Flex Seminar: Revolutionizing the Seminar Requirement for Students, Faculty and Administration

Jody DeKorte; Heather Johnson

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2010 (Jun 29, 2010) pp. 3319–3322

In an online setting, any course feature that benefits students, faculty, and administration is a triple-crown winner. This institution uses a live interactive weekly seminar for its courses. Flex seminar is a new tool in the pilot stage; students ...

Outreach is as easy as 1,2,3,5, 8

Jody DeKorte; Heather Johnson

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2010 (Jun 29, 2010) pp. 2668–2671

In an online classroom, recognizing students and their work consistently and effectively can increase student morale and motivation. Having a well-formed outreach plan helps to make the outreach consistent, structured, and effective for all...

Engaging Teachers in Engaging Technologies: Part 2

Emily Pendergrass; Lanette Waddell; Heather Johnson

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 4542–4546

Freire said, “There is no teaching without learning and learning without teaching.” This session seeks to bring teaching and learning together by engaging in technologies across the content areas to bolster student and teacher learning. Learning is ...

Engaging Teachers in Engaging Technologies

Emily Pendergrass; Lanette Waddell; Heather Johnson

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 4525–4541

Freire said, “There is no teaching without learning and learning without teaching.” This session seeks to bring teaching and learning together by engaging in technologies across the content areas to bolster student and teacher learning. Learning is ...

Designing Online Playgrounds for Learning Mathematics

Heather Lynn Johnson; Peter Hornbein; Dana Bryson

Mathematics Teacher Vol. 110, No. 4 (2016) pp. 298–303

Fully online courses can provide teachers fresh opportunities to expand their mathematical conceptions and infuse technology into their classroom teaching. In this article, the authors share the experience of two classroom teachers (Hornbein and...

Investigating Functions with a Ferris Wheel

Heather Lynn Johnson; Peter Hornbein; Sumbal Azeem

Mathematics Teacher Vol. 110, No. 5 (2016) pp. 344–351

The authors provide a dynamic Ferris wheel computer activity that teachers can use as an instructional tool to help students investigate functions. They use a student's work to illustrate how students can use relationships between quantities to...

Developing Preservice Teachers' Knowledge of Science Teaching through Video Clubs

Heather J. Johnson; Michelle E. Cotterman

Journal of Science Teacher Education Vol. 26, No. 4 (June 2015) pp. 393–417

Though an adequate understanding of content is a natural prerequisite of teaching (Carlsen in "Journal of Research in Science Teaching" 30:471-481, 1993), teachers also need to be able to interpret content in ways that facilitate student...

Creating Supplemental Materials: Successful Lessons Learned

Heather Johnson; Eric Aurand; Leslie Johnson; Michelle Lis

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2012 (Oct 09, 2012) p. 230

Creating supplementary materials can be an overwhelming process. Come learn how one university developed supplementary materials for content, special assignments, and special topics, such as math anxiety. Also discussed will be benefits faculty...

And Never the Two Shall Meet?: Student vs. Faculty Perceptions of Online Courses

Randall E. Osborne; Paul Kriese; Heather Tobey; Emily Johnson

Journal of Educational Computing Research Vol. 40, No. 2 (2009) pp. 171–182

The education literature is blossoming with work on perceptions of distance education, online teaching, hybrid courses, and the like. Although this literature is important for helping faculty to understand the costs and benefits for teaching in...

Examining the Roles of the Facilitator in Online and Face-to-Face Professional Development Contexts

Gina Park; Heather Johnson; Richard Vath; Beth Kubitskey; Barry Fishman

Journal of Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 21, No. 2 (April 2013) pp. 225–245

Online teacher professional development has become an alternative to face-to-face professional development. Such a shift from face-to-face to online professional development, however, brings new challenges for professional development facilitators,...

