Welcome and thank you for visiting this website.

The purpose of this website is to create a central storage location for research and discussions of research in Instructional Technology and Education. 

Research may include ancient, modern, and ongoing, either published by others or performed by Paul J. Richardson at the Texas Tech College of Education. 

Research may include literature reviews, essays, special projects, or other class work. 

Studies may include experimental, correlational, survey, grounded theory, ethnographic, narrative, mixed methods, and action research designs. 

Please take a few moments to explore the 'Online Tool's' I have created for this website. The tools I have created for this site include the following:

Dynamic & Database Powered Applications Installed At This Website
	Paul's FAQ: Categories/questions/answers related to this website. Very easy to configure. An implementation of FAQMasterFlex and is ULTRA easy to install, configure and use.
	Paul's Forums: I'm using phpbb, which is a widely-popular open-source bulletin-board package, with a simple user interface and admin panel, clean look, scales well, and highly customizable. Requires frequent updates because of hackers who discover flaws (such as SQL injection).
	Paul's Wiki: Uses a clean and extensible Content Management System and Groupware called TikiWiki, and can be used to create all sorts of web applications, sites, portals, intranets and extranets. TikiWiki also works great as a web-based collaboration tool. Much more complex admin side than some Wiki's, such as PhpWiki.
	Paul's Surveys: Here I'm using PHPSurveyor, which is a little buggy still, but quite impressive. Display surveys as single questions, group by group or all in one page or use a dataentry system for administration of paper-based versions of the survey. PHP Surveyor can produce 'branching' surveys (set conditions on whether individual questions will display), can vary the look and feel of your survey through a templating system, and can provide basic statistical analysis of your survey results.
	Paul's Moodle: A course management system designed to help educators create quality online courses. Available in 34 languages and features a WYSIWYG HTML editor. The teacher has full control over all settings for a course. At present, there is only one Moodle (but other projects which are similar, using different names). Moodle includes a flexible array of course activities (Forums, Journals, Quizzes, Resources, Choices, Surveys, Assignments, Chats, Workshops), user logging and tracking, mail integration and much more.
	Paul's Group Calendars: Based on a very powerful webcalendar featuring private and public calendars called WebCalendar Note that you can have membership in groups each with their own calendar security settings, in addition to your own public or private calendar.
	Paul Guestbook: This Guestbook is a high end guestbook script that is versatile, reliable, very comfortable and easy to use called ViPER Allows for anonymouse signing and other security features.
	Paul's Blog: Using WordPress which is possibly the worlds most popular privately administered blogging application. WordPress is a personal publishing application with focus on aesthetics and featuring cross-blog tool, password protected posts, importing, typographical niceties, multiple authors, bookmarklets. You can also syndicate content with RSS and Atom feeds.