WEB-BASED APPLICATIONS IN TRANSDISCIPLINARY TEACHER EDUCATION

YouTube Annotations: Reflecting Interactive, Web based Hypervideos in Teacher Education

The aim of this paper is to discuss the pertinence of experience of hypertext structures regarding the development of perceptual patterns when using contemporary time based interactive media. Therefore we discuss first the idea of time based hypermedia and related works in arts and education. Then we describe the design and implementation of the pilot project WeHype , where hypervideos were cre...

Using Technology for Geography Teacher Education: Web-based Professional Development

This qualitative study explores the perceived value of a video-based online workshop in Geography, “Watershed Management,” part of the Geography: Teaching with the Stars series, a 22 program professional development series for teachers of geography, social studies, and environmental science. Results indicated that teachers reported satisfaction with the online professional development approach ...

Web-Based Handwriting Education with Animated Virtual Teacher

This article introduces our Web-based handwriting education system developed with 3D computer graphics and pen computing technologies. Traditionally, in teaching handwriting, the teacher writes a character on the blackboard, and then students try to follow the teacher in order to write the same character. The teacher can check whether a student’s handwriting is spatially correct by looking at i...

REVIEW OF TEACHER EDUCATION IN CALL Teacher Education in CALL

The use of technology has become increasingly important in language teaching and learning. The successful use of technology, however, requires that language teachers have the necessary technical competence and pedagogical knowledge. The volume Teacher Education in CALL, edited by Philip Hubbard and Mike Levy, appears at a critical time when the issue of how to prepare current and future languag...

Mechanisms of common ground in case-based web-discussions in teacher education