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The Turkish Online Journal of Distance EducationCilt 2008/9, Sayı 2
Many professionals in instructional education have experienced a relatively new potential virtual learning environment, called Second Life (SL). This article will connect the virtual world to the essential next step in our learning and communicating approach, electracy. Initially, humans utilized …
The Turkish Online Journal of Distance EducationCilt 2008/9, Sayı 4
This article provides an overview of free, online tools that make collaboration effective, efficient, and engaging. Each tool is available world-wide wherever there is access to the internet. These tools help create a more collaborative environment because they allow for …
The Turkish Online Journal of Distance EducationCilt 2009/10, Sayı 4
Long utilized in European and Asian countries, fast “next generation” cell phone networks and mobile data streams have only recently begun to make deep inroads in the United States, and companies are scrambling to write content, tools, and new applets …
The Turkish Online Journal of Distance EducationCilt 2010/11, Sayı 2
It is fruitful to consider Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives (Bloom & Krathwohl, 1956) when employing video or any media in the classroom to maximize the intentionality of teaching and learning. The use of video for demonstration or modeling corresponds …
The Turkish Online Journal of Distance EducationCilt 2010/11, Sayı 4
For many years now, Microsoft PowerPoint has been so dominant in the field of presentation software that its name has become all but synonymous with the generic concept. Professors often assume students have access to PowerPoint to create their own …
The Turkish Online Journal of Distance EducationCilt 2011/12, Sayı 3
As student audiences become ever more sophisticated, they yearn for increasing amounts of visual stimulation alongside the traditional text-based approach of content delivery. The first step in a sequence of learning and memory events is for the learner to attend …
The Turkish Online Journal of Distance EducationCilt 2011/12, Sayı 4
Introduced in July, 2011 in a beta test of invited users only, the new social media service Google+ (or G+) quickly spread by word of mouth, and Google leader Larry Page (2011) blogged that within sixteen days it had 10 …
The Turkish Online Journal of Distance EducationCilt 2010/11, Sayı 1
Well-known for some years to advanced technology users, Screen Capture Software (SCS) offers the promise of recording action on the computer desktop (right down to the mouse movement and mouse clicks) together with voiceover narration, all combined into a single …
The Turkish Online Journal of Distance EducationCilt 2011/12, Sayı 1
One of the more vexing problems in teaching fully-online classes concerns the development of community. As Rovai (2001) identified, online courses must combat feelings of isolation and impart a sense of personal and individual attention. To create a sense of …
The Turkish Online Journal of Distance EducationCilt 2012/13, Sayı 1
Educators know that students create better projects when they are personally invested in the material (Brookhart, Bronowicz 2003; McInerney 2008; Braxton 2008). The rewards are particularly significant when students can exercise some degree of creativity in the process of developing …
The Turkish Online Journal of Distance EducationCilt 2013/14, Sayı 2
In order to maximize college English language students' learning, product development, 21st Century skills and engagement with real world meaningful challenges, a course was designed to integrate Challenge Based Learning (CBL) and iPad mobile learning technology. This article describes the …
The Turkish Online Journal of Distance EducationCilt 2014/15, Sayı 4
Strategic plans for teaching and learning are essential, however, they tend to focus on moving a mass of stakeholders along an agreeable path. The strategy is necessary and sensible, although many times, these plans miss a key audience important to …