Search results for author:"Kathleen Carico"
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Examining Difference: Multicultural Literature Discussions Online
Kathleen M. Carico
Journal of Children's Literature Vol. 27, No. 1 (2001) pp. 23–31
Describes part of a project of correspondence between a group of eighth graders and pre-service teachers in an attempt to prepare all students to work with diverse people and ideas. Hopes to enlarge the worlds of the students by putting them in...
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On-Line Multicultural Literature Discussions: How This Discourse Community Informs Teacher Educators
Kathleen M. Carico
Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association 2000 (April 2000)
This study investigated the effects of computer-based technologies on literature discussions between preservice teachers and eighth graders. Most participating preservice teachers were preparing to work with students in literacy development. Over...
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A Generation in Cyberspace Engaging Readers through Online Discussions: Real Time, Online Chats Provide an Alternative Space for Engaging Reading in Making Meaning through Literature
Kathleen Carico; Donna Longan
Language Arts Vol. 81, No. 4 (Mar 01, 2004)
A focus is made on connectedness by explaining how the MOO is a unique tool that allows students to connect across distances short and long and engendering enthusiasm of reading and discussion. It is further shared how the MOO applications work...
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The Pull of Participation: Multilogues in Online Literature Discussions
Kathleen M. Carico; Donna Logan
Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 1, No. 3 (2001) pp. 355–370
On two Thursday afternoons each semester, a group of between 15 and 20 eighth-grade students at Blacksburg Middle School (BMS) stays after school with teacher Donna Logan. For the first hour or so, they do homework, or read the novel they are...
Topics: Elementary Education, Schools, Middle School Education
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Beyond the ‘farts and flashes’: Responding to student and instructor concerns in the design, development, and presentation of electronic portfolios (Five years on)
Robert Prickett; Kathleen Carico; David Sianez; David Hicks
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2003 (2003) pp. 81–83
Situated within the context of (a) discipline specific National Standards that embrace constructivist philosophies (NCTM, 1989; NCSS; 1984; NCTE/IRA, 1996; NRC, 1996), (b) on-going efforts to prepare tomorrow's teachers to seamlessly integrate...
Topics: Standards, Secondary Education, Teachers, Educational Technology
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Qualitative meta-analysis for social justice: The creation of an on-line diversity resources database
Ann Potts; Megan Boler; David Hicks; Peter Doolittle; Susan Ariew; Cecile Cachaper; Kathleen Carico; Robert Prickett
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004 (2004) pp. 832–836
This paper describes the creation of an online diversity resources database using methods borrowed from meta-ethnography. The primary aim of this database, known as the Diversity Resources Database at Virginia Tech, is to provide print, media, and...
Topics: Databases