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Developing a Multimedia Program for Reading/Language Arts Instruction
Caroline M. Crawford
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1998 (1998) pp. 781–784
The world of Reading/Language Arts is a domain in which the beauty of the written word has the ability to create new, imaginary realms for its readers. The development of multimedia has introduced the educational environment to a vast expanse of...
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The Design and Development of an NCATE Continuing Accreditation Web Site
Caroline M. Crawford
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1999 (1999) pp. 1836–1838
The National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) is an accrediting body within the realm of teacher education that has become a driving force within the accreditation arena. The use of technology within this accreditation...
Topics: Teachers, Educational Technology
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Human/Computer Interface Issues for a National Accreditation Web Site
Caroline M. Crawford
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 1999 (1999) pp. 426–429
The use of the World Wide Web as a tool to disperse information for national accreditation has been severely underutilized. The ability to offer informational documentation concerning the health of an institution, such as a university, in a non...
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Masters Students Developing Research Proposals and Published Articles
Caroline M. Crawford
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1999 (1999) pp. 1323–1327
Masters-level students within the specialization area of Instructional Technology have a disconcertingly succinct speaking ability; however, such speaking abilities may not necessarily lend themselves towards the written word. Masters-level ...
Topics: Educational Technology, Instructional Design, Students
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Developing a Multimedia Program for Reading/Language Arts Instruction
Caroline M. Crawford
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1997 (1997) pp. 781–784
The world of Reading/Language Arts is a domain in which the beauty of the written word has the ability to create new, imaginary realms for its readers. The development of multimedia has introduced the educational environment to a vast expanse of...
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Training School District Instructional Technology Coordinators in Multimedia Development, Instruction and Use
Caroline M. Crawford
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 1999 (1999) pp. 430–433
The use of technology within the PreK-12 classroom has been steadily increasing within the previous ten-year period. However, teacher training has not kept a similar pace. The training available for the teachers, as well as the administrative...
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G R A D UATE & IN S E RV I C E
Caroline M. Crawford
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2001 (2001) pp. 786–788
The appropriate integration of technology into today's learning environment remains a predominant area of importance within the areas of graduate and inservice. Research focused upon face-to-face, Internet-assisted and Internet-based learning...
Topics: Internet, Integration
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Distance Education: Early Lessons Learned
Caroline M. Crawford
WebNet World Conference on the WWW and Internet 1999 (1999) pp. 268–271
Distance education has become an integral aspect of higher education in recent years. This expansion of institutions of higher education into the foray of a digital learning environment has offered opportunities to the institutions to not only...
Topics: Distance Education
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The Design and Development of a Web Site to House National Accreditation Documentation
Caroline M. Crawford
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 1999 (1999) pp. 421–425
The design and development issues surrounding a World Wide Web-based site to house documentation for a national-level accreditation of a College of Education is daunting, to say the very least. Many different facets introduced themselves through out ...
Topics: Professional Development
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Technology Internships for Graduate Students
Caroline M. Crawford
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1999 (1999) pp. 641–644
Teacher education is a developing arena in which technology plays a primary part. Technology is an area that has historically been a strong midstream career change subject area, through which career changing persons enjoy a feeling of rebirth or ...
Topics: Change, Educational Technology, Teachers, Students
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GR A D UAT E & IN S E RV I CE
Caroline M. Crawford
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2000 (2000) pp. 601–603
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Impacting Learning Environments from PreKindergarten Through Graduate School: Technologically Appropriate Professional Development and Classroom Integration Opportunities for Educators
Caroline M. Crawford
WebNet World Conference on the WWW and Internet 2000 (2000) p. 969
Professional development has historically been a "one-shot" workshop wherein information barrages the learner in a streaming fashion and little to no information is retained. Even more exasperating is the lack of follow-up support once the workshops ...
Topics: Integration, Professional Development, Classrooms
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Supporting Graduate Students Training District Coordinators in Multimedia Development
Caroline M. Crawford
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 1999 (1999) pp. 440–444
The use of graduate students to train surrounding independent school district Instructional Technology Coordinators is an important aspect to each of the entities involved in the situation: the graduate students obtain opportunities to display their ...
