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Focuses on the use of iMovie, computer software for classroom storytelling activities in the United States. Difficulty of children in visualizing the setting of a story; Development of the Place Project for students; Interest of children in digital story telling.

A discussion of the history of digital storytelling and how it is being used educationally is presented in this article. The theoretical framework, technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPCK), is described, along with a discussion of how this model might be used with digital storytelling.

This is site was started by a professor at UCF. It describes how to create a digital book talk with students, compares them to video trailers. Teachers, parent, students can all sign on and view book digital book talks to promote reading.

This article is written by Dr. Campbell, it talks about the importance of integrating Technology into the classroom. She talks about how students love social media and using their phone. Therefore, it is important for a teacher to continuously utilize these tools to further interest and engage the students in the classroom. She also talks about various tools the teachers can use in the classroom to further interest the students in the curriculum. Such tools may include Prezi, Voicethread, Tagxedo, and Museum Box.

speaks on ucf and adresses the president and its online graduate and undergraduate programs

Abstract: One of the goals of teacher education is to develop each preservice teacher into a reflective educator. A reflective educator is a lifelong learner who perceives every experience as an opportunity for growth, change, and development of understanding. Written by one of my former professors at UCF, Dr. Kay Allen.

This article is dated, but was intriguing to read as it shows the shift in teaching practices as more minority students are in classrooms. Collaboration between UCF College of Education Professors and students and Midway Elementary in Seminole County.

Study by Candace Lacey, Glenda Gunter, and Jennifer Reeves on the implementation of mobile tech at two universities and in a pre-K classroom.

This report is old and I could not find the entire article, but after reading the abstract it was interesting to hear why they chose to use a portfolio of our work.

UCF Faculty Article

Digital citizenship tied to character education, supported by Media Specialists in our K-12 schools and virtural environments.

This is a link to the full-text research article authored by Glenda A. Gunter, Robert F. Kenny and Erik H. Vick. The title is "Taking educational games seriously: using the RETAIN model to design endogenous fantasy into standalone educational games". The authors argue that for educational games to be effective, a new design paradigm needs to be utilized. They recommend the RETAIN design and evaluation model. The article is published in Education Tech Research Dev (2008) 56:511-537 and the DOI is 10.1007/s11423-007-9073-2.

The title of this article is : Building Student Data Literacy: An Essential Critical-Thinking Skill for the 21st Century. Authored By: Gunter, Glenda A.  Critical-Thingking skills are essential in 21st century, how can teachers do to ensure our students are information-literate.

Article about the use of digital media (e.g. digital booktalks) to reach reluctant readers and teach literacy skills to 21st century learners.

Article written by Dr. Glenda Gunter and Robert Kenny of UCF.

A great article by Dr. Sherron Roberts, of UCF, detailing the importance of apprpraite children's literature for those students coping with anxiety, death, illness, etc.

This is an article written by a UCF faculty member about Zoo biology.

by Dr. Glenda Gunter, Taryn Hess. When combining the increasing use of online educational environments, the push to use serious video games and the lack of research on the effectiveness of online learning environments and video games, there is a clear need for further investigation into the use of serious video games in an online format (2013)