Graduate Education and Faculty Development

development of educators which occurs beyond initial teacher preparation and uses technology to facilitate delivery and/or support the efforts of educators to integrate technology into their practice. Activities include graduate programs leading to additional certifications as well as to an increase in teaching effectiveness, in-service programs offered to educators working in institutions at any level, and initiatives which facilitate organizational change associated with technology. Presentations and papers at the annual SITE conferences mirror the activities in the larger educational community, and provide professional development opportunities for all attending. This paper discusses recent literature in the field, and places the SITE presentations within the broader arena of educational research. Integration of technology, technology integration, integrating technology into curriculum and similar phrases have become standards in the world of education, and appear in titles and/or descriptions of courses, in-service activities, articles, and even books. Teacher preparation programs have added courses to address the issue, and there is much discussion about the preparedness of new teachers to use technology as a tool to enhance student learning. But what about those teachers who are already in the classroom, and may have been there for years, becoming certified before technology was included in the curriculum, either as a stand-alone course or integrated throughout the certification (and other) courses