PUBLICATIONS

This is a short bibliography of some of the several publication web sites on the Internet that have to deal with how the fields of education and technology overlap to create new and innovative methods of instruction in the classroom and beyond. I have listed the web sites and links according to how useful I found their articles to be. Though I am a prospective Social Studies teacher, I found that many of the articles to be applicable to teachers in any subject.

Educational Technology and Society: This is the online form of the Journal of the Forum of Educational Technology and Society. Many of the articles discuss cutting edge technological advances in the teaching field. The articles I read seemed very concerned with the practical application of instructional technologies to the classroom. For this reason, I found the articles on this site to be very helpful to me. Often teachers have problems in working with students who have different learning styles, but some of the techniques described here definitely provide a lot of interesting options in presentation. Here is the title of an article I read from this site that I found of interest to me.

“Supporting diverse learners through a website for teaching research methods.”

http://ifets.ieee.org/periodical/

Australian Journal of Educational Technology: This is a great web journal devoted to the use of technology in the classroom. I found articles on a wide variety of issues involving technology including instruction, adaptation, and legal policy. This site also appeared to have decent access to previous issues of the journal. Again, I really liked this site for its many articles discussing how technology can provide new and more interesting options in presenting material to students. Here is an article that I enjoyed on this site.

“Web CT and online tutorials: New possibilities for student interaction.”

http://www.ascilite.org.au/ajet/ajet.html

Educational Technology Review: This site dealt mainly with articles that discussed the impact of the increased use of technology in the classroom. It is an online journal as well. I liked this site since a good majority of the articles dealt with educational technology issues in other countries besides the United States. For the subject of Social Studies, these articles interested me a great deal. Other nations sometimes view technology in a different way than we do and it is important to be aware of that. Here is the title of an article I read from this site.

“Electronic Accessibility: U.S. and International Perspectives.”

http://www.aace.org/pubs/etr/issue4/index.cfm

Converge: This publication site has more of an online magazine feel than the other journal sites. I found it useful in that it had several articles dealing with the legal ramifications of technology in the classroom such as Internet privacy issues. It also included several pieces dealing with educational technology issues around the world such as China and the Middle East. It is updated on a regular basis and the subjects they cover are usually very topical. Here is the title of an article I found to be very interesting on this site.

“Online students tough, focused.”

http://www.centerdigitaled.com/converge/

Harvard Educational Review: This site wasn’t useful so much in that it covered educational technology alone, but virtually every issue related to education imaginable. As a publication, it has existed for over 70 years and has an easy to use search feature. I found this site to deliver the most articles that concerned educational technology and Social Studies together. Though, the articles dealing with educational technology seemed to deal more with theories over applications than those of the other web sites I looked at. Here is the title of an article that I found to be of use to me.

“Globalization, Immigration, and Education: The Research Agenda.”

http://www.gse.harvard.edu/~hepg/her.html