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Amanda Robertson
NC State University
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Process-Oriented Design: Conversational Interfaces for Global Accessibility
Amanda Robertson
International Journal of Social Education Vol. 19, No. 2 (2005) pp. 61–67
The ability of the Internet to serve as a bridge to cultural understanding relies in great part on issues related to accessibility. My focus in this article is on accessibility as it relates to providing individuals with the full capabilities of the ...
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How Graduate Teacher Education Students Addressed Timely Teaching and Learning Issues Through the Construction of a Website for Their Colleagues
Lisa Grable; Amanda Robertson; Candy Beal
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) pp. 778–779
This presentation will describe how a curriculum integration project implemented in a technology enabled environment became a component of an even larger technology project for preservice and graduate teacher education. The Wetlands 2000 Project is...
Topics: Teachers, Integration, Educational Technology, Preservice Teacher Education, Curriculum
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Beyond Facebook: Social Media for Your Classroom
Amanda Robertson; Cathi Phillips; Ruth Smith
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2010 (Oct 18, 2010) p. 1169
Social media is ubiquitous. With so many tools and so many ways to solve teaching and learning problems, it's difficult to figure out where to begin. At North Carolina State University we have been investigating the use of social media to meet a...
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Diary of a Distance Education Course: Addressing Learning Needs with Multimedia
Amanda Robertson; David Shew; Huaiying Gao; Courtney Gallup
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2006 (June 2006) pp. 2609–2614
This presentation uses a plant pathology course to demonstrate how a joint effort between faculty and learning technology staff can work together to integrate technology-rich learning tools into course instruction and provide high end learning...
Topics: Faculty
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Building Digital Bridges to Global Understanding: Research Findings on the 2004 EE-PALS Project Informs the 2005 Project
Candy Beal; Amanda Robertson; Carol Pope; Kathy Godfrey; Debbie Andrews; Clare McGrath; Lodge McCammon
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2006 (Mar 19, 2006) pp. 2473–2475
Abstract: The EE-PALS team returns to report finding from their Digital Bridges to Global Understanding EE-PALS project that was implemented in 2004 and reported on at the SITE 2005 conference. In addition to data findings, the newly revised EE...
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Going Global: Using a Website Development project to Teach Technology Integration, Enhance Global Perspective and Empower Students to Inagine the Teaching Possibilities in Their Own technology Enabled Classrooms
James Clark; Marsha Alibrandi; Carol Pope; Shannon White; Amanda Robertson; Candy Beal
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) pp. 1020–1021
The Great Ghana Website is part of a larger project, Going Global: Cross Cultural Conversations Around the World. The website project seeks to help graduate and undergraduate students enlarge their global perspective while developing technology...
Topics: Educational Technology, Elementary Education, Students, Classrooms, Middle School Education
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Developing Global Connections Through Project Based Learning: The Global Learning Initiative Project
Lori Holcomb; Candy Beal; John Lee; Amanda Robertson; Bethany Smith; Michael Pringle
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2011 (Mar 07, 2011) pp. 2510–2512
Built to be a Web 2.0 curriculum integration project, the Global Learning Initiative Project (GLIP) is a multi-modal effort that enables students to research and discover answers to global questions, all the while interacting and working...
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E-Drama: Facilitating Online Role-Play Using an AI Actor and Emotionally Expressive Characters
Li Zhang; Marco Gillies; Kulwant Dhaliwal; Amanda Gower; Dale Robertson; Barry Crabtree
International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education Vol. 19, No. 1 (2009) pp. 5–38
This paper describes a multi-user role-playing environment, referred to as "e-drama", which enables groups of people to converse online, in scenario driven virtual environments. The starting point of this research, is an existing application known...
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North Carolina's Sixth Graders Go to Russia A global Education/curriculum Integration Project that Redefines the Virtual Field Trip and Makes Social Studies Education in a Technology Enabled Environment Meaningful and Exciting
James Clark; Amanda Robertson; Matthew Ross; Candy Beal; Bill Beal; Pru Cuper; Mary Davis; Judy Lambert
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) pp. 2168–2169
This project traces the three year development of preservice teachers' global technology projects from the after-the-fact journaling accounts of a research trip to Russia to a year long research study about Russia involving hundreds of sixth grade...
Topics: Preservice Teacher Education, Middle School Education, Teachers, Educational Technology, Students
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Digital Teacher Induction via Webinars and Social Media
Peggy Semingson; Denise Collins; Holly Hungerford-Kresser; Amanda Hurlbut; Joyce Myers; Dana Owens; Marla Robertson
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 367–372
This best practices paper provides advice on how to conceptualize, structure, and facilitate an open-access and mobile-accessible digital teacher induction program. The digital teacher induction program (DTIP) is used to provide support for...