A Process To Develop A Digital Storytelling Electronic Portfolio: Final Reflective Course Assessment

Larry Ferguson

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 1158–1159

This presentation is designed to demonstrate the construction of a Digital Storytelling Electronic Portfolio as a final course assessment. The UED 637-90 Curriculum Development and Technology is an online course in the online Administration and...

Topics: Creativity, Digital Storytelling/Video, Assessment and E-Folios

A Process to Re-implement an Assessment System in Preparation for NCATE

Larry Ferguson

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2013 (Oct 21, 2013) pp. 676–678

This session will provide a necessary dialogue about re-implementing and a demonstration of using a higher education assessment program (Tk20) in preparation for a scheduled 2015 National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) visit. ...

Topics: Implementation Examples & Issues

Using Technology As A Tool For Healing

Larry Ferguson

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2012 (Jun 26, 2012) pp. 2826–2828

This presentation will explore the use of Pinnacle Studio or Windows Movie Maker, as a tool for counselors to use as an optional approach to assist their clients through the Five Stages of Grief. We will share the process of creating a digital...

Digital Storytelling: One Assignment + Three Projects = Flow

Larry Ferguson; Margaret Knight

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2010 (Mar 29, 2010) pp. 1080–1081

This round table presentation is to demonstrate how using Digital Storytelling as a tool to complete one assignment (a technology autobiography) and effectively transition into three multimedia projects using MS PowerPoint, Windows Movie Maker, and...

Digital Storytelling: The Course is the Chapter

Larry Ferguson; Denelle Wallace

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2020 (Apr 07, 2020) pp. 1095–1096

Digital Storytelling: The Course Is A Chapter is the second installment of a trilogy where a course initially evolves into a story, then into a chapter, and finally the academic program evolves into the book. As students matriculate through their...

Topics: Assessment and E-Folios

Integration of Microsoft Producer and Adobe Visual Communicator 3 in a Technology Literacy Methods Class: Advantages and Disadvantages

Larry Ferguson; Turquoise Wilder

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2012 (Oct 09, 2012) pp. 130–133

The purpose of this session is to demonstrate how students used Microsoft Producer and Adobe Visual Communicator to create dynamic video presentations in a teacher education methods class at an HBCU. Presenters will share the process of how to use...

Learned Helplessness, Computer Anxiety, and The Effect of Attribution Retraining A Review of the Literature

Larry Ferguson; Denelle Wallace

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2018 (Oct 15, 2018) pp. 1028–1033

Literature in the areas of learned helplessness, computer anxiety, and attribution retraining are reviewed to determine if there are connections between learned helplessness and computer anxiety. The literature revealed learned helplessness and...

Topics: E-learning/E-training

Using Microsoft Producer As A Tool To Enhance Critical Thinking

Larry Ferguson; Margaret Knight

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2009 (Jun 22, 2009) pp. 2160–2161

The purpose of this roundtable is to demonstrate how teaching faculty can use Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft Producer as a tool to enhance special writing projects in a writing intensive course. Presenters will share issues evolving from the...

Cooperating Teachers’ Assessment of Preservice Teachers’ Integration of Technology During the Clinical Practice: How Can Faculty Model More?

Margaret Knight; Larry Ferguson

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2009 (Jun 22, 2009) pp. 2194–2198

Abstract: This paper is a discussion of data collected on how preservice teachers at a Historically Black University (HBCU) were evaluated by their cooperating preK-12 teachers on their use of technology as an instructional aid during the student...

Transition From The BIG Book to the Digital Peer Faculty Evaluation Portfolio at an HBCU: Resistance Is Futile

Larry Ferguson; Margaret Knight

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2008 (Nov 17, 2008) pp. 2173–2174

Presenters will share issues evolving from the departure of the traditional practice of creating the Big Book to the Faculty Evaluation Electronic Portfolio. They will share an analysis of the resistance to change of format and fear of the unknown...

Transition from the Comprehensive Examination to a Program Electronic Portfolio Assessment

Larry Ferguson; Denelle Wallace

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2013 (Oct 21, 2013) pp. 679–683

This session will discuss the planning involved with the transition from the traditional end of program comprehensive examination and demonstrate the construction of a program electronic portfolio assessment in an online administration and...

