Envisioning, understanding, and encouraging technology integration: Case studies examining professional development and technology integration

Aliya E. Holmes

Envisioning, understanding, and encouraging technology@integration: Case studies examining professional development and technology@integration (2004) pp. 1–267

Technology integration continues to challenge the infrastructure of our educational system and the practices of classroom teachers. This paper addresses several issues surrounding technology integration while identifying techniques and resources...

Virtual Teacher Education: Affordances and Constraints of Teaching Teachers Online

Joseph E. Bowman, Jr.; Aliya Holmes; Karen Swan

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1999 (1999) pp. 278–283

This paper draws from both an examination of the formal characteristics of online environments and the authors' experiences offering educational technology courses within such environments to discuss the potential of asynchronous distance education...

Topics: Professional Development, Educational Technology, Distance Education

The Power of String: Building a Conceptual Foundation for Measuring Rate

Linda Polhemus Lucey; Sybillyn Jennings; Peter Olson; Lester Rubenfeld; Aliya E. Holmes

Teaching Children Mathematics Vol. 14, No. 1 (August 2007) pp. 18–24

This article describes how Lego robotics, interactive multimedia, and a simple manipulative--string--can be offered to students through coordinated activities to help them build a conceptual foundation for measuring rate. (Contains 5 figures and 3...