Pascua Yaqui Connection

J David Betts

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2003 (2003) pp. 667–670

The Pascua Yaqui Community Resource Lab is the computer facility established on the Pascua Yaqui Reservation by the Pascua Yaqui Connection project. The U.S. Department of Commerce Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure Assistance Program ...

Topics: Community

New Literacies at the Digital Divide: American Indian Community Computing

J David Betts

Journal of American Indian Education Vol. 48, No. 1 (2009) pp. 37–62

This study is about a community computing lab established by a U.S. Department of Commerce grant to bridge the Digital Divide in a rural Arizona American Indian community, a project called "Native Connection" (a pseudonym). This paper describes the...

Multimedia Arts Learning in an Activity System: New Literacies for At-Risk Children

J David Betts

International Journal of Education & the Arts Vol. 7, No. 7 (Oct 18, 2006) pp. 1–44

This study concerns a multi-year after school arts technology program, the Multimedia Arts Education Program (MAEP). The Tucson Pima Arts Council (TPAC) sponsored MAEP in downtown Tucson for low-income youth. A five-semester curriculum was developed ...

Multimedia/Multiliteracy: The multimedia arts education program

J. David Betts

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2000 (2000) pp. 112–117

At the heart of the Multimedia Arts Education Program (MAEC) is a strong mix of literacy activities from the several arts disciplines and techniques. This is a descriptive study of this after school arts technology program for middle school youth. ...

Topics: Multimedia, Educational Technology, Literacy, Computers, Middle School Education

Wildcat Multimedia Team: New literacies in middle school

J David Betts

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) p. 889

The Wildcat Multimedia Team was formed as part of a design experiment to determine the most effective ways to integrate multimedia arts and sciences into middle school. A small group of students in grades 6 , 7, & 8 volunteered to be trained to use...

Learning to Be Multimedia Teaching Artists: Apprenticeship in Multimedia Arts Education

J David Betts

Teaching Artist Journal Vol. 6, No. 4 (October 2008) pp. 266–278

The Multimedia Arts Education Program (MAEP) was an innovative initiative for middle school students that used teaching artists as leaders in an apprenticeship-like teaching context. This article is about a second apprenticeship program supported by ...

Art + Technology Integration: Developing an After School Curriculum

J David Betts

Afterschool Matters Vol. 2 (2003) pp. 13–22

More than three million children in the United States participate in some type of after school program (National Study, 1993) offering wide-ranging benefits to children, their families and the community (Pederson, et al, 1998). After school programs ...

Art and Technology integration: Activity theory and after school multimedia education

J. David Betts

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 1999 (1999) pp. 1420–1421

The Multimedia Arts Education Program at the Tucson Pima Arts Council in Tucson, AZ is a five-semester after school arts technology program for low-income middle school urban youth. This paper is based on the first year of a longitudinal study...

Topics: Educational Technology, Schools, Middle School Education