Technology, Sound and Popular Music

Steve Jones

The ability to record sound is power over sound. Musicians, producers, recording engineers, and the popular music audience often refer to the sound of a recording as something distinct from the music it contains. Popular music is primarily mediated...

All's WELL That Ends: The Origins and Future of Online Community

Steve Jones

WebNet World Conference on the WWW and Internet 1999 (1999) p. 8

This presentation is focused on the connections between online community and commerce/economics, particularly the rhetoric of community as it has been taken up by those in e-commerce endeavors. It makes the case that the most influential symbol...

Topics: Community

Using the News: An Examination of the Value and Use of News Sources in CMC

Steve Jones

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication Vol. 2, No. 4 (1997)

Investigates how members of a Usenet newsgroup value and use news sources. Finds that electronic news sources predominated and that media use was not tied to the user's geographic locale. Raises several questions for future research. (RS)

The Internet Goes to College. Pew Internet & American Life

Steve Jones

USDLA Journal Vol. 16, No. 10 (2002)

Discusses college students' Internet use based on the Pew Internet and American Life Project. Focuses on general uses, including email, browsing, and music downloads; educational uses, including communicating with professors and information...

Evaluating Psychology Students' Library Skills and Experiences

Steve Jones; Julie Allen

Psychology Teaching Review Vol. 18, No. 2 (2012) pp. 94–115

Extensive engagement with current academic sources is expected of all psychology undergraduates. Thirty-eight undergraduate psychology students took part in a series of focus group discussions of their information-searching experiences and skills....

Have a BLAST: Blog Learning Achievement Support Teams

Steve Harmon; Marshall Jones

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2006 (Mar 19, 2006) pp. 2523–2526

This paper presents one possible way to take educational advantage of an affordance of a recent technology, weblogs. We will discuss five affordances of blogging for teaching and learning, and then suggest strategies for how classes could be...

Topics: Educational Technology, Achievement

Human Evaluation of Kea, an Automatic Keyphrasing System

Steve Jones; Gordon W. Paynter

ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2001 (June 2001)

This paper describes an evaluation of the Kea automatic keyphrase extraction algorithm. Tools that automatically identify keyphrases are desirable because document keyphrases have numerous applications in digital library systems, but are costly and...

Automatic Extraction of Document Keyphrases for Use in Digital Libraries: Evaluation and Applications

Steve Jones; Gordon W. Paynter

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology Vol. 53, No. 8 (2002) pp. 653–77

Discussion of finding relevant documents in electronic document collections focuses on an evaluation of the Kea automatic keyphrase extraction algorithm which was developed by members of the New Zealand Digital Library Project. Results are based on...

Hand-Held Video for Clinical Skills Teaching

Mark Edwards; Steve Jones; Fiona Murphy

Innovations in Education and Teaching International Vol. 44, No. 4 (November 2007) pp. 401–408

In health care education a balance needs to be struck between theoretical and practical teaching. Undergraduates typically split their time between clinical placement and university-based teaching blocks. A proportion of the time spent in...

Retention and Application of Information Technology Skills among Nursing and Midwifery Students

Barry Ip; Steve Jones; Gabriel Jacobs

Innovations in Education and Teaching International Vol. 44, No. 2 (May 2007) pp. 199–210

Pre-registration nursing and midwifery students are under considerable pressure to acquire the necessary information technology (IT) skills by the time they embark on a professional nursing career. There is a multitude of research findings detailing ...

The Use of Learning Object Patterns and Metadata Vocabularies to Design Reusable and Adaptable Learning Resources.

Stavroula Gkatzidou; Elaine Pearson; Steve Green; Ray Jones

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2006 (June 2006) pp. 2928–2933

This paper discusses the requirements for the creation of reusable, accessible and adaptable learning objects, taking into consideration the newly emerging IMS and Dublin Core adaptability and accessibility standards and the proposed profiles of...

Topics: Standards, Learning Objects

Accessibility and Adaptability of Learning Objects: Responding to Metadata, Learning Patterns and Profiles of Needs and Preferences

Steve Green; Ray Jones; Elaine Pearson; Stavroula Gkatzidou

Association for Learning Technology Journal Vol. 14, No. 1 (March 2006) pp. 117–129

The case for learning patterns as a design method for accessible and adaptable learning objects is explored. Patterns and templates for the design of learning objects can be derived from successful existing learning resources. These patterns can...

