"Travesties."

Sharon Smaldino

TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning Vol. 44, No. 3 (2000)

"Technology Travesties" is a traditional biennial conference event with a humorous approach to keep everyone in tune with themselves. (JMK)

Classroom Strategies for Teaching Ethics

Sharon Smaldino

New Directions for Higher Education Vol. 142 (2008) pp. 87–101

The recently identified Illinois state standards associated with the newly designated technology specialist (TS) endorsement required graduate faculty to explore the issues associated with addressing those standards and ensuring curriculum alignment....

Instructional Design for Distance Education

Sharon Smaldino

TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning Vol. 43, No. 5 (1999) pp. 9–13

Discusses instructional design for distance education and suggests a systematic process. Topics include planning; learners; course content; teaching strategies; selection of media; learning environments; technology; resources; and evaluation,...

Creating Social Presence Through Online Discussion Forums

Ardelle Pate; Sharon Smaldino

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2009 (Mar 02, 2009) pp. 2636–2651

Working within the parameters of an online graduate course, this paper deals with the interactions within required academic discussion forums, optional academic discussions forums, and an optional non-academic social discussion forum. As research...

Key Instructional Design Elements for Distance Education

Lihua Zheng; Sharon Smaldino

Quarterly Review of Distance Education Vol. 4, No. 2 (2003) pp. 153–66

Suggests that distance education instructors need to understand and apply important instructional design elements in order to successfully fulfill their role as instructional designers. Reviews the most recent literature pertaining to designing...

Analysis of the Relative Instructional Efficiency of Microcomputer-Based Instructioon and Teacher-Directed Instruction for Hearing-Impaired and Normal-Hearing Youth

Sharon E. Smaldino

American Annals of the Deaf Vol. 128, No. 5 (1983) pp. 642–47

Analysis of relative instructional efficacy for 12 hearing impaired and 12 hearing adolescents revealed significantly fewer errors on problem solving tasks for hearing impaired Ss in the microcomputer condition than in the teacher-directed condition....

Instructional Design for Distance Education

Sharon Smaldino; Michael Simonson

Selected Research and Development Papers Presented at the National Convention of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology [AECT] 1999 (February 1999)

This paper discusses instructional design for distance education. The first section summarizes principles of instructional design systems, including the systematic process, considerations related to planning for instruction, and issues associated...

Teachers' Perceptions of the Application of Design Elements

Lihua Zheng; Sharon E. Smaldino

Quarterly Review of Distance Education Vol. 7, No. 1 (2006) pp. 35–47

This study explores distance instructors' perceptions and attitudes related to applying key elements of instructional design in preparing to teach at a distance. Although one role of a distance instructor is to design instruction, it is not known if ...

Distance Education in Iowa: A Research Plan

Michael R. Simonson; Sharon Smaldino

Selected Research and Development Presentations at the 1994 National Convention of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology Sponsored by the Research and Theory Division (1994)

The Iowa Communications Network (ICN), a statewide full-motion interactive fiber-optic network for distance education, is nearing completion. Few innovations have had the potential impact of the ICN. This paper describes distance education in Iowa,...

The Effectiveness of a CBI Program for Teaching Problem Solving Skills to Middle Level Students

Judith Langholz; Sharon E. Smaldino

This study focuses on the effectiveness of "Solutions Unlimited," a computer software program developed to teach problem solving to middle level students. Fifty-one fourth, fifth, and sixth graders (21 girls and 30 boys) attending a private school...

The Educational Media Experience in Teacher Education

Sharon E. Smaldino; Robert Muffoletto

TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning Vol. 42, No. 4 (1997) pp. 37–40

Examines a nonintrusive model for technology training in teacher education and describes the University of Northern Iowa's basic preservice technology training course: educational media and classroom computing. Discusses media production, distance...

Professional Development for In-Service and Pre-Service Teachers Using E-Learning Modules

Portia Downey; David Walker; Sharon Smaldino

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2009 (Mar 02, 2009) pp. 337–339

Abstract: Using a school-community college-university partnership between an urban public school district, a community college, and a state university, this partnership initiated a professional development school model in a high-need urban district...

