TOPS and STAT: Two PT3 Bridges for the Digital Divide

Jennifer Kidd; David Kidd

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) p. 1210

Progress has been made narrowing the gap of the digital divide. Nevertheless, residents of rural Southside Virginia are still largely without computers or Internet access. Two components of a Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology (PT3)...

Topics: Students, Schools, Digital Divide, Internet

Evaluating VoiceThread for Online Content Delivery and Student Interaction: Effects on Classroom Community

Jennifer Kidd

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 2158–2162

Student interaction is understood as an essential aspect of online instruction. This study examines the effect of using VoiceThread, a web 2.0 tool, as the primary medium for content delivery and student interaction for two online courses: one...

Using VoiceThread for Online Content Delivery: Effects on Classroom Community and Academic Performance

Jennifer Kidd

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2012 (Mar 05, 2012) pp. 1885–1890

Abstract: This study examines the effect of using VoiceThread as the primary means of content delivery in two online courses, one graduate and one undergraduate. Results suggest that both graduate and undergraduate students like using VoiceThread...

Preservice Teachers Create Online Lessons to Teach Content and Learn Pedagogy

Jennifer Kidd

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2012 (Mar 05, 2012) pp. 3667–3669

Teachers in the 21st century will teach with digital course materials in digital environments. Teacher preparation programs face a daunting task to adequately prepare candidates to be successful in this rapidly changing educational environment. ...

Understanding Students’ Online Communication Preferences and the Affordances of VoiceThread for Formative Assessment in Online Teaching

Jennifer Kidd; Jeffrey Beaudry

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 2163–2170

This paper explores connections between students’ communication preferences and instructors’ formative assessment practices in online learning. The purpose is to understand the use of VoiceThread, a web 2.0 application, to promote student...

DiscoveryMissions: An Educational Tool for Web 2.0

Patrick O'Shea; Jennifer Kidd

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 4008–4012

This paper will describe the DiscoveryMission pedagogical approach to classroom teaching and the process through which this pedagogy was developed. The DiscoveryMission process has been designed specifically to facilitate a student-centered...

Crowdsourced Grading: Exploring the Validity and Effects of Student-Authored and Student-Evaluated Textbooks

Patrick O'Shea; Jennifer Kidd

Global Learn 2011 (Mar 28, 2011) pp. 1266–1271

This paper describes research into the effectiveness of a “crowdsourced grading” model used in a course where undergraduate students authored their own textbook using wikis and marked each other’s work to determine the content of the “official”...

How Pizza Narrows the Digital Divide and Improves Teacher Technology Confidence

Jennifer Kidd; Patrick O'Shea

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2003 (2003) pp. 1581–1583

Technology Opportunities for Parents and Students (TOPS) is a community outreach program designed specifically to combat the digital divide. Teachers participating in a technology driven field-based masters degree program teach free technology...

Topics: Digital Divide

Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants: A Comparison across Course Tasks and Delivery Methodologies

Peter Baker; Yun Xiao; Jennifer Kidd

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2010 (Mar 29, 2010) pp. 1322–1329

Scholars continue to debate the importance of Prensky’s (2001) Digital Native/Immigrant distinction (Bennett, Maton, & Kervin, 2008). The proposed study will add empirical data to this debate by comparing large samples of Digital Natives to Digital ...

ACTT Now Collaboration - Matching Pre-service and Inservice Teachers Through Technology

Patrick O'Shea; Jennifer Kidd; Dwight Allen

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2003 (2003) pp. 1629–1630

ACTT Now, a partnership between Old Dominion University (ODU) and Brunswick County Public Schools (BCPS) includes a program that partners ODU students with BCPS teachers. With more than 100 miles between partners, distance tools foster all...

Topics: Schools, Students, Teachers

Student-authored Wikibooks: Textbooks of the Future?

Jennifer Kidd; Patrick O'Shea; Peter Baker; Jamie Kaufman; Dwight Allen

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 2644–2647

Using the Wikibooks platform, the students of the Social and Cultural Foundations of American Education (ECI 301) course at Old Dominion University have written their own textbook. Initial research has produced promising results. Students who...

