Using a Computer-Based Audiographic Telecommunication System for Distance Learning

Landra L. Rezabek

By combining the use of an existing teleconferencing network with new computer-based video technologies, the University of Wyoming has enhanced its ability to provide distance educational opportunities for students at remote sites across the state....

Distance Education: Perspectives from All Sides of the Desk

Landra L. Rezabek

This paper describes two distance education courses on educational technology offered to the University of Wyoming by the University of Toledo (Ohio) and Florida State University. The first course, "Teaching Computer Courseware Design Using Audio...

Why Visual Literacy: Consciousness and Convention

Landra L. Rezabek

TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning Vol. 49, No. 3 (2005) pp. 19–20

In this article, the author discusses the intentions of the October 2005 Association for Educational Communications & Technology (AECT) conference. She explains that the conference will be a shared event between the AECT members and the participants ...

Perceived Credibility of Female Peer Talent in the Context of Computer Instruction

Landra L. Rezabek

This study examined the effects of gender, attitudes toward computers, and presentation of individual or paired female peer talent on adolescent learners' perceptions of talent credibility in the context of media presentations on computer...

Using Computers to Facilitate Visual Thinking: An Analogy between Visual and Verbal Processing

Landra L. Rezabek; Tillman J. Ragan

Reading Psychology Vol. 9, No. 4 (1988) pp. 455–67

Explains how computers can offer learners powerful assistance in their acquisition of certain visual thinking skills. Describes the limitations and potential of using computers as tools for visual thinking with links to creative writing activities...

The Effects of Two-Way Visual Contact on Student Verbal Interactions during Teleconferenced Instruction

Jeffrey W. Bauer; Landra L. Rezabek

This study was designed to determine whether there was a difference in either the overall frequency or the frequency of specific types of student verbal interactions under three conditions: (1) teleconferenced instruction where students had two-way...

Web-Based Delivery of Instruction: Prospects and Challenges

Janette R. Hill; Landra L. Rezabek; Brandon Murry

Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association 1998 (April 1998)

This paper reports outcomes from a development and evaluation effort focused on a specific World Wide Web-based learning environment (WBLE) for school library media specialists (SLMS). Background information is provided explaining how the decision...

A Case for Electronic Pedagogy: Linking Preservice and Inservice Teachers

Landra L. Rezabek; John J. Cochenour; Barbara T. Hakes

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1996 (1996) pp. 377–381

The Undergraduate Teacher Education Program in the College of Education at the University of Wyoming (UW)