Publications

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In Press or Submitted

Schlager, M., Farooq, U., Fusco, J., Schank, P., & Dwyer, N. (submitted). Analyzing online social networking in professional learning communities: Cyber networks require cyber-research tools. Journal of Technology Education.

Farooq, U., Schank, P., Harris, A., Fusco, J. & Schlager, M. (in press). Sustaining a community computing infrastructure for online teacher professional development: A case study of designing Tapped In. Journal of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (JCSCW).

Koch, M., & Fusco, J. (in press). Designing for Growth: Enabling Communities of Practice to Develop and Extend their Work Online. In C. Kimble & P. Hildreth (Eds.), Communities of Practice: Creating Learning Environments for Educators. North Carolina: Information Age Publishing.

2004

Schlager, M., & Fusco, J. (2004). Teacher professional development, technology, and communities of practice: Are we putting the cart before the horse? In S. Barab, R. Kling, & J. Gray (Eds.), Designing for virtual communities in the service of learning. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

2003

Schlager, M., Fusco, J., Koch, M., Crawford, V., Phillips, M., (2003, July). Designing Equity and Diversity into Online Strategies to Support New Teachers. Presented at NECC 2003, Seattle, WA.

2002

Schank, P., Harris, Z., & Schlager, M. (2002, November). Painting a Landscape onto Tapped In 2. Presented at the CSCW 2002 Workshop on the Role of Place in Virtual Community, New Orleans, LA.

Schlager, M., Fusco, J. & Schank, P (2002). Evolution of an on-line education community of practice. In K. A. Renninger and W. Shumar (Eds.), Building virtual communities: Learning and change in cyberspace. NY: Cambridge University Press, 129-158.

2000

Fusco, J., Gehlbach, H., & Schlager, M. (2000). Assessing the impact of a large-scale online teacher professional development community. In J. Willis (Ed.), Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (pp. 2178-2183). Charlottesville, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education.

1999

Schank, P., Fenton, J., Schlager, M., & Fusco, J. (1999). From MOO to MEOW: Domesticating technology for online communities. In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Support for Collaborative Learning (pp. 518-526).

1998

Schlager, M., Fusco, J., & Schank, P. (1998). Cornerstones for an on-line community of education professionals. IEEE Technology and Society Magazine. Special Issue: Wired Classrooms: The Internet in K-12, 17(4), 15-21, 40.

Kozma, R., & Schank, P. (1998). Connecting with the twenty-first century: Technology in support of educational reform In D. Palumbo and C. Dede (Eds.), Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development 1998 Yearbook: Learning and Technology. Alexandria, VA: ASCD, 3-27.

Schlager, M., Schank, P., & Fusco, J. (1999, May). Online Communities (Position Paper) presented at the CHI '99 "Online Communities" Workshop, Pittsburgh, PA.

1997

Schlager, M., & Schank, P. (1997). TAPPED IN: A new on-line teacher community concept for the next generation of Internet technology. In R. Hall, N. Miyake & N. Enyedy (Eds.), Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computer Support for Collaborative Learning (pp. 231-240). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Kozma, R., & Schank, P. (1997). Virtual Places for Collaborative Science Simulations. in BioQuest Notes, spring 1997.

1996

Schlager, M., Schank, P., & Godard, R. (1996, November). Tapped In to Teacher Professional Development: An On-line Conference Center for Education Communities. Presented the "Serious Uses of MUDs" workshop at CSCW '96, Boston, MA.

Tapped In Is Also Cited In...

In Press

Beach, R. (in press). Engaging students in digital writing. Norwood, MA: Christopher Gordon Publishers.

Bloch, J. (in press). Technology in the second language composition classroom. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.

Recesso, A., & Orrill, C. (in press). Integrating technology into teaching: The technology and learning continuum model. Indianapolis, IN: Houghton Mifflin.

2006

Alvarado, A. (2006). New Directions in Teacher Education: Emerging Strategies From the Teachers for a New Era Initiative. Presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), San Francisco, CA, April 8, 2006.

Donnelly, L. (2006). Painless professional development. Teacher magazine, 18 (2), 50.

Mills, S. C. (2006). Technology tools for teachers: Using the Internet for active learning. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

2005

Roland, C. (2005). The art teacherŐs guide to the Internet. Worcester, MA: Davis Publications.

2004

Steffy, R. (2004). Berquist Breaks Barriers at YDC. Perry County Times, April 15, 2004.

