Using Blogs to Facilitate Online Discussion

Shiangkwei Wang; Hui-Yin Hsu; Sarah McPherson

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2006 (October 2006) pp. 998–1001

Originally, blogs served as personal journaling tools. Recently blogs are more often applied to form online communities and thus expanded to more extensive uses in education. Little has been learned about the learners' perceptions of using blog to...

Topics: Educational Technology, Collaboration

New Literacy Instruction in Teacher Education

Sarah McPherson; Hui-Yin Hsu; Shaingkwei Wang; MengPing Tsuei

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2006 (October 2006) pp. 752–756

Pre- and in-service teacher education courses at New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) are developing curriculum to address the knowledge and skills in undergraduate reading courses, and graduate courses for integrating technology into language...

Topics: Educational Technology, Teachers, Curriculum

New Literacies Instruction in Teacher Education

Sarah McPherson; Shiang-Kwei Wang; Hui-Yin Hsu; Mengping Tsuei

TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning Vol. 51, No. 5 (October 2007) pp. 24–31

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are transforming the priorities of the International Reading Association (IRA) and the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) to focus on preparing for the "new literacies." According to the...

Enhance Teachers’ Global Awareness through Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

Hui-Yin Hsu; Sarah McPherson; Mengping Tsuei; Shiang-Kwei Wang

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2006 (October 2006) pp. 590–592

This project uses information and communication technologies (ICT) which includes wikis, blog and email to facilitate knowledge exchange between pre/in-service teachers in New York City and Taipei to increase their awareness of globalization.

Topics: Information Communication Technologies, Educational Technology

New Literacies and Teacher Education

Hui-Yin Hsu; Sarah McPherson; Shiang-Kwei Wang

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2010 (Oct 18, 2010) pp. 2552–2554

New literacies are sets of knowledge and skills pre-service and in-service teachers need in order to prepare their K-12 students to succeed in remaining years of the 21st century. This symposium will provide a comprehensive overview of the new...

Using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in Teacher Education for Increasing Global Awareness

Sarah McPherson; Shiang-Kwei Wang; Hui-Yin Hsu; Mengping Tsuei; Ruth Wood

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2007 (Oct 15, 2007) pp. 1112–1116

Abstract. Educators need to prepare students for citizenship in a global society by creating an environment in which global awareness and attitudes can be learned. This study examined the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to...