| TCO Checklist: Connectivity |  |
| The portion of the COSN's Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) checklist that pertains to connectivity |  |
| Taking It To The Bank | |
| A Wichita elementary school uses technology to create a bank of teaching videos for evaluating educational best practices. | |
| Taking Wireless To The Max | |
| Interview with James Davis, who is building one of the nation's first WiMax networks in a Milwaukee Public School | |
| Tapping Into The Power Of Longitudinal Data (PDF) | |
| Presentation that addresses the need for longitudinal data in schools and what principals should do about it. | |
| Teacher Dispositions As Predictors Of Classroom Technology Use (PDF) | |
| A research study showing the effects of teacher attributes and attitudes on technology use in the classroom | |
| Teacher Supervision and Development: An Instructional Module for Edutopia | |
| This module will help school leaders organize their thoughts, experiences, and resources to answer these questions for their own schools. Included are materials to assist school leaders in their own efforts to establish and sustain an environment that supports teacher development and the professional growth of teachers. In today's context, many school leaders find that their faculty includes a large number of beginning teachers and those who have come to teaching from alternative routes. These groups of teachers make the role of the principal as instructional leader especially important. Experienced teachers must also keep abreast of new policies, curriculum, brain-based research, technology, etc. | |
| Teacher Tube | |
| This is YouTube for education--a user provided collection of videos that have been created by educators for educators. And like YouTube, the more famous site, the teachertube community votes on the best videos. The current collection contains a wide collection of videos, some are directed at teachers for professional development, others are designed for instructional use in the classroom, some are public service announcement and other appear to be the result of student projects. Teachers make their own lessons available for other teachers and students | |
| Teacher's Guide To International Collaboration On The Internet | |
| The Teacher's Guide to International Collaboration was developed to help teachers use the Internet to "reach out" globally. These materials were prepared as part of the Department of Education's International Education Initiative. It provides helpful information for how to create quailty projects in cross-cultural settings. | |
| Teachers Tap Video-Sharing In The Classroom | |
| Video in the classroom has evolved since the days when teachers wheeled in film projectors on carts. More teachers are using online video-sharing sites modeled after Google Inc.'s YouTube to engage with students. And video is no longer a one-way channel of communication; students are participating in the creation of videos, too. | |
| Teaching With Student Response Systems In Elementary And Secondary Education Settings: A Survey Study (PDF) | |
| This study examined how 498 elementary and secondary educators use student response systems in their instruction. The teachers all completed an online questionnaire designed to learn about their goals for using response systems, the instructional strategies they employ when using the system, and the perceived effects of response systems. Participants in the study tended to use similar instructional strategies when using the technology as have been reported in higher education. These include posing questions to check for student understanding and diagnose student difficulties, sharing a display of student responses for all to see, asking students to discuss or rethink answers, and using feedback from responses to adjust instruction. A latent class analysis of the data yielded four profiles of teacher use based on frequency of use and breadth of instructional strategies employed. Teachers who used the technology most frequently and who employed broadest array of strategies were more likely to have received professional development in instructional strategies and to perceive the technology as more effective with students. | |
| Teaching With Student Response Systems In Elementary And Secondary Education Settings: A Survey Study (PDF) | |
| This study examined how 498 elementary and secondary educators use student response systems in their instruction. The teachers all completed an online questionnaire designed to learn about their goals for using response systems, the instructional strategies they employ when using the system, and the perceived effects of response systems. | |