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In the spring of 2003, two faculty members from a Southeastern United States research university were involved in a grant tasked with helping create and develop law enforcement high school standards for the state of Georgia. Two sessions where held...

With limited resources and diminishing budgets on university campuses, university departments are struggling to find the necessary high-tech inexpensive IT (information technology) expertise and resources to help develop and support technology...

This paper describes the assessment efforts of the MLMS (Middle Level Math Science) Institute currently being offered at Central Washington University. This grant-driven initiative is designed to provide 75 inservice middle-school teachers with math,...

Pre-service teachers often do not possess the necessary skills, knowledge and experiences to effectively use technology for instruction and learning in their classrooms. This is due in part to the inexperience of many education faculty in...

The educational technology course required of all teacher education majors at our institution has been a source of problems due to inconsistency in course content, and outdated and inappropriate course content. Some of these problems stemmed from...

As increasing numbers of higher education faculty use technology in their teaching, research and service activities and write about these experiences, it becomes increasingly important but often challenging for them to find an appropriate...

In the spring of 2004, two faculty members at a small, regional university in the Northwest USA were awarded a mini-grant to increase information and technology (ITL) literacy skills among teachers of low-income/high poverty student in middle and...

In the spring of 2005, our university was awarded a small grant from the National Writing Project to train fifteen K-12 teachers and their respective administrators to use technology to integrate writing and technology to learn into the content...

In the fall of 2004, a review of our library media endorsement program in our Department of Education at our comprehensive regional university was conducted to prepare for new requirements for our 2007 NCATE and State accreditation visits. The...

Despite an extensive array of available technology resources in our teacher education program, on the most part, our faculty are resistant to employing them in instruction. Consequently, upon graduation many of our preservice teachers are...

Due to a number of factors discussed in this paper, increasing numbers of Washington K-12 teachers are seeking their endorsement in library media. With only six state-certified programs in Washington State, most of these library media endorsement...

Through the process of preparing for our upcoming NCATE and State accreditation visitations next spring, our institution's teacher education program has encountered many challenges in the last three years. Most of the issues have revolved around the ...

Through various funding sources, our educational technology center has acquired an impressive variety of technology equipment over the last several years. Like many institutions that invest heavily in hardware and software but little on resources...

Our institution does not have a centralized unit to provide educational technology support for faculty development. The educational technology center, though not a university-wide department, has assumed this role by necessity. With only a staff of...

As more and more education faculty use technology in their teaching, scholarship and service activities and begin to write about these experiences, it becomes increasingly important but often challenging for them to find an appropriate publication...

This paper describes one U.S. higher education institution's efforts to develop and implement resources to support faculty in attaining different stages of technology integration. The introduction defines our context and problem. Critical to our...

Through a strong understanding of the appropriate technology experiences for preservice teachers and teacher educators in teacher preparation programs, most U.S. Schools and Colleges of Education are succeeding at meeting the recommended guidelines...

During an economic downturn, institutions of higher education face significant budgetary constraints yet are expected to deliver more with less. A successful strategy to extend resources in this type of situation is through the development of...

Our college will be launching a fully online Library Media Endorsement (LME) program in the spring of 2010. In preparation, all courses currently taught in a face-to-face format will need to be redesigned and pedagogically re-engineered for an...

In preparation for our academic program accreditation review, our college adopted a commercial online portfolio and electronic assessment system. For a variety of reasons, the adoption did not go as smoothly as we had hoped; over the course of the...