ELECTRONIC SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING: TODAY’S TECHNICAL ALTERNATIVES

Bernard Robin

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1996 (1996) pp. 854–858

Electronic scholarly publishing is today one of the fastest growing areas of publishing, with several hundred ejournals currently in print. For anyone considering the creation of an electronic scholarly journal there are two general decisions to be...

Developing an Electronic Infrastructure to Support Site-Based Teacher Education

Bernard Robin

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1995 (1995) pp. 656–660

Now in its second year, the Houston Consortium of Urban Professional Development and Technology Schools Project is continuing its development of a telecommunications infrastructure for its members. Funded by a grant from the Texas Education Agency,...

The Influence of Conference Moderator Strategies on the Participation of Teachers in Collaborative Telecomputing Projects

Bernard Robin

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1994 (1994) pp. 693–698

In Virginia, a statewide public school computing network, Virginia’s Public Education Network (Virginia’s PEN) is available to any public school educator who wants an account and has access to a computer, a modem, and a telephone line. Virginia’s...

An Electronic Newsletter for an IT Graduate Program: Steps and Strategies

Bernard Robin

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1995 (1995) pp. 680–682

This paper describes some steps toward the implementation of an electronic newsletter in an educational setting. The strategies of selecting appropriate material for the intended audience and how electronic distribution of information can facilitate ...

The Convergence of Digital Storytelling and Popular Culture in Graduate Education

Bernard Robin

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2007 (Mar 26, 2007) pp. 643–650

Digital Storytelling is being used in a variety of ways in the University of Houston's College of Education. This article provides and overview of an innovative approach that two instructors developed to use Digital Storytelling by pairing an...

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Bernard Robin

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) p. 757

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The Convergence of Teacher Education, Art Museums and Instructional Technology: Goals, Insights, and Recommendations

Bernard Robin

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) pp. 762–767

The focus of this panel discussion is to examine how art museums are creating partnerships with schools, universities, and teachers to design and develop technology-based instructional resources that can be used by students, in-service teachers,...

Topics: Teachers, Educational Technology, Instructional Design, Schools, Fine Arts

Acquiring, Publishing and Sharing Digital Video in Education

Bernard Robin

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2009 (Mar 02, 2009) pp. 670–671

The purpose of this session is to give participants hands-on experience locating and using digital video clips from the web. Participants will learn to find and download educational video clips from using freely available Web 2.0 resources that do...

Art Education Section Introduction

Bernard Robin

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004 (2004) pp. 3821–3822

Community-Based, Educational Web Projects for the Arts: The Continuing Challenge of Meeting the Needs of Students, Clients, Subjects and Web Visitors

Bernard Robin

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004 (2004) pp. 3843–3850

For the past six years, graduate students enrolled in an Instructional Technology web design course at the University of Houston have been learning technology skills by working on authentic educational web projects with community-based arts...

Topics: Educational Technology, Community, Instructional Design, Students

A University/Public Television Collaboration to Create and Use Digital Stories to Reach Audiences in the Classroom and Beyond

Bernard Robin

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 950–957

Faculty and graduate students at the University of Houston have been using digital storytelling in courses, workshops and special projects since the late 1990s. Building on a history of working with community partners that contribute content in...

The First Teacher Education CD-ROM

Bernard Robin

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1994 (1994) pp. 799–803

Fifteen years ago, in 1979, teacher educators interested in teaching about information technology quickly discovered that relevant software resources were quite limited. Applications software such as word processors and spreadsheets could be adapted ...

The Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling

Bernard Robin

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2006 (Mar 19, 2006) pp. 709–716

Digital Storytelling has become a powerful instructional tool for both students and educators. This article presents an overview of Digital Storytelling and describes where it came from, how it can be used to support instruction and how students who ...

Topics: Students

An Archive of Sharable Education Resources on the Web

Bernard Robin; Sara McNeil

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1998 (1998) pp. 1270–1273

This article discusses the development of an electronic archive of sharable resources that can be used by educators to support a variety of instructional activities. The authors and their students at the University of Houston have developed Archive...

Digital Pop: Digital Storytelling and Popular Culture in Education

Cameron White; Bernard Robin

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 4002–4009

This article provides and overview of an innovative approach that two instructors developed to use Digital Storytelling by pairing an Instructional Technology graduate course with another graduate course that focused on Popular Culture in Education...