Bull, G., Bull, G., & Kajder, S. (2004). Mining the Internet: Tapped In. Learning and Leading with Technology, 34-37.

Smith, M. (2004). Exploring the Efficiency of an Online Bridge between Working Interpreters, Student Interpreters, and the Deaf Community. TEP 297: Advanced Technologies for Learning and Teaching, University of California, San Diego.

Valenza, J., K. (2004). Online 'campus' for educators to meet, mentor, talk, develop. Philadelphia Inquirer, March 4, 2004.

Vrasidas, C., & Glass, G. V. (2004). Online professional development for teachers. Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.

2003

Gordon, D. (2003). Better teaching and learning in the digital classroom. Cambridge: Harvard Education Press.

Gordon, D. (2003). Linking teachers with technology: Online courses and communities provide ways of delivering professional development and support. Harvard Education Letter, November/December.

Hutchinson, M. (2003). Investigating The Civil War: A Multimedia Approach. Tech Learning Magazine, 23(10).

2002

Dede, C., Brown L'Bahy, T., & Whitehouse, P. (2002). Designing and Studying Learning Experiences That Use Multiple Interactive Media To Bridge Distance and Time. Chapter Prepared for Charalambos Vrasidas and Gene V Glass, (Eds.), Current Perspectives on Applied Information Technologies. Vol. 1: Distance Education.

George Lucas Education Foundation. (2002). Edutopia. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Hoban, G. (2002). Teacher learning for educational change. Philadelphia, PA: Open University Press.

2001

Ebeltoft, N., & Nyrop, S. (2001). The Helpful Culture in the Sociotechnical Communities. In Dansk Paedagogisk Tidsskrift

Zern, K. (2001). Tapped In's After School Online Program: Teacher Professional Development on the Internet. Class project final report.

2000

Bransford, J., Brown, A., & Cocking, R. (2000). How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School Committee on Developments in the Science of Learning. National Academy Press.

Bringelson, L. S., & Carey, T. (2000). Different (Key)strokes for Different Folks: Designing online venues for professional communities. Educational Technology & Society, 3(3), 58-64.

Fusco J., and Schlager, M., (2000). Librarians Online Tap In. The Book Report 16(5), 46, 49.

Web-Based Education Commission (2000). The Power of the Internet for Learning: Moving from Promise to Practice.

Polin, L. (2000, April). Affordances of a VR World as a Place for Learning: Discourse Patterns and Contextualization Cues Framing Learning Experiences for Adults in a Real-time, Text-based, Virtual Reality Setting. Presented at the "Teaching teachers with advanced learning technologies" Symposium at AERA, New Orleans, LA. [PDF Version]. [Appendice 1 in PDF, Appendice 2 in PDF, and Appendice in PDF].

Young, J. (2000). "Distance Education: Instructors Try Out Updated MOOs as Online-Course Classrooms". Chronicle of Higher Education, October 24, 2000 issue.

Berquist, B.J. (2000). A Day in the Life of a Cybrarian 36 hrs = 1 Day. In Information Searcher.

Cerratto, T., & Wærn, Y. (2000). Chatting to Learn and Learning to Chat in Collaborative Virtual Environments In M/C - A journal of media and culture, 3(4).

Riel, M. (2000).New Designs for Connected Teaching and Learning. White Paper in Secretary's Conference on Educational Technology 2000.

Dede, C. (2000). The Role of Emerging Technologies for Knowledge Mobilization, Dissemination, and Use In Education. Commissioned by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education.

Web-based Education Commission. (2000). The power of the Internet for learning: Moving from promise to practice. Washington, DC: Author.

1999

Bransford, J., Brown, A., & Cocking, R. (Eds.). (1999). How people learn: Brain, mind, experience, and school. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.

Riel, M. (1999). Internet guide for the Technology learning community. Center for Collaborative Research, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA.

Gray, T. (1999). Tapped In: Connecting Communities of Learners Online . Edutopia, the George Lucas Educational Foundation.

Berger, P. (1999). ICONnect, You Connect, We All Connect: New Roles for Librarians. Information Today.

Nystrom, H. (1998, November). Tapped In and student civil rights forum. Converge, 1(3), 24-26.

1998

Yarnall, L. (1998). How to Get the Most From Computers in the Classroom. New York Times, August 6, 1998.

The Technology Source (1998). Tapped In: Spotlight site of the month.