The Living SchoolBook
Funding Source
The School of Education at Syracuse University received a three-year PT3 grant from the US Department of Education in 2002 to continue to research the use of technology in Teacher Preparation. Barbara Shelly (then director of The Living SchoolBook), Joseph Shedd (chair of the Teaching and Leadership Department of the School) and Pat Tinto (co chair of the same) have each held a leadership role in managing this grant.
Role in the School of Education
The Living SchoolBook (http://lsb.syr.edu) plays a technology support role for many of the school’s research grants. The group is largely soft money funded and consists of 4 FTE that handle the bulk of the development work and administrative tasks for research projects as well 5-10 undergraduate and graduate students provide just in time training and help services to faculty and students in the school. The LSB played a key role in the PT3 grant for the college because of the new tools that were envisioned to support new pedagogy and evaluation methodologies to be developed as part of this grant.
