This work conducted at Centro de Estudos Superiores de Maceió CESMAC and investigated the utilization of teaching suporting techniques tools in the process of distant education. It made use of Portal Educacional to examine their contribuition in the formation process of the lecturer, their use by the professors in the semipresent training modality and also to report their academic application in the institution. The focus of the research was located in every unit of CESMAC: Faculdade de Ciências Juridicas; Faculdade de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde; Faculdade de Ciências Exatas e Tecnológicas; Faculdade de Educação e Comunicação; Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Faculdade de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas, in which participants were the professors who, to a greater or lesser extent, made use of the portal in the period of four months, from August to November/2005. The methodology used was base don a case study with a qualitative. The first chapter of the work deals with the necessity and utility of the ICT in the initial formation of the instructor, the is related to the utilization of the ITC in the semipresent university teaching and the third in the utilization of the Educational Portal. / Esta pesquisa investiga a utilização das ferramentas de suporte à docência na educação a distância, a partir das possibilidades oferecidas por portais educacionais para a formação docente e a utilização deste pelos professores do ensino superior na modalidade semipresencial e do relato do uso das ferramentas do Portal Universitário pelos professores do Centro de Estudos Superiores de Maceió. O locus da pesquisa englobou todas as Faculdades do CESMAC: Faculdade de Ciências Jurídicas; Faculdade de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde; Faculdade de Ciências Exatas e Tecnológicas; Faculdade de Educação e Comunicação; Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Faculdade de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas. Os envolvidos foram os professores que mais e menos utilizaram o Portal Universitário de agosto a novembro de 2005. A metodologia utilizada foi o estudo de caso com abordagem qualitativa. No estudo são tratadas a necessidade e utilidade das TIC na formação inicial dos professores, o uso das TIC no ensino superior semipresencial e a utilização do Portal Educacional pelos professores do ensino superior .

The purpose of this study was to find out how Primary school teachers work and think about the practical teaching in physics. Primary school teachers who work with a teacher support in science and technology, and Primary school teachers who do not work after any program have been interviewed. The method chosen in this study is semi-structured interview with sound recording. A total of seven interviews have been conducted and each interview took about 30 minutes to complete. The study addresses what research today says about practical activities in school and how the children learn the best way. Therefore, teachers are also asked about how they experience physics and practical work and how they choose to put an investigative approach. The result shows that the teachers experience physics as difficult and abstract. Teachers who work with a support program experience that the program helped them teach physics on a deeper level. The study also shows that most teachers uses closed and given labs. / Syftet med studien är att ta reda på hur lågstadielärare arbetar och tänker kring den praktiska undervisningen i fysikämnet. Lågstadielärare som arbetar med lärarstöd i naturkunskap och teknik samt lågstadielärare som inte arbetar efter något program har intervjuats. Metoden som valts vid denna studie är semistrukturerad intervju som spelats in med ljudupptagning. Totalt har sju intervjuer verkställts och varje intervju tog cirka 30 minuters att genomföra. Studien tar upp vad forskning idag säger om praktiska aktiviteter i skolan och hur barnen på bästa sätt lär sig. Därför frågas också lärarna om hur de upplever fysikämnet och praktiskt arbete samt om hur de väljer att lägga upp undervisningen. Resultatet visar att lärarna upplever fysikämnet som svårt och abstrakt. Lärare som arbetar med ett stödprogram upplever att programmet hjälpt dem undervisa i fysik på en djupare nivå. Studien visar också att de flesta lärarna arbetar efter arbetssättet slutna laborationer.