Hello! My name is Dr. Leanna Archambault. I completed  my Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. My dissertation, titled The Characteristics, Knowledge, and Preparation Levels of K-12 Online Distance Educators in the United States, surveyed approximately 600 online teachers from 25 states, and the results of which have been published in Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education and Journal of Research on Technology in Education.


I am now an assistant professor at Arizona State University. My research interests include K-12 online learning and teacher preparation, the use of Web 2.0 tools in education, and the educational implications of virtual environments, including online gaming.


My research and teaching philosophy has been influenced by Mishra and Koehler’s articulation of technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK). Using Shulman’s (1986) pedagogical content knowledge framework, and combining the relationships between content knowledge (subject matter that is to be taught), technological knowledge (computers, the Internet, digital video, etc.), and pedagogical knowledge (practices, processes, strategies, procedures and methods of teaching and learning), Koehler and Mishra (2005) define TPACK as the connections and interactions between these three types of knowledge.


The TPACK framework continues to influence my research agenda. In a webinar last November, Koehler mentioned that online environments offer an excellent place to examine TPACK, due to the inherent link between and among the areas of content, pedagogy, and technology. The combination of examining K-12 online learning within the context of TPACK will continue to having a lasting impact on my research and teaching practice.


Please feel free to take a look around my site to learn more about my research, teaching, service, as well as personal interests.












 

Desiderata


Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.


As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story.


Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.


If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.


Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble, it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.


Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; Many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism.


Be yourself.


Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, it is perennial as the grass.


Take kindly the council of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.


But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.


Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars, you have a right to be here. and whether or not it is clear to you,

no doubt the universe is unfolding exactly as it should.


Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.


Be cheerful -

Strive to be happy.



-Max Ehrmann

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