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Project STAR (Students and Teachers Achieving Results) is a technology-based professional development program intended to provide integrated mathematics, science, and technology experiences for all secondary science and mathematics students in...

The Department of Urban Education at University of Houston Downtown first began in the fall semester of 1995. It has just started along the technology trail to learn from other institutions that have already addressed some of the issues and found...

The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of current process in the publishing of technology-related textbooks used in K-12 schools and the possible role of technology educators in the textbook selection process. A number of key issues will be ...

This paper will describe the process that was followed and the outcome of initiating an online instruction and testing environment which was setup on a LAN network at University of Houston Downtown in preparation for the Bachelor of Science in...

This paper describes the technology training and the implementation of this training. An example of the pre-service use of this training to prepare units, lessons, and activities for centers in the curriculum course will be provided.

The SITE annuals have grown from a couple of hundred pages in early 1990s to two big volumes of almost two thousand pages in total in 1999. The advancement of the SITE conferences and annuals reflects the maturity of the field of Instructional...

A causal talk with a technology specialist with a school district reminded the authors to the urgent need of guidance for K-12 teachers in selecting quality web sites for their students. The paper will discuss web evaluation standards set up by...

Social Sciences-Education, SOSE 3306 Culture of the Urban School, is a prerequisite introductory course required of all students in the teacher preparation program at the Department of Urban Education (UE) at University of Houston Downtown (UHD). ...

The Department of Urban Education (UE) at University of Houston Downtown first began in the fall semester of 1995. It has just started along the technology trail to learn from other institutions that have already addressed some of the issues and...

This paper concerns computer software currently available in the market for bilingual children. The purpose is to survey the software options available to bilingual children, parents, and teachers. This paper will approach the topic from the...

Within the past decade, a growing body of evidence supports the ever-widening technological gap among American school children (U.S. Department of Commerce, 1998). The "Digital Divide," a leading economic and civil rights issue, is defined as the...

The Act of NCLB (No Child Left Behind) of 2001 requires teachers to meet the criteria of "Highly Qualified Status" in subjects they will be teaching. The effect has trickled down to various aspects and levels of the public school systems throughout...

The purpose of this project is to develop a searchable Web-based video system of children's literature in Spanish. This project is needed to support the bilingual program in the Department of Urban Education. Students taking BED 4301 Teaching...

The purpose of this presentation/paper is to describe a project that developed a Web-based video system of children's literature in Spanish and English. This project was needed to support the training of bilingual teachers in the Department of Urban ...

University of Houston Downtown has recently upgraded its course management system from WebCT CE to Blackboard Vista. Campus faculty members are trying out the emerging interactive features of Vista in delivering courses. The purpose of this proposal ...

In May 2000, the co-authors participated in a UH system CampusNet Instructional Design Collaborative workshop and subsequently developed an on-line course in Social Sciences Education. Since that time, the demand for web based resources from faculty ...

This paper describes a project that uses content area vocabulary games that are created by pre-service teachers. These pre-service teachers are in their student teaching semester, which is the final semester in a university teacher preparation...

The purpose of this paper is to describe a project about developing a Web-based video system of storybooks in Spanish and English. This project was needed to support the training of bilingual pre-service teachers in the Department of Urban Education ...