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Kinchin, Ian M.; Chadha, Deesha; Kokotailo, Patricia – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2008
As university lecturers select and sequence materials for their teaching, a linear structure emerges by default. Such a structure is made explicit within PowerPoint presentations and may even be amplified as PowerPoint invites the lecturer to reduce content to a bulleted format. Such linear sequences have been related to passive, surface…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Concept Mapping, Multimedia Instruction, Computer Software Evaluation
Branzburg, Jeffrey – Technology & Learning, 2006
In April 2006, Apple released a beta version of Boot Camp, a free software product that enables the installation of Windows XP (Home Edition or Professional with Service Pack 2) on an Intel-based Mac. (A beta version is not the final version, but it is ready for end users to try and test.) Essentially, Boot Camp splits your Mac into two hard…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computer Software Reviews, Computer Software Selection
Hastings, Robin – Computers in Libraries, 2008
The Web 2.0 tools and services that are making socializing, networking, and communicating in general so easy are also making group projects seriously simple. With the judicious use of a few of the popular tools that use Web 2.0 technologies and philosophies, one can collaboratively create documents, spreadsheets, presentations, websites, project…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Influence of Technology, Information Technology, Technological Literacy
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Isotani, Seiji; de Oliveira Brandao, Leonidas – Computers & Education, 2008
One of the key issues in e-learning environments is the possibility of creating and evaluating exercises. However, the lack of tools supporting the authoring and automatic checking of exercises for specifics topics (e.g., geometry) drastically reduces advantages in the use of e-learning environments on a larger scale, as usually happens in Brazil.…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Foreign Countries, Geometric Concepts, Geometry
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Godwin-Jones, Robert – Language Learning & Technology, 2009
Using computers to help students practice and learn grammatical constructions goes back to the earliest days of computer-assisted language learning (CALL). With the coming of the Internet age, CALL began to focus more heavily on the new capabilities of group connectivity and computer-mediated communication. More recently, a gathering consensus has…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Assisted Instruction, Adult Learning, Educational Technology
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Hammond, Michael – International Journal of English Studies, 2008
Finite-state methods are finding ever increasing use among linguists as a way of modeling phonology and morphology and as a method for manipulating and modeling text. This paper describes a suite of very simple finite-state tools written by the author that can be used to investigate this area and that can be used for simple analysis.
Descriptors: Phonology, Morphology (Languages), Program Descriptions, Educational Technology
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Jukic, Nenad; Gray, Paul – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2008
This paper describes the value that information systems faculty and students in classes dealing with database management, data warehousing, decision support systems, and related topics, could derive from the use of the Teradata University Network (TUN), a free comprehensive web-portal. A detailed overview of TUN functionalities and content is…
Descriptors: Decision Support Systems, Information Systems, Learning Processes, Computer Software Evaluation
Peters, Tom; Bell, Lori – Computers in Libraries, 2007
This article describes a computer-based technology for generating speech called text-to-speech (TTS). This software is ready for widespread use by libraries, other organizations, and individual users. It offers the affordable ability to turn just about any electronic text that is not image-based into an artificially spoken communication. The…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computer Software Selection, Artificial Speech, Library Services
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Thomas, David A.; Li, Qing – Computers in the Schools, 2008
The World Wide Web is evolving in response to users who demand faster and more efficient access to information, portability, and reusability of digital objects between Web-based and computer-based applications and powerful communication, publication, collaboration, and teaching and learning tools. This article reviews current uses of Web-based…
Descriptors: Education Courses, Mathematics Education, Distance Education, Mathematics Teachers
Ramaswami, Rama – Campus Technology, 2009
Digital lecture capture and broadcast solutions have been around for only about 10 years, but are poised for healthy growth. Frost & Sullivan research analysts estimate that the market (which amounts to $25 million currently) will quadruple by 2013. It's still dominated by a few key players, however: Sonic Foundry holds a hefty 40 percent-plus…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Lecture Method, Vendors, Costs
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Junco, Reynol; Cole-Avent, Gail A. – New Directions for Student Services, 2008
Today's college students, the Net generation, have woven technology into their everyday repertoire of communication and connection tools. They use the Internet, e-mail, instant messaging, blogs, and social networking Web sites like Facebook and MySpace at higher rates than individuals from any other generation. Student affairs professionals,…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Personnel Workers, Internet, Technology Uses in Education
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Rosen, Dina; Nelson, Charles – Computers in the Schools, 2008
New social-sharing applications are transforming the Internet from a "read-only" (Web 1.0) environment to a "read-write" ecology that many are calling Web 2.0. These tools (e.g., weblogs and wikis) enable Internet users to publish information online almost as easily as they can read online, and they have tremendous potential for learning. This…
Descriptors: Internet, Social Networks, Communities of Practice, Technological Advancement
Flood, Jacqueline – Developmental Disabilities Bulletin, 2007
NaturalReader (http://www.naturalreaders.com/) is a new generation text reader, which means that it reads any machine readable text using synthesized speech without having to copy and paste the selected text into the NaturalReader application window. It installs a toolbar directly into all of the Microsoft Office[TM] programs and uses a mini-board…
Descriptors: Computer Software Evaluation, Computer Software Reviews, Computational Linguistics, Language Processing
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Vaccaro, Nicole; Lambie, Glenn W. – Counselor Education and Supervision, 2007
Computer-based clinical supervision of counselors-in-training is becoming more prevalent (M. Reisch & L. Jarman-Rohde, 2000); however, its use is still in its infancy, and ethical standards have not been established regarding its practice. There exists a dearth of literature focusing on the ethical practice and development of supervisees when…
Descriptors: Supervision, Counselors, Ethics, Counselor Training
Dikli, Semire – Online Submission, 2006
The impacts of computers on writing have been widely studied for three decades. Even basic computers functions, i.e. word processing, have been of great assistance to writers in modifying their essays. The research on Automated Essay Scoring (AES) has revealed that computers have the capacity to function as a more effective cognitive tool (Attali,…
Descriptors: Scoring, Essays, Computer Uses in Education, Writing Evaluation
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