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It's the Little Things
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Waters, John K. – T.H.E. Journal, 2007
Information technology (IT) departments are ruled by a kind of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: The big-tech stuff--the operating systems, the networks, the data centers--gets the priority, food-and-shelter attention, while upgrading the backup power supplies, evaluating new projector mounts, and taming that rat's nest of classroom cords fall…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Information Technology, Computer Networks, Computer Security
The Effect of Multimedia Instruction for Chinese Learning
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Lee, Chung-ping; Shen, Chung-wei; Lee, Doris – Learning, Media and Technology, 2008
In Taiwan, lectures are commonly used for younger students to learn their own language, which is traditional Chinese. Passively listening to lectures has led to this group of students making such mistakes as forgetting strokes and word meanings, combining phrases to create incomprehensible blurs of information, and switching radicals with phonetic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Chinese, Grade 2, Multimedia Instruction
Motivating Faculty to Use Multimedia as a Lecture Tool.
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Sammons, Martha C. – T.H.E. Journal, 1994
Describes factors that motivate as well as factors that deter faculty in using multimedia workstations connected to peripherals and projection systems for classroom presentations. Based on a faculty survey, current use of multimedia at Wright State University is explained, including a universitywide project and a liberal arts project using…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Peripherals, Higher Education, Inservice Teacher Education
Multimedia Presentations on the Go: An Instruction and Buyer's Guide.
Sammons, Martha C. – 1996
This handbook is designed to provide guidance for someone who wants to create portable multimedia presentations with notebook computers and related technologies. The first section offers technological overviews to help assess needs for: (1) portable computers; (2) software; (3) projection equipment; (4) peripherals; (5) portable storage; (6)…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Interfaces, Computer Peripherals, Computer Software
Campus Laptops: What Logistical and Technological Factors Are Perceived Critical?
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Cutshall, Robert; Changchit, Chuleeporn; Elwood, Susan – Educational Technology & Society, 2006
This study examined university students' perceptions about a required laptop program. For higher education, providing experiences with computer tools tends to be one of the prerequisites to professional success because employers value extensive experience with information technology. Several universities are initiating laptop programs where all…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Information Technology, Laptop Computers, Computer Attitudes
A Computer-Supported Communication Approach for a Child with Severe Communication, Visual, and Cognitive Impairments: A Case Study.
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Locke, Peggy A.; Mirenda, Pat – Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC), 1988
An augmentative and alternative communication device was designed for a nonspeaking, blind, severely mentally retarded 11-year-old. The device consisted of a computer-supported expanded keyboard that produced synthetic speech output when tactile symbols were activated. Described are the assessment procedures, instructional procedures, and…
Descriptors: Artificial Speech, Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Blindness, Case Studies