Candace Figg, associate professor, and Jenny Burson (University of Texas at Austin, retired) received the SITE Outstanding Poster Award 2011 for best poster presentation for “Using eBooks to Develop TPACK: Teacher Candidates Get ‘Handy’ for Class.” It was presented at the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education(SITE) 2011 Annual Conference.

Figg and Kamini Jaipal-Jamani, associate professor, also received the Thompson TPACK SIG Best Paper Award 2011 for “Developing a Survey from a Taxonomy of Characteristics for TK, TCK, and TPK to Assess Teacher Candidates’ Knowledge of Teaching with Technology,” selected as one of six best papers in 2011 submitted to the TPACK SIG, the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE).