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We are the Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education, and it is our mission to promote research, scholarship, collaboration, exchange and support.

SITE Conference 2011

The 22nd Annual SITE International Conference will be held March 7 - 11 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

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Now Available! Research Highlights in Technology and Teacher Education 2009

This book includes 40 selected papers submitted by members of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE). A total of 123 papers were submitted for consideration of publication in this rigorously peer refereed volume that will be published annually by SITE. The book is available in both digital & hard copy formats at the EdITLib DIgital Library >>

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Song of September , Education Discussions, Far From the Truth
Pundits and Presidents and ordinary people who "think' they know teaching need to hear from all sides. Teachers and professors and those involved in education need to speak up and out!! What are your thoughts in education? it is back to school time. Don't be so tired because of work that you can't tell your truth. There are some interesting discussions going on in education. EFFECTIVE TEACHERS? What is an effective teacher? Some of the discussions involve using tests to determine who is an effective teacher. The Los Angeles Times has a whole discussion on effective teacher being evaluated by test scores. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/teachers-investigation/ Read it and weigh in. Some teachers are so upset about it they want to boycott the paper. It Continue reading

SITE Research Highlights Book Available
We are pleased to announce the release of the book Research Highlights in Technology and Teacher Education 2010, published by SITE - Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education, http://site.aace.org. This book of strongly refereed papers, selected from those submitted for the 2010 annual conference, follows in the tradition of its 2009 predecessor. The 2009 edition has already risen to the status of "Most Viewed" among the 26,000 entries in the EdITLib - Education & Information Technology Digital Library, http://EdITLib.org. We are confident the 2010 edition will be viewed by our readers in a similar fashion. This volume represents hundreds of hours of scholarly work by Editors Cleb Maddux, David Gibson, and Bernie Dodge; as well as by the authors, reviewers, copy editors and layout staff Continue reading

Teachers Learning with Ease / Great PD for teachers
Tuesday, August 10, 2010 Following Professional Development Initiatives for Educators This is my 4th ( fourth ) learning initiative this summer.I do this much in the way I was an activist in civil rights. I believe that we teachers are empowered with proper professional development and support and able to reach a large audience of the educational community. Beginning Steps SCALABLE GAME DESIGN I took a course at the Atlas Institute at Colorado University with Dr. Alexander Repenning on Scalable Game Design. That was a very intensive immersion into gaming. http://scalablegamedesign.cs.colorado.edu/wiki/Teacher_program We started with frogger. http://www.freeonlinegames.com/adventure-games/frogger.html.Ok, that is a video, but I really , really made the game. We had the best teachers. Many squashed frogs later, I had created a whole game Continue reading

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SITE members learn about, and contribute to, the latest developments, techniques, and concepts in teacher education and instructional technology. Benefits of SITE membership include:

Collaboration with peers and other organizations
Leadership and mentoring opportunities
Subscriptions to JTATE and AACE Journals
Discounts on Conference registration
Discounts on resources like the Digital Library
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SITE Awards

Each year SITE recognizes outstanding accomplishments in service, teaching and research.
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SITE 2009 - Outstanding Paper Awards

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