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With the Internet gaining its popularity among teachers, an effort was made to engage teachers in actively communicating via discussion list with each other between two groups of teachers from New Jersey and Wisconsin. Although most teachers...

Having a good command over basic computer applications is essential for teachers to integrate technology in the school. Teachers should learn how to maximize the power of computer for their teaching and administrative work. This paper focuses on...

This study describes the experiences of a fifth grade gifted and talented class as they used PowerPoint as a tool in creating stories around the principles of Character Education. It discusses what they learned about essential questions, authorship,...

To prepare future teachers to meet the new rigorous requirements as mandated in the NCLB Act, the Master of Art in Teaching (MAT) program took two major initiatives to make a difference. First an Exploring Teaching course was restructured to engage...

Knowing how to integrate computer resources into curriculum is far more important than finding what resources are available, where the former requires the knowledge and skills of evaluating, planning, designing, and enforcing. Most teachers today,...

Technology integration in teacher preparation is indispensable. Various efforts and approaches were taken in the past two decades; however, the results were not satisfactory. This paper addresses many obstacles that challenge the reform effort. To ...

With the emerging technology highlighting hypermedia and the Internet, educators are finding ways to modify the traditional ways of teaching and learning. The need of infusing the Web in education is evident in two surveys of our college students...

As the computer technology rapidly advanced, the text-to-speech function, or the synthetic speech, has matured on the Macintosh computers. Most computer users, though aware of the existence of such a technology, did not have real hands-on...

This paper describes a project in which 18 in-service teachers became knowledgeable of the area of Social and Emotional Learning and its relationship to academic achievement. They learned how to design a multimedia application using the Macromedia...

With the increasing importance of computer and related technology in the current writing curriculum, it is essential for preservice teachers to gain first-hand experiences from the actual classroom and develop strategies for effective computer...

This paper is a report of a questionnaire conducted with early childhood educators in US and Japan regarding their beliefs and concerns about computers in the education of young children. The respondents were from a random sample, at a national...

In this paper, we describe the design of an informant-based design workshop for the teaching and learning of Earth Sciences in a Singaporean Secondary 1 school. We discuss how some of the preconceptions in Earth Science manifest themselves among the ...