emTech Information

emTech Consulting is a professional partnership, consisting of Drs. Barrie Jo Price, and Anna C. McFadden. We have been partners since 1980 when we formally became emTech Consulting , but we actually began working together in 1976. We have been consultants for The U.S. Department of State, Office of Overseas Schools, Washington, D.C., since 1979. This makes us veterans of many of the struggles that have surrounded the spread of technology in international schools as well as those in the USA. We have worked for not only the American Overseas Schools (AOS) but also for various other international schools around the world. We have worked in schools in Chile, Brazil, China, Russia, Poland, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Egypt, Guatemala, Mexico, Indonesia, Malaysia, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, the Caribbean Islands, Paraguay, Argentina, and Norway, to name a few! We are the emTech partners, but we are also university professors in the Institute for Interactive Technology in The College of Human Environmental Sciences, The University of Alabama. Therefore, we sometimes involve our graduate students in these activities. We also have Associates, other professors, who work with emTech Consulting. No matter the composition of the team, at least one of the partners always leads the audit as the team leader. Everyone who participates with us has experience in international schools as a teacher and/or an administrator. Typically, our audit team consists of 2 or 3 members, who make the site visit to the school. How does emTech approach an audit in a school? One of the consulting activities of emTech is to conduct school-based technology audits and to help schools develop technology plans. For several years, as emTech, we have helped schools around the world look at their technology plans in terms of how the technology can enhance teaching and learning. Because those of us in emTech were classroom educators and administrators BEFORE we became involved with technology, we see the technology as just another instructional tool. In our ...