WiTTIE (Wiki Templates Transforming Instructional Environments)

Jennifer Kidd; Peter Baker; Cady Pinell; Patrick O'Shea; Dwight Allen

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2010 (Mar 29, 2010) pp. 121–125

Wiki software is designed to facilitate collaborative writing; however the inherent features of wikis do not include tools for managing the logistical tasks of organizing a large group of students to write a wiki textbook. With funding from a...

Student-Authored Textbooks: The Future or Futile?

Jennifer Kidd; Patrick O'Shea; Dwight Allen; Roy Tamashiro

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2011 (Mar 07, 2011) pp. 3274–3279

Panelists will discuss the development and use of student-authored textbooks. Discussion will follow exploring process and product, considering context, content, and logistics. Participants will be encouraged to play the role of skeptics,...

Studying the Credibility of a Student-Authored Textbook: Is it worth the effort for the results?

Patrick O'Shea; Jennifer Kidd; Peter Baker; Jaime Kauffman; Dwight Allen

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 3008–3009

This session will describe the efforts to implement a student-authored textbook within an Educational foundations course, and the subsequent efforts to evaluate the credibility of the textbook that was created. Focus will be given to the design of...

Topics: Evaluation

5th/6th Graders and Preservice Teachers Explore Engineering and Coding in a Combined After-School Technology Club/Educational Technology Course

Jennifer Kidd; Sam Sacks; Krishna Kaipa; Kelly Rippard

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2019 (Mar 18, 2019) pp. 1600–1605

Elementary schools are increasingly encouraged to adopt STEM education efforts that include engineering and programming, yet pre-service teachers (PSTs) are not traditionally prepared to teach these subjects. This pilot study describes an innovative ...

Topics: Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies, Maker (Formerly Engineering Education)

In Our World: Portraits of Communities Across the Globe (A K-16 International Wiki Project)

Jennifer Kidd; Peter Baker; Patrick O'Shea; Cady Pinell; Dwight Allen

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2010 (Mar 29, 2010) pp. 2479–2482

In Our World: Portraits of Communities across the Globe is an international wiki text written by k-16 students. Participating classes contribute a chapter describing their community; students read, review and evaluate each other’s work. The...

An Evaluation of Web 2.0 Pedagogy: Student-authored Wikibook vs Traditional Textbook

Jennifer Kidd; Patrick O'Shea; Jamie Kaufman; Peter Baker; Tiffany Hall; Dwight Allen

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2009 (Mar 02, 2009) pp. 917–919

Rather than using a traditional text, students in an educational foundations course write their own text using Wikibooks. The notion of student-generated textbooks calls into question many issues of credibility, traditional definitions of expertise, ...

ACTT Now to Link Pre-service and In-service Teacher Education: A PT3 Panel

Jennifer Kidd; Patrick O'Shea; Dwight Allen; Cathy Cheely; Daniel Curry-Corcoran

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) pp. 1652–1660

Abstract: Old Dominion University and Brunswick County Public School's PT3 partnership ACTT Now (Aligning Certification with Technology Training) provides technology training for pre-service and in-service teachers, university faculty, and the...

Topics: Teachers, Training, Schools

Wikitextbooks: Pedagogical Tool for Student Empowerment

Jennifer Kidd; Peter Baker; Jamie Kaufman; Tiffany Hall; Patrick O'Shea; Dwight Allen

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2009 (Mar 02, 2009) pp. 920–922

Instructors chose course textbooks while publishers largely control textbook content and the often exorbitant prices paid for these texts. Students, meanwhile, have little say in this process. Recent research suggests wikitextbooks could shift the...

Introducing Coding into Teacher Education: An Interdisciplinary Robotics Experience for Education and Engineering Students

Jennifer Kidd; Krishna Kaipa; Sam Sacks; Lilian Maria de Souza Almeida

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2020 (Apr 07, 2020) pp. 1319–1326

Despite nationwide mandates to integrate computer science into P-6 curriculum, most P-6 preservice teachers (PSTs) are not exposed to coding or computational thinking during their professional preparation, and are unprepared to teach these topics....

Topics: Computational Thinking, Maker (Formerly Engineering Education), STEM Innovation

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...