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Indiana State University (ISU) is working with students and faculty with support from the Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology (PT3) initiative to create a teacher education program that uses technology as a natural extension of the...

Recently, the Lilly Endowment announced their latest Community Alliances to Promote Education (CAPE) projects, and Indiana State University was a recipient of $5,000,000. Indiana State University is collaborating with the local school corporations...

With increased demand for educational performance standards, technology is being challenged on the role it plays in education. Cuban (2001) poses three goals for technology and Robyler (2003) provides an analysis for the facets of technology. Yet...

Indiana State University, in order to meet ever increasing accountability demands, has developed facilitating activities as a tool to create innovation and consistency in the integration of technology within its teacher preparation program. These...

The School of Education at Indiana State University put forth a requirement that all faculty who requested new desktop computers must meet a set of established faculty technology competencies. The goals were to use a velvet glove in order to...

This study attempts to determine how the use of a notebook computer impacts a student's computer confidence and attitude when compared to those of a traditional university student. This descriptive study used a survey research instrument to gather...

Indiana State University (ISU) is providing handheld computers to every faculty member in its School of Education. In addition, a substantial pool of handheld computers has been created for faculty to be used with students in the classroom. What...

This paper is a summary of results from data collected from a survey of undergraduate students (n=248) and faculty (n=19) concerning the deployment of an electronic documentation system. This system then became the vehicle to store student work...

Technology tools impact the way we approach accreditation. To one extent, we can assume that the technology is a critical component for a successful visit and report. However, it can also be viewed that technology can be a tool to unify a unit and...

Emerging technologies provide us with increased capacities to teach students and increase learning. While these are explored, we also need to develop an understanding on how these technologies impact student engagement, an important element to...

In the summer 2004, a group of faculty and staff members from Indiana State University traveled to 5 different, public notebook institutions in the Midwest to investigate how these intuitions implemented a notebook initiative. Following these visits,...

The Center for Instruction, Research, and Technology (CIRT) at Indiana State University assists faculty with their integration of emerging and innovative technologies into instruction and research activities. This support ranges from development and ...

In the summer of 2001 Indiana State University received a $5,000,0000 grant as part of the Lilly Endowment Community Alliances to Promote Education (CAPE) program. Indiana State University collaborated with the local school corporations to assist...

Three years after the final report for a PT3 grant is submitted, how do faculty and students continue to integrate technology? This study examines to what degree faculty and students at one institution have continued to use technology to enhance...

A generation gap generally can be construed as a difference between values and attitudes between generations. These differences can be further exasperated by a difference in experiences and interests. Given this, we have often experienced a...

Since implementing its one-to-one laptop program in 1997, Winona State University (WSU) has been a living, mobile computing laboratory. However, gaps in our assessment strategy emerged requiring a more comprehensive approach. Working with students...