Editor's Note, February/March 2009
Elizabeth Haller
PhD Candidate and Instructor, Kent State University
E-mail: editoraee@hotmail.com
We invite your continued perusal and encourage you to submit articles, poetry, and fiction for consideration in future issues of AEE. Please review our Call for Papers on this site for more details on submission requirements. If you are unsure whether your contribution would be suitable under the terms of our Call for Papers, please send along an inquiry, and I will be happy to respond forthwith. As always, do not forget to check out Grist for the Mill for possible submission ideas.
“The View from Here” columnist Lynne Fukuda returns with the final of a four-part column titled “Education and Work Prep School: Finding a Path to Learning —Part IV.” For Parts I and II please refer to the September 2008 and October 2008 issues, and for Part III please refer to the December 2008 issue.
The first feature of this issue, “How Do Homework Guides Help Students Acquire Procedural Knowledge?” comes to us from Nicholas D. Hartlep, who states:
The effects of using homework guides, and homework logs on students’ abilities to solve word problems involving basic addition and subtraction facts were studied. Students received one of three versions of addition and subtraction timed tests once per week—every Thursday—that focused on measuring automaticity of basic addition and subtraction facts. Twenty second-grade students participated in this action-research study. Students’ automaticity of basic addition and subtraction facts increased over the course of this study. Results indicated that homework guides positively affected student motivation to put forth more effort on homework. Additionally, word problems that involved basic subtraction facts appeared more difficult to solve; whereas, word problems that involved basic addition facts appeared easier to solve.
Nilanshu Kumar Agarwal brings us the second feature of this issue titled “Author as a Citizen of the Global Village: An Interview with Sunny Singh.” Agarwal states:
In January 1999, Sunny Singh’s first play, Birthing Athena, was staged at the prestigious Sri Ram Centre, in Mandi House, New Delhi. The play was a critical and commercial success, with its story of emotionally fraught relationships in modern India. Her novels Single in the City, Nani’s Book of Suicides and With Krishna’s Eyes have been well-received by critics and scholars. In this interview, Singh, a literary talent, discusses several social and literary issue of contemporary significance.
The final feature of this issue is titled “Localization Practices for Online Courses: A Case Study for Contextual Considerations.” Author Michael J. Frasciello states his article argues that:
current practices of localizing online courses fail to consider appropriate contextual elements, such as culture and language variety. It explores possible reasons for this failure and proposes alternative techniques to improve localization practices for instructional designers. Localization is more than adjustment of an existing online course’s textual elements on the surface level. It should be introduced at the course design stage as an integrated phase of the design and development process. To address the shortcomings of current localization practices, instructional designers need to use broader-scoped rhetorical methods to think of online course design and development in heuristic terms that facilitate successful localization. A complete, integrated localization process requires instructional designers to explore the best way to present information and to identify the most appropriate content for specific cultural and rhetorical contexts. Information delivery is not separated from content, and the content is not separated from situated contexts.
This month’s first Poet’s Corner contribution “Family Literacy” comes to us from Matilda Naputi Rivera who states the poem is: “meant to be an inspirational poem for family members to engage in meaningful literacy activities. After all, the family is considered to be one of the most powerful indicators of success for children. It is the venue for the transmission of knowledge, skills, and values from one generation to another.”
The final Poet’s Corner contribution titled “Captivity Narrative” comes to us from Paula Sergi, who states: “This poem is based on my experience as a parent attending my children’s elementary school programs. I believe that it highlights the natural affection children have for their parents, as well as cultural idiosyncrasies of people living in my home town.”
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