SIGTE News from NECC 2004
Focus on Critical Areas of Interest at the Sunday Seminar
The SIGTE Sunday Seminar (formerly known as the Forum and to be known
as such
again in 2005) was held on Sunday, June 20 from 1 to 5 pm. Guest
speaker Greg
Nadeau led an overview of the IC3 pilot and ISTE's Digital Transcript,
which
then prompted table discussions of assessment in technology and
teacher education.
Presenters at SIGTE-Sponsored sessions also gave brief highlights of
their sessions,
including: 1) Ann Cunningham on Instructional Strategies that Promote
Critical
Thinking: Proving Technology's Effectiveness; 2) Louanne Smolin on PT3
Sustainability:
Strategies for Keeping a Good Thing Going; 3) Melissa Pierson on
Unplugged Success:
Continuing the Conversation about Successful Wireless Educational
Environments;
and 4) Dale Niederhauser on Case-Based Reasoning.
The seminar concluded with some meaningful addressing of issues
important to
SIGTE members. This is one of the true strengths of our event as it
provides
an opportunity for colleagues to discuss issues of interest in
technology and
teacher education and for getting good minds together. Almost every
highlighted
item can be described by an eagerness to share with one another what
we know
and can do beyond our annual convergence at NECC. Our membership of
over 1800
represents an amazingly rich diversity in interests and expertise, and
there
is a clear desire to exchange ideas and best practices. Please look
for ways
to contribute to SIGTE And do include the SIGTE Forum (held on Monday
at NECC
2005) in your Philadelphia plans.
SIGTE Research Paper Award
First Place winners for the SIGTE Research Paper Award are Melissa
Pierson
and Alysa McLachlan, University of Houston, Project title: Case
Studies of Future
Teachers: Learning to Teach with Technology. The winning project is a
longitudinal
study that explores preservice teachers' developing vision of
technology in
teaching and learning. Participants include eight teacher education
students
whom the authors are following for four years, the two years of the
teacher
education program and the first two inductive years of teaching. The
authors
report initial understandings of participants' developing vision of
teaching
with technology, including their expectations for teaching with
technology,
perceived challenges of technology, questioning classroom uses of
technology,
and the driving development of a technology-rich program by education
students.
The authors were recognized at the annual ISTE Business Meeting as
well as at
the SIGTE Business Meeting. The paper was presented in both a round
table format
and a research paper session.
Tina Heafner University of North Carolina at Charlotte chaired the
Research
Paper Award Committee for 2003-2004, and Dale Niederhauser from Iowa
State University
will take over the award for 2004-2005. Dale welcomes SIGTE member
involvement
on the review committee, both for reviewing research paper proposals
in the
fall and for the paper award in the spring.
Business Meeting
The annual Business Meeting was held on Monday, June 21, from
4:45-6:00 pm.
The meeting convened at 4:50 PM with 45 members in attendance from 22
different
states and one foreign country (Scotland). We acknowledged Ann
Cunningham for
her hard work on behalf of the SIG, and welcomed new officers: Melissa
Pierson
as SIGTE President; Mike Charles as Communications Officer; and Karen
Grove
as Treasurer. Please make plans to attend our next business meeting in
Philadelphia!
SIGTE Members at NECC
In addition to countless workshops, concurrent sessions, research
paper sessions,
roundtables, and other appearances that featured our SIGTE members,
the following
members presented SIGTE-sponsored sessions:
Workshops
Instructional strategies that promote critical thinking: proving
technology's
effectiveness
Ann Cunningham, Vivian Johnson, Judith Cramer, Patricia Davies
Constructivism in Online Instruction-Making it Happen
Douglas Clark, Catherine Helgoe-Fett, Marianne Justus, Sharon Lalla,
Sylvia
Perez-Fasano
Concurrent Sessions
PT33 Sustainability: Strategies for Keeping a Good
Thing Going
Louanne Smolin, Jane Howland, Judy Wedman, Ellen Meier, Judith Cramer,
Neal
Strudler
Unplugged Success: Continuing the Conversation about Successful
Wireless
Educational Environments
Melissa Pierson, Ladd Bausch, Kathleen Bowes, Lorrie Jackson, Howard
Levin,
Mary Tipton, Shawn Wheeler, Michael Williams
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