The benefits of using digital storytelling are well documented in the literature. Whether and how these advantages can be extended to story-writing, especially for young learners, remains underexplored. Recent advancement technology has potential streamlining stages planning revising a process approach second language writing. present study examined English teachers two Hong Kong primary school...

On the one hand, spreadsheets are a very useful tool for language lessons, but unfortunately almost unknown by language teachers, often due to missing ICT-competences. On the other hand, spreadsheets are taught in informatics or ICT lessons, but mainly in a mathematical or an economical context; even thought, it could also be taught in many other context, especially for languages. This paper wi...

Creativity is difficult to define and a universal definition remains elusive. However, common words associated with creativity affirm that it concerns novelty and originality, hallmarks of many great and enduring texts. Students can also be encouraged to surface original ideas through constructing their own creative texts. This article outlines such a project that focuses on metaphorical writin...

During the past dozen years researchers at The University of Arizona have built six generations of group support systems software, conducted over 150 research studies, and facilitated over 4,000 projects. This article reports on lessons learned through that experience. It begins by presenting a theoretical foundation for the Groupware Grid, a tool for designing and evaluating GSS. It then repor...

Research on automated essay scoring (AES) indicates that computer-generated essay ratings are comparable to human ratings. However, despite investigations into the accuracy and reliability of AES scores, less attention has been paid to the feedback delivered to the students. This paper presents a method developers can use to quickly evaluate the usability of an automated feedback system prior t...

This paper describes an approach to writing requirements specifications for process-control systems, a specification language that supports this approach, and an example application of the approach and the language on an industrial aircraft collision avoidance system (TCAS 11). The example specification demonstrates 1) the practicality of writing a formal requirements specification for a comple...

This paper describes our experience in trying to transfer our revised software engineering curriculum from UC Berkeley to other universities. Our original plan was just to develop an inexpensive electronic textbook, but we were swept up in the first wave of Massive Open Online Course (MOOCs) while we were writing it. Thus, the paper lists the lessons learned about educational technology transfe...

The balance between what we learn from research and what others have said about similar topics can pose dilemmas for qualitative researchers. How many citations are enough? How much allegiance do we owe to other scholars and how much to informants' lived experiences, our theoretical analyses, and the lessons we draw about methods and methodologies from our own experience as researchers? The var...

Face-to-face restrictions on elementary school students during the pandemic force teachers to have creative and innovative ideas in conducting distance learning. Unlike learning for junior or senior high who better understanding of lessons using simpler methods, need more detailed methods Audacity is an application with script writing voice recording techniques that are able help develop lesson...