Discusses effective professional development in education and describes a frame for professional development in the context of teaching with technology. Explains the use of PLATE (Plan for Learning And Teaching with Educational Technology) for a higher education faculty in a teacher education program and discusses the impact on students. (LRW)

Investigates the integration of technology into K-16 mathematics classes. Highlights include the Teacher Training with Teams, Themes and Technology (T5) Project; examples of classroom activities; and recommendations for student-controlled learning so they have input into how they use the technology. (LRW)

Discusses the value of mentoring to help African-American education students taking educational media and technology classes to have more confidence in their abilities to integrate technology into the classroom. Highlights include students' prior use of technology; and modeling the use of technology, including acknowledging their anxiety and…

Describes two pilot programs at the University of North Florida (Jacksonville, FL) that connect instructional technology into the teacher education program: one uses technology in a community-based learning environment to improve preservice elementary teachers' science education preparation; the second involves a learning community of students…

This study examined: the effectiveness of Practicum Plus professional development classes in preparing mentor teachers and their university practicum students to create a curriculum unit of practice in their K-8 classrooms; and how mentor teachers and practicum students used the cohort electronic mailing list to support the community of learners.…

Describes the development of learning communities among student teachers, university supervisors, and master teachers to increase the quantity and quality of technology integration in student teaching experiences. Project TALENT (Teaching and Leading for Educational Needs with Technology), funded by the Department of Education's PT3 (Preparing…

Examines three workshop formats designed to help faculty incorporate technology into their on-campus and distance teaching. Describes weekly workshops held throughout the academic year, one-week intensive workshops, and weekly workshops for eight weeks, and concludes that support for faculty is the most important factor in successful technology…

Describes the evolution of preservice teacher technology courses at the University of Northern Colorado (Greeley, CO). Highlights include technology integration; student teaching requirements; student attitudes about technology; revised curricula that include state and professional organization technology standards, performance-based assessments,…

Discusses the need for elementary and secondary school teachers to integrate technology into the classroom and explains the University of Missouri's (Columbia, MO) technology-focused development program, the Technology Learning Cycle (TLC), for faculty who teach undergraduate teacher methods courses. Examines the application of the TLC to two…

Describes the Technology Leadership Academy (University of Texas at Austin) whose mission is to develop a learning community among teacher preparation programs to improve technology integration. Explains the academy's development, which was part of a grant from the Department of Education's Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers To Use Technology…

Discusses changes taking place in higher education as a result of incorporating new technologies that affect teaching and learning. Topics include linking pedagogy with technology; the institution's responsibility to distinguish between elements that should be transformed by technology and those that should be preserved; curricular collaboration;…

Describes the following steps that provide a framework for orienting nontraditional students to a technology-enhanced curriculum: orient students in-person; provide active encouragement for student interaction; add technical instructions incrementally; be willing to offer limited technical advice; caution students not to panic when technical…

Describes the program at Georgia State University's Department of Early Childhood Education that trains teachers to integrate technology into their elementary classrooms. Discusses the International Society for Technology in Education standards; shared vision for the preservice teacher education program; skilled faculty in educational technology;…

Describes Instructional Technology Foundations, a graduate Instructional Systems Technology (IST) course at Indiana University (IU). Students learn to compare/contrast conceptual definitions of instructional (IT) and models of instructional design (ID). Students are required to generate their own working definition of IT from a personal…

Offers recommendations about the appropriate role of technology in higher education: too much technology in your class can be negative; technology can intimidate if students have not been uniformly prepared before its use; students can be unforgiving if technology fails; technology-assisted process can be more important than the product developed;…