This paper examines the working philosophy of a university-community collaborative program--the Robinson Community Learning Center (RCLC), a multifaceted community service center located in the Northeast Neighborhood of South Bend, Indiana, in the United States. This program's multitude of educational and social services includes individualized…

With the current influx of grants and national technology standards, many in Instructional Technology departments that serve teacher education programs wrestle with working outside initial certification areas. At Georgia State University, the Instructional Technology unit has been working closely with the Middle Childhood Education unit for the…

Focuses on the collaborative partnership between Northern Illinois University (NIU) and the Dukane Corporation to encourage teachers to integrate technology into their instruction. Discusses first contacts; mutual concerns and vision for integrating technology into Pre-K-12 schools; faculty training in the new multimedia rooms; and the shared…

The Training Team of the Information Resources unit at Gettysburg College (Pennsylvania) is not only responsible for answering faculty members' technology questions, but also charged with instructing the entire community in the basics of using a wide variety of applications. The Training Team is a combination of software specialists and…

This report focuses on the imperative to prepare teachers to understand and use technology. Drawing on the experience of the Texas Centers for Professional Development of Teachers (CPDTs), the report illustrates how CPDTs are exploring models of instruction built on the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) standards and…

This document contains the following invited papers from the SITE (Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education) 2001 conference: (1) "Information and Communications Technology in Education: A Personal Perspective" (David Moursund); (2) "A Model for Creating an Art Museum-University Partnership To Develop Technology-Based Educational…

Discusses the importance of information literacy and resource-based, collaborative learning. Offers suggestions and guidelines to help teacher-librarian collaborations effectively educate the public and students for the 21st century. (AEF)

On October 20, 2008, the New Media Consortium announced the release of a white paper produced in conjunction with the Economist Magazine and in collaboration with Apple, Inc. This paper reports the results of a study of nearly 300 CIOs and technology leaders inside and outside of education to gain deeper insight into the wider impact of technology…

Examines technology use in teacher preparation, emerging state and national standards for educators and technology, and benchmarks for teacher preparation programs (including faculty preparation), and notes the importance of creating school-business partnerships to help finance this costly venture. (SM)

The University of Wyoming (UW) teacher education program is a collaborative between UW faculty and educators from school districts throughout the state. Though the university faculty is charged with teaching teachers, the equally important "teachers of teachers" are the exemplary classroom teachers who provide modeling and expertise for…

Lone Star 2000 is a collaborative project among the Duval County Public Schools in Jacksonville (Florida), the College of Education and Human Services at the University of North Florida, and the International Business Machines (IBM) Corporation. Primary goals of the project include: making educational technologies available to K-8 students and…

During 1988-91, the School, College, and University Partnership (SCUP) program at Northern Arizona University (NAU) provided services to disadvantaged students in seven rural high schools on or near the Navajo and Hopi reservations. Many of these students came from low-income families, lived in geographically isolated locations, and attended…

This paper describes TACCOL (Technology Advancing a Continuous Community of Learners), a project at Clarion University of Pennsylvania. Designed to incorporate technology into teacher education, it involves collaboration between the College of Arts and Science and the College of Education and Human Services. TACCOL infuses technology into teacher…

For the thirty-third year, the Research and Theory Division of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) is sponsoring the publication of these Proceedings. This is Volume #2 of the 33rd "Annual Proceedings of Selected Papers on the Practice of Educational Communications and Technology." This volume includes…

This paper describes Clarion University of Pennsylvania's TACCOL (Technology Advancing a Continuous Community of Learners) program. TACCOL develops and implements an innovative environment for interfacing technology with mathematics and science education while achieving and maintaining systemic change in teacher education and K-12 learning.…