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Richard Speaker
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Investigating Education Faculty’s Perspectives of Their Experiences in a Technology Project: Issues and Problems Related to Technology Integration
RIchard Speaker; Li Wang
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2002 (2002) pp. 2011–2016
The ISTE(1999) stated that it is important to study models that are making effective use and integration of technology in teacher education on an ongoing basis. The purpose of this study is to respond to this need by portraying three education...
Topics: Educational Technology, Integration, Instructional Design, Networking Technologies
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Multimedia Literacy in the Urban Classroom and the Reading Methods Courses
Margaret Dermody; Richard Speaker
Journal of Reading Education Vol. 28, No. 1 (2002) pp. 24–31
Discusses a problem that exists in the gap between technology integration in curricula and technology and infrastructure availability, which poses a problem for both preservice and inservice teachers and their students. Considers how teachers have...
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Helping Diverse Students Learn and Succeed in Online and Blended Settings
Steven Grubaugh; Greg Levitt; Richard Speaker; Penny Speaker
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2013 (Oct 21, 2013) pp. 20–22
This session will focus on promising practices to help teachers teach diverse students as they learn in online and blended environments. The topics will be based on national standards and promising practices which insure students become active and...
Topics: Implementation Examples & Issues, Social & Cultural Issues
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A Multimedia Story-Driven Instructional Methodology to Teach Science and Literacy Concepts to Children in Early Childhood Classrooms.
Steven Grubaugh; Cindy Coleman; Richard Speaker; Daryle Coleman; Penny Speaker
E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2014 (Oct 20, 2014) pp. 736–741
This session will focus on a promising practice to help teachers employ enhanced eBooks and iPads combined with multi-sensory, cross-curricular activities in the teaching of reading and science to pre-school children in a classroom setting. The...
Topics: Instructional Design, Content Development, Implementation Examples & Issues
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Toward Understanding Student and Faculty Perceptions of Teaching, Learning and Disaster Resilience in Second Life
Richard Speaker; Merrill Johnson; Lindsey Graveline
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2009 (Jun 22, 2009) pp. 585–590
Second Life (SL) is one example of a virtual, three-dimensional world which we have been using for a variety of instructional, research, and administrative purposes. This paper examines four areas: 1) What is Second Life (SL)? 2) Curriculum:...
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Under-prepared African-American College Students’ Perceptions of the Impact of Technology in a Developmental Reading Course
Deborah Darby; Richard B. Speaker Jr.
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2009 (Oct 26, 2009) pp. 2506–2511
This paper discuses two major areas: 1) academic challenges of under-prepared college students, especially African-Americans in an historically black institution; and 2) these students’ uses of technology in their everyday lives. These students make ...
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Technology Failures and Successes with Hurricane Katrina: Voices from the University of New Orleans Tell Stories of the Disaster and Rebuilding
Richard Speaker; Merrill Johnson; Laura Scaramella; Robert Cashner
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 857–862
This case study of the Katrina disaster and its aftermath at the University of New Orleans tells of plans, difficulties, on-going issues, and how technology failed or succeeded. We tell these stories to benefit others. This work uses...
Topics: Faculty, Communication, Students
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A Gamified Approach to Beginning Reading and STEAM
Cindy Coleman; Steven Grubaugh; Daryl Coleman; Greg Levitt; Richard Speaker; Penny Speaker
E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2018 (Oct 15, 2018) pp. 1547–1560
This session will focus on the planning, implementation and astonishing results of a two-year pilot program, iKnow School + Home Adventure, in an inner-city elementary school. iKnow School + Home Adventure is designed to enable children who are...
Topics: (2017) Instructional Design