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Instructional Media Design

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Effects Of Computer Troubleshooting On Elementary Students' Problem Solving Skills, Anne Todd Ottenbreit Aug 2003

Effects Of Computer Troubleshooting On Elementary Students' Problem Solving Skills, Anne Todd Ottenbreit

Masters Theses

The lack problem solving skills exhibited by students has generated concerns at national and state levels of education (Coleman, King, and Ruth, 2001). If the educational technology curriculum involved computer troubleshooting, students could possibly increase their problem solving abilities. Because computer troubleshooting follows similar procedures to problem solving, there is possibility of an educational transfer and could be easily included into the educational technology curriculum. The purpose of the research study was to discover if the computer troubleshooting curriculum designed by the researcher affected the elementary students' problem solving abilities. Technology education at the elementary level includes keyboarding and 'practice …


A Clinical Instructor Online Training Course For Radiologic Technologists, Christine Marie Beaudry Jul 2003

A Clinical Instructor Online Training Course For Radiologic Technologists, Christine Marie Beaudry

All Graduate Projects

An online training module was developed for Radiologic Sciences Clinical Instructors at Clinical Education Centers for Yakima Valley Community College. This training module orients new Clinical Instructors to accreditation standards, as well as orients them to student and technologist requirements for the Radiologic Sciences Program.


A Comparison Of Traditional Versus Computerized Anxiety Assessment Using Personal Digital Assistants, Wesley Alan Smith Jan 2003

A Comparison Of Traditional Versus Computerized Anxiety Assessment Using Personal Digital Assistants, Wesley Alan Smith

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

The usage of the personal computer has become more prevalent in the field of psychology. The advent of the Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) has opened a new area of possible clinical application. These pen-based devices allow for a more natural interface and more mobility. The feasibility and application of the PDA for personality assessment will be examined in this study. Does having a test administered by a PDA lead to a significant change in response patterns compared to a test administered by the traditional pen and paper method? The purpose of this study was to examine differences in the anxiety …


Instant Access: Developing A High School Web Site For Staff, Students, And Community, Keri Lynn Freestone Jan 2003

Instant Access: Developing A High School Web Site For Staff, Students, And Community, Keri Lynn Freestone

Theses Digitization Project

This project describes the inception and development of a high school web site along with subsequent implementation issues, limitation, benefits, and recommendations visual design and learning principles and the history of hypermedia are also discussed, and a model is tendered for other schools to follow when constructing a web site.


A Tutorial System For Studying Chromatography Techniques, Hossam Mohamed Hassan Jan 2003

A Tutorial System For Studying Chromatography Techniques, Hossam Mohamed Hassan

Theses Digitization Project

The goal of this project is to use the Generic Tutorial System for the Sciences (GTSS) tools to develop a prototype interactive chromatography simulation with the Chrom-Quiz system. This will demonstrate Chrom-Quiz/chromatography integration as a teaching system.


Web Accessibility: Ensuring Access To Online Course Instruction For Students With Disabilities, Inez Celeste Everett Jan 2003

Web Accessibility: Ensuring Access To Online Course Instruction For Students With Disabilities, Inez Celeste Everett

Theses Digitization Project

The number of instructors introducing web-based elements in the course curriculum is growing and students need to be able to access content on the web to participate. As such, a campus website with accessibility design standards for course developers at California State University showed potential to greatly assist in equalizing the educational playing field for students with disabilities.


Web Development In Correspondence To Motivating Fourth Grade Students To Gain Knowledge Of California History, Carolyn Eve Ramirez Jan 2003

Web Development In Correspondence To Motivating Fourth Grade Students To Gain Knowledge Of California History, Carolyn Eve Ramirez

Theses Digitization Project

The goal of this project was to determine whether using a web-based project incorporating John M. Keller's ARCS model would motivate students to want to learn and explore new ways of learning. California history was taught to fourth grade students, including English as a second language students and Title 1 students, through a website. Lessons incorporated online quizzes, web designing, PowerPoint, Excel and other computer programs.


Creating An Online English Course For Redlands High School, Joshua Miguel Alejandro Murguia Jan 2003

Creating An Online English Course For Redlands High School, Joshua Miguel Alejandro Murguia

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of the project was to develop an online course in the hopes of cutting some of the costs of the typical "brick and mortar" class while at the same time offering senior students the opportunity to take a class outside of the physical campus.


Relational Database For The Master Of Arts In Education Instructional Technology Program, Keith Anthony Castillo Jan 2003

Relational Database For The Master Of Arts In Education Instructional Technology Program, Keith Anthony Castillo

Theses Digitization Project

This project was created to develop a database for students and teachers to allow accurate, efficient and reliable tracking of student's academic information. The database was designed specifically for faculty and students within the Master of Arts in Education, Instructional Technology Program at California State University, San Bernardino.


