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Teaching Strategies For Foster Care Students With Behavior Problems, Nikki Ann Console Jan 2004

Teaching Strategies For Foster Care Students With Behavior Problems, Nikki Ann Console

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this study is to research behavior problems of children in foster care and to identify teaching strategies and techniques for teachers who have foster children in their classrooms and experience difficulties working with them. The project examines the types of behavior problems displayed by abused children.


Teacher Professional Development In Technology Integration, Geraldine Lee Soderquist Jan 2003

Teacher Professional Development In Technology Integration, Geraldine Lee Soderquist

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project was to design, create, and produce a web site for teachers that instructs them on the creating, developing and sharing of Web Quests. Web Quests utilize the wealth of information on the internet to provide a means of moving the teacher away from lecturer and toward facilitator.


Technology Staff Development: Is It Effectively Designed To Increase Classroom Use Of Technology?, Susan Ellen Holliday Jan 2002

Technology Staff Development: Is It Effectively Designed To Increase Classroom Use Of Technology?, Susan Ellen Holliday

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project was to examine the current staff development training program's impact on the integration of technology into the teacher/participants' classroom. This thesis evaluates whether or not training practices were being transitioned to the classroom, which practices need to be added to the training program to increase the implementation of technology into the classrom.


The Effectiveness Of Integrating Technology Into Science Eduaction (Sic) Compared To The Traditional Science Classroom, Kimberly Ann Sigears Jan 2002

The Effectiveness Of Integrating Technology Into Science Eduaction (Sic) Compared To The Traditional Science Classroom, Kimberly Ann Sigears

Theses Digitization Project

The goal of this project is to assist the teacher in integrating technology into a seventh grade science classroom, with an emphasis on the human body systems. Through the integration of technology into science education, this project aided in enhancing the learning environment, while motivating students to become more active participants in their learning experience.


Launchpad: Using Students-Owned Computers In The Classroom, Justin James Whiteford Jan 2002

Launchpad: Using Students-Owned Computers In The Classroom, Justin James Whiteford

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project was to address the need for integrated technology in schools by presenting LaunchPad as a means of implementing student-owned laptops in the classroom.


Teachers' Handbook For Implementing Learning Styles Through Multiple Intelligences, Diedreann Estrada Silva Jan 2002

Teachers' Handbook For Implementing Learning Styles Through Multiple Intelligences, Diedreann Estrada Silva

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project was to provide teachers with different teaching assessement, tools, approaches, and strategies. The context of this problem was to address the need to develop a teacher handbook proposal entitled Teachers' Handbook For Implementing Learning Styles Through the Multiple Intelligences.


A High School Physics Instructor's Website: Design, Implementation, And Evaluation, Richard Neal White Jan 2002

A High School Physics Instructor's Website: Design, Implementation, And Evaluation, Richard Neal White

Theses Digitization Project

In order to test the ability of the Internet to supplement classroom instruction, an instructor-authored WWW site crashwhite.com was developed for two Berkeley High courses: Advanced Placement (AP) physics, and college-prep physics class. The website was intended to supplement classroom instruction by making classroom materials available to students and parents outside the classroom, and to facilitate increased teacher-parent, teacher-student, and student-student communication.


Integration Of The Internet In Career Exploration In Education, James Wayne Asher Jan 2001

Integration Of The Internet In Career Exploration In Education, James Wayne Asher

Theses Digitization Project

The basis of this thesis is a discussion of the pros and cons of incorporating the Internet as an educational tool for exploring career pathways.


A Web Page Of Curricular Resources For The Computer Literacy Class: Grades 7 - 9, Kelly Sue Daly Jan 2001

A Web Page Of Curricular Resources For The Computer Literacy Class: Grades 7 - 9, Kelly Sue Daly

Theses Digitization Project

This project is a web site dedicated to providing computer literacy resources that assist teachers in designing quality, interesting, and educational curricular units directed toward adolescent learners.


Creating A Student Accessible Online Syllabus, Kenneth Louis Decroo Jan 2001

Creating A Student Accessible Online Syllabus, Kenneth Louis Decroo

Theses Digitization Project

This project addresses how to create an online syllabus that is accessible to students and parents, that empowers students to take responsibility for their own learning while enhancing school/home communication, and serves as a graphic representation of what students have accomplished. Web quests are used as the principle means of instructional delivery to engage middle school students in problem-based projects that address real life situations using rigorous and relevant curricula. Elements of an online syllabus and the content of the course it supports are examined. The role, an online syllabus plays in fulfilling the goals of techno-constructivism, the move from …


Video-Based Tutorial On Web Design For The Technophobic Teacher, Richard Ma Jan 2001

Video-Based Tutorial On Web Design For The Technophobic Teacher, Richard Ma

Theses Digitization Project

The aims of this project hope to trace the factors affecting teachers' use of technology, with a concentration on Internet usage, and offer steps in helping teachers move toward integrating the Internet into their curriculum.


Digital Portfolios: Advancing Assessment Through Technology, Sherrie Ann Juras Jan 2001

Digital Portfolios: Advancing Assessment Through Technology, Sherrie Ann Juras

Theses Digitization Project

The project discusses how evolving technologies used to create digital portfolios can demonstrate student achievement in virtually unlimited ways. Evidence of student growth and achievement can be documented digitally. Such evidence can take the form of text, graphics, photos, sound, video data, and can even include database records of standardized or course-end test scores and grades.


World Wide Graphics, Alysha Marie Timmons Jan 2001

World Wide Graphics, Alysha Marie Timmons

Theses Digitization Project

The scope of this project describes World Wide Graphics (WWG) a software package that provides instructors with the tools needed to present a web-based presentation to a group of students while having the ability of enhancing the prepared HTML slide with userdrawn graphics and highlighting.


The Development Of A Curriculum For An Advanced Officer Course In Instructor Development, Colleen Patricia Baker Jan 1999

The Development Of A Curriculum For An Advanced Officer Course In Instructor Development, Colleen Patricia Baker

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.


A Multimedia Paradigm Of Engaged Learning: An Intergenerational Approach, Kymberli Fahlbeck Mulford Jan 1999

A Multimedia Paradigm Of Engaged Learning: An Intergenerational Approach, Kymberli Fahlbeck Mulford

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.


Colonial Russia In California History: A Multimedia Tutorial, William Elmer Martisius Jan 1998

Colonial Russia In California History: A Multimedia Tutorial, William Elmer Martisius

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.


Using The Computer To Motivate At-Risk Students As Writers, Janet Yvonne Parrish Jan 1997

Using The Computer To Motivate At-Risk Students As Writers, Janet Yvonne Parrish

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.


Television And Education: Channel One In Context, Mary B. Nemnich Jan 1995

Television And Education: Channel One In Context, Mary B. Nemnich

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.


An Analysis Of Effective Instructional Techniques Used By Automotive Technology Instructors, Frederick Ernest Franke Jan 1995

An Analysis Of Effective Instructional Techniques Used By Automotive Technology Instructors, Frederick Ernest Franke

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.


Developing A Teacher Directed Inservice Plan For Technology, Robert Norman Charpentier Jan 1995

Developing A Teacher Directed Inservice Plan For Technology, Robert Norman Charpentier

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.


The Influence Of Behavior Modeling And Experience On The Acquisition Of Computer Skills, Mario Enrique Baeza Jan 1990

The Influence Of Behavior Modeling And Experience On The Acquisition Of Computer Skills, Mario Enrique Baeza

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.