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Technology Integration Projects for Students (TIPS) is a major project associated with Wichita State University's (WSU) PT3 Technology Grant, Models, Mentors, and Mobility.  It is a collaborative effort between the university and Unified School District 259 to provide models of integration for preservice teachers at WSU and inservice teachers in the district.  

The focus of these activities was the curriculum being taught in the district supported by content area standards.  Technology was integrated to support, enhance, and extend the curriculum and provide a tool for research, analysis, communication, and creativity.

Integration of technology is a key to the successful implementation of these activities. Technology is integrated into an existing subject area to support the accomplishment of the content-area standards, district benchmarks, while addressing the ISTE National Education Technology Standards for students. Technology is not isolated from instruction.

Technology for this project was based on equipment and software presently available in Wichita Public Schools. Primarily it includes the use of computers, printers, internet connections, scanners, digital cameras, video recorders and players, Microsoft Office, Inspiration, and Kid Pix.


Projects described in these pages connect the use of technology with the curriculum, allowing students the opportunities to explore a topic further through technology.

Students? In the age of technology, we are all students. We are experiencing things that no one before us has experienced. We are exploring in ways no others have explored before us. As adults we are student explorers ourselves as well as guides and experts for our students.