The Electronic School Library Resource Center: Facilities Planning for the New Information Technologies

Teresa Blodgett; Judi Repman

Emergency Librarian Vol. 22, No. 3 (1995) pp. 26–30

Addresses the necessity of incorporating new computer technologies into school library resource centers and notes some administrative challenges. An extensive checklist is provided for assessing equipment and furniture needs, physical facilities,...

Preservice Teachers' Attitudes Towards and Knowledge of Assistive Adaptive Technologies

Nancy Maushak; Pat Kelley; Teresa Blodgett

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004 (2004) pp. 3505–3510

The growing inclusion of special needs students in the regular classroom has created a need for at least a minimal awareness of instructional methods and asistive devices to help these students become productive members in the classroom. This...

Topics: Classrooms, Students

Preparing Teachers for the Inclusive Classroom: A Preliminary Study of Attitudes and Knowledge of Assistive Technology

Nancy J. Maushak; Pat Kelley; Teresa Blodgett

Journal of Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 9, No. 3 (2001) pp. 419–431

The purpose of this study was to examine current attitudes and knowledge of preservice teachers towards assistive technology and to develop, implement, and evaluate a mini-workshop on assistive technology to better prepare regular classroom teachers ...

Topics: Classrooms, Attitudes, Teachers

The Effects of Selected Software Tools on Presentation Design of Varied Course Assignment Activities

David White; Steven M. Crooks; Teresa K. Blodgett

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2014 (Oct 20, 2014) pp. 2038–2042

Information presented in this paper was collected from three course offerings conducted in a graduate-level instructional technology program. In each course, students were required to complete two course assignments (a repeated measures approach)...

Topics: Instructional Design, Content Development, Implementation Examples & Issues