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Gex, Judith Coppock – 1999
Procedures for five English-as-a-Second-Language dictation exercises designed to enhance students' ability to self-correct are described, and suggested texts are presented. The self-correcting dictations allow students to practice their listening, gain instant feedback, and have practical information in hard form quickly. They also reduce the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Classroom Techniques, Cloze Procedure, Dictation
Thoms, Karen Jarrett – 1998
Teaching via Interactive Television (ITV) is more than pushing a few buttons. Existing courses taught in the traditional lecture-based format must be modified in order to be effective via ITV. Visual literacy and guidelines which support visual literacy are critical to the success and effectiveness of an ITV course. This paper addresses visual…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Design Preferences, Distance Education
Hiles, Timothy W. – 1999
This paper describes the development of a World Wide Web site in an art history class at the University of Tennessee. The first section of the paper discusses digital technology in the art history classroom, including a comparison of the quality of digital images with slide projection. The second section describes a Web site created for a history…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Art Education, Art History, Copyrights
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Gersmehl, Philip J. – Journal of Geography, 1997
Asserts that, to participate in a modern economy, every region needs at least one "bigjob" (basic income generating-job). Describes a mapping activity that helps students identify bigjobs in state economies. Uses California as an example and reveals that, contrary to popular opinion, real estate is California's bigjob. (MJP)
Descriptors: Business, Economic Factors, Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns
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Shellhart, W. Craig; Oesterle, Larry J. – Journal of Dental Education, 1997
A study compared learning outcomes in an orthodontic biomechanics course when a CD-ROM was used in one group and photographic slides were used in another. Students in both groups performed at similar levels on a written examination and responded similarly to a statement reflecting how they understood the material. However, students felt the…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Classroom Techniques, Comparative Analysis, Dental Schools
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Cline, Paul C.; Graham, P. Tony – Social Studies, 1996
Presents a learning activity encouraging students to obtain a greater understanding of the relationship between symbols and the apparent dimensions of political phenomena. Students design symbols to represent objects, activities, issues, or meanings. Includes a list of student symbolic representations of law and justice issues. (MJP)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Citizenship Education, Civics, Cultural Images
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McBride, Lawrence W. – Social Studies Review, 1996
Describes a curriculum development project completed by undergraduate education majors. The project consists of a picture or graphic organizer serving as a focal point surrounded by citations to non-fiction and fiction sources related to that point. An accompanying essay allowed the students to justify their selections. (MJP)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Display Aids, Higher Education, History Instruction
Olivas, Jerry – Classroom Computer Learning, 1989
Discusses image scanning and optical character recognition. Describes how computer scanners work. Summarizes scan quality, scanning speed requirements, and hardware requirements for scanners. Surveys the range of scanners currently available. (MVL)
Descriptors: Computer Graphics, Computer Peripherals, Computer Uses in Education, Display Systems
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Bearman, Toni Carbo – Information Services and Use, 1992
Discusses changes in society resulting from improved access to information and describes sociocultural, political, economic, and technological trends that influence the information field. The following challenges for the information field are addressed: the need for recruitment; appropriate education, including continuing education; visual…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Cooperation, Economic Factors, Ethics
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Dwyer, Francis M.; Dwyer, Carol A. – Canadian Journal of Educational Communication, 1990
Describes study of undergraduates at Pennsylvania State University that was conducted to investigate the instructional effectiveness of integrating rehearsal activity into visually complemented prose instruction. The effect of students' prior knowledge on learning is examined, and the effect of visual/verbal testing on information retrieval is…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Analysis of Variance, Comparative Analysis, Criterion Referenced Tests
Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1991
Presents abstracts of 36 special interest group (SIG) sessions. Highlights include the Chemistry Online Retrieval Experiment; organizing and retrieving images; intelligent information retrieval using natural language processing; interdisciplinarity; libraries as publishers; indexing hypermedia; cognitive aspects of classification; computer-aided…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Classification, Cognitive Processes, Conferences
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Dreher, Mariam Jean, Ed.; Guthrie, John T., Ed. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1993
The growing body of research investigating how people search for or locate information in a variety of materials is reviewed and extended. Although the nature of materials and the complexity of locating tasks varies in the seven articles, each aims to elucidate the conditions that affect search processes. (SLD)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Graphs
Educational Technology, 1993
Reviews theories of anchored instruction and addresses issues related to learning, transfer, and assessment. Highlights include video-based macrocontexts; videodisc anchors versus computer-based simulations; cooperative learning; transfer outside the classroom; authenticity; visual anchors versus verbal anchors; situated cognition; and using…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation, Cooperative Learning, Distance Education
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Christensen, Lois; And Others – Southern Social Studies Journal, 1995
Outlines an instructional unit on the geography of Mexico, organizing daily lesson plans around geographic themes. The five themes of geography are location, place, relationships, movement, and regions. Each lesson plan includes objectives, materials, activities utilizing different learning strategies, and closure. (MJP)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Discovery Learning, Elementary Education, Experiential Learning
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Field, Sherry L.; And Others – Social Education, 1996
Recommends using historical artifacts as a means of illustrating social science concepts and involving students in the learning process. Suggests several ways artifacts can be used: considering their original function and value, making cross-cultural comparisons of similar objects, and investigating how objects change over time. (MJP)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Content Analysis, Cultural Background, Cultural Images
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