Revising ETC 557 Remaining Constructivist in a Standards-based, Teach to the Test World:

Elizabeth Willis; Hong Zhan; Shadow Armfield

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2007 (Mar 26, 2007) pp. 1164–1167

This paper discusses the needs, process, implementation and evaluation of the re-design and re-creation of one course in an educational technology program in order to meet NCATE/ISTE standards for national recognition and remain true to its...

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...

Using E-folios as an Assessment Tool for an Online Graduate Program

Elizabeth Willis

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2005 (2005) p. 248

The web-based Master's of Education in Educational Technology (MEd in Ed Tech) program at the College of Education (COE) at Northern Arizona University (NAU) uses the World Wide Web (WWW) as a medium of delivery, and there is much to be learned from ...

Topics: Achievement, Evaluation, Educational Technology, Students

The Ethical Issues in Technology Lecture Series: Student Perspectives on a Strategy for Online Collaborative Learning in an Educational Technology Course

Elizabeth Willis

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2003 (2003) pp. 2539–2542

Technological advances offer great promise great for both teachers and learners, but there are numerous challenges to the implementation of technology in classroom settings. An online course was designed to assist educators in developing an...

Topics: Teachers, Educational Technology, Students

Growing an Online Graduate Program

Elizabeth Willis

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2003 (2003) pp. 787–788

The poster demonstration, "Growing an Online Graduate Program," will demonstrate the process of initiating, planning, and implementing a successful online university degree. It will include a display of the program splash page, course syllabi and...

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

Service Learning and Technology in an Undergraduate Teacher Preparation Course: Do They Mix?

Laura Sujo de Montes; Susan Wolff; Elizabeth Willis

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2003 (2003) pp. 640–643

Even though service learning has caught the attention of faculty at universities in recent years, it is far from being implemented in ways that serve both the community and the student. Sometimes a service-learning component of a class focuses on...

Topics: Students

A Comprehensive Formative Evaluation of an Online Master’s Program

Gary Tucker; Laura Sujo de Montes; Elizabeth Willis; Michael Blocher

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) pp. 910–912

This paper discusses the importance of conducting formative evaluations. The Master's of Education in Educational Technology at Northern Arizona University is a young online program in its second year of implementation. Because online degree...

Topics: Educational Technology

Technology in Arizona: A Summary of the Report to the Arizona Board of Regents

Jennifer LeCrone; Gary Tucker; Elizabeth M. Willis; Penelope Wong; Paul Rowland

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2001 (2001) pp. 2459–2464

The significance of technology in today's society is self-evident. What is less clear is how to ensure that today's children, the workforce of the future, will have the technological literacy and skills to successfully function and support our...

Topics: Learning Objects, Schools

Charting Our Progress: The Evolution of a Master's Degree in Educational Technology

Elizabeth M. Willis

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1999 (1999) p. 111

An Interdisciplinary, Problem-Centered Methods Model for Preservice Elementary Teacher Education

Elizabeth Willis

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1998 (1998) pp. 66–70

After wrestling for some time with how best to tell the story of EDUC 453/454-553/554, Methods of Integrating Technology in the Elementary Social Studies/Language Arts Classroom, I have chosen to begin with the students’ personal narratives and...

Integrating Technology in Schools: Effects of Three Conditions of Inservice Teacher Education

Elizabeth M. Willis

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1996 (1996) pp. 455–458

This paper summarizes the finding of the study, Integration of Technology in Schools: The Differential Effects of Three Conditions of Inservice Teacher. The study compared three approaches to inservice teacher education in order to determine and...

What If We Teach Integration, Not “Computers”?

Elizabeth M. Willis

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1995 (1995) pp. 331–334

CIMTE 365, Microcomputers in the Classroom, is required of students seeking teacher certification for the College of Education at the University of New Mexico. It was designed to present computer technology in a problem-solving, interdisciplinary...