About Me
I am a professor in the Department of Elementary Education at the University of Alberta where I have held a position since 1995. My area of specialization is social studies education. Most of the research that I have been doing since coming to the U of A has been in the area of preparing teacher candidates to use computer technologies in ways that support and enhance children’s learning in social studies. I am also interested in how technologies such as videoconferencing can help teacher candidates to better understand what it means to teach social studies. 
I am currently engaged in a videoconferencing partnership with a Grade 4 teacher and her students in which my undergraduates get to interact with the children in this classroom while they are “doing” social studies.
Contact Information
Dr. Susan E. Gibson
Department of Elementary Education
246 Education South
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
T6G 2G5
Phone: (780) 492-0545
Fax: 780 492-7622
E-mail: segibson@ ualberta.ca