Purpose

In this website I will share resources that I have found about integrating technology into our teaching. I maintain this site chiefly for my students to have links to these resources when they no longer have access to our course management system.

Learning to integrate technology into teaching for me has been a journey from the paradigm of teaching as telling to a paradigm of teaching as guiding. I, like many others before me, have come to see the teacher’s role as one of building a learning environment. In our world where technology is changing at the speed of light, teachers are no longer the givers of information, for students have ready access to an amazing amount of information. Instead teachers must become the voice that helps students evaluate the information they view and teach them the skills they need to become lifelong learners. In the words of Marc Prensky, “we are all teachers; we are all learners.” On this website I hope to share some of the resources that I have found that I believe will help pre-service and current teachers as they make this journey.

Overview of Site

This site is organized into 5 sections:

• Resources FOR Teaching - resources for all teachers including Web 2.0 tools, social studies content for K-12 students, and content for other K-12 areas.
• Resources ABOUT Teaching - resources about professional development, technology in higher education, and teaching strategies.
• Standards - links to both state and national standards for K-12 students and preservice and current teachers. 
• Organizations - links to professional organizations related to education as well as government agencies and local schools.
• Technology in Our World – resources about the impact of technology in society and in our schools
  

Author

I am an associate professor in the School of Teacher Education at Carson-Newman College. I teach educational technology, social studies methods, and general secondary methods.

As a part of the courses that I teach my students create wikis that also have some good resources. You can find a link to all my recent class wikis at this link: http://milliganteacheredwikis.wikispaces.com/ The links to the social studies methods classes have the most resources.

I am also using weebly, the tool that I used to create this site, with students in my secondary curriculum and materials course. The link to this site is: http://educ450.weebly.com/

Other links that I have found useful can be found in Diigo Library: http://www.diigo.com/user/littlemilligan


Last updated 7/22/11

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