Implementation of One-to-One Project
Read the summary of the research based one-to-one initiative I implemented in an Indiana public school. The summary includes identifying the need and goals, establishment of a Professional Learning Community, provision of professional development, and summative evaluation.
School Website Design
I believe that a school’s website establishes the preferred image to the community and is essential for stakeholder communications. Our previous website did not fulfill that goal. Therefore, I undertook the challenge of the total conversion of our existing school district website to a content management system (SchoolWires) that serves as teacher/student/parent portal. No import options were available from the previous site so the entire website had to be created from the ground up.
- Each school’s site was created and then the local webmasters were trained on updating/maintaining their new site.
- All school teachers and staff were supplied with usernames to view private web documents available only on our intranet.
- Every teacher was provided with a template page for their classroom site and were trained on how customize and maintain their site.
Principal Investigator and Key Presenter
Title of Paper: “Making Your Investment in Technology Pay Off: The Use of Research-based Online Assessments To Ensure the Effective Use of Technology in K-12 Education ” presented at the National School Board Convention Technology and Learning Conference, Atlanta GA. in November 2001.
The Online Classroom, Teaching with the Internet:
Eileen Giuffre Cotton. ERIC Clearing House on Reading, English, and Communication. 2805 East 10th Street, Suite 150, Bloomington, Indiana 47408-2698.
October 1996
Team Members: Eileen Giuffre Cotton, Kelly Murphy
The author was collaborating with staff in a department at Indiana University and needed a solution to continue writing while in a somewhat remote location. I supplied the technical assistance with the writing of this book by setting up the access to the Internet for the author who was located in a mountainside cabin in Wyoming. This connection involved the setting up, maintenance, and coordination of computer and phone systems in California, Wyoming and Indiana, from my location at Indiana University.
Principal Investigator and Key Presenter
Principal Investigator and Key Presenter of paper titled “The Effect of Music in Computer Assisted Instruction on Student Retention and Attitudes towards Instruction” presented at the National Convention of the Association of Educational Communications and Technology in New Orleans, Louisiana on January 13, 1993.
Co-Principal Investigator
Co-Principal Investigator on a study titled “Accessing Elaborations on Core Information in a Hypermedia Environment: Function Specific Icons vs. Hidden Menus”. Results presented at the National Convention of the Association of Educational Communications and Technology in Orlando, Florida on February 8, 1990.
Research Associate
Research Associate on a project funded by the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory. This project produced a hypermedia database on video disk titled “Strategic Teaching Frameworks” which facilitates user access of video, audio, and textual information relating to new teaching methods and strategies. The information included video classrooms, strategic elaborations, expert teacher commentary, expert researcher commentary, lesson plans, relevant supporting research, and assessment strategies.
Key Presenter
Key presenter of paper titled ” Hypermedia for Educational Change: Design of the Database”, presented at the national convention of the Association of Educational Communications and Technology in Washington D.C. on February 7, 1991
Key Presenter
Presented paper ” Hypermedia for Educational Change: Design of the Database” at the 1991 Hypermedia Conference at Ball State University, Thursday October 17, 1991.
Co-Developer and Presenter
Co-developed and presented a Hypermedia software program on February 9, 1990, at the Indiana University Colloquium and Showcase titled “Adapting Hypermedia to Education”. The software was developed by a five-person team of graduate students in cooperation with an I.U. professor to aid in his classroom instruction of Cognitive Psychology
