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Web Feet K-8, 2000
This subject guide includes Web sites and other resources on ancient civilizations with age levels and appropriate subject disciplines specified. Also includes CD-ROMs and software, videos, books, audios, magazines, professional resources, and a sample student assignment. (LRW)
Descriptors: Ancient History, Assignments, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software
Schibeci, R. A. – 1987
There are a number of ways in which the educational applications of computers can be categorized. This document focuses on the use of computers in science teaching. It differentiates between such terminology as tutor, tool, tutee, tutorial dialogue, revelatory use, conjectural use, and emancipatory use. The major portion of this paper is a…
Descriptors: College Science, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation, Computer Uses in Education
Energy & Education, 1987
Contains a directory of teaching materials pertaining to energy education that are available from government agencies, utility companies, advocacy organizations, and non-profit associations. Provides the address and phone number of each source, along with a listing of the titles, levels, prices, and categories of the materials. (TW)
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Courseware, Elementary School Science, Elementary Secondary Education
Percey, John R. – Universe in the Classroom, 1987
Discusses several ways of teaching about constellations. Includes background and historical information, suggestions on visiting a planetarium, and a bibliography for sources of constellation stories, computer courseware, and constellation slides. Suggests ways of having students produce their own constellation slides. (TW)
Descriptors: Astronomy, Childrens Literature, Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware
Baerman, Paul W. – 1991
This document is a report of a two-year effort by Duke University Press to make National Collegiate Software (NCS), a clearinghouse for faculty-authored liberal arts software for classroom use, a viable, scholastically respectable, self-supporting operation. NCS initially had been operated by North Carolina State University. When Duke University…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Computer Software, Computer Software Selection, Computer Uses in Education
Gillfillan, Nancy M. – 1987
Via an LSCA (Library Services and Construction Act) Title VI Library Literacy grant for fiscal year 1986, the Dixon (Illinois) Public Library expanded its involvement in the literacy effort. Additional rooms were made available for tutoring, materials and equipment for literacy students and books and equipment for literacy tutors were provided,…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Annotated Bibliographies, Audiovisual Aids, Courseware

Troutner, Joanne – Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 1987
Discusses some of the variables teachers must consider when using computer software in the science classroom. Describes eight commercially available computer programs that are designed to teach problem solving in science. Includes the producer's address, the grade level for which the program was written, and a critique. (TW)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, College Science, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Reviews
Bantz, David; And Others – 1990
This annotated bibliography is based on a literature search which was commissioned to complement the report on a conference hosted by Dartmouth University (New Hampshire) in October 1988. An introductory essay describes the conference, which brought together 30 educators from a wide variety of institutions for 3 days to reflect on the…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Cognitive Style, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation