Search results for author:"Karen Swan"
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Teacher Technology Mentors
Karen Swan; Patricia Mazzer; Annette Kratcoski
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 379–384
This paper reports on a situative professional development project that utilizes classroom teachers as technology mentors to their building peers. Case study findings of participating teacher teams will be shared to demonstrate project effectiveness ...
Topics: Teachers, Educational Technology, Professional Development
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Professional Development Situated in a Ubiquitous Computing Classroom
Karen Swan; Pat Mazzer; Annette Kratcoski; Jason Schenker; Yi Mei Lin
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 2712–2719
This paper describes an ongoing situated professional development program in which teachers bring their intact classes for an extended stay in a ubiquitous computing environment equipped with a variety of state-of-the-art computing devices. The...
Topics: Teachers, Integration, Professional Development, Educational Technology
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Situated Professional Development: The CATIE Model
Karen Swan; Sybillyn Jennings Jennings; Lester Rubenfeld
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2002 (2002) pp. 1915–1920
This presentation will describe a qualitative study investigating the CATIE model of situated professional development for technology integration in schools. We call the CATIE model "situated" because it places educational technology experts in...
Topics: Teachers, Educational Technology, Elementary Education, Teaching Methods, Professional Development
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Online Learning Forum: An RPInteractive Professional Development Model
Linda Polhemus; Karen Swan; Michael Danchak; Lester Rubenfeld
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2002 (2002) pp. 2035–2038
This paper will describe the Online Learning Forum (OLF), a k-12 professional development program. This RPInteractive professional development model provides teachers with the opportunity to learn new technologies, work collaboratively, communicate...
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Technology Integration and Professional Development: A Mentoring Model
Karen Swan; Aliya Holmes; Juan Vargas; Sybillyn Jennings
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2000 (2000) pp. 1107–1111
This paper describes the development and exploration of a model for professional development concerned with the integration of computing technologies into classroom teaching and learning. Grounded in situative theories of knowledge and learning, the ...
Topics: Teachers, Professional Development
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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