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Christina Preston
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Learning to use ICT in classrooms : Teachers’ and trainers’ perspectives, A summary of the evaluation of the English ICT teacher training programme 1999-2003
Christina Preston
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2005 (2005) pp. 2761–2766
This paper focuses on three evaluations Continuing Professional Development (CPD) models to prepare tomorrow's teachers to use technology. "ICDL for Educators: ICT skills training in context" uses contextual skills exercises relevant t0 teachers ....
Topics: Evaluation, Professional Development, Teachers, Information Communication Technologies
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An interactivist e-community of practice using Web 2:00 tools
John Cuthell; Christina Preston Preston
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2007 (Mar 26, 2007) pp. 2316–2325
This paper explores emergent modes of communal and constructive digital knowledge building adopted by the MirandaNet: Fellowship. This professional e-community of practice, established in 1992, promotes transformational pedagogies. The literature...
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Multimodal Concept Mapping in teaching and learning: a MirandaNet Fellowship project
John Cuthell; Christina Preston
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 1999–2007
This paper outlines an eighteen-month project undertaken by the MirandaNet Fellowship from 2006 – 7 to explore the ways in which multimodal concept mapping and ICT could enhance teaching and learning. Visual thinking and learning tools such as Mind...
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Expert ICT advisers considering their own ICT CPD experiences
John Cuthell; Christina Preston
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 3247–3250
This report, called 'Education Professionals' perspectives on ICT CPD' investigates the experiential learning of advisers, teacher educators and senior managers in schools who responsible for devising Continuing Professional Development (CPD)...
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Tracking the stages of learning: concept maps as representations of liminal space
John Cuthell; Christina Preston
Themes in Science and Technology Education Vol. 5, No. 1 (2012) pp. 81–96
The concept of liminal space has recently been applied to ways of learning: the learning journey through this space encounters difficulties and misunderstandings, that are resolved as knowledge is mastered. Since 1992 the MirandaNet Fellowship, a...
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‘O Brave New World’: the roles of teacher educators, researchers, assessors and evaluators in web-based communities of practice for teachers
Christina Preston; Marilyn Leask; Sonia Blandford
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2010 (Mar 29, 2010) pp. 2846–2870
This chapter provides a longitudinal context for those teacher educators who want to leverage the power of building ‘communities of practice’ praxis into programmes for the Continuing Professional Development of teachers in digital technologies. The ...
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Community Innovations for SITE: Who is doing what with Clearinghouses and On-line Tools Development?
David Gibson; Bob McLaughlin; Deborah Sprague; Niki Davis; Marv Howard; Christina Preston; Gary Marks
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2001 (2001) pp. 499–501
This interactive panel session aims to inform the further creative development of SITE's web sites. It will be particularly relevant to groups within and beyond the USA who are developing "clearinghouses" and/or new "on-line tool sets" for...
Topics: Teachers, Educational Technology, Collaboration
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Part 2: A Global Look at the Future of Teaching: How Will ICT Impact Nations?
Roberta Weber; Marilyn Leask; Christina Preston; Kari Kumpulainen; Niki Davis; Elizabeth Oldham
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2010 (Mar 29, 2010) p. 2546
This international panel will address issues that educators consider as challenging the success of schools around the world. Integrating the uses of ICT tools into best practice teaching models will be discussed. A comparison of barriers and...