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Game Changers: Six Technologies That Are Transforming Community College Education and Job Training
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Zurier, Steve – Community College Journal, 2013
Few professors teaching at community colleges today expect students to learn every nuance of every technological device they are likely to encounter throughout the course of their careers. Educators can expose students to enough of a base so that when the technology does evolve--and it will--they have the confidence and ability to adapt and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Higher Education, Job Training, Technology Uses in Education
Extreme Makeover: School Edition--How the 2009 Sylvia Charp Award Winner Used Technology to Transform a Once Struggling School District
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Camhi, Shari L. – Learning & Leading with Technology, 2010
When new leadership assumed responsibility for the Glen Cove School District back in 2005, it was in dire need of a makeover. State test scores were dismal, and its high school had fallen onto the New York Schools in Need of Regents Review list. Failed budgets had forced the district to operate under contingency restrictions, including a…
Descriptors: High Schools, School Districts, Academic Achievement, Technology Uses in Education
The Effect on Learning, Communication, and Assessment when Student-Created Youtubes of Microteaching Were Used in an Online Teacher-Education Course
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O'Connor, Eileen A. – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2011
This pilot study within an online teacher-education course required pre-service teachers to develop self-videotaped microteaching lessons which were posted in a private YouTube. Analysis of the students' YouTube lessons, course postings, and peer interactions found that students learned the technology requirements quickly, were able to develop…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Education Courses, Performance Based Assessment, Microteaching
There's Gold in Those Contracts
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Diaz, Russell – Campus Technology, 2009
In 2006, when the author joined the staff at Dominican College (New York), he discovered that the network, computers, and IT contracts were in sorry shape. He also found that this kind of condition is common in small colleges. Such a state of affairs is usually brought about by the unrelenting demands placed on small IT staffs. IT staffers at…
Descriptors: School Business Relationship, Small Colleges, Information Technology, Computer Networks
Context Aware Ubiquitous Learning Environments for Peer-to-Peer Collaborative Learning
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Yang, Stephen J. H. – Educational Technology & Society, 2006
A ubiquitous learning environment provides an interoperable, pervasive, and seamless learning architecture to connect, integrate, and share three major dimensions of learning resources: learning collaborators, learning contents, and learning services. Ubiquitous learning is characterized by providing intuitive ways for identifying right learning…
Descriptors: Management Systems, Group Discussion, Educational Environment, Models
The Expansion of Technology in New York State's Schools.
Stoll, Peter F. – New York State School Boards Association Journal, 1990
The results of two recent statewide surveys dramatically underscore the continued expansion and use of technology for instructional and management applications in New York State's school districts. The first survey is the fall 1989 Basic Educational Data System (BEDS) School Data Form Survey, which is completed annually by all public and nonpublic…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Managed Instruction, Computer Peripherals, Distance Education