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Spencer P. Greenhalgh
Michigan State University
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New Practices of Personalized Learning: Privacy and Autonomy
Heather Greenhalgh-Spencer
E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2018 (Oct 15, 2018) pp. 1394–1403
Personalized Learning (PL) is a new model of teaching and learning that attempts to disrupt traditional models of schooling. PL leverages the use of digital technology to create personalized pathways of learning for each student. PL involves changes ...
Topics: (2017) Implementation Examples & Issues, (2017) Social & Cultural Issues, (2017) Policy Issues
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An Attention to Place in Online Education
Heather Greenhalgh-Spencer
E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2015 (Oct 19, 2015) pp. 1015–1019
The purpose of this paper is to show some of the ways that place matters in online education, and in that ‘showing,’ hopefully prompt more questions and ideas around our attentiveness to place in our online courses. There are many ways that place,...
Topics: Community, Physical Education, Implementation Examples & Issues, Social & Cultural Issues, Designing, Developing, and Assessing E-Learning
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A Pedagogy of the Glocal in Online Education
Heather Greenhalgh-Spencer
E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2015 (Oct 19, 2015) pp. 1008–1014
In order to align our pedagogical strategies with the lived and local experiences, as well as the global embeddedness, of our students, we need to focus on a pedagogy of the glocal in online education. A pedagogy of the glocal is informed by an...
Topics: Implementation Examples & Issues, Social & Cultural Issues, Designing, Developing, and Assessing E-Learning
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Ethics for Online Courses: Capabilities and Hospitality
Heather Greenhalgh-Spencer
E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2016 (Nov 14, 2016) pp. 841–848
In this paper I focus on what an ethics for online courses might include. I argue that a focus on capabilities, derived from the capabilities approach developed by Martha Nussbaum, and a focus on hospitality, as developed by various educational...
Topics: Social & Cultural Issues
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The Capabilities Approach to Assistive Technology and E-Learning
Heather Greenhalgh-Spencer
E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2016 (Nov 14, 2016) pp. 849–853
This paper takes up these issues, both the problems and promises of assistive technology (AT), by applying the capabilities approach framework, advocated by Nussbaum (2011) and others, as a way of exploring how this framework can help teachers,...
Topics: Social & Cultural Issues
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The Ruts and Open Spaces of Online Forums
Heather Greenhalgh-Spencer
E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2018 (Oct 15, 2018) pp. 1404–1410
In this paper, I use the metaphor of “the rut” to explain some of the problems with, as well as the possibilities for, online forums. The online forum is a space and a tool that comes with pre-conceived expectations and practices, and these shape...
Topics: (2017) Implementation Examples & Issues, (2017) Instructional Design
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Design Principles for Creating and Maintaining Immersive Experiences in Educational Games
Brian Arnold; Matthew Koehler; Spencer Greenhalgh
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 502–508
To maximize the learning possible from educational games, designers need to find better ways interest, engage, and immerse players. In this paper, we draw upon our experience and upon the rich traditions and research from film, storytelling and...
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Tweeting in the Time of Terrorism: Who Participates in a French Hashtag-based Affinity Space, Where, and How?
Spencer P. Greenhalgh; Matthew J. Koehler
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 614–619
Twitter is increasingly seen as a valuable resource for teacher professional development, in part for its ability to facilitate affinity spaces (Gee, 2004) that are accessed through hashtags. However, while the affinity space is widely recognized as ...
Topics: New Possibilities with Information Technologies, International Education, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies
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Potential Applications of Sentiment Analysis in Educational Research and Practice – Is SITE the Friendliest Conference?
Matthew Koehler; Spencer Greenhalgh; Andrea Zellner
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2015 (Mar 02, 2015) pp. 1348–1354
Despite the widespread use of sentiment analysis by many disciplines, it has been a largely underused tool in educational contexts. The purpose of this paper is to explore some potential uses for sentiment analysis in educational settings and to...
Topics: Educational Technology, Technology Leadership, Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK)
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A performance assessment of teachers’ TPACK using artifacts from digital portfolios
Joshua Rosenberg; Spencer Greenhalgh; Matthew Koehler
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2015 (Mar 02, 2015) pp. 3390–3397
Researchers have employed many different methods of measuring teachers’ Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK). Existing measures of TPACK have typically focused on teachers’ self-report of their understanding, and relatively few...
Topics: Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK), Portfolios, Assessment
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Players, features, and enjoyment: Entertainment games as models for educational games
Liz Owens Boltz; Brian Arnold; Spencer Greenhalgh
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2015 (Mar 02, 2015) pp. 822–829
This study examines reviews of some of the highest and lowest ranked video games on VideoGameGeek.com in order to determine what features video game players see as contributing to or detracting from enjoyment in games as well as how these features...