Presence+Experience: A Framework for the Purposeful Design of Presence in Online Courses

Joanna C. Dunlap; Geeta Verma; Heather Lynn Johnson

TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning Vol. 60, No. 2 (2016) pp. 145–151

In this article, we share a framework for the purposeful design of presence in online courses. Instead of developing something new, we looked at two models that have helped us with previous instructional design projects, providing us with some...

Exploring the Influence of Accomplished Teachers’ Video and Commentary Pairing on Teacher Candidates’ Noticing and Thinking about Practice

Eric Hougan; Heather Johnson; Daniel Novak; Chandra Foote; Amy Palmeri

Journal of Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 26, No. 2 (April 2018) pp. 217–248

Teacher preparation programs are facing increased demands to link pre-service teachers to expert teachers. Literature has highlighted that utilizing accomplished teacher videos has the potential to buttress pre-service teachers’ professional...

Putting It All Together: Incorporating "SoTL Practices" for Teaching Interpersonal and Critical Thinking Skills in an Online Course

Randall E. Osborne; Paul Kriese; Heather Tobey; Emily Johnson

InSight: A Collection of Faculty Scholarship Vol. 4 (2009) pp. 45–55

Views of critical thinking were culled from the literature and developed into a scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) model that was implemented into the Internet course, "The Politics and Psychology of Hatred." Assessment of student course...

Promoting Self-Determination and Transition Planning Using Technology: Student and Parent Perspectives

Traci E. Van Laarhoven-Myers; Toni R. Van Laarhoven; Thomas J. Smith; Heather Johnson; Justin Olson

Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals Vol. 39, No. 2 (2016) pp. 99–110

Despite the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act's (IDEA) mandates for student involvement in the Individualized Education Program (IEP) process, several researchers have demonstrated limited student participation. One method for encouraging...

The Future of Professional Development Will Be Designed, Not Discovered: Response to Moon, Passmore, Reiser, and Michaels, "Beyond Comparisons of Online versus Face-to-Face PD"

Barry Fishman; Spyros Konstantopoulos; Beth W. Kubitskey; Richard Vath; Gina Park; Heather Johnson; Daniel Edelson

Journal of Teacher Education Vol. 65, No. 3 (2014) pp. 261–264

This article represents a response to the authors' "Journal of Teacher Education" ("JTE") article (Fishman et al., 2013) by Moon, Passmore, Reiser, and Michaels (2013). The authors believe that Moon et al. have properly...

Topics: Professional Development, Standards, English Language Arts

Comparing the Impact of Online and Face-to-Face Professional Development in the Context of Curriculum Implementation

Barry Fishman; Spyros Konstantopoulos; Beth W. Kubitskey; Richard Vath; Gina Park; Heather Johnson; Daniel C. Edelson

Journal of Teacher Education Vol. 64, No. 5 (2013) pp. 426–438

This study employed a randomized experiment to examine differences in teacher and student learning from professional development (PD) in two modalities: online and face-to-face. The study explores whether there are differences in teacher knowledge...

Topics: Curriculum, Professional Development

Associations between Caregiver Support, Bullying, and Depressive Symptomatology among Sexual Minority and Heterosexual Girls: Results from the 2008 Boston Youth Survey

Renee M. Johnson; Jeremy D. Kidd; Erin C. Dunn; Jennifer Greif Green; Heather L. Corliss; Deborah Bowen

Journal of School Violence Vol. 10, No. 2 (2011) pp. 185–200

Although sexual minority (SM) youth are at an increased risk for being bullied and experiencing depression, it is unclear how caregiver support is interrelated with those variables. Therefore, we sought to assess (a) the prevalence of nonphysical...

Examining study attrition: Implications for experimental research on professional development

Beth W. Kubitskey; Richard J. Vath; Heather J. Johnson; Barry J. Fishman; Spyros Konstantopoulos; Gina J. Park

Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies Vol. 28, No. 3 (April 2012) pp. 418–427

As teacher professional development research includes more experimental designs, new challenges arise. We examine the threat of participant attrition as an example of the types of problems researchers face. Counter-intuitively, higher levels of...

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