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This paper describes how technology was central to the process and the outcomes of a middle school history project. The role of technology in the following areas is discussed: teacher instruction; student research; and presentation of student work....

The web adventure series, MEDMYST™ was created using Macromedia FLASH. The web site (http://medmyst.rice.edu) is part of a project funded by the National Institutes of Health, National Center for Research Resource. The focus is on teaching middle...

How does one move from science concepts to final production of an interactive web adventure? What are the processes, the incremental steps, and the challenges involved? How do you test the web adventure's learning outcomes and usability? The answers ...

How does one design learning resources that will reach large audiences, capture the imagination, and compete with the game environments that are popular among of middle school students? The Reconstructors is a new episodic adventure series,...

The goal of the "Preparing Tomorrow's Teacher to Use Technology" grant awarded to the University of Houston College of education is to encourage the integration of technology into courses taught by education professors. This modeling of an...

Using laptops with students in the classroom can be a challenge to any professor, but the instructor and her students in this paper turned their initial turmoil with these computers and a new software program into an equalizing learning experience....

This paper will describe a PT3 implementation grant that is based on a dual-approach collaborative development model grounded in an action research process. This model provides a concentrated effort on developing personal and professional technology ...

Introduction The University of Houston PT3 grant, Action Communities for Teaching Excellence, has adopted a multi-faceted approach to address and facilitate preservice technology integration. Following an action research model, the PT3 team has...

How does one capture best practice from the paradigms of situated learning and anchored instruction and combine that with the powerfully engaging multimedia gaming environments that are popular with adolescents? Is it possible to design a game with...

A number of approaches toward technology integration have been explored in practice, research, and theory. While all address the same topic, and indeed overlap, all are helpful in conceptualizing technology integration, especially when viewed in...

The use of Digital Storytelling as a multimedia tool for teaching and learning has greatly increased over the past year in the College of Education, as well as in other colleges at the University of Houston, K-12 schools, and community organizations....

Creating a meaningful technology integration assignment for college students with disproportionate levels of mastery bears its own challenge, as does the diversity of academic disciplines represented among the learners in the classroom. The...

Abstract: Teacher candidates cringe at the mention of a collaborative activity or project. What could provide the “magic carrot” that makes collaboration in the classroom something candidates seek out rather than avoid? Could social networking...