Topics: Implementation Examples & Issues

The effects of podcasting on student perceptions of community within the online learning environment

Larry A. Ferguson

(2010) pp. 1–106

This study examined the effects of using podcasts as a medium of communication toward affecting student perception of community within the online learning environment. A control and treatment group comparison design was employed with 184 online...

Course E-Portfolios: If I Knew Then, What I Know Now

Larry Ferguson; Tyreka Williams; Turquoise Wilder

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 4244–4246

One Professor and two Honors College Students (seniors) demonstrate how they created a course e-portfolio for an undergraduate methods class at a Historically Black College. A dialogue between students and professor raised an important question...

Introduction and Creation of an Advanced Course Electronic Portfolio at an HBCU: The Process

Larry Ferguson; Darnita Belcher; William Carter

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2011 (Oct 18, 2011) pp. 105–108

In this roundtable presentation, the participant will share advantages growing from implementing the Electronic Portfolio. I will share an analysis of the initial fear of the unknown technology assessment and the ultimate gains in the final...

Digital Storytelling: The Story is the Course

Larry Ferguson; Deidre Henriques; Monika McGhee

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2019 (Mar 18, 2019) pp. 616–618

As students matriculate throughout their academic programs, I began to examine how much information a student is able to retain, recall and reflect, 3Rs from courses many years after graduation. This presentation shares how students use inquiry,...

Topics: Digital Storytelling/Video, Assessment and E-Folios

PiccleForum: A website for intercultural critical literacy

Jamie Myers; Christer Morheden; Larry Ferguson; Rodney Pederson; Kiwan Sung

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2006 (October 2006) pp. 796–799

PiccleForum provides an interpretive space for the construction of an intercultural critical literacy through asynchronous discussion about jointly experienced print, media, and multimedia texts. In the e-learning forum, international participants...

Topics: Communication

Globalizing teacher education: How technology supports student study abroad and intercultural reflection

Jamie Myers; Chris Shelton; Stefan Engberg; Larry Ferguson

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2010 (Mar 29, 2010) pp. 2496–2505

This presentation will describe the consequences of technology use for intercultural development and globalized teaching practice in schools for teacher education students who participate in a two-year program across two European universities and...

Testing Digital Story Methods in Developing Critical Thinking Skills

Leroy Hamilton; Larry Ferguson; Sasha Johnson; Kyshawn Smith

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2015 (Mar 02, 2015) pp. 622–626

This paper reports findings and offers implications from an evaluation of digital story methods in fostering critical thinking aptitude amongst junior and senior English students at an urban, mid-sized HBCU. Research participants consisted of...

Topics: Race, Research Methods, Digital Storytelling/Video

Using Blackboard Collaborate in an Online Graduate Course: Shared Experiences

Larry Ferguson; Allen Washington; Ebony Hill; Raymond Gatlin

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 225–227

Abstract: Students and instructor share their experience using Blackboard Collaborate for the first time in an online Administration and Supervision Program graduate course. Issues discussed will be preparation and training for both students and...

Topics: Distance/Flexible Education

An International Forum for Intercultural Critical Literacy: Critical Analysis of Film

Larry Ferguson; Jamie Myers; Donna King; Rodney Pederson; Kiwan Sung; Michelle Lee

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2006 (Mar 19, 2006) pp. 1936–1938

University faculty from The Pennsylvania State University in Pennsylvania, Norfolk State University in Virginia, and Woosong University in South Korea, utilized a web-based forum to engage their students in global discussions of interpretations...

Developing a global forum for intercultural critical literacy

Jamie Myers; Christer Morheden; Ramon Serrano; Kimmo Salmenjoki; Larry Ferguson; Helmut Dispert

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2005 (2005) pp. 1731–1732

A group of university faculty from Pennsylvania, Virginia, Minnesota, Sweden, Germany, and Finland has developed a web-based forum to engage their students in global discussions of interpretations about print and media texts. In this roundtable...