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Patterns Of 4th Graders' Literacy Events In Web Page Development, Rewa Colette Williams
Patterns Of 4th Graders' Literacy Events In Web Page Development, Rewa Colette Williams
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This study describes in-class and home literacy events that occur when students work in groups to create web pages as evidence of learning the academic content that was presented within a fourth grade classroom. The constructivist approach to learning was the underpinning idea examined as well as its connection to technology and group work. Data were collected in a variety of ways to obtain a picture, as comprehensive as possible, of the oral, listening, viewing, and written on-task communication and interactions that occurred. As the in-class and home literacy events emerged, the competencies and strategies that students used while interacting …
Faculty Adoption Of Computer Technology For Instruction In The North Carolina Community College System., Karen Hill Less
Faculty Adoption Of Computer Technology For Instruction In The North Carolina Community College System., Karen Hill Less
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Computer technology has become an integral part of instruction at the elementary, secondary, and postsecondary levels. Some instructors have enthusiastically adopted technological innovations in their classrooms, often expending their own funds for hardware and software, while others have resisted the trend, citing a myriad of reasons for not including computer technology. Significant research on the adoption of innovations has been undertaken by Everett M. Rogers, who identified individuals on a continuum from Innovator to Laggard. Rogers’ research was used as a basis to classify full-time faculty teaching in degree programs in the North Carolina Community College System and to compare …
Electronic Editing: A Case Study At The Mountain Plains Regional Resource Center, Leonora Tanner
Electronic Editing: A Case Study At The Mountain Plains Regional Resource Center, Leonora Tanner
Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects
Editors have always played an essential role in the document production process. That process has drastically changed with the introduction of technology like desktop computers and word processing programs such as Microsoft Word. However, the editing segment of the process has remained very much the same as it was 20 years ago because of a lack of knowledge about and reluctance to use the editing technologies that has been developed recently.
Multiply-Mediated Households : Space And Power Reflected In Everyday Media Use, Donell Joy Holloway
Multiply-Mediated Households : Space And Power Reflected In Everyday Media Use, Donell Joy Holloway
Theses: Doctorates and Masters
This study investigates how contemporary Australian families incorporate the consumption of multiple media technologies within their home environments. It uses an approach similar to David Morley's (1986) Family Television where he explored the consumption of television programs in the context of everyday family life. He viewed the household (or family) as the key to constructing understandings of the television audience; where there were gendered regimes of watching, and where program choice often reflected existing power relationships in the home. However since then (a time when most families had only one television set) the media environment of many homes has changed. …