Leslie's+References+(so+far)

Leslie's List The Topic: **Enhancing and Guiding Pre-Service Teacher Work Samples using Web 2.0

The problems:** I am teaching an online seminar for student teachers completing their student teaching practicum in Hilo. Although I am working in collaboration with their mentor teachers and university coordinators, I am not actually witnessing the student teachers implement their Teacher Work Sample.

The Teacher Work Sample is an exit requirement from this course and from the program. This is a carefully developed action research plan designed to assess the effectiveness of their teaching based on data collected about their students' learning. How can I use technology as a platform for meaningful collaboration? A few of the student teachers are self-described computer neophytes. I am familiar with and will use WebCt as an instructional platform, but how can Web 2.0 help me to guide their research in a meaningful way? Can cell phone videos be used as both an instructional and reflective tool for pre-service teachers?

For this project I will be using cell phone video technology, my elluminate office, and google docs as additional collaborative tools. Given the immediacy of the task and timeframe, those technologies are both familiar, and unfamiliar enough to not create an additional learning curve to what is a critical step for both the student teacher and myself in using these tools successfully.
 * The tools:**

Because the student teachers are at varying levels of computer literacy, and on another island, instructional methods using Web 2.0 to collaborate is necessary. I will need to provide training for using the tools appropriately in addition to guiding the pre-service teachers' research (while simultaneously learning the tools myself). It would seem that a case study approach would be best to assess pre-post literacy and comfort levels of the proposed tools.
 * The research approach:**

Angeli, C., Valanides, N., & Bonk, C. (2003). Communication in a webâ“based conferencing system: the quality of computerâ“mediated interactions. //British Journal of Educational Technology//, //34//(1), 31-43. Retrieved from http://micro189.lib3.hawaii.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=9079541&site=ehost-live

Cell Phones Tip: E-mail your pictures - Cell Phones Tips, Tricks, and How-tos at CNET. Retrieved September 17, 2007, from http://help.cnet.com/Cell_Phones/9602-12576_39-0.html?messageID=2504830&kw=Cell+Phones&nodeId=6454

Google Docs Tour. Retrieved September 17, 2007, from http://www.google.com/google-d-s/intl/en/tour1.html

Google For Educators. Retrieved September 16, 2007, from http://www.google.com/educators/index.html

GSTEP at UGA News. Retrieved September 15, 2007, from http://www.coe.uga.edu/gstep/newsletter/oct03/vsu_tech.html Nunes, M., & McPherson, M. (2003). Action research in continuing professional distance education. //Journal of Computer Assisted Learning//, //19//(4), 429. Retrieved from http://micro189.lib3.hawaii.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=11679900&site=ehost-live

Rhoads, J., (2006, Jan.) Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Online  Retrieved 2006-10-05 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p36332_index.html (2006, Jan). Transfer of Learning From Course Instruction Through Implementation of the Teacher Work Sample. Is Online Course Instruction as Effective as Traditional Instruction? //American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education//.

Sautter, A. (2006). Making Connections with Technology: Preservice Teachers' Initial Teacher Work Sample (E. Pearson & P. Bohman, Eds.). //World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2006//, 1613-1616. Transfer of Learning From Course Instruction Through Implementation of the Teacher Work Sample. Is Online Course Instruction as Effective as Traditional Instruction? Retrieved September 16, 2007, from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p36332_index.html

YouTube - Google Docs in Plain English. Retrieved September 16, 2007, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRqUE6IHTEA

YouTube – Using Google Docs, Retrieved September 15, 2007, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NPNZUeGcVw