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"MSN Was the next Big Thing after Beanie Babies": Children's Virtual Experiences as an Interface to Their Identities and Their Everyday Lives
Angela Thomas
E-Learning Vol. 3, No. 2 (2006) pp. 126–142
In this article the author explores the seamlessness between children's online and offline worlds. For children, there is no dichotomy of online and offline, or virtual and real; the digital is so much intertwined into their lives and psyche that...
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Children Online: Learning in a Virtual Community of Practice
Angela Thomas
E-Learning Vol. 2, No. 1 (2005) pp. 27–38
This article argues that children in a particular virtual community are learning through their participation in the discursive and social practices of the community. Using Wenger's model of "communities of practice" the article illuminates examples...
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Children's Writing Goes 3D: A Case Study of One Primary School's Journey into Multimodal Authoring
Angela Thomas
Learning, Media and Technology Vol. 37, No. 1 (2012) pp. 77–93
This paper draws from research conducted as part of an Australian Research Council funded Linkage Project "Teaching effective 3D authoring in the middle years: multimedia grammatical design and multimedia authoring pedagogy", which is a...
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Digital Literacies of the Cybergirl
Angela Thomas
E-Learning Vol. 1, No. 3 (2004) pp. 358–382
This article explores the nexus between digital literacies and identity in the online graphical chat environment of the "palace". With a focus on the adolescent cybergirl, it examines how girls use words and images to create a digital presence, and...
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An Action Research Study Involving Motivating Middle School Students' Learning through Online Literature Circles
Angela Falter Thomas
Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research Vol. 9, No. 1 (2014) pp. 44–54
In this study, I explored the motivation of middle school students participating in online literature circles facilitated by college students, compared to traditional face-to-face literature circles they previously utilized. Sixty-eight rural,...
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Gateway to Mathematics
David Thomas; Monte Boisen; Cynthia Thomas; Timothy Johnson; Zhongxiao Li; Angela Windley
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2005 (October 2005) pp. 2424–2429
The Gateway to Mathematics Project is developing and delivering web-based university level mathematics and mathematics education courses to dual enrollment high school students, adult learners in technical workplaces, and K-12 mathematics teachers. ...
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Content Analyses of Student Asynchronous Discussions in Online and Blended Sections of a Graduate Course
Gayle Davidson-Shivers; Suriya Thongsawat; Angela Doucet Rand; T. Shane Mitchell; Crystal Thomas
EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2017 (Jun 20, 2017) pp. 621–629
A content analyses was conducted on the asynchronous discussions from students in either a blended section or an online section. Preliminary findings suggest that students in the blended section had greater numbers (about double) of total messages...
Topics: pedagogical issues, Implementation Experiences, SIG: Learning Design
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Introducing Live ePortfolios to Support Self Organised Learning
Thomas Kirkham; Sandra Winfield; Angela Smallwood; Kirstie Coolin; Stuart Wood; Louis Searchwell
Journal of Educational Technology & Society Vol. 12, No. 3 (2009) pp. 107–114
This paper presents a platform on which a new generation of applications targeted to aid the self-organised learner can be presented. The new application is enabled by innovations in trust-based security of data built upon emerging infrastructures...
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Teaching and learning in Virtual Worlds: Is it worth the effort?
Helen Farley; Sue Gregory; Allan Ellis; Geoffrey Crisp; Jenny Grenfell; Angela Thomas; Matthew Campbell
ASCILITE - Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Annual Conference 2010 (2010) pp. 339–342
Educators have been quick to spot the enormous potential afforded by virtual worlds for situated and authentic learning, practising tasks with potentially ser ious consequences in the real world and for bringing geographically dispersed faculty and...
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A New On-Line Resource for Psycholinguistic Studies
Anna Szekely; Thomas Jacobsen; Simona D'Amico; Antonella Devescovi; Elena Andonoa; Daniel Herron; Ching Ching Lu; Thomas Pechmann; Csaba Pleh; Nicole Wicha; Kara Federmeier; Irina Gerdjikova; Gabriel Gutierrez; Daisy Hung; Gowri Iyer; Kathryn Kohnert; Teodora Mehotcheva; Araceli Orozco-Figueroa; Angela Tzeng; Ovid Tzeng; Analia Arevalo; Andras Vargha; Andrew C. Butler; Robert Buffington; Elizabeth Bates
Journal of Memory and Language Vol. 51, No. 2 (August 2004) pp. 247–250
Picture naming is a widely used technique in psycholinguistic studies. Here, we describe new on-line resources that our project has compiled and made available to researchers on the world wide web at http://crl.ucsd.edu/~aszekely/ipnp/. The website...
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Australian higher education institutions transforming the future of teaching and learning through 3D virtual worlds
Sue Gregory; Brent Gregory; Matthew Campbell; Helen Farley; Suku Sinnappan; Shannon Kennedy-CLark; David Craven; Deborah Murdoch; Denise Wood; Jenny Grenfell; Angela Thomas; Carol Matthews; Kerrie Smith; Ian Warren; Heinz Dreher; Lindy McKeown; Allan Ellis ; Mathew Hillier; Steven Pace; Andrew Cram; Lyn Hay Charles; Scott Grant; Mark J.W. Lee
ASCILITE - Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Annual Conference 2010 (2010) pp. 399–415
What are educators' motivations for using virtual worlds with their students? Are they using them to support the teaching of professions and if this is the case, do they introduce virtual worlds into the curriculum to develop and/or expand students' ...
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How are Australian higher education institutions contributing to change through innovative teaching and learning in virtual worlds?
Brent Gregory; Sue Gregory; Denise Wood; Yvonne Masters; Mathew Hillier; Frederick Stokes-Thompson; Anton Bogdanovych; Des Butler; Lyn Hay; Kim Flintoff; Stefan Schutt; Robyn Alderton; Ieva Stupans; Lindy McKeown Orwin; Andrew Cram; Grant Meredith; Jenny Grenfell; Francesca Collins; Allan Ellis; Lisa Jacka; Ian Larson; Andrew Fluck; Helen Farley; Jay Jay Jegathesan; Dale Linegar; Debbie McCormick; Jason Zagami; John Campbell; Angela Thomas; Nona Muldoon; Ali Abbas; Ian Burnett; Sheila Scutter; David Ellis; Suku Sinnappan; Katrina Neville; Ashley Aitken; Simeon Simoff; Xiangyu Wang; Mandy Salomon; Kay Souter; Greg Wadley; Michael Jacobson; Anne Newstead; Gary Hayes; Scott Grant; Alyona Yusupova
ASCILITE - Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Annual Conference 2011 (2011) pp. 475–490
Over the past decade, teaching and learning in virtual worlds has been at the forefront of many higher education institutions around the world. The DEHub Virtual Worlds Working Group (VWWG) consisting of Australian and New Zealand higher education...