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Melanie Zibit
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Mathemagica – online professional development that puts the magic in mathematics
Melanie Zibit
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2003 (2003) pp. 840–842
How can we help teachers, who grew up learning mathematics through memorization and rules, teach by knowing mathematical ideas and procedures so well that they can explain them skillfully in more than one way and at a level students can understand....
Topics: Teachers, Mathematics, Professional Development, Students
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Dilemmas we faced in online professional development
Melanie Zibit
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2003 (2003) pp. 2292–2297
Online professional development fosters teacher collaboration and professional growth. But those involved in implementing programs are aware of the subtle complexities and the difficulty of balancing all its dimensions. From my experience building...
Topics: Teachers, Professional Development
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Understanding the social context for online learning
Melanie Zibit
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2002 (2002) p. 2152
The world of online learning is fascinating and so different from face to face. What are its characteristics? What kind of learning works best in these environments? And how do you take advantage of these characteristics when you are designing your...
Topics: Professional Development
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Sustaining the gains on an urban technology project in lean times
Melanie Zibit
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004 (2004) pp. 3818–3820
This is the story of a three year PT3 technology project between a university and an urban school – the hurdles we overcame to use technology, the successes, and the difficulties we now face to have the school take ownership of the project and...
Topics: Schools
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What online facilitators say is difficult - experiences from Mathemagica online professional development
Melanie Zibit
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2003 (2003) pp. 843–844
What would a moderator say were the most challenging things about online moderating and how would s/he handle it? This presentation will talk about some core challenges for moderators based on experiences described by moderators in an innovative...
Topics: Professional Development
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simSchool - a Virtual Practicum
Melanie Zibit Melanie; Bill Halverson
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2006 (Mar 19, 2006) pp. 2332–2333
simSchool is an exciting new way to prepare teachers to improve student learning. simSchool is a computer simulation where teachers virtually practice their teaching and classroom management skills within a fun and safe educational simulation - game ...
Topics: Teachers, Classrooms, Students
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Bridging the distance between research and practice: Creating a community of practice for piloting an educational simulation.
Melanie Zibit; David Gibson
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2004 (2004) pp. 1044–1057
Projects and organizations that want to deploy new e-learning tools find it helpful to bridge research, development and practice by piloting with users to learn what works, what needs adapting, and how to create support systems for full scale...
Topics: Educational Technology
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Inside SimSchool – A simulated environment to understand how students learn
Melanie Zibit; David Gibson
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2005 (2005) pp. 2897–2901
When you watch a chef cook, you can see the process, but when you watch a teacher, the decision making process is internal, making it difficult for an aspiring or novice teacher to connect what the expert teacher does and how students respond....
Topics: Teachers, Behavior, Classrooms, Students
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Steering Toward Others: Emergent Strategies for Facilitating in Practice-Based Learning Communities
Stephanie Feger; Melanie Zibit
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2005 (2005) pp. 2218–2223
Abstract: This paper examines strategies used by online facilitators supporting professional learning in K-12 mathematics. Based on a technique for analyzing text messages in online courses, we assess levels of teaching presence (Anderson, Rourke,...
Topics: Professional Development, Instructional Design, Mathematics
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Online Professional Development – lessons learned
Melanie Zibit Goldman
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) pp. 835–837
Over the three years of the MSTelementoring project we experienced success as well as difficulties fostering online learning with inservice teachers. "MSTelementoring", funded by the National Science Foundation, is an online professional development ...
Topics: Professional Development, Science, Change, Teachers
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Teachers sharing and learning online - an innovative professional development model
Melanie Zibit Goldman
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2000 (2000) pp. 2214–2217
"MSTelementoring" is an innovative, online professional development project for K-12 teachers in central New York State. The focus of the project is on changing teacher practice to more inquiry methods in math and science and technology. Teachers...
Topics: Teachers, Professional Development
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Telementoring for Literacy to Cross the Digital Divide
Audrey Friedman; Meca Coote; Melanie Zibit
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2003 (2003) pp. 3937–3938
This presentation describes the hurdles of a telementoring project between Boston College and urban Brighton High School. As part of BC?s PT3 program literacy education students telementor low-performing 9th graders in writing.. Urban schools...
Topics: Teachers, Educational Technology, Preservice Teacher Education, Digital Divide, Schools, Students
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simSchool - Today's Preservice Students Prepare for Tomorrow's Classrooms
Melanie Zibit; David Gibson; Bill Halverson
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2006 (Mar 19, 2006) pp. 3130–3136
Forces are buffeting today's schools and institutions, impacting teachers' abilities in the classroom. Too many new teachers enter the classroom unprepared to make decisions and manage a classroom of 24-31 students, in part due to teacher...
Topics: Teachers, Classrooms, Students, Virtual Environments
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Telementoring as a Collaborative Agent for Change
Audrey A. Friedman; Melanie Zibit; Meca Coote
Journal of Technology, Learning, and Assessment Vol. 3, No. 1 (May 2004)
This case study explored the effectiveness of telementoring as a vehicle for preservice teachers to hone skills in the teaching of writing, to establish a mentoring relationship with urban high school students, and to help struggling writers improve ...
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Let’s Play: The role and value of games and simulations in education!, Part 2
Michael Searson; Bill Halverson; Robert McLaughlin; Calin Cazan; Ann DeMarle; Joel Foreman; Peggy Benton; Melanie Zibit; David Gibson; Debra Sprague
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2005 (2005) pp. 2092–2094
A diverse group of educators will present an array of perspectives on the role and value of games and simulations as educational tools. Papers will include the "Characteristics and Functions of Games," "What Educators Can Learn from Game Developers?"...
Topics: Virtual Environments, Graphics, Games
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Let’s Play: The role and value of games and simulations in education!, Part 1
Michael Searson; Bill Halverson; Robert McLaughlin; Calin Cazan; Ann DeMarle; Joel Foreman; Peggy Benton; Melanie Zibit; David Gibson; Debra Sprague
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2005 (2005) pp. 2089–2091
A diverse group of educators will present an array of perspectives on the role and value of games and simulations as educational tools. Papers will include the "Characteristics and Functions of Games," "What Educators Can Learn from Game Developers?"...
Topics: Games, Graphics, Virtual Environments