Sunday, September 2, 2007

KA SID, posting 9/2/07

This week I focused on the digital divide in preparation for my meeting with Dr. Burton Cohen on Tues. 9/4.

11.1 Dowling, Meredith. (2001). Mapping a Future for Digital Connections: a Study of the Digital Divide in San Diego County, San Diego Regional Technology Alliance























11.2
Seung-soo, H. (2002). Summary by President of Ge
neral Assembly at Concluding Plenary Meeting. Paper presented at the General Assembly Meeting on Information and Communication Technologies.

11.3 Osunkunle, O. O. (2006). Bridging the Digital Divide and the use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in South African Uni
versities: a Comparison Study among Selected Historically Black UniversitiesWhite Universities (HWUs). US-China Education Review, 3(3), 6. (HBUs) and Historically





11.4 Spanning the Digital Divide: Understanding and Tackling the Issues, editor Madanmohar Rao, Bridges.org, 2001.






















12.1 Johnson, R. B., & Onwuegbuzie, A. J. Mixed Methods Research: A Research Paradigm Whose Time Has Come. Educational Researcher v33 n7 p14-26 Oct 2004 (13 pages) Additional Info: American Educational Research, Association(1230 17th St. NW), Washington.

In addition to the reading, I have joined the AERA (American Educational Research Association) and my boss has approved my attendance at next year's conference Monday, March 24 - Friday, March 28. I am very excited about this opportunity.

I also had a conf. call with our reference librarian, Scott Hines, who teaches a class in EndNotes to make sure I was doing my setup correctly. Turns out, because of my background in application systems design and implementation, I have setup Endnotes and my excel spreadsheet in exactly the way he teaches in the class. The only thing I did not know how to do was setup the link to the libraries so I can download the references easily instead of typing them, and also how to download the references from ERIC, etc. We setup the templates in EndNotes for these 3 databases (ERIC, Stanford and UC). He also gave me the password to the PGSP libraries incase we have something at work that isn't on the Fielding website. He told me to always use ERIC from the Fielding website because it will have the "formatting" setup for Endnotes and it will be easier. I learned a lot!

that's it for this week.

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