A Multilevel Approach to Using Digital Storytelling in the Classroom

Bernard Robin; Melissa Pierson

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2005 (2005) pp. 708–716

Digital photography and digital storytelling have been combined at the University of Houston's College of Education in a manner that allows both undergraduate and graduate students to learn not only how to use digital cameras and imaging techniques, ...

Topics: Educational Technology, Instructional Design, Students

Geni: A Graphical Educational Newsgroup Interface

Anne Soucek; Bernard Robin

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1996 (1996) pp. 812–815

With the recent proliferation of information about the Information Superhighway and the development of increas ingly user-friendly network tools, many educators are eager to more fully take advantage of the resources that can be found on the...

Linked Graduate Courses in Instructional Technology: An Innovative Learning Community Model

Sara McNeil; Bernard Robin

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 1373–1380

In this paper, the authors share an innovative learning community model in which graduate courses in instructional technology were linked together in a variety of ways to support student learning, to increase performance outcomes, and to create...

Students' Perceptions of Self-Change During an Online Course

Sara McNeil; Bernard Robin

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2000 (2000) pp. 708–713

This paper presents preliminary findings from a two-semester study on the effects of online learning on student perceptions of self-change as well as the impact of online learning environments on student attitudes concerning their learning...

Topics: Distance Education, Change, Attitudes, Students

An Assessment Framework and Tools for Digital Storytelling Projects

Sara McNeil; Bernard Robin

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2012 (Mar 05, 2012) pp. 1407–1410

This paper will describe a variety of ways that teachers can assess students’ multimedia projects, and in particular, digital storytelling projects. The framework that we have developed has three main categories: assessment during the design process,...

Webscapes: A Theoretical Framework for the Collaborative Design and Development of Multimedia-Rich Online Learning Environments

Sara McNeil; Bernard Robin

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2011 (Mar 07, 2011) pp. 541–545

This proposal explores the evolution of the Webscape theoretical framework over a ten year period and describes several multimedia educational projects developed using this student-centered, collaborative approach. This model provides a structure...

TELECOMM: SYSTEMS & SERVICES

Bernard R. Robin

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2000 (2000) pp. 2331–2333

Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling: Creating Digital Storytelling Contests for K-12 Students and Teachers

Bulent Dogan; Bernard Robin

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2009 (Mar 02, 2009) pp. 633–638

This paper describes the results of a research study about DISTCO 2008, the first in a series of digital storytelling contests. DISTCO 2008 was designed as a pilot project for the inaugural DISTCO planned for spring 2009. These contests are open to...

Dynamic Databases as Knowledge Construction and Communication Tools in Online Courses

Sara McNeil; Bernard Robin

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2000 (2000) pp. 1459–1460

Database tools that dynamically generate Web pages have been in use by many commercial Internet sites for years. However, in the field of education, the use of database applications has mostly been used to support traditional classroom learning...

Topics: Communication, Databases

Lessons from the Trenches: What Educators Should Know about Teaching Digital Storytelling

Bernard Robin; Sara McNeil

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2012 (Mar 05, 2012) pp. 1433–1440

In this paper, the authors present some of the most important lessons they have learned from teaching courses, conducting workshops, writing articles and supervising graduate student research on educational uses of digital storytelling. We examine...

An Archive of Sharable Education Resources on the Web

Bernard Robin; Sara McNeil

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1997 (1997) pp. 1270–1273

This article discusses the development of an electronic archive of sharable resources that can be used by educators to support a variety of instructional activities. The authors and their students at the University of Houston have developed Archive...

Facilitating Collaboration, Knowledge Construction and Communication with Web-Enabled Databases

Sara McNeil; Bernard Robin

WebNet World Conference on the WWW and Internet 2000 (2000) pp. 390–395

This paper presents an overview of Web-enabled databases that dynamically generate Web materials and focuses on the use of this technology used to support collaboration, knowledge construction and communication. Database applications have been...

Topics: Collaboration, Databases

The Evolution of Digital Storytelling Technologies: From PCs to iPads and e-Books

Bernard Robin; Sara McNeil

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 1712–1720

In this paper, we present an overview of how digital storytelling technologies have evolved over the last decade, from software used on a desktop or laptop computer, to web-based applications, smartphones and tablet computers. As digital...

