Abstract
 Evaluating the Ocean Explorers' Project: First Year Results Track: Teacher Education and Educational Research Author(s): Steven Moore, Don Haviland, Kimberly Dailey This paper will present evaluation findings of the Ocean Explorers' project, a three year effort funded by the Information Technologies for Students and Teachers program of the National Science Foundation. The goal of the project is to introduce information technologies to middle and high school teachers in California. The paper will review characteristics of the teachers who are participating in the project and evaluation results from the geographic information system (GIS) workshops conducted during the project's first year of operation. In particular, the paper will discuss participating teachers' expertise and comfort level with GIS at the beginning of the project, strategies the project has used to increase their knowledge and comfort levels, and lessons learned from implementing the strategies. Another focus of the paper will be the barriers teachers experience in implementing GIS as an instructional technology and how the project is attempting to help teachers overcome those barriers. Steven Moore Center for Image Processing in Education PO Box 13750 Tucson , AZ 85732 US Phone: 520-322-0118 Fax: 520-327-0175 E-mail: stevem@evisual.org Don Haviland Mount St. Mary's College 12001 Chalon Rd. Los Angeles , CA 90049 US Phone: 310-954-4000 E-mail: donhaviland@charter.net Kimberly Dailey WestEd 4665 Lampson Avenue Los Alamitos , CA 90720-5739 US Phone: 562-799-5480 E-mail: kdailey@wested.org |
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