Preservice Teacher Technology Competencies: A Model for Preparing Teachers of Tomorrow To Use Technology

Karla Krueger; Lisa Hansen; Sharon Smaldino

TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning Vol. 44, No. 3 (2000) pp. 47–50

Discusses the need for preservice teacher competencies in technology and describes the development of performance-based technology competencies at the University of Northern Iowa that were based on several national standards documents. Highlights...

Working with Partners: A Reflection on Partners and Projects

Bosede Aworuwa; Paige Worrell; Sharon E. Smaldino

TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning Vol. 50, No. 3 (May 2006) pp. 38–44

Initially, when discussing how to best approach the issue of examining the PT3 (Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology) projects in the context of professional development schools or K-12 collaboration, these authors first had to define...

AACTE Innovation and Technology Leadership Initiative to Develop TPACK Ready Teacher Candidates: A Practical Solution for Transforming Teacher Preparation Programs

Pamela Redmond; Mary Herring; Tommye Thomas; Sharon Smaldino; ADee Williams

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 3612–3616

At the 2012 National Technology Leadership Summit, the AACTE Innovation and Technology committee met with deans and school leaders to wrestle with the “wicked problem” of changing school culture and practices to ensure that teacher candidates are...

InTime Impact Report What was InTime's Effectiveness and Impact on Faculty and Preservice Teachers?

Karla Krueger; Marius Boboc; Sharon Smaldino; Yana Cornish; William Callahan

Journal of Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 12, No. 2 (2004) pp. 185–210

This article describes the outcomes of a project sponsored by the Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology (PT3) initiative from the U.S. Department of Education. The Integrating New Technologies Into the Methods of Education (InTime) project ...

Topics: Teachers, Assessment, Integration, Educational Technology, Preservice Teacher Education

Questioning the Necessity of Nonacademic Social Discussion Forums within Online Courses

Ardelle Pate; Sharon Smaldino; Hayley J. Mayall; Lara Luetkehans

Quarterly Review of Distance Education Vol. 10, No. 1 (2009) pp. 1–8

Within the online environment, social interactivity is a necessity to the formation of knowledge. Learning, in order to be truly effective, must embody a social element that nurtures an individual through the multi-intelligences of a group while it...

Leading Change and Innovation in Teacher Preparation: A Blueprint for Developing TPACK Ready Teacher Candidates

Tommye Thomas; Mary Herring; Pamela Redmond; Sharon Smaldino

TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning Vol. 57, No. 5 (September 2013) pp. 55–63

When preparing TPACK ready teacher candidates, faculty must incorporate and model TPACK within the teacher education curriculum, which often requires an ongoing change process. But for change to take place we must consider the role leadership plays...

INTIME Impact Report What was INTIME effectiveness and impact on faculty and preservice teachers?

Karla Krueger; Marius Boboc; Yana Cornish; Sharon Smaldino; William Callahan

Journal of Technology and Teacher Education

Abstract: This article describes the outcomes of a project sponsored by the Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology (PT3) initiative from the U.S. Department of Education set out to provide the necessary resources for methods faculty to...

InTime Impact Report. What was InTime's Effectiveness and Impact on Faculty and Preservice Teachers?

Karla Krueger; Marius Boboc; Sharon Smaldino; Yana Cornish; William Callahan

Journal of Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 12, No. 2 (2004) pp. 185–210

This article describes the outcomes of a project sponsored by the Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology (PT3) initiative from the U.S. Department of Education. The Integrating New Technologies Into the Methods of Education (InTime) project ...

Leadership Needs to Develop TPACK Ready Teacher Candidates

Mary Herring; Pamela Redmond; Tommye Thomas; Barbara Combs; Sharon Smaldino; ADee Williams

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 3599–3604

At the 2012 National Technology Leadership Summit, the AACTE Innovation and Technology committee met with deans and school leaders to wrestle with the “wicked problem” of changing school culture and practices to ensure that teacher candidates are...