The Teacher Education Internet Server: an evolving resource for educators

ABSTRACT

The Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE) is an international organization of teacher educators from all disciplines who are interested in the creation and dissemination of knowledge about the use of information technology in teacher education. The Teacher Education Internet Server (TEIS) has been established by SITE to support professional interchange and academic discourse and will serve as a complement to traditional ways of sharing academic information such as professional journals and conferences. With the evolution and spread of Internet information servers, it is envisioned that TEIS may make worthwhile contributions to use of technology in teacher education. As telecommunications technologies evolve, from FTP to Gopher to the World Wide Web, a major challenge for TEIS remains: to develop guidelines for collaboration at a distance that allow educators from around the world to work together to identify, acquire, and organize information and related materials. The notion of volunteer ‘curators’ for different academic areas is being explored as one possible method for support of such collaboration. It is hoped that the Teacher Education Internet Server will become a useful resource for those integrating technology into teacher education, allowing educators throughout the world to share their work and ideas with their colleagues.     

Directors

Donald C. Willis' The Films of Frank Capra (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1974---$7.50)

Mervyn LeRoy (as told to Dick Kleiner) Mervyn LeRoy: Take One (New York: Hawthorn, 1974---$10.00)

Willi Frischauer's Behind the Scenes of Otto Preminger: An Unauthorized Biography (New York: Morrow, 1974---$7.95)

Raymond Durgnat's The Strange Case of Alfred Hitchcock. or the Plain Man's Hitchock (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1974---$15.00)

Stig Bjorkman, Torsten banns, and Jonas Sima's Bergman on Bergman" Interviews with Ingmar Bergman (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974---$9.95)

Jean Renoir's My Life and My Films (New York: Atheneum, 1974---$10.00)

Alfred Appel's Nabokov's Dark Cinema (New York: Oxford University Press, 1974)     

Library Services for Persons with Disabilities: Twentieth Anniversary Update

The Sauls Memorial Virtual Library closed its physical space in 2012. This article outlines the reasons for this change and how the library staff and hospital leadership planned and executed the enormous undertaking. Outcomes of the change and lessons learned from the process are discussed.     

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Intermanual transfer of shapes in preterm human infants from 33 to 34 + 6 weeks postconceptional age

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In defence of a pedagogy of the heart: theory and practice in the use of imaginal knowledge

This article outlines one of the theoretical approaches to pedagogy of the heart, drawing specifically on the work of Hillman and his concept of imaginal knowledge. Imaginal knowledge, as opposed to evidence-based and critical pedagogy, illuminates the imagination and moves the heart towards humanistic action. In this paper, we argue that this is an area neglected in the education of professionals. The paper provides a number of methodological strategies for integrating education of the heart with critical and evidence-based knowledge. These strategies deal with how to evoke the imagination and move the heart and then progress to issues of classroom communication and the management of emotions. The context is the teaching of supporting sciences to health professionals in the university sector.     

Contextually Based Professional Development

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