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Facilitating An Online Community Among Community College Peer Tutor Trainees, Matthew Robert Ruzicka Jan 2005

Facilitating An Online Community Among Community College Peer Tutor Trainees, Matthew Robert Ruzicka

Theses Digitization Project

The project presents a web-based component for a tutor training program at College of the Desert, Palm Desert, California. The application is designed to be responsive and adaptable to the tutor's needs. It also addresses the logistic and pedagogical problems that plague many community college tutor trainers and helps to mitigate this through an online instructional system that facilitates communication among the tutors so that learning can occur in a situated context.


Integrating Computer Software Within The Houghton Mifflin Language Arts Program, Leslie Serine Ouren Jan 2005

Integrating Computer Software Within The Houghton Mifflin Language Arts Program, Leslie Serine Ouren

Theses Digitization Project

This project was created for third grade teachers who use the Houghton Mifflin Language Arts series and want to integrate computer software into their writing curriculum. The website created includes all the writing assignments that the students are to complete and the required software used to complete the assignment.


Evaluating Webquests And The Needs Of A Webquest Rubric, Kimberly Marie Rountree Jan 2005

Evaluating Webquests And The Needs Of A Webquest Rubric, Kimberly Marie Rountree

Theses Digitization Project

Investigates how teachers evaluate WebQuests in an effort to describe and identify a common, generalizable rubric that new users of WebQuests could use. The investigation included how often the teachers who were surveyed used WebQuests in the classroom, and what these teachers used to evaluate WebQuests. Examines whether teachers are using rubrics they had created themselves, or WebQuest rubrics that are provided for them.


Development Of A Web Site For Korean Returning Students And Their Parents To Help Their Process Of Re-Adaptation, Hamila Song Jan 2005

Development Of A Web Site For Korean Returning Students And Their Parents To Help Their Process Of Re-Adaptation, Hamila Song

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project was to develop a website to relieve Korean returnees' reverse culture shock and help their re-adaptation process. A website can be an outstanding resource for returnees in terms of accessibility because the target audiences are scattered all over the world.


Digital Collage-Access To Inspiration: The Use Of Multimedia As A Catalyst For Creative Thought, Frederick George Still Jan 2005

Digital Collage-Access To Inspiration: The Use Of Multimedia As A Catalyst For Creative Thought, Frederick George Still

Theses Digitization Project

This paper takes the position that creativity can be enhanced by multimedia. Computer software was designed and a study was conducted to measure that proposition. The author used participant self-analysis as a means to gather data on creativity enhancement holding to the presupposition that people can tell when they are creative and when their creativity is inhibited. The results of the study supported the belief that multimedia and the software designed for that purpose was able to enhance creativity.


In Time On Time: Website For Teachers Of English To Speakers Of Other Languages, Starley Beatrix Dullien Jan 2005

In Time On Time: Website For Teachers Of English To Speakers Of Other Languages, Starley Beatrix Dullien

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of the "In Time On Time TESOL" website for Teachers of English to Students of Other Languages (TESOL) is to provide adult-education teachers online access to classroom managing techniques, teaching and learning strategies, and online resources based on constructivism and adult-learning theory. The instructional design and navigation structure is based on Random Access Instruction (RAI) and hypertext theory.


Online Tutor Training: An Alternative To Person-To-Person Training, David James Reyes Jan 2005

Online Tutor Training: An Alternative To Person-To-Person Training, David James Reyes

Theses Digitization Project

This project examines the creation of an online tutor training Web site designed to teach those tutors at the California State University, San Bernardino's Learning Center who cannot attend tutor training in person. The training Web site utilizes the instructional design ADDIE model.


Using A Teacher Created Website To Provide 24/7 Access To Student Assignments: An Abstract, Dianne Lenore Austin Jan 2005

Using A Teacher Created Website To Provide 24/7 Access To Student Assignments: An Abstract, Dianne Lenore Austin

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project was to create a website that would assist students in the process of submitting the correct assignments with a minimal amount of frustration for all parties concerned: teachers, administrators, parents, and students.


Comparison Of Effectiveness Between Merit Software And Traditional Grammar Instruction For Ninth Grade Students, Cynthia Joann Furr Jan 2005

Comparison Of Effectiveness Between Merit Software And Traditional Grammar Instruction For Ninth Grade Students, Cynthia Joann Furr

Theses Digitization Project

Purpose of the project is to determine whether Merit Software program, "Write it right" could be effective in a whole class setting (using one computer) rather than in a computer lab. The further purpose was to identify if this strategy was more effective than the use of the traditional textbook method of grammar study in the ninth grade. Lesson plans and a software description are included.


Measure It!: Developing An Electronic Resource For Scientific Measurement Skills, Gregory Berenato Jan 2005

Measure It!: Developing An Electronic Resource For Scientific Measurement Skills, Gregory Berenato

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of the project was to develop an electronic resource that would provide a tutorial for students and offer opportunities for practice of measurement skills.


