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By Katt on Mar 28, 2008 in My dissertation, Research Endeavors | 0 Comments
I have said multiple times and to multiple people that I want to write my dissertation on the use of social media in education. The past few weeks may have changed all of that in a big way. Before I get to the core of this post, I want to take a few minutes and [...]
By Katt on Mar 26, 2008 in Hows and Whys, theapple.com | 0 Comments
I’m asked all the time how I can stay current on all the latest technology that my students are involved with. The answer, as I shall explain, is simple and takes only three steps (maybe four).
It’s true confession time. I learned about face-book from a soccer player. He couldn’t get off the site long enough [...]
By Katt on Oct 28, 2007 in Blogroll, Recommended Reading | 1 Comment
Xiaojing, Liu, Richard J. Magjuka, Curtis J. Bonk, and Seung-hee Lee. “Does Sense of Community Matter? An Examination of Participants’ Perception of Building Learning Communities in Online Courses.” Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 8.1 (2007): 9-24
In “Does Sense of Community Matter?” the authors explore the idea that a sense of community in online education classes [...]
By Katt on Oct 28, 2007 in Recommended Reading | 0 Comments
Nixon, Helen. “New Research Literacies for Contemporary Research into Literacy and New Media?” Reading Research Quarterly 38.3 (Summer 2003): 407-413.
“New Research Literacies for Contemporary Research into Literacy and New Media?” raises several questions important both to Nixon and the researchers looking into the literacies that surround various medias new to exploration. Nixon argues that with [...]
By Katt on Oct 28, 2007 in Blogroll, Recommended Reading | 0 Comments
Hobbs, Renee and Richard Frost. “Measuring the Acquisition of Media-Literacy Skills.” Reading Research Quarterly. 38.3 (Summer 2003): 330-355.
In “Measuring the Acquisition of Media-Literacy Skills” (2003), Hobbs and Frost explore the acquisition of media-literacy skills in a yearlong high school English course and demonstrate how this class improved the literacy of the students. Examining one specific [...]
