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Scrutinizing The Cybersell: Teen-Targeted Web Sites As Texts, Darren Crovitz
Scrutinizing The Cybersell: Teen-Targeted Web Sites As Texts, Darren Crovitz
Faculty and Research Publications
Darren Crovitz explains that the explosive growth of Web-based content and communication in recent years compels us to teach students how to examine the “rhetorical nature and ethical dimensions of the online world.” He demonstrates successful approaches to accomplish this goal through his analysis of the selling techniques of two Web sites targeted to a teen audience and his description of a project in which team members devise ways to teach students to consider the language and design elements of a selected site.
Assessing Online Discussion Forum Participation, Matthew Shaul
Assessing Online Discussion Forum Participation, Matthew Shaul
Faculty and Research Publications
As a socially constructive learning tool, discussion forums remain central to online education. They have continued to evolve in functionality, acquiring ever-increasing usability features. However, development has lagged in providing instructors the means to assess student work in forums. The author submits an overview of his software program that provides instructors with the means to evaluate forum work quickly, easily, and repeatedly. The software accomplishes this by accessing the forums' underlying database, searching for manifest and latent data, and calculating data associated with an array of metrics. This is a Web-based tool built on Open Source and standards-based languages, providing …