This book of technology activities for teachers was developed by teachers enrolled in EDUC 521 - Teaching with Technology: Staff Development. This course is part of a new specialization in Learning Technologies within the masters program in Curriculum and Instruction at New Mexico State University.
As the instructor, my intention was to provide real tasks for students related to staff development with technology. The students have worked for several months on each of the articles in this book and worked closely with their peers and the section editors. They also prepared presentations for the Regional Education Assistance Technology (RETA) workshop on Saturday, April 13. Doing a class this way was certainly harder than just telling the students what they should know. However, if we want teachers to engage students in constructivist learning, we, as faculty in teacher education, need to model a different kind of graduate education. Last week as we spent many hours rewriting, converting files successfully and unsuccessfully from Mac to Dos to Windows and back, losing files, and finding mistakes, we wondered why we had taken on such a task. In retrospect, now that the draft of our book is done and the conference completed, I, at least, think our efforts have been well spent.
Of all the people who worked on this book the most thanks must go to David Matarazzo who spent the last week putting all the files and pictures together into PageMaker. In addition to the students in the class who are listed below, I also wish to acknowledge Nolan Gray, coordinator of the Learning Resource Center at New Mexico State University for setting up a graduate and faculty assistance center and letting us monopolize it for several weeks. We also want to thank the US WEST foundation for supporting several of the teachers who worked with us on this project and contributed to this book. Finally, we wish to thanks Kurt Steinhaus, Carmen Gonzales, The New Mexico Council on Technology in Education, the State Department of Education and Los Alamos National Laboratory for supporting us in the publication and distribution of these materials.
The students in the class who contributed to this book and to the class are, in alphabetical order:
| Ali Ahmad Joe Angelo Kim Barany Cathy Chavez Sarah Finke Leticia Guevara Marty Hill |
Salvador Leon John MacCannell David Matarazzo Pat Mathews Dee Mc Laughlin Estela Monsivais Juan Orrantia |
Julia Parra Kim Petersen Marjorie Sharp Susan Smith Javier Suffle Martha Trost Jorge Valenzuela |
Please try the activities that interest you, read the articles, and send us comments so that we can improve our publication. Comments can be sent to me at kwiburg@nmsu.edu or to the class at teachers@nmsu.edu.
Karin Wiburg, Ed.D.
Coordinator, Learning Technologies
New Mexico State University
April 10, 1996
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