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Metz, Howard M. – Journal of Geography, 1990
Discusses sketch maps that are free-hand maps drawn from memory that help to organize spatial information. Demonstrates how teachers can use sketch map activities in their classrooms and provides examples of students' maps that illustrate progressive levels of learning world place location. (DB)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Geography Instruction, Learning Activities, Locational Skills (Social Studies)
Niguidula, David; Blumberg, Roger B.; van Dam, Andries – TECHNOS, 1999
Describes a seminar at Brown University where undergraduate students design and develop software for K-12 schools based on proposals of teachers in and around Providence (Rhode Island). Discusses seminar goals, working with schools, division of labor between teachers and seminar students, creating the software, student benefits, and using…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, College Students, Computer Software Development, Cooperative Planning
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Stoyanov, Svetoslav – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 1997
Provides theoretical evidence supporting the assumption that cognitive mapping is an effective learning method for students' hypermedia design activities. Checks the effects of student hypermedia design assignments in an ill-structured environment against the uniqueness of cognitive mapping, mapping styles, and cognitive mapping as a creative…
Descriptors: Assignments, Cognitive Mapping, Computer Software Development, Concept Mapping
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Vandergrift, Kay E. – Knowledge Quest, 1997
Discussion of library media specialists and technological change focuses on the use of the World Wide Web. Highlights include teaching and learning issues; roles of the library media specialist, including teacher and instructional partner; designing Web sites; and student-created Web pages. (LRW)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Resources Centers, Learning Strategies, Librarian Teacher Cooperation
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Kearney, Julie – Exercise Exchange, 1998
Describes how the teacher of a Composition II class (a second-semester composition class with the emphasis in research writing and bibliography) had the students, through their research, generate the readings for themselves. Describes how class discussion, writing fluency and clarity, rhetorical strategies, and development of essays all displayed…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Higher Education, Learner Controlled Instruction, Persuasive Discourse
Sharp, Diana – Media & Methods, 1996
Provides suggestions for combining electronic books with traditional printed materials in a school literacy program. Discusses introducing the printed version of the story to students, having students read this version to others, and encouraging student-produced CD-ROM presentations. A sidebar presents a list of electronic book publishers. (AEF)
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Childrens Literature, Class Activities, Educational Technology
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Newell, A. R. – Journal of Educational Television, 1995
Discusses student video production as an approach to learner-centered instruction. Highlights include educational principles and skills development; a comparison of two video production courses; and solutions to the problems of how much freedom to give students, how much tutor instruction to provide, whether to have individual or group…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Comparative Analysis, Courses, Educational Objectives
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Dugdale, Sharon – Educational Technology, Research and Development, 1994
Analyzes the construction of mathematical concepts and techniques developed by high school algebra students in computer-assisted instruction; examines learning styles of the most inventive students; and discusses the use of student-generated mathematical techniques in the development of new software intended to cultivate mathematical inventiveness…
Descriptors: Algebra, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Development, Constructivism (Learning)
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McFarlane, A. E.; Williams, J. M.; Bonnett, M. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2000
Discusses multimedia authoring software that uses hypertext and reviews the ways in which use of this technology may support improvements in assessment. Describes research with sixth graders in England that investigated how pupil-produced multimedia documents can reveal aspects of performance that traditional tests may not recognize. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Authoring Aids (Programming), Computer Software, Courseware
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Gardner, Michael – TechTrends, 2001
Describes the planning and design process of "Off the Wall," a student-developed CD-ROM multimedia project about the life and work of artist Chuck Close-the product of a studio-based course in Learning Experiments Design at the University of Georgia. The design includes an element of gaming; text is kept sparse; navigational elements are rendered…
Descriptors: Artists, Computer Graphics, Computer Interfaces, Computer Software Development
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Khutorskoi, A. V. – Russian Education and Society, 2006
There have been a great many good and varied textbooks in the history of education. For example, there was L.F. Magnitskii's "Arithmetic," L.N. Tolstoy's "Primer," and the Bible, which can also be thought of as a textbook. None of them is like the others at all. Each one is suitable for dealing with its own objectives in the…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Textbook Content, Textbook Preparation, Theory Practice Relationship
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Kearney, Matthew; Schuck, Sandy – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2006
The recent convergence of video and computer technologies presents new opportunities and challenges in education. Video production resources such as cameras and video editing software are now widely available in many schools and homes. The ease of use of these resources has encouraged teachers to use them across the curriculum with students of all…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Video Technology, Electronic Learning, Classroom Environment
Lutheran Social Mission Society, Philadelphia, PA. Lutheran Settlement House. – 1992
A multicultural history curriculum for adult basic education students was developed that focused on struggles and achievements of minority and low-income people in post-World War I eras. A curriculum developer located historical texts and primary sources on crucial events in the post-World War I period and the contributions of low-income and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Curriculum Development, Learning Activities, Low Income Groups
Christensen, Torkil – Journal of Hokusei Junior College, 1993
An individualized approach to second language reading instruction in a large class is described. First, characteristics of the large class as a teaching and learning environment are examined, and the instructional advantages of individualizing assignments are noted. Two forms of reading materials used with first-year college students are then…
Descriptors: Assignments, College Students, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Crandall, JoAnn, Ed.; Peyton, Joy Kreeft, Ed. – 1993
This book focuses on functional and holistic approaches to English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) literacy, including competency-based education; whole language, language experience, and Freirean or participatory; and writing-based programs that result in published materials to be read by other adults. Chapter 1, "Literacy Through a…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Competency Based Education, English (Second Language), Language Experience Approach
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