Journal+Article+Reports


 * Enter your journal report assignment on this page. Begin with your name, underlined. Then enter your report that includes: Title and author of the article your read, reference citation (using APA style), a BRIEF summary of the article, and your reaction to the article (agreement/disagreement, usefulness, etc.). Please keep your report BRIEF. We will discuss the articles in more detail in class. **

__ Jacci Green __ Becker, J. (2010). Peer Coaching for Improvement of Teaching and Learning. Essential Educator, March. Retrieved from @http://essentialeducator.org/?p=688 This article discusses the need for teachers to continuous learn and improve their craft. Time and budgeting constraints can make this difficult, so the author proposes the use of Peer Coaching. She provides good information about Peer Coaching’s effectiveness including its benefits for problem solving, to reduce isolation, and to build collaborative norms. Some necessary criteria in order to make Peer Coaching work include the need for : trust among participants, clear expectations, and support from faculty/management. The only thing I would have added to the article, are the drawbacks of Peer Coaching, as we know that no instructional method is ‘perfect’.

__Hilda__ __Wensman__ Top 5 Education Trends in 2013 []. By Carolyn Englar This article address the different types of computers that will be used in the up coming year. I can not believe the different types of computers and how they are going to be used in the classroom, both in college and the lower school grades.

__Robbie Van Hooser__ Can We Talk?: Facilitating Successful Faculty-Student Visits By Cynthia Morris Morris, C.(2011). Facilitating successful faculty-student visits. //Innovation Abstracts, 33//(14). Retrieved from [] The intstructor set up this plan to help her students to be academically successful. However, she took it a step further by requiring the students to meet with the teachers from their other __#|classes__ as well. I like her plan and it sounds like the other faculty were on board with the idea. Getting other faculty to __#|participate__ would probably be the greatest obstacle to overcome.

Rebecca Hutton Multimedia interfaces for users with high functioning autism: An empirical investigation By:Ouriel Grynszpan, Jean-Claud Martin and Jacqueline Nadel www.elsevier.com/locate/ijgcs

__Robbie Van Hooser - 3/1/13__ In a Digital Age, __#|Students__ Still Cling to Paper Textbooks By Lisa W. Foderaro Foderaro, L (2010). In a digital age, students still cling to paper textbooks. //New York Times,// (A21). Retrieved from [] I'm not surprised at this, because I'm that student who likes to have something in my hand that I can quickly reference or make my notes in the margin as needed. Technology has it's advantages, but there are times, you have to go layers deep to get to what you want or need.

__Brian Beisly__ //Social-media Technologies Make Their Way into __#|Corporate Training__// by Kevin Tampone Tampone, K. (2009). Social-media technologies make their way into corporate training. //Business Journal (Central New York), 23(32),// 5. The article I selected discussed gamification in the workplace, a topic I’m growing interested in. With the increasing numbers of Gen Y in the workplace, I believe gamification and social media can not only make a difference in and employee’s performance but also in the prospective employee’s decision to accept a position.

__Muhd Khaizer Omar__ Hopkins, K. D., & Leftever, D. W. (1965). Comparative learning and retention of conventional and instructional TV methods. //AV Communication Review, 13//(1), 28-37. __Stevon Gregory__ Peer to Peer Teaching - Students Become the Teachers By Christa Love Love, C. (2012). Peer to Peer Teaching - Students Become the Teachers Retrieved from []

This journal article focused on students taking an active role in the information sharing within the classroom. By way of instruction and hands on experience, one group of students was given the opportunity to learn how to properly search the internet for specific topic information. Armed with that knowledge they were given the task of guiding another group of students through the same educational opportunity. The students were rotated in small groups through different focused instruction in this setting giving them a deeper understanding based on varying perspectives of the student teachers sharing the information. The fact that students were sharing information at their own level created a new dynamic to the learning experience. They could develop a passion for learning.

__Carissa Foster Riser__ //The Potential and Uniqueness of Virtual Environments for Education// by Leslie A. Bennett Bennett, L. A. (2008). The potential and uniqueness of virtual environments for education. //New Horizons in Adult Education and Human Resource Development//, 22(4), 53-59.