Implementation of Digital Storytelling in the Classroom by Teachers Trained in a Digital Storytelling Workshop

Bulent Dogan; Bernard Robin

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 902–907

This paper presents results of a research study conducted at the University of Houston, in which a group of in-service elementary, middle, and high school teachers learned to use digital storytelling through a series of summer workshops conducted by ...

Digital Storytelling: A Powerful Technology Tool for the 21st Century Classroom

Bernard R. Robin

Theory Into Practice Vol. 47, No. 3 (July 2008) pp. 220–228

Digital storytelling has emerged over the last few years as a powerful teaching and learning tool that engages both teachers and their students. However, until recently, little attention has been paid to a theoretical framework that could be...

Re-Conceptualizing the Undergraduate Core Curriculum: Integrating Multimedia Technology with Thematically-Linked Content

Bernard Robin; Mary Thompson

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 2530–2535

This paper describes an initiative to re-conceptualize the core curriculum for university freshmen. A cross-disciplinary team of faculty members has created linked English and American history courses in which students investigate and write about...

Topics: Students, Social Studies, Multimedia, Faculty

Developing Web Sites for Professional Development

Guy van Belle; Bernard Robin

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1998 (1998) pp. 1217–1218

The Internet is currently perceived as a place to disseminate good practice for education and to promote lifelong learning throughout the world. The Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE) has been in the forefront of these...

An action research: When Digital Storytelling meets forensic science education in an online learning environment

Chi-liang Yu; Bernard Robin

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2010 (Mar 29, 2010) pp. 1234–1239

Digital Storytelling is a relatively new multimedia tool which can be both an effective instructional aid for teachers and an effective learning tool for students. It is created by using commonly available computer-based tools and usually includes a ...

The Expansion of Digital Storytelling into Content Area Instruction

Bernard Robin; Cameron White; Richard Abrahamson

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2009 (Mar 02, 2009) pp. 672–679

To help attract new graduate students and also to help integrate technology into content area courses, faculty members at the University of Houston began teaching “linked” pairs of courses in 2006, by combining a graduate course on digital...

A Model for Creating an Art Museum-University Partnership to Develop Technology-Based Educational Resources

Bernard Robin; Beth Schneider; Sara McNeil

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) pp. 11–18

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the University of Houston have collaborated on the design and development of multi-faceted web sites related to both permanent and traveling exhibitions. In this paper, stakeholders from the museum and the...

Topics: Instructional Design, Educational Technology, Social Studies, Fine Arts, Collaboration

HyperGroups: A New Tool for Enhancing Communication in an Electronic Community of Learners

Robert W. M. Miller; Bernard R. Robin

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1999 (1999) pp. 1876–1882

Over the last two decades, the growth of the Internet has truly been staggering. Electronic communities have flourished as hardware, software, and network infrastructures have become more accessible, more affordable, and simpler to use. In education,...

Topics: Students, Internet, Communication, Distance Education

Using Web Database Tools to Facilitate the Construction of Knowledge in Online Courses

Sara G. McNeil; Bernard R. Robin

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2000 (2000) pp. 1209–1215

This paper presents an overview of database tools that dynamically generate Web materials and focuses on the use of these tools used to support research activities as well as teaching and learning. Database applications have been used in...

Topics: Databases

Correlates among Computer-Using Teacher Educators' Beliefs, Teaching and Learning Preferences, and Demographics

Bernard R. Robin; Judith B. Harris

Journal of Educational Computing Research Vol. 18, No. 1 (1998) pp. 15–35

A survey of 167 instructors at teacher preparation institutions revealed correlations between technology use and teaching style. Technology users who preferred learner-centered teaching had higher levels of formal schooling, were mostly females,...

Evaluation of an Educational Website for the Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Ann G. Jenkins; Bernard R. Robin

Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association 2002 (April 2002)

As educators increasingly integrate Web-based resources into their curriculum, there is a growing need for high quality, educationally relevant materials. This study evaluated the Bayou Bend Web site, the result of a collaboration between staff at...

What Educators Should Know about Teaching Digital Storytelling

Bernard R. Robin; Sara G. McNeil

Digital Education Review Vol. 22 (December 2012) pp. 37–51

In this paper, the authors present some of the most important lessons they have learned from teaching courses, conducting workshops, writing articles, and supervising graduate student research on the educational uses of digital storytelling. The...

Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling all around the World

Pelin Yuksel; Bernard Robin; Sara McNeil

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2011 (Mar 07, 2011) pp. 1264–1271

The purpose of this research study was to determine how educators, students and others around the world are using digital storytelling to support the educational process. This study provides a general framework about educational uses of digital...

Bits to Atoms: 21st Century Fabrication

Glen Bull; Bernard Robin; Ann Thompson; Michael Searson; Daniel Tillman

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2009 (Mar 02, 2009) pp. 2676–2677

Working with a PBS affiliate, this project engaged students and teachers at four high schools in the US and one each in China and Australia to use digital video tools in conjunction with the Ken Burns documentary The War. Extensive professional...

The Evolution of Webscapes: A Theoretical Framework for the Collaborative Design and Development of Interactive Learning Environments

Sara Wilson McKay; Michael Rapp; Bernard Robin; Sara McNeil

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2003 (2003) pp. 3038–3039

This paper presents a description of multimedia-enhanced educational projects developed using the Webscape design model. This model has evolved from an instructor-led experience to a more student-centered, collaborative approach. Currently, the...

Topics: Social Studies, Instructional Design

Students’ patterns of engagement and course performance in a Massive Open Online Course

Trang Phan; Sara G. McNeil; Bernard R. Robin

Computers & Education Vol. 95, No. 1 (April 2016) pp. 36–44

A series of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in the Curriculum and Instruction (CUIN) Department at a university are collaboratively being designed and developed by a team of doctoral students with mentorship from two CUIN professors. The first...

Language: English

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Graduate, Inservice & Faculty Use

Bernard Robin; Eric Lloyd; David Robinson; Theron Ray Schultz

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1995 (1995) pp. 636–637

The tremenduous versatility of telecommunications services is one reason why so many teacher educators find them useful. So useful, in fact, that last year the telecommunications section of the Annual was split into two sections: one for graduate...

New Frontiers in Digital Storytelling: Technological Advances and Changing Critical Teacher Education Approaches

Chris Renda; Bernard Robin; Marty Otañez; Hitoshi Susono

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 1706–1711

This panel will focus on ways that digital storytelling continues to push the envelope as a pedagogical resource and means to increase learners’ knowledge in K-12 classrooms, universities and community initiatives. Innovative work includes...

The Collaborative Design of Massive Open Online Courses: Analyzing the Design Discourses of Teacher and Student Developers

Sara McNeil; Susie Gronseth; Erwin Handoko; Bernard Robin

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2018 (Jun 25, 2018) pp. 1087–1093

The purpose of this qualitative case study was to analyze the collaborative design process of two Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for professional development of K-16 teachers. This paper describes the “design discourses” that occurred when...

Topics: collaborative learning, Alternative and innovative assessment methods, Open courses, open learning, and open educational resources

A Phenomenological Study: Teachers' Experiences of Using Digital Storytelling in Early Childhood Education

Pelin Yuksel-Arslan; Soner Yildirim; Bernard Ross Robin

Educational Studies Vol. 42, No. 5 (2016) pp. 427–445

This study investigates how early childhood education (ECE) teachers incorporated digital storytelling in their classrooms and the challenges and successes that they faced in the process. After the teachers attended a digital storytelling workshop,...

A School-University Partnership Model for Developing Student Technology Leaders

Sara McNeil; Bernard Robin; Melissa E. Pierson; Kathy Booth

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2001 (2001) pp. 1470–1471

Multimedia Masters is unique a school-university partnership of student "consultants," teacher "clients" and university "experts." The year-long project begins with a development day to collaboratively set goals for the year, and four remaining...

Topics: Teachers, Schools, Communication, Multimedia, Students

The University of Houston iPAQ Project: Exploring Ways to Use Handheld Computers in Teacher Education

Meng-Fen Lin; Randall Smith; Bernard Robin; Alysa McLachlan

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2003 (2003) pp. 1490–1495

During the summer of 2002, graduate students in the Instructional Technology Program at the University of Houston began working on an initiative in which they learned the basic operation of an iPAQ handheld computer and developed training resources...

Topics: Faculty, Students, Instructional Materials