Search results for author:"Maya Israel"
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The Use of Graphic Organizers within E-mentoring Wikis
Andrew Moshirnia; Maya Israel
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 3091–3096
While mentoring and induction have been proven to be successful tonics for the problem of teacher attrition, previous attempts to introduce e-mentoring programs have been underwhelming. The purpose of this paper is to describe the advantages of...
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Taking the Message Out of the Bottle: An Information-Rich Spatial Message Board and Outlining Tool
Andrew Moshirnia; Maya Israel
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2009 (Oct 26, 2009) pp. 1827–1835
The message board is a staple of most distance education courses. Although the tool emerged as a simple way to allow for asynchronous communication, its feature set has stagnated in academia. While message boards outside of academia have adopted...
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The Educational Efficacy of Distinct Information Delivery Systems in Modified Video Games
Andrew Moshirnia; Maya Israel
Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 21, No. 3 (July 2010) pp. 383–405
Despite the increasing popularity of many commercial video games, this popularity is not shared by educational video games. Modified video games, however, can bridge the gap in quality between commercial and education video games by embedding...
Topics: Graphics, Educational Technology, Social Studies, Computers, Instructional Design, Assessment
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Interacting and learning together: Factors influencing preservice teachers’ perceptions of academic wiki use
Maya Israel; Andrew Moshirnia
Journal of Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 20, No. 2 (April 2012) pp. 151–176
Academic wikis hold promise in supporting preservice teachers’ collaborative interactions in online contexts. Nonetheless, little is written in either technology or teacher education literature about facilitating wiki use and instruction within...
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Case-Based Authentic Assessment Applications within Wikis
Maya Israel; Andrew Moshirnia; Susan Anderson
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 2608–2617
There is a strong push to incorporate authentic assessments into teacher preparation coursework as preservice teachers often have difficulty applying the information they learned in their education coursework to realistic K-12 dilemmas. These...
Topics: Teachers, Assessment, Preservice Teacher Education
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Supporting Novice Special Educators through E-Mentoring
Maya Israel; Jillian Pattison; Andrew Moshirnia; Jennifer Newton
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 5101–5108
This paper reports the conceptual framework, cyber-infrastructure, and measures of effectiveness of a state-wide e-mentoring program in development at a Midwestern university. The purpose of this program is to support the transition of novice...