Topics: Educational Technology, Games, Games & Simulations
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Taking Stock of TeachersPayTeachers.com: Analyzing Four Million Classroom Resources
Catharyn Shelton; Matthew Koehler; Jeffrey Carpenter; Spencer Greenhalgh
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2020 (Apr 07, 2020) pp. 1477–1482
TeachersPayTeachers.com (TpT) is a popular online educational marketplace where educators exchange classroom and instructional materials. Despite indications of significant use of TpT, the existing empirical research on the platform and its users is ...
Topics: Social Media
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What Features We Like When We Like Educational Games
Spencer P. Greenhalgh; Matthew J. Koehler; Liz Owens Boltz
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 554–561
We examine the effect of three kinds of game features—mechanics, themes, and genres—on player enjoyment of educational games. Although games are often thought to be more enjoyable than other learning activities, there has been little research on how ...
Topics: Games & Simulations
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Examining Teachers’ Technology Use Through Digital Portfolios
Sarah Keenan; Joshua Rosenberg; Spencer Greenhalgh; Matthew Koehler
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 1084–1091
Digital portfolios designed by educators have the potential to serve as assertions of technology knowledge (TK). This study describes and begins to evaluate a proposed method for assessing educators’ asserted TK through the platforms and artifacts...
Topics: Research & Evaluation
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The Fun of its Parts: Design and Player Reception of Educational Board Games
Spencer P. Greenhalgh; Matthew J. Koehler; Liz Owens Boltz
Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 19, No. 3 (September 2019) pp. 469–497
Although board, card, and other analog games can serve as useful educational technologies, little research exists to support teachers’ efforts in finding analog games that are pedagogically appropriate or likely to be well-received by their students....
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For All Intents and Purposes: Twitter as a Foundational Technology for Teachers
Spencer P. Greenhalgh; Joshua M. Rosenberg; Leigh Graves Wolf
E-Learning and Digital Media Vol. 13, No. 1 (2016) pp. 81–98
Twitter is increasingly accepted as an important educational technology and has been shown to serve a range of purposes. In fact, this variety suggests that Twitter has the potential to serve as a foundational technology: one capable of supporting...
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A Tweet by Any Other Frame: Three Approaches to Studying Educator Interactions on Twitter
K. Bret Staudt Willet; Matthew J. Koehler; Spencer P. Greenhalgh
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 1823–1830
Every day, thousands of educators use Twitter to interact with each other. Yet, the research that examines these educator interactions on Twitter is nascent, in part because it is unclear how to theoretically conceptualize the nature of interactions ...
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Avoiding Madness in our Methods: Considerations for Twitter Research in Teacher Education
Spencer P. Greenhalgh; Joshua M. Rosenberg; Matthew J. Koehler
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 1558–1561
Twitter is increasingly recognized as a site for both teacher education and teacher education research. Although using digital methods to study Twitter data has a number of advantages for teacher education scholars, there are also methodological and ...
Topics: New Possibilities with Information Technologies, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies
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Here We Are, Now Entertain Us! A Comparison of Educational and Non-Educational Board Games
Matthew J. Koehler; Spencer P. Greenhalgh; Liz Owens Boltz
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 567–572
One key promise of educational games is that they can tap into learning in a way that is fun and motivating to learners. In this paper, we explore the reality of these claims by examining existing data on 9343 games from BoardGameGeek.com. We...
Topics: Games & Simulations
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State Educational Twitter Hashtags: An Introduction and Research Agenda
Joshua Rosenberg; Matthew Koehler; Mete Akcaoglu; Spencer Greenhalgh; Erica Hamilton
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 355–360
Affinity spaces refer to digital and geographical spaces in which learning can happen, and some of the largest affinity spaces dedicated to education are those that currently exist on Twitter. These spaces are public, largely unmoderated, and...
Topics: Distance/Flexible Education
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For Every Tweet there is a Purpose: Twitter Within (and Beyond) an Online Graduate Program
Spencer P. Greenhalgh; Joshua M. Rosenberg; Leigh Graves Wolf
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 2044–2049
Little is known about the use of Twitter throughout entire degree programs. Graduate degrees in education may be of particular interest for researchers because participants’ variety of roles (e.g., working as teachers while enrolled as students) may ...
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What the Tech is Going on with Teachers? Digital Teaching Portfolios? Using the TPACK Framework to Analyze Teachers? Technological Understanding
Matthew Koehler; Spencer Greenhalgh; Joshua Rosenberg; Sarah Keenan
Journal of Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 25, No. 1 (January 2017) pp. 31–59
Despite the growing popularity of digital teaching portfolios, research has remained focused on outcomes associated with making digital teaching portfolios instead of examining the ways in which they can effectively assess what teachers know,...
