Hello from TOJET

The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology (TOJET) welcomes you. TOJET also thanks more than 20000 researchers, practitioners, administrators, educators, teachers, parents, and students from all around the world for visiting the volume7 and issue 2 between April 01 and June 30 2008.  TOJET has diffused successfully innovation on educational technology around the world. 

TOJET is a quarterly journal (January, April, July and October). This online periodical is devoted to the issues and applications of educational technology to enhance learning and teaching. Reviewed by leaders in the field, this publication is designed to provide a multi-disciplinary forum to present and discuss all aspects of educational technology in all learning environments.

TOJET provides an educational technology forum and focal point for readers to share and exchange their experiences and knowledge each other to create better research experiences on educational technology. The main purpose of this sharing and exchange should result in the growth of ideas and practical solutions that can contribute toward the improvement of education and learning through educational technology.

TOJET, Hacettepe University, Eastern Mediterranean University, and Sakarya University will organize the 9^th International Educational Technology Conference (IETC 2009) in May 2009 in Ankara - Turkey. 

TOJET records its appreciation of the voluntary work by the following persons, who have acted as reviewers for one or more submissions to TOJET for v7i3. The reviewers of this issue are drawn quite widely from educational technology field.  Reviewers’ interests and experiences match with the reviewed articles.

I am always honored to be the editor-in-chief of TOJET.  Many persons gave their valuable contributions for this issue. I would like to thank the guest editor and the editorial board of this issue.  The guest Editor of this issue is Prof. Dr. Petek Aşkar.  TOJET thanks the guest Editor and the Editorial Board of this issue. 

Call for Papers

TOJET invites article contributions. Submitted articles should be about all aspects of educational technology and may address assessment, attitudes, beliefs, curriculum, equity, research, translating research into practice, learning theory, alternative conceptions, socio-cultural issues, special populations, and integration of subjects.  The articles should also discuss the perspectives of students, teachers, school administrators and communities.  

The articles should be original, unpublished, and not in consideration for publication elsewhere at the time of submission to TOJET.

For any suggestions and comments on the international online journal TOJET, please do not hesitate to fill out the comments & suggestion form. 

July 01, 2008
 

Editors,

Prof. Dr. Aytekin İŞMAN
Sakarya University

Prof. Dr. Jerry WILLIS
Louisiana State University

Dear Readers,

TOJET seeks to contribute to the educational understanding of information and communication technologies. As the guest editor of this issue, I’m glad to see the variety of articles focusing on the implementation of emerging tools, perception of the teachers and the students exposed in such environments.

Furthermore, the journal becomes more international which means that it is getting more recognized worlwide. We have contributors form Turkey, USA, Iran, Israel and Ghana.

Lauching a scholarly journal needs the involvement of all- the reviewers, the members of the editorial board, the editors and the publisher.  I would like to thank them in every process to make this issue actualized.

Some of the articles published in this issue were submitted for the April issue and the review process were ended under the previous editor who I want to thank- Prof. Dr. Halil İbrahim Yalın.

The aim of TOJET fulfills and continue to fulfill by the readers and authors- the academic community-  who have a great role in the development of innovations in teaching and learning.

July 1, 2008

Guest Editor

Prof. Dr. Petek Aşkar