Building Treehouses for Learning: Technology in Today's Classroom

Explores the design, development, and integration of traditional and emerging technologies into today's classrooms including educational software, video production, DVDs, desktop publishing and presentations, Internet (websites, blogs, forums, IM, chat), web project development, and multimedia. Explores lesson planning and classroom management considerations.

Dr. Annette Lamb has been a school library media specialist, computer teacher, and professor of education and library science. She is currently teaching online graduate courses for librarians and educators as a professor at Indiana University - Indianapolis (IUPUI).

In addition to online teaching, she writes, speaks, and conducts professional development workshops, presentations, and keynotes throughout North America and is well-known for her realistic approaches to technology integration and information inquiry. In addition to working on state and national-level grant projects, she enjoys spending time with administrators, teachers, and individual school districts, universities, and museums focusing on practical, technology-rich approaches to teaching and learning.

Annette received her Ph.D. in Educational Technology from Iowa State University. Her roots in library, media, and technology are reflected in her passion for interdisciplinary approaches, reading and writing across the curriculum, and using a variety of resources from books to the Internet.

Annette's numerous articles and over a dozen books are valuable resources for educators. Her popular website, Eduscapes.com, includes a wide range of award-winning, free resources for educators including 42explore, Teacher Tap, Literature Ladders, Activate, Naturescapes, and Multimedia Seeds. Her newest web resources, escrapbooking.com focuses on electronic, primary source materials.

She loves to share her ideas with others.