Interactive Whiteboards and All that Jazz: The Contribution of Musical Metaphors to the Analysis of Classroom Activity with Interactive Technologies

Gary Beauchamp; Steve Kennewell; Howard Tanner; Sonia Jones

Technology, Pedagogy and Education Vol. 19, No. 2 (July 2010) pp. 143–157

The teacher's role has often been described as one of "orchestration", and this musical analogy is a powerful one in characterising the manipulation of features in the classroom setting in order to generate activity or "performance" which leads to...

Interactive Whiteboards and All That Jazz: Analysing Classroom Activity with Interactive Technologies

Howard Tanner; Gary Beauchamp; Sonia Jones; Steve Kennewell

Annual Meeting of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia 2010 (July 2010)

The term "orchestration", has been used to describe the teacher's role in activity settings incorporating interactive technologies. This musical analogy suggests pre-planned manipulation of events to generate "performance" leading to learning....

Using Open-Source, 3D Printable Optical Hardware to Enhance Student Learning in the Instrumental Analysis Laboratory

Eric J. Davis; Michael Jones; D. Alex Thiel; Steve Pauls

Journal of Chemical Education Vol. 95, No. 4 (2018) pp. 672–677

Additive manufacturing (3D printing) is a technology with near-unlimited potential for the chemical educator. However, its adoption into higher education has been limited by the dual requirements of expertise in 3D printing and 3D computer-aided...

Academic work, the Internet and U.S. college students

Steve Jones; Camille Johnson-Yale; Sarah Millermaier; Francisco Seoane Pérez

Internet and Higher Education Vol. 11, No. 3 (2008) pp. 165–177

The aim of this study is to explore, based on a nationally representative sample, U.S. college students' uses of the Internet in their studies and their perceptions of academic life online, and changes in both perception and use since a 2002 report...

Language: English

Computer Modeling and Visualization in A High School Marine Biology Classroom

Warren Jones; Steve Watts; Gypsy Abbott; Lisa Bievenue

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2005 (2005) pp. 3692–3696

In the 21st Century, the teaching of science at the K-12 level must dramatically change to emulate the ways that real world scientists do science. Currently, many scientists use computer-based modeling, scientific visualization and informatics in...

Topics: Computer Sciences, Computers, Science

The Affordance of Blogging on Establishing Communities of Practice in a Pre-Service Elementary Teacher Education Program

Julie Justice; Janice Anderson; Kathleen Nichols; Jennifer Jones Gorham; Steve Wall; Ashley Boyd; Leah Altheiser

Journal of Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 21, No. 1 (January 2013) pp. 49–88

This study examines the affordances of blogging on establishing communities of practice within an elementary teacher education program. Building upon the previous work with in-service teachers of Luehmann (2008), we examined pre-service teacher...

Key Factors to a Successful Online Program

Feng-Qi Lai; Susan Kiger; Mark Jones; Steve Yuen; Leping Liu

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2010 (Mar 29, 2010) pp. 606–608

There are various key factors that contribute to a successful online program. This panel discussion covers five factors including online program administration, program-wide philosophy of online instruction, faculty training and technology support,...

Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education. Volume 106, Issue 2

Louanne Smolin; Kimberly Lawless; Chris Dede; Steve Jones; Camille Johnson-Yale; Francisco Seoane Perez; Jessica Schuler; James W. Pellegrino; Susan R. Goldman; Meryl Bertenthal; Kimberly Lawless; Charalambos Vrasidas; Gene V. Glass; Geneva D. Haertel; Barbara Means; William Penuel; Hilary Goldmann; Mark Warschauer; Sharon Tettegah; Eun Won Whang; Nakia Collins; Kona Taylor; Olga A. Vasquez; Nicholas C. Burbules

Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education Vol. 106, No. 2 (October 2007) pp. 1–218

There is little dispute that technology has transformed people's everyday lives. People shop online, download news in their iPods, communicate via text and video, take digital photos, and conduct all manner of personal and professional business via...