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California State University, Sacramento, participated in a CSU Digital Portfolio meeting with other CSU campuses, which helped to identify the pros and cons in the development and potential use of e-portfolios in the CSUS teacher preparation program.

This paper reports on a transformed model for technology-infusion within a teacher preparation program. Faculty and teachers involved in this program have been participating in professional development workshops provided through the PT3 grant at CSU ...

This paper addresses the need of including the concept of "community of practice" in the implementation of electronic portfolios in Teacher Education programs. Many models of electronic portfolios or commercial tools are selected for the purpose of...

Since receiving a PT3 in 2000 faculty at Sacramento State University have been using the Taskstream tools in their courses. In this poster session we will showcase how the web-based suite of tools, Taskstream, have been used at CSU Sacramento to...

In this paper we describe the process undertaken faculty as they design and implement a web-based assessment and data aggregation tool. The tool, Taskstream, became the vehicle for moving from a teaching focused culture to a focus on student...

This paper presents an instructional model that applies a web-based tool (TaskStream) to provide the access to incorporate the social interactions, reflective processes, and situate learning. Students will provide and receive comments and...

In this paper we describe the process undertaken a teacher education institution as they design and implement a web-based assessment and data aggregation tool. The tool, Taskstream, became the vehicle for moving from student learning assessment to...

In this roundtable session, I will discuss the use of social science digital curriculum in a second grade class. Moreover, the effects of using digital curriculum for the students with different learning preferences (visual, aural, read/write &...

This study investigated the impact of authoring hypermedia projects on the academic vocabulary development of middle school, ESL students. Vocabulary definitions, in-process verbalizations, observations and semi-structured interviews were the...

This paper addresses the relationship between eportfolio development and multicultural education. Barrett (2001) and Dominick (2002) define the processes of eportfolio development as reflection, assessment, connection, collection and presentation....

The purpose of this round table session is to discuss the effect of the use of interactive whiteboards as an instructional tool in elementary schools. The data collected from elementary school teachers regarding their perspectives of the use of...

In this paper, the effects of using interactive text for the students with different learning preferences will be discussed. Interactive texts have different characteristics from traditional texts. The examples of interactive text include: graphing ...

The number of higher education students enrolled in online courses has increased from 9 percent in fall 2002 to 21.9 percent in fall 2007. Due to the increase importance of online courses and programs on university campuses there is a need to...

As multi media and technological savvy continue to expand existing notions of contemporary literacy, the need to prepare teachers to use a variety of classroom technologies has never been greater. The Teaching Using Technology Studio was designed as ...