Search results for author:"Marsha Alibrandi"
Total records matched: 26 Search took: 0.163 secs
-
Marsha Alibrandi
GISYES-Fairfield University (Ret.)-NC State University (Ret.)
-
GIS as a Tool in Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies: Student, Teacher, and Community Perspectives
Marsha Alibrandi
Meridian Vol. 1, No. 2 (1998) pp. 1–10
Describes an application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology as a tool in an environmental community-service project in which students and adult community members participated in water-quality monitoring and biological assessment....
-
Thinking Spatially: GIS in the High School Classroom
Marsha Alibrandi
Green Teacher Vol. 50 (1997) pp. 15–18
Discusses the Geographic Information System (GIS) which can display information from a database in a geo-referenced map, the speed with which it can correlate many layers of information, the varied angles it can provide, and other images that it can ...
-
Technology Portfolios in Pre-Service Social Studies Teacher Education
Marsha Alibrandi
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) pp. 2166–2167
A state-mandated technology portfolio required for initial licensure has changed the lives of Social Studies Methods Educators. North Carolinian Social Studies professors meet the challenge in various ways. This case study investigates the types of...
Topics: Social Studies
-
A Tale of Three Cities: Implications for GIS in Educational Research
Marsha Alibrandi; Elizabeth Langran
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2009 (Mar 02, 2009) pp. 753–756
A combination of video, Internet-based digital storytelling and decision-making were designed to integrate primary source interpretation and use by students in telling digital stories. Three middle school pilot sites: a wealthy suburb of New York...
-
Interdisciplinary Applications for Geographic Information Systems
Marsha Alibrandi; Timothy Keiper
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2000 (2000) pp. 2006–2010
Automated Geographic Information Systems are capable of creating layered maps from a tabular data set and further, of allowing the user to analyze the information. This paper describes five North American schools that have successfully integrated...
Topics: Information Sciences, Databases, Science
-
Integrating Geospatial Technologies: New Dimensions to Curricula
Marsha Alibrandi; Elizabeth Langran
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2010 (Mar 29, 2010) pp. 3968–3969
As the ubiquity of geospatial technologies such as Google Earth, Global Positioning Systems (GPS), GIS, GPS-enabled digital cameras and cell phones provide easy access to geo-tagging and adding geo-location to digital stories and social network...
-
Learning History with Biography-based Video & Web Tools: Research Results
Elizabeth Langran; Marsha Alibrandi
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2009 (Mar 02, 2009) pp. 2570–2574
Young American Heroes (YAH) is a suite of digital biography and storytelling tools designed to help youngsters learn about the lives and times of important figures in American history, become engaged in “doing history” themselves, and develop a more ...
-
Interdisciplinary Uses of GIS: Practical Applications, Projects, and Partnerships for Educators
Marsha Alibrandi; Shannon White
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2003 (2003) pp. 2821–2824
This paper will focus on the Interdisciplinary uses of GIS (Geographic Information Systems) technology in K-12 classrooms. Discussion will include Educators as students; the collaborative and interdisciplinary nature of GIS projects; community...
Topics: Educational Technology, Classrooms
-
Creating Digital Media for a University - Museum Partnership
Elizabeth Langran; Marsha Alibrandi
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 4909–4912
When schools of education collaborate with community partners, it creates opportunities for students to apply theories learned inside the classroom to authentic and practical use, as well as for community partners to take advantage of the resources...
-
How Geography and GIS improved Reading scores on standardized tests
Marsha Alibrandi; Donna Goldstein
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 4616–4619
In a case study conducted with 1,425 middle school students in Palm Beach County, Florida, data from an experimental group in a GIS elective (256) and a comparable control group without GIS instruction (1,169), yielded increased standardized test...
-
Students Learning, Students Leading with GIS
Shannon White; Marsha Alibrandi
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004 (2004) pp. 1888–1889
GIS (Geographic Information Systems) is computer software system that blends mapping, data manipulation and spatial analysis. This technology has great potential for interdisciplinary projects in K-12 classrooms. Students using this software...
-
Education and Economics in West Africa: From Unwritten Languages to the Internet
Marsha Alibrandi; Prince Hycy Bull
International Journal of Social Education Vol. 19, No. 2 (2005) pp. 51–58
Global distribution of West African goods--coffee, chocolate, gold, diamonds (and at one time, ivory)--has linked this region to the outside world for centuries, yet its development remains slow. Not simply the ancestral home of humankind, Africa's...
-
Making a Place for Technology in Teacher Education with Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Marsha Alibrandi; Jean Palmer-Moloney
Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 1, No. 4 (2001) pp. 483–500
In North Carolina in the Spring 2000 semester, an experimental 'Geographic Information System (GIS) in Education' course for pre and inservice teachers was introduced at North Carolina State University (NCSU). Participants mastered a complex...
