SITE Conference

Hello from SITE (http://aace.org). Discussions hear have been centered around the new standards for research as dicted by the federal government. This organization and the content organizations which are represented here are dialoguing about how to define our principles of research in this context and set up some guidelines for people who are submitting to content, technology and ed journals. There wil be a SIG at AERA which will be led by editors from various journals. People can submit studies to these editors, and the editors will comment on how these papers would be received by their editorial board.

I am way fired up to be part of these discussions. I stood up and made a rather impassioned speech about the buisness/political model that is driving research design via the projects they will fund and asked the questions about how our principles of research design are designed? How can they be supported duing changing political climes? What happens if we swing one way now, and then another in four more years? I said it a bit more eloquent than that, but those are the questions that are driving me.

I'm determined to get on the technology committees at my content organizations: IRA and NCTE so that I can have a voice about research that investigates technology integration in the schools.

I got a lot of support from Ian Gibson (president of SITE) after I presented our paper on online assessment.