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When it comes to understanding and using information technology, today's pre-service education students often know more about technology than their college professors or their field-based teachers in K-12 classrooms. University and K-12 faculty...

This paper and presentation describe the impact of Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology (PT3) programs at the University of Vermont (UVM) and the continuing PT3 influence at UVM and four additional Vermont teacher preparation programs...

This paper describes the PT3 Student Mentor Project at the University of Vermont, an initiative of the Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology [PT3] Implementation Grant. The project matches the expertise of undergraduate, pre-service...

Storytelling, an ancient tradition, is taking new forms with the advent of digital technologies and the World Wide Web. This paper explores the concept of storytelling as a strategy to create online learning communities and communities of practice...

In 2003, the University of Vermont received a three year grant to study the comparative effects of implementing three discreet approaches to ePortfolio development across five colleges of education. The partners included programs that used...

This roundtable discussion will focus on a digital storytelling project used with middle level pre-service teachers as a strategy to bring student voice to personal reflection about one's journey in literacy. At the roundtable, participants will...

The e-Portfolio Scaffolding Study examines the process by which pre-service teachers in the elementary, middle, and physical education programs at the University are taught to construct licensure portfolios (in paper or electronic formats) and...

This paper describes top-level findings from a three-year study about implementing different models of electronic portfolios funded by the 2003 US Department of Education PT3 grant initiative. It provides an overview of what we have learned about...

Abstract: In 2003, the [University] received a four year grant to study the comparative effects of implementing three discreet approaches to ePortfolio development across five colleges of education. The partners included pre-service teacher...

This parallel, mixed method study explores how external agents, both human and technological, support the evolution of a goal-oriented community of educational technology specialists into a community of practice and examines how the design of an...