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  A Personal Journey
This writer's personal journey with technology in the College of Education at SFA

In less than the ten years I have been here, I have advanced from struggling with email, frozen computers, a hard-copy syllabus and only a TV video in some of my classrooms . . . to today, where I am certified as a master online and ITV instructor and teach ITV and distance ed courses, as well as, in a high-technology classroom face-to-face where my students and I use ppt, ELMO, PC, DVD, CD, video and video streaming with sound dispersed evenly throughout the classroom. To present at conferences I have easy access to a projector and bring my COE supplied laptop with wireless capability with me.  In my office, complete with an up-to-date reliable office computer, scanner, printer, and phone message system, I work in some time to develop my course pages with midis and clip art I have created myself, internet sources I download, the university's electronic library where I reserve documents for candidate use, video-streamed lectures I have prepared myself in the ITV classroom, the list goes on.  Now and then a question will arise; a quick email to OIT and Melane McCuller (a human face) reliably responds almost immediately with timely succinct accurate user-friendly technology assistance. Clearly, opportunities to advance with technology are all around the COE and I have happily taken advantage of them, and want more.

It is a good feeling to look back over our results here today to see where we have come. . . so far in so short a time!
Carolyn Abel, Chair
NCATE Technology Committee