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How does a teacher education program begin the process of integrating technology? This paper provides a framework for technology integration that incorporates guiding principles, technology standards, and the developmental stages of teacher...

Electronic discussion groups such as newsgroups can pro-vide an effective, alternative avenue for fostering class dis-cussion. This paper discusses how the use of a newsgroup with elementary preservice teachers enabled discussion on classroom...

This paper describes a project where three teachers served as virtual guest speakers to preservice teachers through an email-based electronic discussion group. One goal of the project was to integrate technology into the daily classroom activities ...

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...

In an effort to not only advanced the technology and curriculum integration skills of area teachers, but also to ensure that preservice teachers have technology-rich field experiences, a grant was pursued and received to support a special project. ...

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...

In Indiana, the current dilemma facing teacher education programs is how to best teach about and assess students on the standards adopted by the Indiana Professional Standards Board (IPSB), and in particular, the dispositional component found in...

If handheld computing holds the promise of ubiquitous computing, how then do we ensure that the diffusion of this innovation is done in a manner that fully exploits the potentiality of the technology? While we generally turn to our instructional...

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 interactive session will explore elements of effective professional development and effective educational technology professional development to explore alternative approaches that can meet school and teacher needs, while at the same time...

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,...

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...

The task of redesigning instruction or designing it for online environments within a corporation faces challenges that may interfere with the final e-product, which is intended to be the expression of the most perfect balance between theory and...

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...