Connect-ME: A Case Study on Individual and Small Group Change in a Local, On-Line Professional Learning Community for Elementary Mathematics Educatorsin a Local, On-Line Professional Learning Community for Elementary Mathematics Educators

Lynda Colgan

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2003 (2003) pp. 3453–3456

The purpose of this research is to understand the role of local on-line communities in motivating professional learning centred on research-based resources. A secondary purpose is to understand how a supportive professional community can translate...

Topics: Community

Supporting novice elementary mathematics teachers’ induction in professional communities and providing innovative forms of pedagogical content knowledge development through information and communication technology

Nancy Dalgarno; Lynda Colgan

Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies Vol. 23, No. 7 (October 2007) pp. 1051–1065

This paper reports on the needs identified as important to 27 novice elementary mathematics teachers and examines how Connect-ME, an online mathematics community, provides these supports. Qualitative data were collected using two focus groups and 16 ...

Connect-ME: Building and Sustaining A Local, On-Line Professional Learning Community for Elementary Mathematics Educators

Lynda Colgan; Nathalie Sinclair; William Higginson

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2000 (2000) pp. 2290–2295

This paper discusses a World Wide Web site (Connect-ME: http://hydra.educ.queensu.ca/CM/) that is being piloted for preservice and beginning elementary mathematics teachers. It describes the year-long development of the electronic learning...

Topics: Teachers, Mathematics