A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: The Use of Digital Photography to Enhance Literacy Development in Young Children
Lauren Cummins, Regina Rees, and Kelly Bacroft, Youngstown State University

What do we know about literacy development?

Young children are natural storytellers, and they “write” stories through pictures
Children use pictures to help them remember about their story and be [...]

Why Do Some Teachers Trust Technology and Some Don’t?
Andrea Francis, Michigan State University

Reasons for Exclusion

Lack of social and institutional support
Lack of funding
Lack of adwquate training for the task

Psychological Factors

Fear of using digital technologies
Inability to overcome “functional fixedness”

Why do some people trust technology and others don’t?

Trust

Measuring trust: benevolence, reliable, competent, honest, openness; vulnerability and confidence of [...]

Thanks to those of you who attended my session at SITE 2008 on Project WRITE. As promised, here are links to the items discussed in the session:

Project WRITE Wiki
Project WRITE Blog
Presentation on Slide Share
Presentation Podcast

Please leave comments here so we can continue the conversation.
Thanks,
Troy

This week, I am at SITE 2008, preparing for a presentation on Project WRITE tomorrow. Today, I will try to blog from some of the sessions (as wifi will allow). Here are three sessions on digital storytelling that I attended this morning. (I will also cross-post on the Using Technology to Tell Stories Blog):
An Instructional [...]