NEW! Updated educational technology content about new and emerging technologies , including: expanded coverage of assistive technologies (Chapter 3); examples of web-based productivity software (Chapter 3); serious games (Chapter 9), Web 2.0 technologies such as social networking, blogs, and wikis (Chapter 10); new distance education technologies such as podcasts, webinars, and voice over IP (VoIP) (Chapter 11). NEW! PIE Checklist feature for use in conjunction with the extended lesson plan example (Kevin Spencer's Civil War Unit). The PIE Checklist provides a tool for students to use in implementing the PIE model, and a completed example, available in an Appendix, will help students to see how to analyze learners and learning environments, develop objectives, develop activities, and select materials, methods, and media. NEW! NETS Connection: Addressing the Standards built around the 2008 ISTE NETS for Teachers, is included in an appendix. NEW! Simplified model of applications of computers in education, focusing on just two major categories computer as teacher and computer as assistant, is introduced in Chapter 3 and revisited in Chapter 9 . Computer as teacher applications include the various types of computer assisted instruction. Examples of computer as assistant applications include word processing, graphics packages, spreadsheets, databases, presentation software, and now multimedia authoring packages.

NEW ! Chapter reduction. This edition has 13 chapters ; Chapter 14 is now included in Chapter 1 at the suggestion of users. Other content from the former Chapter 14, including trends and the future of educational technology, has been combined with content on issues in the field in Chapter 13 to create a new, expanded Chapter 13 that deals with both issues and trends in educational technology. NEW! References are included throughout the text , including in the end-of-chapter Suggested Resources.