Meeting the needs of students, administration, and NCATE: Redesigning an undergraduate educational technology course to meet changing needs

Shadow Armfield; Laura Sujo de Montes; Michael Blocher

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 5196–5202

Changes in student population, faculty understanding and administrative needs have lead to the complete overhaul of an undergraduate course in educational technology at Northern Arizona University. The undergraduate course which had once inspired to ...

Video Games, Learning, and Instruction in the Middle School Classroom

Laura Sujo de Montes; Shadow Armfield; Michael Blocher

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 4666–4671

This paper presents the results of an investigation into the use of a video game in the middle school classroom as a learning tool to reinforce knowledge and skills. The study, which included a control and treatment group, yielded mixed results....

The Effectiveness of Problem-Based Learning in an Online Learning Environment

Laura Sujo de Montes; Mary Lane-Kelso

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2007 (Mar 26, 2007) pp. 3161–3164

How effective is Problem-based Learning in an online environment? The Masters of Education in Educational Technology program serves mostly in-service teachers and courses taken in the program are seen as "just in time" professional development....

From the Thinking Board to NCATE/ISTE: How to Grow an Online Graduate Program

Laura Sujo de Montes; Elizabeth Willis; J. Michael Blocher; Gary Tucker; Cathy Gunn

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2007 (Mar 26, 2007) pp. 3157–3160

What happens when similar-thinking faculty provide a "shared intelligence" to create a new program? How is knowledge building impacted when it is designed to be technology mediated? This panel presentation brings faculty from a southwestern...

ePortfolio System for Student Learning and Program Evaluation

Michael Blocher; Laura Sujo de Montes

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2006 (Mar 19, 2006) pp. 17–21

Individual student assessment and program evaluation has become a crucial aspect of higher educational degree programs. Students enrolled in the online M.Ed. in Educational Technology as Northern Arizona University are required to develop a capstone ...

Topics: Portfolios, Evaluation, Assessment, Educational Technology, Students

Of Public Interest: Are Pre-Service Teachers Being Prepared to Teach the Citizenry of Tomorrow?

Laura Sujo de Montes; Jean Ann Foley; Mary Lane-Kelso; J. Michael Blocher

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2006 (Mar 19, 2006) pp. 1826–1830

This paper presents the reactions of preservice teachers to a mandatory practicum in a technology course that historically has not had one. Besides the addition of a practicum, the course was redesigned to use Problem-Based Learning as a vehicle to...

Topics: Teachers

Using a Hybrid Lab to Teach Computers in the Classroom

Michael Blocher; Mary Lane-Kelso; Laura Sujo de Montes; Shadow Armfield; Hong Zhan; Gary Karcz

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2006 (Mar 19, 2006) pp. 3321–3323

Preparing pre-service teachers to be competent in using computers in the classroom has been a challenge due to the various platforms of computers currently in use in classrooms. The faculty at Northern Arizona University's College of Education...

Topics: Faculty, Classrooms, Instructional Design, Teachers, Computers

Technology Professional Development Delivery Preferences

Michael Blocher; Laura Sujo de Montes

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2005 (2005) pp. 2373–2376

This paper presentation will detail a study conducted at Northern Arizona University designed to investigate and evaluate the technology professional development needs of Arizona in-service educators. The paper presentation will provide readers and...

Topics: Computers, Teachers, Professional Development, Educational Technology

Technology Integration, Change, and Preservice Teachers: Lessons Learned

Laura Sujo de Montes; J. Michael Blocher; Shadow Armfield

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2005 (2005) pp. 1618–1620

This paper discusses changes made to a required technology course for elementary major students at a Southwestern university. Worth noting is the resistance that preservice teachers demonstrated when they were presented with the new curriculum and...

Technology Affordances: The Chat Room as an Ethnographic Tool

Laura Sujo de Montes

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2003 (2003) pp. 1778–1779

This paper deals with the use of chat rooms as an ethnographic tool to conduct in-depth interviews. First, the use of the Internet as a survey tool is discussed. Then, preliminary results from the analysis of data collected are presented. Finally, a ...

The Effect of Web Cams in Online Group Interactions

Laura Sujo de Montes

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2003 (2003) pp. 1780–1781

This paper looks at the effects of the use of a web cam on the student interactions in small-group teams. Issues of implementation of video chats are also discussed. Preliminary results indicate that video chats are an effective tool for group work...

Topics: Video

Evaluating an Online Graduate Program: The Plan and the Process

Elizabeth Willis; Laura Sujo de Montes

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2003 (2003) pp. 351–353

The web-based Master's of Education in Educational Technology (MEd in Ed Tech) program at the Center for Excellence in Education (CEE) at Northern Arizona University (NAU) is in its second year of implementation. This graduate degree program uses...

Topics: Evaluation, Educational Technology