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An Investigation of State Educational Twitter Hashtags (SETHS) as Affinity Spaces
Joshua M. Rosenberg; Spencer P. Greenhalgh; Matthew J. Koehler; Erica R. Hamilton; Mete Akcaoglu
E-Learning and Digital Media Vol. 13, No. 1 (2016) pp. 24–44
Affinity spaces are digital or physical spaces in which participants interact with one another around content of shared interest and through a common portal (or platform). Among teachers, some of the largest affinity spaces may be those organized...
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Strategies, Use, and Impact of Social Media for Supporting Teacher Community within Professional Development: The Case of one Urban STEM Program
Joshua M. Rosenberg; Spencer P. Greenhalgh; Leigh Graves Wolf; Matthew J. Koehler
Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching Vol. 36, No. 3 (September 2017) pp. 255–267
This paper examines the use of social media to foster community connections within the MSU Urban Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) program. We describe the strategies employed by the program and the technologies employed by...
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Theory and Research on Social Media in Education Webinar
Dan Krutka; Ben Gleason; Tonia A. Dousay; Jeff Carpenter; Spencer P. Greenhalgh
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference Vol. 2018, No. 1 (2018)
While social media is increasingly integrated into the fabric of our institutions, professions, and personal lives, there are few organizations dedicated to the topic. The SITE Social Media SIG consists of scholars interested in intersections of...
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A Tale of Two Twitters: Synchronous and Asynchronous Use of the Same Hashtag
Joshua Rosenberg; Mete Akcaoglu; K. Bret Staudt Willet; Spencer Greenhalgh; Matthew Koehler
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 283–286
Communication in online settings can occur at the same time (synchronously) or at different times (asynchronously). A new form of online learning in which teachers communicate both at the same time and at different times is through social media...
Topics: Distance/Flexible Education
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Zen and the Art of Portfolio Maintenance: Best Practices in Course Design for Supporting Long-lasting Portfolios
Spencer P. Greenhalgh; Joshua M. Rosenberg; Andrea Zellner; Matthew J. Koehler
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2014 (Mar 17, 2014) pp. 1755–1761
Teacher education courses that use portfolios can impact the ways in which teachers develop as professionals. Although the affordances of portfolios impact the professional development process of both pre-service and in-service teachers, courses...
Topics: Assessment and E-Folios
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Back to the Gaming Board: Understanding Games and Education through Board Game Reviews
Bret Staudt Willet; Sukanya Moudgalya; Liz Boltz; Spencer Greenhalgh; Matthew Koehler
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2018 (Mar 26, 2018) pp. 495–503
Recent academic research into the use of games for educational purposes has focused almost exclusively on video games. In this study, we explore player perceptions of board games with regards to education. We started with a large dataset of 7,806...
Topics: Games & Simulations
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Tweet, and We Shall Find: Using Digital Methods to Locate Participants in Educational Hashtags
Spencer P. Greenhalgh; K. Bret Staudt Willet; Joshua M. Rosenberg; Matthew J. Koehler
TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning Vol. 62, No. 5 (2018) pp. 501–508
Although researchers have discovered a great deal about who uses Twitter for educational purposes, "what" they post about, "when" they post and "why" they participate, there has so far been little work to explore "...
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Social Media & Teacher Professional Development
Tonia A. Dousay; Tutaleni Asino; Tian Luo; Dan G. Krutka; Spencer Greenhalgh; Luke Rodesiler; Dian Walster
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2018 (Mar 26, 2018) pp. 2251–2255
The idea of social media’s existing application and future potential for professional development drives a growing subset of academic research As we encourage preservice and inservice teachers to engage in these platforms to hone or refine their...
Topics: Research & Evaluation, Social Media
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Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam: Methodological Considerations and Challenges for Studying Educators’ Twitter Use
Jeffrey Carpenter; Matthew Koehler; K. Bret Staudt Willet; Spencer P. Greenhalgh
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2019 (Mar 18, 2019) pp. 2702–2711
Social media have come to play an important role in the professional lives of many educators. Platforms such as Twitter create new spaces in which collegial contact can occur, opening up various avenues for support and development. These spaces,...
Topics: Mobile Learning, Research & Evaluation, Social Media
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Exploring the Rules of the Game: Games in the Classroom, Game-Based Learning, Gamification, and Simulations
Jana Willis; Spencer Greenhalgh; Larysa Nadolny; Sa Liu; Tugce Aldemir; Sandra Rogers; Monica Trevathan; Susan Hopper; Wendy Oliver
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 475–480
This diverse panel will provide insights and perspectives into the various aspects of games and simulations. The panelists will discuss not only challenges and barriers involved in designing, developing, integrating, and implementing these advanced...
Topics: Games & Simulations