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Edited by Diane McGrath, Kansas State University

formerly Journal of Research on Computing in Education

Barbara B. Levin
University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Abstract

This study examines the content and purposes of four different types of electronic exchanges among a cohort of preservice elementary education majors across three semesters. Messages were exchanged (a) student to peer, (b) student to keypal, (c) student to instructor, and (d) student to group of peers using Web-based software that supported asynchronous, threaded discussions. The major purposes electronic communications served included opportunities for personal reflection, sharing teaching activities, and offering support. However, the peer-to-group messages fostered more reflective exchanges than other forms of one-to-one electronic communication studied.

Contributor

Barbara Levin is an associate professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her research interests include teacher education, teacher development across a career, case-based pedagogy, and technology education for teachers and children. (Address: Barbara B. Levin, School of Education, PO Box 26171, UNCG, Greensboro, NC 27402-6171; Barbara_Levin@uncg.edu.)

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