Five Illinois universities, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), and the Illinois Area IV Learning Technology Hub are collaborating in the Preparing Educators for the 21st Century Program" (PIE-21). This state-funded program focuses on providing preservice teachers, administrators, and teacher education faculty with skills and knowledge necessary to effectively use information technology. Each project includes collaboration between a university and K-12 schools to provide preservice teachers or administrators with training and experiences to effectively use information technology in the classroom. Given that each institution is unique, each PIE-21 partner is developing and piloting a different model of integrating information technology into a teacher education or administrator preparation program. All of the institutions made strides toward their original goals; all were interested in continuing their projects into a second year of the grant. Direct benefits to the institutions through PIE-21 monthly team meetings included: exposure to current ideas about technology integration and how these ideas are implemented around the state; increased confidence locally in ideas about technology integration and K-12/university collaboration; and demonstration of technologically complex innovations in educational technology. Individual approaches are described for each of the five participating universities: Eastern Illinois University, Illinois State University, National-Louis University, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. (AEF)