Integrated Curriculum & Education Technology (ICE-T)

The ICE-T (pronounced ice-T) program is an intensive week-long professional development opportunity for teachers.  Teams of teachers come to Plymouth State University to develop interdisciplinary curriculum materials and pedagogical strategies for the infusion of technology into the everyday classroom curriculum. The program is a three credit graduate course in computer education and consists of pre-training in the various applications that the teams will use during an intensive summer institute in July as well as follow-up technical support during the school year.  In addition to the standards based curricular projects/materials teams create, ICE-T participants also learn to employ professional multimedia applications that can be used to develop additional curricular materials by themselves and/or by their students.  Currently, the ICE-T program employs a number of multimedia applications published by Macromedia (e.g., Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, and FreeHand) for developing and assembling the projects that enable the teachers’ projects to be published on the World Wide Web.  Completed ICE-T projects are all web-based projects that can be published on individual and school websites and made available to anyone with Internet access.  In addition, all of the projects will be published and archived on the Mindflight/ICE-T server at Plymouth State University.  ICE-T emphasizes project based discovery learning and focuses on collaborative teaming to create non-hierarchical communities of learners.  Ideally, participating teachers will also share their experiences and serve as models for their colleagues when they return to their schools to facilitate meaningful, technology intensive educational reform.

Go to the ICET Projects Page