Overview

  • I am currently a full-time lecturer. Previously I taught 5th grade and kindergarten in public schools, managed an international pre-school in Budapest, Hungary, and managed a technology-related grant.

    • Selected Publications

    Articles In Academic Journals

    Year Title
    2015 Teaching Students to Give and to Receive: Improving Disciplinary Writing through Peer Review.  INTED Conference.
    2008 Courage, Commitment and a Little Humility: The Path to Civic Engagement.  Reflections - A Journal of Writing, Service-Learning, and Community Literacy.
    2008 Let A Thousand Wikibooks Bloom.  The Chronicle of Higher Education. A29.

    Books

    Year Title
    2010 In Our Schools: Foundations and Assessment of Education Spring 2010 Edition.  Ed. 1.  Norfolk, VA: WiTTIE.
    2009 In Our Schools: Foundations and Assessment of Education Fall 2009 Edition.  Ed. 1.  Norfolk, VA: WiTTIE.

    Chapters

    Year Title
    2011 Student-Authored Textbooks: Why They’re Necessary and How They Can Be Done.  Adaptation, Resistance and Access to Instructional Technologies: Assessing Future Trends in Education. Fordham University.

    Conference Papers

    Year Title
    2017 Implementing peer-review activities for engineering writing assignments
    2017 WIP: Introducing engineering principles into PreK-6 through a service learning partnership
    2016 Probing the Landscape: Toward a Systematic Taxonomy of Online Peer Assessment Systems in Education
    2016 Teaching Students to Give and To Receive: Improving Disciplinary Writing Through Peer Review Computer-Supported Peer Review in Education
    2016 Teaching Students to Give and to Receive: Improving Disciplinary Writing Through Peer Review.  4755-4764.
    2016 The Effects of Peer Review on Student Learning: A Comparison of Positive and Negative Feedback.  4707-4712.
    2016 Toward Better Training in Peer Assessment: Does Calibration Help? Computer-Supported Peer Review in Education
    2015 Real-Time ECG Rendering on Mobile Devices for Ecg-Based Virtual Pathology Stethoscope Tracking
    2013 Discovery Missions: An Educational Tool for Web 2.0. In R. McBride & M. Searson (Eds.).  4008-4012.
    2013 Evaluating VoiceThread for Online Content Delivery and Student Interaction: Effects on Classroom Community. In R. McBride & M. Searson (Eds.).  2158-2162.
    2013 Understanding Students’ Online Communication Preferences and the Affordances of VoiceThread for Formative Assessment in Online Teaching In R. McBride & M. Searson (Eds.).  2163-2170.
    2012 Preservice Teachers Create Online Lessons to Teach Content and Learn Pedagogy. In P. Resta (Ed.).  3667-3669.
    2012 Using VoiceThread for Online Content Delivery: Effects on Classroom Community and Academic Performance. In P. Resta (Ed.).  1885-1890.
    2011 Crowdsourced Grading: Exploring the Validity and Effects of Student-Authored and Student-Evaluated Textbooks. In S. Barton, J. Hedberg & K. Suzuki (Eds.).  1266-1271.
    2011 Student-Authored Textbooks: The Future or Futile?. In M. Koehler & P. Mishra (Eds.)
    2010 Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants: A Comparison across Course Tasks and Delivery Methodologies. In D. Gibson & B. Dodge (Eds.).  1322-1329.
    2010 In Our World: Portraits of Communities Across the Globe (A K-16 International Wiki Project). In D. Gibson & B. Dodge (Eds.).  2479-2482.
    2010 WiTTIE (Wiki Templates Transforming Instructional Environments). In D. Gibson & B. Dodge (Eds.).  121-125.
    2009 An Evaluation of Web 2.0 Pedagogy: Student-authored Wikibook vs Traditional Textbook. In I. Gibson, R. Weber, K. McFerrin, R. Carlsen & D. Willis (Eds.).  917-919.
    2009 Wiki Textbooks: Pedagogical Tool for Student Empowerment. In I. Gibson, R. Weber, K. McFerrin, R. Carlsen & D. Willis (Eds.).  920-922.
    2008 Student-authored Wikibooks: Textbooks of the Future?. In K. McFerrin, R. Weber, R. Carlsen & D. Willis (Eds.).  2644-2647.
    2008 Studying the Credibility of a Student-Authored Textbook: Is it worth the effort for the results?. In J. Luca & E. Weippl (Eds.).  3008-3009.
    2003 ACTT Now Collaboration - Matching Pre-service and Inservice Teachers Through Technology. In D. Lassner & C. McNaught (Eds.)
    2003 How Pizza Narrows the Digital Divide and Improves Teacher Technology Confidence. In D. Lassner & C. McNaught (Eds.).  1581-1583.
    2002 ACTT Now to Link Pre-service and In-service Teacher Education: A PT3 Panel. In D. Willis, J. Price & N. Davis (Eds.).  1652-1660.
    2002 TOPS and STAT: Two PT3 Bridges for the Digital Divide. In D. Willis, J. Price & N. Davis (Eds.).  1210.

    Research Overview

  • Web 2.0 Technologies; peer-reviewing; assessment

    • Grants

    Expertise Keywords

  • Disciplinary Writing
  • Diversity
  • Educational Technology
  • Engineering Education
  • Open Digital Badges
  • Peer Review/Assessment
  • Student-Generated Content
  • Web 2.0 Applications

    • Education And Training

  • Ph.D. in Urban Services - Education/Curriculum and Instruction, Old Dominion University 2006
  • M.S. in Education, Old Dominion University 1999
  • B.A. in Elementary Education, University of Illinois at Chicago 1992

    • Full Name

  • Jennifer Kidd