Michael K. Barbour

The Nature of Virtual Schooling in Rural Schools

Over the past three years, I have unsuccessfully applied for funding from various student research programs operated by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowships for Research Related to Education for projects such as What's On the Line When You're Offline: Exploring Effective Asynchronous Teaching Strategies, Sources of Student Success in Web-based Learning, and Rationale for Research into Virtual Environments in Secondary Schools.

Effectiveness of PowerPoint Games in K-12 E-Learning Environments

In 2005, I was part of a team of researchers at the University of Georgia who made an unsuccessful application to the National Endowment for the Humanities Grants for Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development for a project entitled Learning by Design as a Route to Historical Understanding.

In 2007-08, I was successful in my application for a University Research Grant at Wayne State University to explore the use of homemade PowerPoint Games with students in Illinois.

Network of Innovative Schools

In 2002 and 2003, I authored or co-authored a series of funding proposals for three different rural Newfoundland schools to Industry Canada 's Network of Innovative Schools Grant program. Two of the three applications were successful which brough $30,000 over three years to each of the sucessful schools.

Centre for Advanced Placement Education

In 2000 and 2001, I co-authored a series of funding proposals for the development and delivery activities of the Centre for Advanced Placement Education. These proposals were sent to the Inukshuk Fund's Content Development Project, the Office of Learning Technologies' Community Learning Initiatives Grant, and the Office of Learning Technologies' Community Learning Initiatives Pilot Grant. One of the three were successful and funded the project for a period of four years.