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“I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.” Albert Einstein.

What is Instructional Technology?

Through the years several scholars have given different definitions to the term Instructional Technology. One of the definitions has been adopted by Association for Educational Communication and Technology (AECT) as “the theory and practice of design, development, utilization, management and evaluation of process and resources for learning” (Seels & Richey, 1994, p. 129). More...

Professional Development

Professional development "refers to skills and knowledge attained for both personal development and career advancement. Professional development encompasses all types of facilitated learning opportunities, ranging from college degrees to formal coursework, conferences and informal learning opportunities situated in practice. It has been described as intensive and collaborative, ideally incorporating an evaluative stage. There are a variety of approaches to professional development, including consultation, coaching, communities of practice, lesson study, mentoring, reflective supervision and technical assistance". More...

Professional Standards

Professional Standards are an integral part of my job duties as Web Specialist for The Academy for Teacher Excellence, a grant funded program by the Department of Education. I am constantly updating my skills in the use of new technologies since I have to train all our educational specialists, university's faculty, and I'm invited frequently to impart short seminars about technology's topics to graduate students. More...

Professional Goals

My immediate professional goal is to complete the Instructional Technology program and successfully earn the Master of Education. After graduation I'm planning to continue in the Doctoral Program and work in my topic of research which is Technology as Culture. I think the impact of technology goes beyond the daily use of gadgets and a new breed of a global citizen interconnected by virtual networks is becoming accustom to share identical behaviors and believes, determinant factors that are implicit in the definition of culture. More...