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The Design of a University’s SACS Accreditation World Wide Web Site
Caroline M. Crawford
WebNet World Conference on the WWW and Internet 2000 (2000) pp. 866–867
The design of a Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) World Wide Web site to act as a living documents repository for university accreditation is an integral aspect of the accreditation process. Due to the importance of this...
Topics: Schools
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Shifting Classroom Teacher Perceptions of Learning Technologies through a Community of Practice and Community-Embedded Approach
Caroline M. Crawford
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 487–492
The intimidation and anxiety that so many classroom teachers experience are recognized as not merely undefined angst and self-efficacy based concerns related to a comfortableness associated with giving up a sense of teacher control and becoming more ...
Topics: Distance/Flexible Education, Graduate Education & Faculty Development, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies
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Designing and Instructing Hybrid Open Learning Spaces Model to Support Lifelong Learning Engagement
Caroline M. Crawford
International Journal on E-Learning Vol. 15, No. 3 (August 2016) pp. 285–312
With a focus upon open and lifelong learning understanding, the real world delineation between formalized higher education graduate school efforts and professional career position lines may be suggested as being blurred. This case study offers an...
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Metaphoric Representations of Cognitive Understanding via a Stairway Approach: Implicit Cognitive Vulnerability Theory through a Progressive Cognitive Taxonomical Approach
Caroline M. Crawford; Melissa Semeniuk
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 1383–1393
Implicit Cognitive Vulnerability theory emphasizes the cognitive vulnerability and cognitive dissonance realized by learners throughout the learning process. The learning process embraces a recognition of the needs associated with working with the...
Topics: Creativity, Distance/Flexible Education, Research & Evaluation
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Current Issues Impacting the Inclusion of Distributed Learning Environments Within a Medical Education Curriculum
Leslie Hunt; Caroline M. Crawford
WebNet World Conference on the WWW and Internet 2000 (2000) pp. 889–890
The introduction of educational technology within the medical school environment offers numerous challenges, especially within a distributed learning scenario. The successful integration of technology within the medical education curriculum leads...
Topics: Educational Technology
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Young Children and Technology: Building Computer Literacy
Michael Bell; Caroline M. Crawford
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2001 (2001) pp. 3158–3159
Building upon the young child's prior knowledge and developmental level, computer literacy must be addressed early in each child's educational career. A comfort level or disposition is important to develop for both young children and as well as...
Topics: Educational Technology, Teachers, Early Childhood Education
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Graphic Representations for Learning: Developing a Learner’s Conceptual Framework
Anne Henry; Caroline M. Crawford
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2001 (2001) pp. 1650–1651
The emphasis on knowledge attainment, higher order thinking skills and real-world learning opportunities within teacher education offers numerous opportunities for preservice teachers to develop a conceptual framework through which their future ...
Topics: Preservice Teacher Education, Educational Technology, Teachers
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Recognizing Design-Based Research as Coursework and Experiential Support: Micro-Learning as Integrated Teacher Candidate Coursework and Field-Based Understandings
Caroline M. Crawford; Melissa Semeniuk
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 827–832
Supporting the teacher candidate throughout the teacher education program of study experience as well as the field-based experiential needs has been studied for decades, with a mountain of findings and understandings brought forward as best...
Topics: New Possibilities with Information Technologies, Mobile Learning, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies
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Graphic Novels as Visual Human Performance and Training Tools: Towards an Understanding of Information Literacy for Preservice Teachers
Caroline M. Crawford; Jennifer Thomson
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2007 (Mar 26, 2007) pp. 1270–1275
This discussion focuses upon the development of graphic novels through the implementation of instructional design and communications technological theories and real-world application, towards the enhancement of preservice teachers' experiences...
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Integrating Technology into the Young Child Lesson Plan
Michael Bell; Caroline M. Crawford
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2001 (2001) pp. 3160–3162
The support of the early childhood and instructional technology faculty members offer the teacher candidates a supportive environment through which to design, develop, discuss and revise a lesson plan. Such a learning experience offers the...
