Helping students with cognitive disabilities improve social writing skills through email modeling and scaffolding

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of email modeling and scaffolding on the social writing quality of students with cognitive disabilities. Ten students from a university-affiliated lab school (mean age = 19.3; SD = 1.2) with an average of IQ of 55.30 (SD = 5.98) and 10 teacher candidates in a university teacher education programme participated in the study. The results suggest that all students with intellectual disabilities were able to holistically improve their social writing quality after exchanging emails with mature writers over a period of 15 weeks. Specifically, the students progressively showed various degrees of improvement in the areas of writing mechanics, lexical and syntactic complexity, writing cohesion, pragmatic propriety and writing motivation. However, the figurative use of language remained unaffected by the email modeling and scaffolding. Taken together, this study suggests that Internet-mediated formats, such as email, can reduce the anxiety of students with intellectual disabilities. Students feel more motivated to engage in writing and do so more actively in social media exchanges, thus improving their virtual social communication skills through writing. Teaching implications of this study are discussed.     

中美学生电子笔友交流对英语写作能力提高的探究

2012年9月至12月期间,10名石家庄学院外国语学院大二学生与美国爱荷华州SaintAmbrose高校一年级新生,进行了电子邮件笔友交往。通过电子笔友形式,学生提高了英语写作能力,相对于写作课而言,笔友交流对学生学习英文写作具有明显的优势。通过词汇频率软件分析,进一步证明电子邮件笔友交流有利于学生英文写作的提高。     

Pastoral Care for Senior Students: An Analysis of a Voluntary Staff Counselling Scheme in a Sixth-form College

This article is written for new and experienced tutors to review the ways in which they are supporting their students’ learning. It considers the purposes of tutoring, drawing on the voices of students themselves. The article then considers the ways in which the tutor can support the learning of young people, including academic tutoring. It concludes with some guidance for the tutor to develop their own learning about tutoring.     

Mass communication and journalism faculty’s perceptions of the effectiveness of email communication with college students: a nationwide study

Nearly 700 US journalism and mass communication faculty (all teaching personnel) reported their perceptions of student email use via a web‐based survey. This nationwide study focused on the content of email sent by faculty to students, email’s effectiveness, and email’s effect on student learning. Comparisons were made based on faculty gender, rank, age, and ethnicity. Findings suggest that despite statistical differences, when gender, rank, age, or ethnicity are considered, faculty are not in the habit of sending course materials like syllabi, project instructions, and lecture notes to students personally via email. Moreover, faculty tend to find favor with email communication and its effectiveness as a tool of teaching. The results of this survey coupled with previous research by the authors and other scholars suggest faculty ought to embrace the technology and develop positive ways to incorporate email, as well as other technology, into the educational process.     

手机邮箱服务采纳行为模式研究

基于对相关信息技术采纳研究的回顾和总结,结合移动邮箱服务的特点,将技术接受模型与消费者行为过程结合起来,提出手机邮箱服务采纳行为研究的理论模型和假设并进行实证检验。     

设计与实现WEB浏览器中的电子邮件系统

讨论如何设计与实现嵌于ＷＥＢ中的电子邮件系统，为构建内部电子邮件系统的用户提供一些参考     

简论俄国向西伯利亚、千岛和阿拉斯加的扩张

16世纪末，沙俄征服与侵占西伯利亚汗国。17-19世纪中期，沙俄势力扩张至千岛群岛和阿拉斯加。1867年的《转让阿拉斯加专约》规定，美国以720万美元购得俄属阿拉斯加。1875年的《库页岛千岛交换条约》规定，千岛群岛归属日本。1905年日本割得库页岛南部。1945年8月，苏联占领了千岛群岛和库页岛南部。     

Communicating with parents of children with special needs in Saudi Arabia: parents' and teachers' perceptions of using email for regular and ongoing communication

The purpose of this study, by Snaa Dubis from Salman Bin Abdu Aziz University, Saudi Arabia, and Robert Morris University, USA, and Carianne Bernadowski from Robert Morris University, was to investigate parents' and special education teachers' perceptions of using email as a component of parental involvement in the academic and/or behavioural performance at school of pupils with special needs. Survey research was utilised to measure parents' and teachers' perceptions of using email in Riyadh City in Saudi Arabia. The survey was distributed to 261 participants: 104 parents of preschool or primary school pupils with special needs and 157 special education teachers. The results indicated that in terms of attitudes and beliefs about using email, the majority of parents (78%, n = 81) and teachers (77%, n = 121) had a positive attitude toward using email to increase involvement and engagement between parents and teachers. Although email communication in the USA and Western Europe is quite widespread, the prospect of using technology for parental involvement is a new concept to many Saudi parents. Results indicate that both Saudi and non‐Saudi parents and teachers would be willing to use email as the primary tool for communication between home and school.     

基于POSTFIX的安全电子邮件系统设计与实现

分析了基本的邮件安全技术,以及包括三员分离、密级标示和流向控制在内的安全电子邮件管理技术,最后基于Postfix邮件系统开发一套安全电子邮件系统。