Videos Educativos: El Uso De La Tecnología En La Elaboración De Materiales Generados Por El Alumno., Maria Clara Herrera Rekow Jan 2003

Videos Educativos: El Uso De La Tecnología En La Elaboración De Materiales Generados Por El Alumno., Maria Clara Herrera Rekow

MA TESOL Collection

El siguiente documento se basa en la narración y comentarios acerca de la elaboración de un video para la enseñanza del español. El video en cuestión fue planeado, producido y editado por los alumnos del octavo grado de la escuela Hyla y servirá como material suplementario en los cursos sexto y séptimo durante años venideros. A través de este manuscrito se hará una descripción y análisis de los acontecimientos que ocurrieron a lo largo del proyecto y se discutirán las técnicas de enseñanza que se usaron durante su elaboración. Uno de los objetivos principales de este documento es servir como …


Let’S Play Cards. Grammar Is Fun. (How And Why I Have Taught English To My Students), Tomi Yukimune Jan 2003

Let’S Play Cards. Grammar Is Fun. (How And Why I Have Taught English To My Students), Tomi Yukimune

MA TESOL Collection

In Japan, most students have to memorize grammar rules to pass entrance examinations to high schools as well as universities. As speaking skills are not required in those exams, many students regard grammar as nothing but rote learning. However, grammar is not dried bones but a vivid creature, which can be formed by students. Grammar can be learned with the four skills (speaking, listening, reading, writing), which is addressing diverse learning styles. It can be taught with stories, poems, plays, songs, games, puppets, picture books, and playing cards. Once students learn the rules of grammar, they will be able to …


Lingualib: Linguistic Liberation For The First Year Spanish Student, M. Theresa Cordell Jan 2003

Lingualib: Linguistic Liberation For The First Year Spanish Student, M. Theresa Cordell

MA TESOL Collection

LinguaLib: Linguistic Liberation for the First Year Spanish Student This variation of Mad Libs (a popular party game in the United States) is best suited for middle high school and first year Spanish students who are learning basic vocabulary and grammatical structures. This supplemental material focuses on vocabulary and form; it also elaborates on the culture lessons introduced in most textbooks of this level. The student’s interest and self-expression is piqued when they are invited to alter the authentic meaning of an incomplete text, into their own text, which conveys an improbable message. Students are encouraged to choose from acquired …


Almeria-Mars: A Web Based Robotic Simulation, John Travis Ian Wood Jan 2003

Almeria-Mars: A Web Based Robotic Simulation, John Travis Ian Wood

Theses Digitization Project

This project discusses the concepton of a web-based simulation. In particular, it will deal with the development of a robotic Mars Pathfinder simulation delivered via the World Wide Web.


Instructional Designer's Toolkit: A Practical Approach To The Effective Design Of Instruction, Andrew Casimer Masiewicz Jan 2003

Instructional Designer's Toolkit: A Practical Approach To The Effective Design Of Instruction, Andrew Casimer Masiewicz

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of the project was to develop a web-based instructional design tool. The tool provides guidelines, templates, and checklists to simplify the overall process, and give the designer a path to follow to help manage the instructional design project. It is based on the generalized model of Instructional Systems Design (ISD), but is applicable to the design of instructional materials for delivery by an instructor, by Computer-based Training (CBT), or a combination of instructor-led and technology-based delivery.


The Creation Of A Multimedia Tutorial Based On The Traditional Model Of Communication, Daniel Yates Jan 2003

The Creation Of A Multimedia Tutorial Based On The Traditional Model Of Communication, Daniel Yates

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

Computer mediated multimedia learning is playing an increasingly important role in education. This study seeks to create and implement an interactive multimedia tutorial on the process of communication. The tutorial will be based on the traditional basic model of communication in used entry level undergraduate speech communication courses. The study examines the evolutionary development of the basic model of communication as well as models currently in in use popular textbooks. The study also examines educational theory, visual communication and multimedia learning as they pertain to the creation of the communication tutorial.


Development, Implementation And Evaluation Of An Interactive Multimedia Instructional Model : A Teaching And Learning Programming Approach, Kacha Chansilp Jan 2003

Development, Implementation And Evaluation Of An Interactive Multimedia Instructional Model : A Teaching And Learning Programming Approach, Kacha Chansilp

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

This study sought to explore the outcomes from the use of a dynamic interactive visualisation tool among novice programmers in an introductory computer programming course. The proposed model, Dynamic Interactive Visualisation Tool in Teaching C (DIVTIC), was designed to use multimedia and visual imagery to provide learners with a step-by-step representation of program execution in the C language as a means of enhancing their understanding of programming structures and concepts. DIVTIC was designed to support constructivist learning principles and combined collaborative and visualisation learning strategies with use of the Internet and the World Wide Web to support the learning of …