A Partnership Approach to Information Technology in Initial Teacher Training

ABSTRACT

This paper describes the changes to the IT element of the secondary Post Graduate Certificate of Education (PGCE) course at the University of East Anglia, in the light of the government initiatives requiring a shift to a partnership approach to initial teacher training. This shift means that only one third of the 36 week course is now delivered at the University. The paper describes the recommendations of a joint working party representing partnership schools and university staff. The implementation of the group's suggestions involved a fundamental revision of the IT component for both university and school based elements and a re‐definition of the roles of all staff involved. This paper concludes with a discussion of the evaluation of the new scheme, including the results of a student questionnaire, after it had been implemented for one year. This found that our move to deal with IT as a subject specific issue was successful and highlighted the level of IT use in school subject departments as the single most important factor determining students’ use of IT in the classroom.     

PowerPoint,habits of mind,and classroom culture

In lecture halls, in secondary school classrooms, during training workshops, and at research conferences, PowerPoint is becoming a preferred method of communicating, presenting, and sharing knowledge. Questions have been raised about the implications of the use of this new medium for knowledge dissemination. It is suggested PowerPoint supports a cognitive and pedagogical style inconsistent with both the development of higher analytical thinking skills and the acquisition of rich narrative and interpretive understanding. This paper examines how PowerPoint invites and seduces educators to reshape knowledge in particular ways, and subsequently how this knowledge is presented to students in the classroom. The particular forms of knowing, relating, and presenting with PowerPoint are decided in part by teacher habituation to the software tool’s default patterns, but also by the very nature of the presentation medium itself.     

A functional analysis of presidential television spots: A comparison of Korean and American ads

This study applies the Functional Theory of Political Campaign Discourse to the television spots from the 2002 Korean presidential campaign. TV ads appear to have become an institutionalized component of the Korean presidential campaign; as yet no study has examined the most recent Korean presidential ads. Like American candidates, Korean presidential candidates rely more on acclaims (positive utterances) than attacks (negative statements). They also rarely defend in spots. The incumbent party candidate, Roh, offered more acclaims than the challenger Lee, whereas the challenger Lee used more attacks than did Roh. However, unlike American candidates (who emphasized policy over character), policy (issue) and character (image) were almost equally discussed in Korean advertisements. Unlike American presidential candidates, the winner in Korea in 2002 emphasized character more than policy. It is clear that presidential campaign messages from these two cultures possess both similarities and differences.     

Improving Professional Education Courses

Abstract

College and university teaching involves almost universally and hegemonically the large group lecture format. This ubiquitous learning and teaching space has, however, long been criticized for the production of passive learning in which the “sage on the stage” transmits, and students receive passively. This article reports on and evaluates a longitudinal multidisciplinary controlled experiment in which students were exposed to imagery and non-redundant text-narrative to assess the presence or absence of active learning principles. The trial found that students exposed to MML experienced 40–80% greater levels of active learning practices over those exposed to narrative and text. Given the physiological (cognitive) nature of MML predictions, the implications of the research impact upon all disciplines where lectures are a means of knowledge-sharing practices in Higher Education.     

基于PowerPoint的下拉菜单设计与实现

PowerPoint是微软公司推出的一款功能强大、实用性较强的多媒体课件开发工具。因它简单易学、容易上手,已成为目前教师制作课件的首选工具。利用PowerPoint自身提供的动画设置及触发器功能,完成了多媒体课件设计中经常需要采用其它交互性较强的软件才能实现的功能：下拉菜单的设计。     

用VBA实现Word文本分段连续转换Powerpoint对象的方法

使用VBA编程,通过控制Selection对象头尾的移动实现逐段连续读取Word文档,每一段可控制写入Powerpoint文本对象,也可写入自定义的Powerpoint模板文件对象,并可对其设置样式、动画等细节,实现文档间的可控自动转换,大大提高制作演示文稿的效率。     

PowerPoint2000简介及其使用的若干技巧

介绍利用PowerPoint2000制作幻灯片的基本操作方法和若干技巧。     

PowerPoint的使用技巧

总结了P0werPoint在使用过程中的一些技巧。     

用PowerPoint For Windows95 制作多媒体教学幻灯套片的尝试

笔者以制作一套多媒体教学幻灯片的尝试,来简要说明ＰｏｗｅｒＰｏｉｎｔｆｏｒＷｉｎｄｏｗｓ９５软件的使用方法。抛砖引玉,使广大教师尽快掌握此软件的使用方法,为教学、科研服务。