SSN - 1943-9725
Editor
Veronica F. McGowan, EdD
Assistant Professor
Computer Information Systems Department
Allman 113
Delaware Valley College
700 E. Butler Pike
Doylestown, PA 18901 USA
Phone: +1.215.489.2390
Email: Veronica.McGowan@delval.edu
Notes from the Editor
Veronica McGowan, Editor
Welcome to the seventh online issue of the
Journal for Computing Teachers, a publication of ISTE’s Special Interest Group for Computing Teachers (SIGCT). SIGCT advances the practice of teaching computing and computer science in PK−12 education to meet needs for all students as well as those wishing to study some aspect of the discipline in more depth.
In this issue, we offer three double-blind, peer-reviewed papers covering an array of topics of interest to teachers invested in the employment of technology in their classrooms. The article "Impact of Alice on the Attitudes of High School Students Toward Computing" by authors Eileen M. Peluso and Gene Sprechini explores how the popular 3D computer programming environment Alice, originally developed by Randy Pausch’s team at Carnegie Mellon, impacts attitudinal changes of high school students toward computer programming. "Using Moodle as an Effective Learning Management System within a School Context" by Bruce Allen Knight, John Dekkers, and Greg Wilson examines how one public high school in Australia implemented Moodle learning management system tools to more effectively deploy course activities. Finally, I offer a theoretical article to postsecondary readers, "Adapting Adoption-Based Design to Develop an Educational Technology Course," which proposes the adaption of a curricular model known as the Adoption-Based Design model (Chan, Yang, & Chang, 2004) into a framework that weighs stakeholder needs in the inclusion of new curricular content for an educational technology course in a teacher preparation program.
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Papers: Peer Reviewed
The winter 2012 issue of
JCT contains informative articles about teaching with and about computing. Simply click on the links below to go to the papers. All papers are PDF documents and available for free in the ISTE Store.
Peer Reviewed
Impact of Alice on the Attitudes of High School Students toward Computing
Eileen M. Peluso and Gene Sprechini, Lycoming College
Using Moodle as an Effective Learning Management System within a School Context
Bruce Allen Knight, Central Queensland University, Mackay; and John Dekkers and Greg Wilson, Central Queensland University, Noosa
Adapting Adoption-Based Design to Develop an Educational Technology Course
Veronica McGowan, Delaware Valley College