SITE: From Our Society’s Foundation Towards Shared Leadership for an

Abstract: The current context for teacher education in many countries worldwide has brought new technology and teacher education to the forefront of policies, with major initiatives to renew education through technology. Our Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE) is moving to a new stage of maturity with over a decade of scholarship and the participation of over one thousand teacher educators. We have a significant role in promoting reflective, participative leadership for the deployment of new technology in education, particularly teacher education. SITE’s first decade is described to provide a view of our shared heritage. The society is further developing its scholarly publications on paper and on the web. The new governance ratified during our 2001 annual conference is accompanied by changes in our conference and the emergence of innovative virtual environments to enhance our community of knowledge. This builds upon the innovative and artful social and technical engineering already underway and aims to spread our leadership and to encourage cross-generation, interdisciplinary, and intercultural participation. In recognition of the loosely coupled nature of educational organizations my vision for SITE, as president, aims to be a mode