This article reports on the progress made towards implementing a pre-service education course in instructional media to be implemented in at all four Colleges of Education in Namibia. The author describes her work revision on it to include ICTs and technology integration.
In an effort to generate a bottom-up approach for the program-wide implementation of electronic portfolios, this article first reports on the ways in which teacher candidates perceived the benefits and setbacks of this experience, after an initial course. Second, this article reports on whether and how the teacher candidates continued to develop their e-portfolios voluntarily throughout the program, after the initial course. The results indicate that even though the electronic portfolios were initially perceived to be highly beneficial, the voluntary nature of the ongoing process discouraged further development.
The article describes an online expository writing experience designed to help preservice language arts teachers develop descriptive writing skills. The teachers were asked to describe a target picture within a picture, and their cohorts had to correctly identify the picture, and offer feedback. Teachers' descriptive skills were to improve over time.