CD-ROM training applications are becoming more appealing as systems develop faster response time, are able to play full-screen full-motion video, have better courseware, and solve problems with incompatible platforms. (SK)

Examines the two most frequently cited approaches to making video and audio passages available to teachers in the classroom: videodiscs and digital video interactive. (HB)

Describes efforts by principal of the Willow Elementary School in the Charter Oak Unified School District (California) to provide students with technology-enhanced access to information and learning resources to improve reading and mathematics skills. Includes list of the Web addresses for the skills software used at the school. (PKP)

Discusses online music courses and examines technology that enables listening to music in distance education settings. Highlights include CDs; streaming techniques; Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDIfiles); problems with technology breakdowns; live performances presented over compressed video; asynchronous transfer mode; and a list of…

A new technological phenomenon known as "hypermedia" or "interactive multimedia" allows the learner to be in control and to access a variety of media with a computer. Advances in information storage technology have placed libraries of documents, sounds, and video and graphic images on laser discs. (MLF)

Describes four multimedia projects in Los Angeles, Tucson, and Flemington, New Jersey, schools and provides a glossary of technical terms. Interactive programs are benefiting students in middle-school math and science, high school history, and an elementary lifelong learning program. The multimedia approach is most successful at helping students…

Discusses the uses of videodisks and laserdisks in the elementary classroom. (MG)

Lists 19 programs that approximately 1,000 educators find most useful and educationally valuable, plus a few new products. Telephone numbers are included to call for more information. (MLF)

Reports three generic support tools: (1) a CD-ROM providing general guidance on planning, carrying out and writing up a final-year undergraduate technology project; (2) the electronic Information Search Guide, designed as a user friendly front end to a variety of web sites, bibliographic databases, electronic journals and other information…

Explains compact disc interactive (CD-I) and discusses possible uses in education. Advances in technology are considered; the current status of CD-I and recent developments are described, including marketing and costs; and future possibilities of CD-I in education are suggested, including digital technology and electronic and optical publishing.…

Two brief articles report ways that technology is being used in the language classroom: through media such as closed-captioned video, optical disc technology such as CD-ROM, and interactive videodisc systems and through improved instructional strategies such as collaborative learning and computer-assisted instruction. (three references) (LB)

Recommends three videotapes for Head Start parents and staff, six videotapes for children, and four CD-ROMs for children. Describes the programs and provides information on recommended ages, suggested retail price, and publisher. (KB)

Educational technology is a significant resource for meaningful, active, sensory, and relevant instruction for limited-English-proficient (LEP) students in the elementary grades, particularly those students who are educationally disadvantaged. It is suitable for bridging the instructional gap in bilingual education so these children can have the…

Includes "Introduction"; "Part One: Towards a New Technological System"; "Part Two: Communications and Training"; "Part Three: Production and Distribution of Media"; glossary; and 77-item bibliography. Covers the use of audiovisual aids, computer-assisted instruction, telecommunications, video, optical media, and computer networks for labor…

Describes DVD (Digital Videodisc, or Digital Versatile Disk) technology which offers the ability to combine laser disc and CD-ROM programs to create a multimedia platform that can deliver high quality, full-motion video and an on-screen user interface for interactive navigation and branching for providing group or individual instruction. (LRW)