STATE 94:  Washington D.C.

The fifth annual conference of the Society for Technology And
Teacher Education (STATE) was held in Washington, D.C. in
mid-March.  

This year's conference provided many opportunities to share
ideas and expertise about technology and teacher education Q
preservice, inservice, and graduate education in all areas.  It
included workshops, paper presentations, panel discussions,
demonstration/poster sessions, invited speakers, and a visit to
the National Demonstration Laboratory.  Keynote speakers
included:  Beverly Hunter of Bolt, Beranek, and Newman
(formerly NSF Program Director for Applications of Advanced
Technologies for Science Education); Edward Fitzsimmons,
Special Assistant for Education and Training, Executive Office
of the President; and Linda Roberts, Director of Technology and
Special Advisor on Technology, U.S. Department of Education.

Of particular interest to many of those who attended was a
panel discussion titled The IBM Teacher Preparation Grants
Program:  Past, Present, and Future which was led by Mike
Waggoner and Tom Switzer from the University of Northern Iowa,
and Anne Kellerman from the Effective Technologies Group.  True
to its title, the discussion centered around the development of
the grants program, what sort of success the program has had,
and how the schools can continue to provide exceptional
technology training for teachers.

At the conference this year the name of STATE was changed to
the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education
(SITE).  SITE (formerly STATE) is a coalition of teacher
educators who are interested in the creation and dissemination
of knowledge about the use of technology in teacher education.
This includes effective approaches to teaching preservice and
inservice educators about education and information
technology.  SITE promotes the development and dissemination of
theoretical knowledge, conceptual research, and professional
practice knowledge through conferences, monographs, projects,
and its Journal of Technology and Teacher Education.  SITE is
sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Computing
in Education (AACE).

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SITE '95 in San Antonio
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Next year's SITE conference will be held in San Antonio, Texas
on March 22-25, 1995.  

For more information on SITE, or on SITE '95 in San Antonio, contact:
Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education
P.O. Box 2966
Charlottesville, VA  22902
(804) 973-3947
Internet:  aace@virginia.edu

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