Editor: Ann Thompson
Iowa State University
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
Center for Technology in Learning and Teaching
N031 Lagomarcino Hall
Ames, IA 50011-3192
E-mail: eat@iastate.edu

Columns

Editor's Remarks
PT3 Projects in Progress (PDF, 12 KB, 1 sec, PDF Instructions)
Ann Thompson
Thompson provides an overview of this issue as well as some information about the ongoing PT3 grant program.

President's Message
Technology and Teacher Education: Beyond Preparing Preservice Teachers (PDF, 12 KB, 1 sec, PDF Instructions)
Dale S. Niederhauser
Niederhauser offers ideas for increasing the professional development of practicing teachers to meet technology standards.

Articles

Using Constructionism to Teach Constructivism: Modeling Hands-On Technology Integration in a Preservice Teacher Technology Course (PDF, 32 KB, 3 sec, PDF Instructions)
Elizabeth M. Willis and Gary R. Tucker
Willis and Tucker describe a new model to teach preservice teachers how to integrate technology.

The Fifth Literacy: Research to Support a Mandate for Technology-Based Visual Literacy in Preservice Teacher Education (PDF, 128 KB, 10 sec, PDF Instructions)
M. D. Roblyer and Elizabeth Kirby Bennett
Visual literacy is an important new focus for education. Find out why visual literacy training is so vital to our teachers and students.

Concept Mapping as a Mindtool for Critical Thinking (PDF, 132 KB,10 sec, PDF Instructions)
Nada Dabbagh
Concept mapping provides another way of helping students understand complex topics.
Note: This file contains a correction from the print version.

What Do They Know?
A Comprehensive Portrait of Exemplary Technology-Using Teachers (PDF, 72 KB, 6 sec, PDF Instructions)
Yong Zhao, Joe Byers, Punya Mishra, Andrew Topper, Haojing Chen, Mark Enfield, Richard Ferdig, Ken Frank, Kevin Pugh, and Sophia Hueysan Tan
Zhao and colleagues provide data that can help professional development be tied more easily to current practice.