Publications

 

Adult Literacy, Technology and Public Policy: An Analysis of the Southeastern United States Region

A report, based on interviews with state directors of adult literacy, identifies the ways in which states and islands in the southeast and islands are planning for, funding, and using technology in various adult learning contexts.

Curriculum Snapshots

This publication captures real teachers at various grade levels and within different subject areas using technology in practical and innovative ways in classroom instruction. Accessible for online viewing in Adobe® PDF.

Data Stories - When, What, and How: The Relationship of Evaluation, Program Design, and Outcomes

In this issue of Data Stories read about three lessons learned about planning, evaluating, and implementing professional development during the first two years of ExplorNet's Centers for Quality Teaching and Learning project . Accessible for online viewing in Adobe® PDF.

Data Stories - Evaluating a Technology Project

Data Stories is a new series of stories with data on using technology for teaching and learning. In this issue read how one North Carolina school district evaluated a reading project and the lessons learned in setting up the data collection methods. Accessible for online viewing in Adobe® PDF.

Digital Media Poster - Analog to Digital

This 11 X 17 poster identifies the equipment and process for transferring analog video to digital format. Accessible for download in Adobe® PDF.

Digital Media Poster - Photography

This 17 X 33 poster leads students through the steps of capturing, formatting, manipulating, and saving digital images. Accessible for download in Adobe® PDF.

Digital Media Poster - Digital Video

This 11 X 17 poster provides instructions for planning and preparing for filming to capturing footage, editing and viewing finished digital products. Accessible for download in Adobe® PDF.

Educational Software Use: The 2000 Report

As follow-up to the 1999 Survey, a second survey was conducted with a focus on why teachers do not use software.  Accessible for online viewing in Adobe® PDF.

Electronic Accessibility Bookmark

Download a copy of this bookmark listing links to web sites providing information on current research, services, products tools, and resources designed to assist educators in meeting the learning needs of individuals with disabilities.  Available in Word or Adobe® PDF.

Insertando la TecnologÍa en el Salón de Clases:
Una GuÍa Para Educadores 

This guide for administrators of rural school districts provides information on developing and implementing an effective educational technology plan.  This Spanish translation is available in a downloadable print form Adobe® PDF. 

Learning Online:
Extending the Meaning of Community 

This publication describes the general features of online learning communities in the adult education context and highlights three differing organizations: SeniorNet, Neighborhood Networks, and Bridging the Gap of Isolation/Powering Up.

 

Lessons Learned: Factors Influencing the Effective Use of Technology for Teaching and Learning 

In this second edition, SEIR*TEC staff shed some light on the factors that influence technology adoption by sharing some of the lessons learned and observations made while providing technical assistance and professional development to resource-poor schools across the region from 1995 to 2000.   Additionally, accompanying each lesson are suggested steps that educators might take in order to mover their technology programs forward and a story from one of the SEIR*TEC intensive site schools. 

Online Staff Development:  Lessons Learned

This publication from SEIR*TEC partner ITRC at the University of Central Florida is designed to provide practical tips for anyone involved in online staff development, as developers, facilitators, or participants. These "lessons" have been gleaned from a thorough review of the literature and a survey sent to over 200 developers, facilitators/instructors, and participants who reviewed, validated, and critiqued the lessons. 

Planning into Practice:
Resources for Planning, Implementing, and Integrating Instructional Technology

Now available in downloadable print form Adobe® PDF downloadable file.  Based on previous work with SEIR*TEC intensive sites this document provides a variety of tools, examples, and stories useful in helping districts and schools create strategic educational technology plans.

Review of the Professional Literature on the Integration of Technology into Educational Programs

SERVE has been studying promising practices for integrating technology into schools and classrooms across the Southeast. This narrative provides the highlights of the review related to the state of technology availability in American schools, barriers to technology integration, characteristics of successful programs, and factors that affect teachers’ use of technology.

School Technology Needs Assessment (STNA)

This instrument collects data describing what respondents think about a variety of broad areas of technology implementation in their school. Analysis of data provides a picture of the school as a whole, rather than of individual staff members, presented as frequencies and percentages of responses to all items, and bar graph representations of those values. The STNA (say, "Stenna") is free and is intended for use in K-12 education settings.

SEIR*TEC Technology Integration Progress Gauge 

The SEIR*TEC Progress Gauge was originally developed as a reflection tool to be used over time to determine changes in the various domains. The content has been reformatted as forty discrete statements rather than groupings of similar statements and is available in a downloadable print form.

Stories with Data and Data with Stories

Many school districts are facing loud calls for proof of results from the investments and efforts in technology. Educators are searching for tools and instruments to measure and document the impact of technology, particularly microcomputers, on teaching and learning. This reprint from the April 1999 issue of T.H.E. Journal presents several approaches and tools for documenting technology impact.

Success in Online Professional Development: Tips for Learners

Just getting started with online learning? Check this handy guide for seven quick tips to get you started in the right direction.

Survey of Profiling Instruments

This chart compares the areas addressed by the SEIR*TEC Technology Integration Progress Gauge to those addressed by the Milken Seven Dimensions, the CEO Forum STAR Chart, the NCRTEC Profiling tool, the NSSE indicators, the National School Board Association's ITTE toolkit, and several others. All of these tools are useful in tracking technology implementation.

Statewide Educational Networking Trends and Issues Highlighted

A policy paper defining the trends in statewide wide area networking (WAN) including funding, management, organization, and technologies used. Intended audience: State policy makers.

 

Technology Project Evaluation Instrument

An evaluation instrument for reflecting and tracking progress in implementing a technology product. Developed in collaboration with North Carolina’s Department of Public Instruction as part of the Technology Literacy Challenge Grant program.

Technology Standards for Teachers

An 8-page policy brief describing the development of statewide technology competencies for teachers in sixteen southeastern states. Includes a brief description of ISTE standards, a chart of licensing requirements and technology standards in the selected states, and two state reports (Georgia’s InTech professional development program and North Carolina’s licensing requirements).

Using Technology to Support School-Family-Community Partnership Survey

This survey is designed to help schools determine parent and staff perceptions regarding the use of technology to support school-family-community partnerships. It is specifically intended to provide information to help school-level planners - administrators, technology and media specialists, and school or technology planning team members - make decisions about the use of technology to support the school's family and community involvement efforts.

Writing Winning Technology Grant Proposals

Key elements of a training notebook originally designed to help educators write successful Technology Literacy Challenge Grant Proposals. Provides examples of good proposals, important proposal components, review criteria, and helpful hints. Developed collaboratively between SEIR*TEC and the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction.

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This page last updated 5/25/07