The purpose of this article was to describe the unique characteristics of Virtual Environments (VEs) that make them an effective venue for online learning, which is believed to be due to increased environmental presence. VEs offer students to ability to be in the same virtual space and react to one another as if they were in an actual classroom. The environment is key to a virtual environment, thus the notion of learner //presence// determines the success of the virtual environment. The unique characteristics of virtual environments that increase the sense of environmental presences include “nature of visual stimuli, control of the environment, amount and variety of sensory information utilized by the learner, and level of immersion by the learner”.

I read this article for my VR course and Virtual Environments really stuck out to me as a great instructional method. The uniqueness of VEs allows for educational possibilities that are difficult and sometimes impossible to achieve in real life.

__Ildelisa O. Lopez Recinos__ //Virtual Field Trips// Virtual Field Trips. Scholastic.com. March 8th, 2013 from http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/virtual-field-trips



Ashley Mellor The Influence of instructional methods on the quality of online discussion. Heather Kanuka, Liam Rourke and Elaine Laflamme Kanuka, H., Rourke, L., & Laflamme, E. (2006). The influence of instructional methods on the quality of online discussion. British Journal of Educational Technology, 38(2), 260-271.

The overall purpose of this student is to explore the influence of five distinct, instructional methods on the quality of online discussions. Each method is being examined to checks its ability to promote reflective thinking and critical discourse. Those five methods include nominal group technique, debates, invited expert, WebQuest, and deliberative inquiries. I was surprised by the results of this qualitiative study. I expected experts to be higher on the list for learning. However, I wasn't surprised that debates were second.

Chuck Baukal Turns, S. R., & Van Meter, P. N. (2011). Applying knowledge from educational psychology and cognitive science to a first course in thermodynamics. Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada, June 2011.



The article was of interest to me because I am currently teaching a first course in thermodynamics. The thesis of the article is that students need three types of knowledge to solve problems: declarative (concepts & principles), procedural (skills & strategies), and conditional (metacognitive knowledge & beliefs). The article gives some good suggestions for how instructors (experts) can help students (novices) to learn how to more effectively solve thermodynamics problems. For example, students can their own matrix notes, with the help of the instructor, to help them better identify problem types and what techniques to use to solve them. Another example is to have students sort key terms into categories to see how those compare to the sorting that would be done by the instructor. I got some good tips I can try to help my students better understand how to go about solving problems.

__ Lisa Martin Anderson __ Teaching Style vs. Learning Style Bettina Lankard Brown

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__Jason Hill__ Student Engagement in the Online Classroom By Errol Craig Sull Sull, E. (2013). Student Engagement in the Online Classroom Retrieved from []

This article focused on the rules of online classrooms for a beginner user. I found this article to be great for the new user. I felt many of the points made in this article to be great for those of us that have not had an on-line class room for years. One of the things I thought to be helpful was a link to frequently asked questions. I had not thought about this, but many students have the same questions and choose not to ask. I also found in my own class, that detailed responses to the students about their answers to class questions is critical.

__Emily Campbell__ Using Avatars and Virtual Environments in Learning: What do they offer? By: Garry Falloon @http://web.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.osu-tulsa.okstate.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=6dba1d03-5e57-47d2-ad59-a9986737f138%40sessionmgr113&vid=4&hid=121

I found this article very interesting. Since you are avatar and live in a virtual world you have restricted limitations on how you can act. Most students said they were less likely to get embarrassed and contributed more to their learning environments, which in turn engaged the students in higher levels of thinking and problem solving.

__Julie Fowble __ AI in computer-based training*. Bert Camstra Camstra, B.(2008). AI in computer based-training. //British Joyrnal of Educational Technology, 39//(2). Retrieved from []



The content of this article is to explore new roles of computer based training and the possibility of integrating intelligent CBTs. The author compares current forms of CBT and outlines possible steps to working and upgrading to intelligent computer-assisted instruction. I found this article interesting because of previous experience in creating CBTs. The author points out that we currently have a instructional learning path versus a student –initiated side paths. Camstra actually refers to traditional CBTs as “straight jacket learning”. The concept of ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ intelligence was a new concept that I was unaware of. This article gives a great concept of how we can begin to make CBTs more student driven, suggests steps on how int integrate AI into CBTs and also clearly states the difficulties of how to attain an Intelligent computer-assisted instructional program. As technology progresses, I look to see more AI integrated into our current "walk down path" CBT learning.