Assisting Students With Concept Acquisition In Basic Skills Reading Through The Use Of An Interactive Website, Michele Barbara Laveaux Jan 2005

Assisting Students With Concept Acquisition In Basic Skills Reading Through The Use Of An Interactive Website, Michele Barbara Laveaux

Theses Digitization Project

This project creates an interactive website on the literature surrounding reading and concept acquisition skills in adult learners. This website used in conjunction with the Basic Skills English 10A course given in community colleges will enhance reading and concept acquisitions skills enabling student the self cofidence, encouragement and motivation to complete the course.


Use Of A Video Based Instruction Program To Enhance English Literature And Writing Concepts, Jeffrey Christian Pitcher Jan 2005

Use Of A Video Based Instruction Program To Enhance English Literature And Writing Concepts, Jeffrey Christian Pitcher

Theses Digitization Project

In this project an educational DVD about the life and writing styles of John Steinbeck was developed for use in high school freshman classrooms at Yucaipa High School. Additional activities to stimulate students' writing and composition in the style of Steinbeck were created to match educational theory and state standards.


College Of Education: A Guide To Researching The Animal Kingdom On The Internet, Stephen Michael Williams Jan 2004

College Of Education: A Guide To Researching The Animal Kingdom On The Internet, Stephen Michael Williams

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project was to develop a Web site that would facilitate students' use of the Internet to research topics relating to the study of biology. This Web site serves as a bridge to link classroom topics to real world scientific information and research available on the Internet. Methods of preventing plagiarism and focusing Internet research were incorporated into the overall Web site design.


Web Tools: An Aid For Cognitive Learning, Shari Ann Pate Jan 2004

Web Tools: An Aid For Cognitive Learning, Shari Ann Pate

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project is to provide students and teachers with a disk of tools to aide in the development of Web pages either in the classroom or through online (distance education) learning. Many of the tools supplied on this disk have been field tested in a high school Web design class. When students are allowed to be creative and are able to fuse interesting visual displays the results can be significant in increasing cognitive and multiple intelligences skills.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


Webquest Investigation To Acquire Internet Usage Skills, Patricia Dougherty Allen Jan 2002

Webquest Investigation To Acquire Internet Usage Skills, Patricia Dougherty Allen

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project was to develop a WebQuesst investigation that would facilitate student Internet usage. A WebQuest investigation is an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information that learners interact with comes from resources on the Internet.


Conceptual Guidelines For Educators In The Development Of Their First Educational Websites, Feng-Wen Ho Jan 2002

Conceptual Guidelines For Educators In The Development Of Their First Educational Websites, Feng-Wen Ho

Theses Digitization Project

The Internet is a revolutionary technology that is bound to change every aspect of society and the educational system in particular. Following the rapid spread of the Internet, the new developments in the World Wide Web (WWW) technology have created a high level of interest and enthusiasm among many educators.


Web Page Design Class Curriculum For The Secondary Level, Corey Lamoin Knowlton Jan 2002

Web Page Design Class Curriculum For The Secondary Level, Corey Lamoin Knowlton

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project is to create and implement a web page design curriculum for the secondary level.


Using Computer Technology To Enhance Science Education, Cynthia Lynn Peterson Jan 2002

Using Computer Technology To Enhance Science Education, Cynthia Lynn Peterson

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project is to determine if using computer technology as a tool for conceptual change would be an effective pedagogical strategy in replacing science misconceptions.


A Backwards Approach To Instructional Design, Dirk Martin Davis Jan 2002

A Backwards Approach To Instructional Design, Dirk Martin Davis

Theses Digitization Project

This project describes the outline for an effective procedure for a backwards design approach as it relates to a technology integrated unit of study.


Building A School Web Site, Darin Jay Clark Jan 2002

Building A School Web Site, Darin Jay Clark

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project is to review the literature on the importance of creating school web sites and to show how Dartmouth Middle School can successfully plan an effective site. The project focuses on the significance of having a school web site as a way to add to the communication process between school and parents.


Educational Technology: An Online Tutor Training Course, Cd Jackson Jr. Jan 2002

Educational Technology: An Online Tutor Training Course, Cd Jackson Jr.

Theses Digitization Project

The goal of this online tutoring course project is to institutionalize an online tutoring training course. This instructionally designed model will target College of the Desert students serving as tutors. The students taking this course will generally be freshmen and sophomore students. A questionnaire was used to determine what the needs would be in order to build the online course.


Integrating Reading, Language Arts, Science, And Social Studies Curriculum With The Use Of Technology, Bonney Elizabeth Waters Jan 2002

Integrating Reading, Language Arts, Science, And Social Studies Curriculum With The Use Of Technology, Bonney Elizabeth Waters

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of the project was to develop three thematic units for fifth grade that intergrate California State Standards in Reading, Language Arts, Science, and Social Studies with the use of technology. The benefits of doing so allows instructional time to be spent on more in depth study of the disciplines, Students make connections across curriculum which allows them to develop a deeper understanding of what is being taught. Also, integrating curriculum with technology engages students and allows them to have more control over their learning environment. When students are actively involved in what is being taught, they will internalize …