Topics: Teachers, Instructional Design
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Designing Metaphorically Appropriate Graphics for a PT3 World Wide Web Site
Anne Henry; Caroline M. Crawford
This paper describes the design and development of a World Wide Web site associated with a Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology (PT3) grant that was awarded to the University of Houston at Clear Lake (Texas) by the U.S. Department of...
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Supporting the Professional Development of Preservice and Inservice Instructors: Aspects Toward a Nurturing, Creative Learning Environment
Caroline M. Crawford; Terri Edwards
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2001 (2001) pp. 647–648
Professional development opportunities must offer a learning environment that creates a nurturing, creative, successful atmosphere for the learners. Instructional design models, learning styles and technology implementation strategies impact this...
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Disrupting Lesson Strategies and Intentions: Designing a New Style of Lesson Engagement the Deconstructs and Reconstructs the Future of Learning
Caroline M. Crawford; Noran Moffett
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 1968–1974
Disruptions throughout the educational system are inherent within the Information Age, from the integration of anytime and anywhere technologies to the integration of connectedness through unbound social media connectedness. Within this culturally...
Topics: Creativity, Research & Evaluation, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies
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Focusing on the Learner: Interactive Environments for University Faculty, Inservice and Preservice Educators
Lee Gotcher; Caroline M. Crawford
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2001 (2001) pp. 1955–1956
The impact a World Wide Web (Web) site may have on any community may be either of two extremes, integrated into the daily activities or barely tolerated, or somewhere in between. The impact a Web site would have if focused specifically upon...
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The Changing, Developing Structure of Education: Current Issues and Future Considerations
Caroline M. Crawford; Gita Varagoor
WebNet World Conference on the WWW and Internet 1999 (1999) pp. 1234–1235
Education is a profession that has a living, breathing life of its own; it is constantly changing and developing towards the future. But numerous issues pertaining to education are in existence now, not the future, and these issues must be...
Topics: Educational Technology, Change
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Faculty Attitudes and Their Impact on the Inclusion of Distributed Learning Environments within a Medical Education Curriculum
Leslie Hunt; Caroline M. Crawford
WebNet World Conference on the WWW and Internet 2000 (2000) pp. 891–892
Faculty attitudes and their impact on the inclusion of distributed learning environments within a medical education curriculum can play key roles in transforming today's academic medical center into the academic medical center of the new millennium. ...
Topics: Instructional Design, Administration, Attitudes, Curriculum, Inclusive Education
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Multiple Streams of Social Media: Using Social Software to Create Information Connections and Conversations in Learning Environments
Sylvia S. Martin; Caroline M. Crawford
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 541–548
Creating and sustaining communities of learning within distance learning environments has become central to the success of distance learning. A focus upon perceived and real interactive activities opens itself towards a more enhanced consideration...
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Assistive Learning Within a Special Needs Environment
Randy Seevers; Sylvia Martin; Caroline M. Crawford
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2001 (2001) pp. 2639–2640
The potential value and importance of assistive and adaptive technologies within the learning environment of special needs students must be emphasized. Students with exceptionalities can be aided through the thoughtful and successful integration...
Topics: Students
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Quality of Instructor Intention: Understanding Learner Needs through Timeliness of Engagement, Quality of Feedback and Embedded Motivational Understandings
Caroline M. Crawford; Noran L. Moffett
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 481–486
The quality of instructor guidance and support throughout a course experience is inherently vital and sets the energetic tone and associated collegial endeavors that support or may even diminish a community of practice environment. Inherent within...
Topics: Distance/Flexible Education, Graduate Education & Faculty Development
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Rethinking Teacher Education Programs: Engaging in Traditional Face-to-Face Instructional Modeling with Integrated, Parallel Online Instructional Modeling
Caroline M. Crawford; Richard A. Smith
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2012 (Mar 05, 2012) pp. 291–298
The traditional face-to-face instructional environment was acceptably successful throughout the Industrial Age, yet the Information Age has embraced the Internet and the integration of different mobile devices within the learning environment. As...
