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 * (**2007). Teacher Work Sample Handbook, University of Hawaii, Institute for Teacher Education, Secondary Education Program.

Abbitt, J. T. and M. D. Klett (2007). "Identifying influences on attitudes and self-efficacy beliefs towards technology integration among pre-service educators." Electronic Journal for the Integration of Technology in Education 6(1): 28-42.

Copobianco, B. (2006). "Integrating Technology to Foster Inquiry in an Elementary Science Methods Course; An Action Research Study of One Teacher Educator." The Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching 25(2): 123-146.

Devlin-Scherer, R., J. Daly, et al. (2007). "The Value of Teacher Work Sample for Improving Instruction and Program." Action in teacher education 29(1): 51-60.

Google (2005). Google Docs in Plain English. This website provides basic instructions on how you can create, share, store, and publish documents on Google Docs. This provided some basic training for the pre-service teachers and myself on how to use this tool effectively. What is especially helpful are the step by step screenshots of the process. The presentation is also narrated by an instructor in a teacher preparation program so there is an added relevance to this presentation.

Google (2007). Create documents, spreadsheets and presentations online, Google.

Google (2007). Google for Educators. This site contains access to multiple technological tools for the classroom, in addition to teacher’s guides to using those tools. I especially found the Infinite Thinking Machine Blog helpful as had “Tips for New Classroom 2.0 Teachers” among its articles. There is also a Google Teacher Center that lists current wiki’s and other tools useful in the classroom. This website helped me to connect some additional practical applications for using 2.0 in the field and I was able to share these resporces with the pre-service teachers in their technology toolkits.

GSTEP at UGA News. Retrieved September 15, 2007, from http://www.coe.uga.edu/gstep/newsletter/oct03/vsu_tech.html This is an article from the Georgia Systemic Teacher Education Program that describes the online format for the Teacher Work Sample (TWS) they have developed. Candidates can enter text, documents, scan pictures, and stream videos to document their abilities. Faculty, Field supervisors, and Mentor Teachers who supervise candidates in field settings have access to their teacher candidates’ TWS and can provide formative feedback to them on work underway. This is an excellent model of what I would like to develop at UH-Manoa for the statewide cohort in the secondary program. There is currenly no collaborative platform or community for pre-service teachers state-wide to share and discuss their action research projects. This is a critical step in the synchronous seminars that take place during student teaching. It appears that the Georgia teacher created an online community to address this need.

Hansen, J. M. and N. Nalder-Godfrey (2004). "The power of action research, technology, and teacher education." Computers in the Schools 21(1-2): 43-57.

Maddux, C. D. (2003). "Fads, Distance Education, and the Importance of Theory." Computers in the Schools 20(3): 121-127.

Moore, J. F. (2006) "Cell Phones Tip: E-mail your pictures - Cell Phones Tips, Tricks, and How-to’s at CNET." Volume, DOI: This site provides basic step by step instructions and a short video that explains how to email digital images from your cell phone. I included this in the Teacher Work Sample toolkit so that pre-service teachers could send visual images from each step of their action research projects directly from the classroom, and include them as visual images of each step. Not all of the teacher candidates knew how to do this, and one did not have that service on her cellphone.

O'Leary, P. F. and J. Quinlan, Thomas J. (2007). "Learner Instructor Telephone Interaction; Effects on Satisfaction and Achievement of Online Students." The American Journal of Distance Education 21(3): 133-143.

Phelps, R., S. Hase, et al. (2005). "Competency, capability, complexity and computers: exploring a new model for conceptualising end-user computer education." British Journal of Educational Technology 36(1): 67-84.

Simpson, M. (2006). "Field Experience in distance delivered initial education programmes." Journal of Technology and Teacher Education. This article provides global examples and practical solutions teacher preparation programs use to overcome the challenges and obstacles unique to distance education and fieldwork. Base schools and blocks of residential time are established, networked learning communities that connect pre-service teachers, mentors, and instructors, and interactive television models with mentor teachers were some of the solutions used in Australia, the United States, and England.

Voithofer, R. J. (April, 2007). Web 2.0: What is it and ho can it apply to teaching and teacher preparation? American Educational Research Conference (AERA). Chicago Illinois. This paper clearly outlines the technologies, applications, and concepts of Web 2.0. There is a really helpful listing of websites associated with social software, social bookmarking, collaborative writing, writing, searching, and navigating the blogsphere, and organizing micro content.

Wentworth, N., G. L. Waddoups, et al. (2004). "Technology Integration into a Teacher Education Program." Computers In the Schools 21(1/2): 1-14.