Sunday, May 3, 2009

2. Levels and techniques of evaluation in educational technology

Title : Improving pre-service teachers' visual literacy through Flickr.

Author: Alaa Sadik

Approaches:

There are two approaches:

-Scientific: to help them decode visuals through practicing analysis techniques, and interpreting and creating meaning from visual stimuli
-social: to help them encode visuals as a tool for communication and sharing of knowledge.

Techniques:
-Online tracking and observation: To assess the extent to which pre-service teachers are engaged in real decoding and encoding activities through the participation in Flickr,

-Visual Literacy Test: To assess whether pre-service teachers' visual literacy skills were enhanced via interpretation, development and sharing of photographs or not

-Interview: To solicit pre-service teachers’ concerns and views regarding the use of Flickr in enhancing their visual literacy
skills.


The level of this study :- is student level because
The aim of this study was to investigate the impact on
pre-service teachers' visual literacy skills when they take advantage of Flickr, an online photo hosting and sharing community.

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