1. Technology: Meeting the Critical Need for Professional Development
This project is designed to assess the impact of the New Technologies Institute as a model for fostering change in the use of technologies by K-12 foreign language educators.
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2. Evaluation of the Iowa-Nebraska Technology Challenge Grant
The purpose of the five-year Iowa-Nebraska Technology Grant, IN-VISION, was to demonstrate that technology provides an effective means to overcome the long-standing obstacles of cost, distance, and time that impede progress toward a better education for children. Foreign language was chosen as the lead discipline for this project because of the unique opportunity to integrate multi-disciplinary content. This project, using Spanish as the target language, demonstrates a system that uses existing curriculum, regular classroom teachers, and multimedia distance technology to meet national and local education goals. The National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center and the Research Institute for Studies in Education, both at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, and the Center for Applied Linguistics in Washington, DC, serve as the evaluators of the Iowa-Technology Challenge Grant.
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