Our Purpose:The purposes of the educationtechnologies.com and sciencezfun.com websites are to provide solutions and online resources for educators, as well as their educational institutions. Our sites focus on providing resources for standards-based science and technolology integration. We are educators ourselves, and understand the needs and concerns of the profession. The website resources are free for use for non-profit, educational purposes. The images and all content remain the intellectual property of B. H. Giza, copyright B. H. Giza © 2005, with all rights reserved. Please feel free to use the ideas and activities we publish here, but provide credit and a link back to our website. | | |
Who We Are
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Education Technologies is the technology consulting and informational website of Dr. B. H. Giza. It exists to assist other professional educators in using technology for teaching and learning. Dr. Giza has served in a consulting role to individuals, school districts, regional education centers, and to state education agencies. His strength is in developing online student-centered learning environments, training in the use of emerging technologies (especially open-source tools) in the classroom, and developing and delivering teacher professional development. His home city is El Paso, Texas, USA.
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Principal Personnel
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B. H. Giza, Ph.D. is the former Director of Instructional Technology at the Alamo Community College District's Center for Leadership in San Antonio and at Northwest Vista College. An Associate Professor of Science and Technology Education at the University of Texas at El Paso, he has worked in all aspects of k-12 and university technology curriculum design, training, and implementation. He holds degrees in science education (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 2001), science illustration and dance history (M.A.I.S.), biology (M.S.), and art (B.F.A.). |
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Selected Publications by Dr. Giza:
Giza, B. & Reinhartz, J. (2009). A Four Domain Tool-Task Schema for Technology in Science Education. Chapter 8 in: Technology integration with meaningful classroom use(1) A standards-based approach. Kathy Cennamo, Peg Ertmer, & John Ross, Eds. Cengage / Wadsworth Education / Thomson Higher Education. Belmont, CA. ISBN-10: 0-495-09047-6 and
ISBN-13: 978-0-495-09047-2. (in press, scheduled for publication in February 2009). Giza, B. (2007). Modeling Leeuwenhoek's tools with disposable camera microscopes. Science Scope. NSTA Press, October 2007, pp 48-51. Giza, B. (2005). The ALE Approach: Integrating Art, Music, and Drama across the Content Areas. In Macias (Ed.), Working with English language learners: perspective and practice. New York: Kendall-Hunt. Giza, B. (2005). Increasing Student Multimedia Skills with Open Source Tools. In Proceedings of Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education International Conference 2005 (pp. 3197-3200). Norfolk, VA: AACE.
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