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The Presentation   |   Topics   |   Types of sessions   |   Proceedings   |   Paper Awards

The presentation:

Approximately 1000 educated, experienced colleagues from all over the world will attend this conference and any number of them could attend your session. Plan to communicate effectively during your presentation. Make use of the equipment provided to demonstrate and enhance your ideas as much as possible. Attendees may have already read your paper before attending your presentation; prepare to communicate elements of your work that are not easily conveyed in print. You may want to review the conference proceedings to gain a better understanding of your colleague's work, similar interests, or potential for exchange and discussion.

If the presentation prior to yours is canceled, please wait to begin your session at the appointed time so that all those who plan to attend your session can.

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Topics

Presentations are invited from participants with interest in educational areas such as:

• PT3 (Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology)
• Concepts and procedures
• Corporate
• Distance Education
• Educational Leadership
• Electronic Portfolios
• Faculty Development
• Fine Arts
• Graduate and inservice education
• Instructional Design
• International
• Mathematics
• New Media
• Partnerships across Organizations
• Preservice Teacher Education
• Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to use Technology
• Research
• Reaching, Language Arts and Literacy
• Science
• Simulations
• Simultaneous Renewal of Organizations
• Social Studies
• Special Needs
• Technology diffusion
• Theory
• Telecommunications: Graduate, Inservice & Faculty Use
• Telecommunications: Graduate, Preservice Applications
• Telecommunications: Graduate, Systems & Services
• Video Cases
• Young Child

The program includes a wide range of interesting and useful activities designed to facilitate the exchange of ideas and information. These include keynote and invited talks, paper presentations, tutorials/workshops, panels, interactive sessions, video festivals, institutional sessions, poster/demos, roundtables, corporate demos, and SIG Discussions. Proposals which address the theory, research and applications as well as describe innovative projects are encouraged.

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Types of sessions

Full Papers (25 minutes): Papers on all aspects of information technology and teacher education are invited. Accepted paper presentations will be published in the Information Technology and Teacher Education Annual.

Short Papers (15 minutes): Short papers are brief, more condensed presentations or work-in-progress projects and will be published as 2 pages in the Proceedings. There will be an award for Best Short Paper.

Tutorials & Workshops (half-day): Tutorials and Workshops are intended to enhance the skills and broaden the perspective of their attendees. They should be designed for learning a new area or to provide advanced training in an area. Note that few workshops are selected because a lab of equipment is required for each. If you submit a workshop proposal, please indicate if your proposal is also appropriate for presentation as a non-hands on tutorial.

Panels (1 hour): Panels will consist of at least four members presenting different aspects of a relevant issue and interacting with the audience to broaden the discussion.

Interactive Sessions (1 hour): This 1 hour will be shared time with 3 other interactive sessions in the same room. If you have mastered a new piece of software (or a new version) that others would be interested in learning about, submit a proposal for an interactive session. In that informal session you would demonstrate the software, illustrate the process of using it, show participants some of the complexities and tricks about it, and give them an opportunity to play with it themselves. These sessions are also appropriate for instructional strategies, procedures, and evaluation procedures such as portfolios. The idea is not to give a definitive workshop on the topic but to provide participants with enough information to help them decide whether their needs can be met with the program or procedure. Interactive Sessions can be supported by a paper published in the Proceedings.

Required: extended abstract (2-3 pages, 1250-1875 words) which includes a description of the software to be used by participants, the objectives of the session, and the intended audience (experience level and prerequisites).

Video Festival (1 hour): The field has matured to the point that we have a growing number of video resources - cases, classroom video clips, and many other forms. Proposals for video festival entrants will be given 1 hour in the conference program. Presenters should have a short handout on the video and take most of the time showing the video. A prize for "best teacher education video" will be awarded at the end of the conference.

Institutional Sessions (90 minutes): We invite teacher education programs and institutions to submit proposals for "Institutional Sessions". These 90-minute sessions will give you an opportunity to present innovative teacher education programs. Institutional sessions are informal presentations held in a poster/demo format with other institutional sessions. They should be more in the "show and tell" tradition with active participation by faculty and students. You may, however, submit a formal paper for institutional sessions that will be published in the Proceedings. Presenters will be required to provide their own software and hardware. Table, poster board, and electricity will be supplied.

Posters/Demonstrations (2 hours): These sessions enable presenters to demonstrate and discuss research, development and applications in progress to gain feedback and to establish contacts. Presenters will be required to provide their own software and hardware. Table, poster board, and electricity will be supplied.

Roundtables (30 minutes): These sessions allow maximum interaction in informal, small-group discussions on a single topic. The format is appropriate for papers, projects, or work-in-progress that encourage discussion.

Corporate Demonstration (2 hours): Demonstrate and discuss your company's products, services, developments, applications, and research, gain feedback, and establish contacts. Not included in the Proceedings. Format scheduled during Poster/Demonstrations, usually in one large hall.

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Proceedings

Accepted papers will be published by AACE in the SITE Conference Annual series. Books in this series serve as major source documents indicating the current state of teacher education and information technology. The Annuals also are distributed on ERIC microfiche and through the Society's Internet server. In addition, this edition will be published as a searchable electronic book on CD-ROM. First and second paper authors are limited to two papers published in the Annual.

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Paper Awards

All presented papers will be considered for Best Paper Awards within several categories. Award winning papers will be invited for publication in the Journal of Technology and Teacher Education and will be highlighted in the AACE online periodical Educational Technology Review.

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