Topics: Educational Technology, Social Studies
-
Grounding Geospatial Technologies Across Disciplines
Marsha Alibrandi; Donna Goldstein; Jeremy Weber
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2011 (Mar 07, 2011) pp. 3811–3815
In the past decade, new studies have yielded results that should not surprise educators integrating geospatial technologies and content: including these in the curriculum enhances student performance (Hinde, 2009; Goldstein, 2010). Geospatial...
-
A 2004 Perspective: Problems that affected and promoted technology integration during the practica experiences of preservice social studies teachers
Prince Bull; Marsha Alibrandi; Shannon White
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004 (2004) pp. 4758–4763
Abstract: This study identified factors that promoted and hindered technology integration during the practica experiences of preservices social studies teachers. The case study studies the findings of two classes of preservice teachers enrolled in a ...
Topics: Social Sciences, Social Studies, Teachers, Integration
-
GIS (Geographic Information Systems) in Teacher Education
Marsha Alibrandi; Shannon White; Rita Hagevik
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2001 (2001) pp. 1524–1525
This paper introduces Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology as a useful addition to other technologies being introduced in K-12 classrooms in the context of an experimental teacher education course. In the iterative course design,...
Topics: Social Studies, Classrooms, Instructional Design, Educational Technology, Social Sciences
-
Reconstructing a School's Past Using Oral Histories and GIS Mapping
Marsha Alibrandi; Candy Beal; Ann Thompson; Anna Wilson
Social Education Vol. 64, No. 3 (2000) pp. 134–40
Describes an interdisciplinary project that incorporated language arts, social studies, instructional technology, and science where middle school students were involved in oral history, Geographic Information System (GIS) mapping, architectural...
-
GIS in Teacher Education: Notes from the Field II
Shannon White; Rita Hagevik; Marsha Alibrandi; Barbaree Duke
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) pp. 770–771
Over three years of an experimental course entitled GIS in Education, we have consistently engaged student participants as collaborative co-constructive partners in designing instruction. With a class website that facilitates communication between...
Topics: Students, Instructional Design
-
Changing Landscapes of Learning and Teaching with Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Hycy Bull; Marsha Alibrandi; Herschel Sarnoff; Shannon White
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2003 (2003) pp. 2706–2709
Abstract: This panel addresses the following questions. What is the status of Geographic Information systems (GIS) in education? How is GIS integrated into classrooms across the nation? What are the associated benefits and problems? What are the...
Topics: Integration
-
Ridges and Bridges: MentorNet Collaboration Yields a Watershed of Preservice Infusion
Lisa Grable; Hiller Spires; Judy Lambert; Candy Beal; John Park; Hollylynne Drier; Marsha Alibrandi
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2001 (2001) pp. 1642–1646
Mandatory technology requirements for student teachers have put faculty in teacher education programs in the position of being responsible for a learning environment enriched with technology. This paper addresses the processes being used by NC...
Topics: Faculty, Educational Technology, Teachers
-
Developing a Curricular Sequence for K-16 Geospatial Integration
Marsha Alibrandi; Tom Baker; Elizabeth Langran; Thomas Hammond; Dan Zalles; Paul Nagel
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2012 (Mar 05, 2012) pp. 3511–3513
International Geospatial teachers and teacher educators have an ever-increasing opportunities and technolgoies that are both intuitive and age-appropriate for students of all ages. Integration of social media and online mapping, expanded online...
-
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
-
Geospatial Applications for Content Learning
Marsha Alibrandi; Tom Baker; James Oigara; Rita Hagevik; Patricia Stringer-Barnes
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2011 (Mar 07, 2011) pp. 3808–3810
New uses of Geospatial technologies (GSTs)from GPS to GIS to Google Earth and new online GIS mapping are increasingly common in everyday use. In this panel, two award-winning Geospatial educators, Rita Hagevik and James Oigara present current...
-
Direction, magnitude, and constructive chaos: Identifying the vectors of technological change in a college of education
Marsha Alibrandi; Candy Beal; Lisa Grable; Hiller Spires; Eric Wiebe; Kathryn Moore
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) pp. 1700–1707
The faculty of the NC State College of Education (CED) is in the process of transforming its organizational culture to better support educators as they deal with a changing technological landscape. We are developing and refining a model for change...
-
Waking the Sleeping Giant: Social Studies Teacher Educators Collaborate to Integrate Technology into Methods’ Courses
Cheryl Mason; Marsha Alibrandi; Michael Berson; Kara Dawson; Rich Diem; Tony Dralle; David Hicks; Tim Keiper; John Lee
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2000 (2000) pp. 1985–1989
This paper presents an overview of the efforts undertaken by a collaborative group of social studies teacher educators to identify and develop appropriate models of integrating technology into social studies teacher education. The goal of the ...
Topics: Teachers, Educational Technology, Social Studies