Dr. Chareen Snelson's current research interests are focused on YouTube, educational machinima, and digital online video. After serving as a middle school science and math teacher, she earned her Ed.D. in Education, Curriculum and Instruction from Boise State University in 2003. Dr. Snelson has taught at Boise State since 1999 first as an adjunct instructor and, since earning her doctorate, as faculty in the Department of Educational Technology. In addition to teaching and research, Dr. Snelson actively serves the educational technology profession in a variety of ways, including as a member of journal editorial and review panels, and as a member of conference program committees.
Articles & Conference Proceedings
Managing Issues of Safety, Privacy, Copyright, and Technological Change in Web 2.0 Instruction: Lessons Learned from Teaching a YouTube Course, Proceedings of the Technology, Colleges, and Community Worldwide Online Conference (2012)
In 2008, an online course called YouTube for Educators was created as an elective for...
Research Priorities for YouTube and Video-Sharing Technologies: A Delphi Study (with Kerry Rice and Constance Wyzard), British Journal of Educational Technology (2012)
Online video-sharing services, particularly YouTube, have gained an audience of billions of users including educators...
Video Mashups and YouTube: The Mixing and Mashing Media Module, Proceedings of the World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications (EDMEDIA) (2012)
Video productions created as remixes of multiple sources of video are sometimes referred to as...
The Future in Educational Technology Research (with Constance Wyzard and Kerry Rice), Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications (2011)
This presentation examines research priority areas for Educational Technology as identified by eighteen leading international...
Learning From the Past: An Educational Technology Content Analysis (with Michael Fuller, Constance Wyzard, and Kerry Rice), Proceedings of the Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference (2011)
Professional journals in educational technology provide a leadership role in the understanding and development of...
Contributions to Books
Teaching a YouTube Course Online, Cases on Online Learning Communities and Beyond: Investigations and Applications (2012)
This chapter presents a case study of the author’s work developing and teaching an online...
Ethical Challenges of Online Teaching (with Patt R. Elison-Bowers), Teaching Ethically: Challenges and Opportunities (2012)
Online technologies (e.g., e-mail, websites, course management systems) provide alternatives to traditional face-to-face instruction that...
Using YouTube Videos to Engage the Affective Domain in E-Learning (with Patt R. Elison-Bowers), Research, Reflections and Innovations in Integrating ICT in Education (2009)
YouTube, currently the largest and most widely used online video service, is at the epicenter...
Virtual Design Based Research, Sound Instruction - Ready to Use Classroom Practice, Volume II (2009)
Web-based Video for E-Learning: Tapping Into the YouTube Phenomenon, Collective Intelligence and E‐Learning 2.0: Implications of Web‐Based Communities and Networking (2009)
Presentations
Video Mashups and YouTube: The Mixing and Mashing Media Module (Virtual session), World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications (2012)
Managing Issues of Safety, Privacy, Copyright, and Technological Change in Web 2.0 Instruction: Lessons Learned from Teaching a Youtube Course, Technology, Colleges, and Community Worldwide Online Conference (2012)
In 2008, an online course called YouTube for Educators was created as an elective for...
Online Activities for Teaching the Science of Geochronology (with Karen Viskupic, Mark D. Schmitz, Ross Perkins, and Greg Cossette), Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America (2011)
We are developing a series of engaging, effective, and usable virtual labs/online activities to teach...
Educational Film in the YouTube Era (with Ross Perkins), Ohio University Visual Literacy Webinar: Have You Read a Good Picture Lately? Visual Literacy Ideas and Techniques in Education (2011)
Online Video in Education, Virtual Seminar of the Brazillian Association of Distance Education (2011)
Dissertation
The Use of Representation in Content Designed for Online Mathematics Instruction (2003)
The opportunity to learn mathematics through an online course grows with the expansion of distance...