About FCIT

The Florida Center for Instructional Technology (FCIT) is located at the University of South Florida. For over forty years, FCIT has collaborated with the Florida Department of Education, the US Department of Education, and education professionals worldwide to improve technology integration in education at all levels. As part of the Division of Lifelong Learning within the USF Office of University Community Partnerships, FCIT specializes in evaluation, research, professional development, software development, and consultation. Our grant-funded projects include collaborations with every school district in Florida, focusing on enhancing technology integration in K-12 education.

FCIT operates the USF Office of Youth Experiences (YXP), which helps young people explore their futures, discover their passions, and connect with the University of South Florida. YXP supports summer camps, field trips, classroom guest speakers, afterschool and weekend programs, competitions, exhibitions, and public events.

FCIT’s free resource websites average over two million hits per school day from nearly 200 countries and territories. These sites are specifically designed to support K-12 curriculum with age-appropriate content and no advertising. Our fully-online iTeach Professional Learning courses for teachers and administrators begin each month. The TIM Tools suite of technology integration evaluation tools is a subscription service used by public and private schools, districts, and ministries of education worldwide. The suite includes a perceptions and uses survey, a lesson observation tool, a survey creator, and support for action research in the classroom.

Social Media

Facebook: MyFCIT
Twitter: MyFCIT
Pinterest:
– Lit2Go
– MyTechMatrix
– K-12 Summer Camps
– iTeach Professional Development
LinkedIn:
– FCIT
– Digital Content Showcase
– iTeach Showcase
– Lit2Go Showcase
– Technology Integration Matrix Showcase

Terms and Conditions

Website authors are encouraged to link to FCIT resources. Links may be made to any page within the publication. We provide buttons and banners if you would like to add a graphical link to FCIT resources. Please link only to HTML pages. Do not link directly to image, sound, or multimedia files. FCIT Web content may NOT be mirrored on any publicly accessible server. Address any comments or questions to the Director.

You will find additional Terms and Conditions and/or Licensing information on each of our digital content websites. For any use of FCIT digital content beyond what is permitted for a specific site, please address our Permissions Manager.

Privacy

Thank you for visiting Florida Center for Instructional Technology websites. Your privacy is important to us. We want our visitors to understand what information we collect and how it is used.

When you visit an FCIT website, our Web servers automatically recognize the Internet domain and IP address from which you accessed that website, and keep track of the types of operating systems, screen resolutions, and other hardware related items that help us make our site more accessible. We may gather aggregate date, time, and pages accessed information to determine overall volume and timing of access to our websites. We do this so that we can improve the content of our websites. Additionally, we utilize Google Analytics on many of our websites to help us better understand and serve our visitors. This gives us information such as what languages our visitor’s browsers are set to or which countries they are visiting from.

You may choose to share personal information with us by sending email or submitting forms on certain FCIT websites. Information voluntarily shared with us may be posted to our websites, included in reports to grantors, or otherwise published by the Florida Center for Instructional Technology. If you do not want such personal information collected and shared, please do not submit forms or emails. You must be at least 13 years old to submit forms or send email to FCIT.

Third parties, such as Google, Facebook, Pinterest, or LinkedIn, may use cookies, web beacons, and other storage technologies to collect or receive information from our websites and elsewhere on the Internet and use that information to provide measurement services and target ads. No such interest-based ads appear anywhere on FCIT or ETC websites. Ads for FCIT products or services, however, may appear on other websites you visit after visiting one of our websites. While many web users prefer seeing ads that are potentially of interest to them, you can opt-out of the collection and use of information for ad targeting by using services such as http://www.aboutads.info/choices or http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/. You can control the ads Google displays for you by visiting https://adssettings.google.com to set your preferences. You may also want to consider installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. This add-on prevents your data from being used by Google Analytics regardless of the website you visit. It is designed to be compatible with Chrome, Internet Explorer 11, Safari, Firefox, and Opera. Pinterest users can opt out of online behavioral advertising through their Pinterest personalization settings. LinkedIn users can use their ad settings to control how LinkedIn uses their data for advertising purposes.

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, you can email the Director or write us at:

The Florida Center for Instructional Technology
University of South Florida
4202 E. Fowler Avenue LIB 618
Tampa, FL 33620