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The Integration of Assistive and Adaptive Technologies Into the Preservice and Advanced-Level Courses of Instructional Technology and Special Education
Caroline M. Crawford; Sylvia S. Martin
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2001 (2001) pp. 2631–2633
Instructional technology has become a tool that is integral to the preservice teacher educators' bag of tricks; however, the integration of assistive and adaptive technologies into the learning environment to meet the needs of special education...
Topics: Preservice Teacher Education, Educational Technology, Integration
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Emerging Learning Environments and Their Impact Upon Preservice Educators
Ruth Gannon-Cook; Caroline M. Crawford
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004 (2004) pp. 453–454
Concerns revolving around digital equity remain relevant concerns, yet growing trends suggest that electronic learning environments and electronically-enhanced learning environments are on the rise. The advancement of electronic learning...
Topics: eLearning
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Just the FAQs: Bullets Versus Knowledge in On-line Courses
Ruth Gannon Cook; Caroline M. Crawford
WebNet World Conference on the WWW and Internet 2000 (2000) pp. 711–712
Many colleges have scrambled on-board the on-line course bandwagon. Face-to-face courses are quickly commuted to on-line courses without consideration as to what might be the repercussions of those transitions. World Wide Web (Web) management...
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Developing Metaphorically Inclusive Graphics Within an Informative and Visually Engaging Web Site
Daniel F. Scardino; Caroline M. Crawford
WebNet World Conference on the WWW and Internet 2000 (2000) pp. 813–814
The development of metaphorically inclusive graphics within an informative and visually engaging Web site is a difficult venture to undertake. The thoughtful consideration of numerous issues through out the design and development of a Web site ...
Topics: Graphics
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From Silos to Communities: Addressing Electronic Isolation Through Interactivities
Ruth Gannon Cook; Caroline M. Crawford
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004 (2004) pp. 445–452
This study reviewed instructional design principles that incorporated electronic interactivities into electronic instruction to see if these interactivities helped to focus the learner's understanding of the materials. The study was concerned with...
Topics: Interaction, Instructional Design, Instructional Materials, Students
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Special Education Methods Coursework: Information Literacy for Teachers through the Implementation of Graphic Novels
Sylvia S. Martin; Caroline M. Crawford
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2007 (Mar 26, 2007) pp. 1313–1318
Within special education methods courses, the modeling of visual instructional tools, or visual training tools, to create a new presentation of information to provide the learning support necessary for students in today's inclusive classrooms is of...
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Informational Graphics Within a Distributed Learning Environment
Daniel F. Scardino; Caroline M. Crawford
WebNet World Conference on the WWW and Internet 2000 (2000) pp. 811–812
Information presented in distributed learning environments has always been done through uninspired methods. In order for a student to optimize the intake of the information presented, there must be a significant adjustment in information ...
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Crossing Over Disciplines: Three Academics Share Distance Education Design Experiences in Education, Administration and Health Sciences
Caroline M. Crawford; Ruth Gannon-Cook; Gita Varagoor
WebNet World Conference on the WWW and Internet 1999 (1999) pp. 1236–1237
The purpose of this paper is to relate the findings of three researchers who observed distance education curricula in the environments of education, administration and health sciences to see if there was congruency in the delivery of distance...
Topics: Distance Education, Educational Technology
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Electronic Mapping in Education: The Use of Geographic Information Systems
Raymond L. Sanders; Lawrence T. Kajs; Caroline M. Crawford
Journal of Research on Computing in Education Vol. 34, No. 2 (2002) pp. 121–29
Discusses the use of electronic mapping and geographic information systems (GIS) in education. Highlights include GIS capabilities; learning environments; how GIS helps learners; examples of GIS in elementary and secondary education; GIS use by...
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The C Class Lesson Plan Framework: Disrupting Lesson Strategies and Intentions by Designing a New Style of Lesson Engagement that Deconstructs and Reconstructs the Future of Learning
Caroline M Crawford; Noran L. Moffett; Jennifer Young Wallace
International Journal on E-Learning Vol. 19, No. 1 (January 2020) pp. 25–47
Disruptions impacting the teaching and learning aspects of instruction have been realized throughout the Twentieth Century as well as the dawning of the Twenty-First Century with the Information Age also referred to as the Digital Age and even the...