifelong Learning, Internet
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Folinas, Dimitris; Manthou, Vicky; Vlachopoulou, Maro – Industry and Higher Education, 2006
The Virtual Pre-Incubator Accelerator (ViPiA) is a two-year project funded by the European Commission. The main goal of the programme is to create a training package for would-be entrepreneurs to assist them in developing their new venture concepts to a level at which they become attractive to potential investors. This paper describes and…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Virtual Classrooms, Online Courses, Web Sites
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Pirolli, Peter – Cognitive Science, 2005
This article describes rational analyses and cognitive models of Web users developed within information foraging theory. This is done by following the rational analysis methodology of (a) characterizing the problems posed by the environment, (b) developing rational analyses of behavioral solutions to those problems, and (c) developing cognitive…
Descriptors: Internet, Models, Web Sites, Cues
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Fehrenbach, Carolyn R.; Morris, Maxine G. – Science Activities: Classroom Projects and Curriculum Ideas, 2004
Identifying Internet sites to coordinate with National Science Education Standards can be challenging for teachers and students. By identifying quality free Internet sites in science, teachers and students can use the extensive resources of the Internet to enhance learning and instruction while meeting National Science Education Content Standards…
Descriptors: Science Education, Internet, Web Sites, National Standards
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Ruffini, Michael F. – International Journal of Instructional Media, 2004
Teachers and students use multimedia software to create interactive presentations and content projects. Popular multimedia programs include: Microsoft's PowerPoint[R], Knowledge Adventure's HyperStudio[R], and Macromedia's Director MX 2004[R]. Creating multimedia projects engage students in active learning and thinking as they complete projects…
Descriptors: Course Content, Cartography, Computer Software, Multimedia Instruction
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Ballard, Sharon; Stapleton, Joy; Carroll, Elizabeth – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2004
The use of technology in university and college classrooms has changed in recent years to include the use of course Web sites as a supplement to face-to-face instruction (Green, 2000). Despite this increase in the use of course Web sites in college courses, limited attention has been given to student perceptions of this pedagogical tool. This…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Student Attitudes, Web Based Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Leahy, Margaret; Twomey, Denis – Educational Media International, 2005
This study involves a group of over 300 third-year Bachelor of Education students attending St Patrick's College of Education, Dublin, Ireland. Working in groups of not more than three, the students completed an assignment to create a WebQuest. On construction of the WebQuest the students were asked to reflect on the experience, considering issues…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Cooperative Learning, Preservice Teachers
Barrow, Dana – Liberal Education, 2004
While the web has become many people?s first sometimes only stop when they are looking for information, for many academics it remains a slightly suspect source. Aside from a limited number of trusted sites created by major players in the media, science, and arts establishments, academics rely on nothing less than peer-reviewed journals,…
Descriptors: Arabs, Internet, Islamic Culture, Web Sites
Robinson, George – Journal of Secondary Gifted Education, 2004
Going on an expedition enables teachers to become better scientists and researchers and, thus, better classroom instructors. Teachers have the opportunities to go on exotic field trips around the world as amateur research assistants, do hands on research in their own backyards, or vicariously experience another scientist?s work via the Internet. A…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, Research Assistants, Field Trips, Research Methodology
Bishoff, Liz – Library Journal, 2004
If your museum's web exhibition on ancient Egypt has links to circulating books at the public library, chances are the two institutions are collaborating. Most museum and library collaboration in this country has been of this sort--at the local level. Rarely do are statewide or even regional resource collaboration found. Thanks to the digital…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Libraries, Web Sites, Elementary Secondary Education
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Connell, Ruth Sara; Mileham, Patricia J. – Public Services Quarterly, 2006
At Valparaiso University's main library, the Christopher Center for Library and Information Resources (formerly the Moellering Library), student employees are an integral part of day-to-day operations. Students work at the reference desk and must be able to handle reference questions. Since the fall 2000 semester, the Reference Services Librarian…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Tests, Academic Libraries, Reference Services
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Szekely, Anna; Jacobsen, Thomas; D'Amico, Simona; Devescovi, Antonella; Andonoa, Elena; Herron, Daniel; Lu, Ching Ching; Pechmann, Thomas; Pleh, Csaba; Wicha, Nicole; Federmeier, Kara; Gerdjikova, Irina; Gutierrez, Gabriel; Hung, Daisy, Hsu, Jeanne; Iyer, Gowri; Kohnert, Kathryn; Mehotcheva, Teodora; Orozco-Figueroa, Araceli; Tzeng, Angela; Tzeng, Ovid; Arevalo, Analia; Vargha, Andras; Butler, Andrew C.; Buffington, Robert; Bates, Elizabeth – Journal of Memory and Language, 2004
Picture naming is a widely used technique in psycholinguistic studies. Here, we describe new on-line resources that our project has compiled and made available to researchers on the world wide web at http://crl.ucsd.edu/~aszekely/ipnp/. The website provides access to a wide range of picture stimuli and related norms in seven languages. Picture…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Familiarity, Norms, Language Acquisition
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