LTC to Provide SITE Conference Tour March 1, 2012

LTC Director Paul Resta is the SITE 2012 Program Chair.

The Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE) will hold its annual conference the week of March 4-9 here in Austin, and the Learning Technology Center will play a major part in conference activities. Several LTC staff will participate in roundtable discussions and poster presentations that highlight many of the LTC’s projects and initiatives in instructional technology as they relate to teacher education.

LTC Director Paul Resta is the conference’s Program Chair. On Tuesday, March 6, he will be part of a panel of speakers discussing the building of a global community of policy-makers, researchers, and teachers to move education systems into the digital age as part of a report on the 2011 EDUsummit held in Paris last summer.

Also on Tuesday, the LTC will host a group of SITE attendees. The group will tour the LTC and see presentations on the Presidential Timeline, Laptop Initiative for Future Educators (LIFE), the Google Apps and iPad pilots, and the COE Education Visualization Laboratory. They will also visit the Texas Advanced Computing Center Visualization Center.

SITE attendees will visit the COE Education Visualization Laboratory in the LTC.

Ken Tothero, Coordinator for LTC External and Special Projects, and Ryan Crowley, Graduate Research Assistant (GRA), will present a poster session on the new Create Your Own Timeline feature of the Presidential Timeline Web site.

Karen French, IDEA Studio Coordinator, and Michelle Read, IDEA Studio GRA, will take part in a roundtable discussion on using tablet computers in teacher education and the experience of the College of Education iPad Working Group. Michelle and Royce Kimmons, another IDEA Studio GRA, will present a roundtable on the use of iPads as mobile interactive whiteboards.

Chad Fulton, Coordinator for the LIFE program, will participate, along with Karen French and Carl Hooker of Eanes ISD, in a panel discussion on the implications of cloud computing and Google Apps in teacher education. And Min Ok, Assistive and Instructional Technology Lab Manager, with Joan Hughes, Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, will present a poster session on 1:1 laptop initiatives for preservice special educators.

SITE is an international association of teacher educators who create and disseminate knowledge about the use of information technology in teacher education and faculty professional development. Their 2013 conference will be held in New Orleans.

—Laurie Caldwell, LTC Communications Coordinator

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Last updated on March 1, 2012