Journal Writing with Web 2.0 Tools: A Vision for Older Adults

Craig E. Shepherd; Steven Aagard

Educational Gerontology Vol. 37, No. 7 (2011) pp. 606–620

This article describes how Web 2.0 technologies may facilitate journaling and related inquiry methods among older adults. Benefits and limitations of journaling are summarized as well as computer skills of older adults. We then describe how Web 2.0...

Merging Literacies: Faculty-Librarian Collaboration to Foster Information, Visual, and Technology Literacies for Pre-Service Teachers

Cheryl Goldenstein; Landra Rezabek; Steven Aagard

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2007 (Mar 26, 2007) pp. 1286–1290

This presentation and corresponding paper will address successes and challenges associated with two undergraduate courses in the College of Education in which librarians and faculty collaborate to teach information, visual, and technology literacies....

Making the Use of Information Technology in Large-scale Collaborative Projects More Feasible

Lee Nabb; Anthony Czech; Keith Armstrong; Steven Aagard

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 2746–2750

This roundtable discusses the information technology processes used in the democratic selection of participants in North American Adult Educators: Phyllis M. Cunningham Archive of Quintessential Autobiographies for the Twenty-first Century ...

International ESL Graduate Student Perceptions of Online Learning in the Context of Second Language Acquisition and Culturally Responsive Facilitation

Fujuan Tan; Lee Nabb; Steven Aagard; Kioh Kim

Adult Learning Vol. 21, No. 1 (2010) pp. 9–14

The development of technology has made adult and higher education learning opportunities increasingly more accessible to a growing number of people. With the number of courses steadily increasing to meet students' needs and demands, and because...

How English as a Second Language (ESL) graduate students perceive online learning from perspectives of second language improvement, learning styles, and culturally responsive pedagogy

Fujuan Tan; Steven Aagard; Lee Nabb; Kioh Kim

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 2395–2398

Abstract: Because online courses are gaining in popularity in higher education in the US and there is a steadily increasing number of ESL graduate students enrolled in US universities, this qualitative study employs an in-depth interview method to...

Motivating Prospective Teachers’ for Integrating Technology in their Future Classrooms

Pawan Jain; John Cochenour; Smita Jain; Steven Aagard

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 3164–3174

This paper reports the findings of a study conducted on pre-service teachers enrolled in a teacher preparation course: “Teaching with Micro-computers”, at a major rocky mountain university. This study suggests ways to improve per-service teachers’,...

Topics: Teachers, Computers