%0 Journal Article
%T From Editor vol 11, No.4
%A Ugur Demiray
%J The Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education
%D 2010
%I Anadolu University, Eskisehir
%X Greetings Dear readers of TOJDE,TOJDE is appeared on your screen now as Volume 11, Number: 4. In this issue it is published 4 notes for Editor, 12 articles, 2 book and one conference reviews. And this time, 27 authors from 10 different countries are placed. These published articles are from Bangldesh, Greece, India, Israel, Malaysia, Nigeria, Portugal, Singapore, Turkey and USA.The first Notes for editor arrived from USA, written by Kevin YEE and Jace HARGIS. They focused on PREZI: A Different Way to Present. Prezi represents the first step toward other visual tools that are not, strictly speaking, and presentations at all, but may yet find uses in classrooms. Browser-based programs that allow for concept mapping and brainstorming (sometimes with drawing and even inter-user chat functionality) approximate some of prezi¡¯s best features yet stand on their own as organizing tools that provide inspiration for the users. Examples include bubble.us, Thinkature, Mindmeister, and Graphic Organizer. The second notes for editor is titled as ¡°Investigating the Factor Structure  f The Blog Attitude Scale¡± which is written by Zahra SHAHSAVAR, Tan Bee HOON, S. Vahid ARYADOUST from Malaysia. Their study reports the design and development of a blog attitude scale (BAS). In exploratory factor analysis, three factors were discovered: blog anxiety, blog desirability, and blog self-efficacy; 14 items were excluded. The extracted items were subjected to a confirmatory factor analysis which lent further support to the BAS underpinning structure. ¡°Implementation of An Online Teacher Assessment/Appraisal In Technical Education Institution: A Case Study¡± is the third paper for ¡°Notes for Editor¡± section of TOJDE¡¯s in this issue. It has written by Sraboni MANDAL, Dr. SANJAY, Dajnish SHRIVASTAVA from National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur, INDIA. The purpose to discusses a case study of implementation of teacher appraisal system which initially non existed.The implementation of online system had reduced the man-hours required in manual processing of all data significantly, and also reduced chances of erroneous results in the process making the system robust. The fourth notes for Editor written by Kadir ULUSOY on Open Education Students¡¯ Perspectives on Using Virtual Museums Application in Teaching History Subjects. He is from Mersin University Faculty of Education, Mersin, TURKEY. The study was made to determine whether the attitudes of the open education faculty students, will be changed or not by virtual museum application. The pre-test and post-test model of the experimen
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