As employers increase the use of teams and telecommuting in the workplace, the need for improved communication also accelerates both in written and oral modes. For oral communication or public speaking, a review of recent literature indicates this renewed emphasis, with numerous articles highlighting the need coming from disciplines ranging from…

Cooperation Metaphors are sets of rules to support interaction and collaboration between users who want to explore complex content and information together. The rules determine how the collaborative community can be created and managed, how members of the community can operate on their own, or cooperate with other members. Different types of…

This document is an addendum to the "Opportunity-to-Learn Standards for Music Instruction" published by the Music Educators National Conference (MENC) in 1994. The addendum is meant to provide specific guidance to music teachers, administrators, and other decision makers who must determine how to take advantage of new technologies in the…

This thesis examines the cost and benefits of communication networks in K-12 schools using cost analysis of five technology models with increasing levels of connectivity. Data indicate that the cost of the network hardware is only a small fraction of the overall networking costs. PC purchases, initial training, and retrofitting are the largest…

Supporting students' learning from subject area text involves focusing on both the text's content and on the processes students apply as they work to acquire, organize, and integrate that content. Clearly, more complex texts require more sophisticated learning processes on the part of students. Resources on the World Wide Web pose special…

Assisted by a U.S. Department of Education Technology Innovation Challenge Grant, the Hudson (Massachusetts) Public Schools, the Concord Consortium Educational Technology Lab, and 30 collaborating high schools across the nation have developed a virtual high school over the Internet. Through Internet-based courses, Virtual High School significantly…

Advocates "surfing the Web" to generate thoughts and ideas for starting a Web page and to check out how other people make their pages informative and interactive. Outlines, step-by-step, how to create a Web page. (PA)

Suggests that society is more likely in the midst of an information evolution, rather than a revolution. Uses new media technology and forecasting literatures as a framework to evaluate current technology developments and public discussion about the information highway. Compares the hopeful rhetoric that surrounds the information highway to…

Discusses technology integration in teacher education and suggests that technorealism is needed, which offers a balanced and rational approach to the latest technologies and the resulting changes. Topics include the role of the Internet; government's role; information versus knowledge; technology's role in schools; and the role of technology in…

Describes the renovation of Lisle Senior High School in Lisle, Illinois, including technology upgrades. (EV)

Discusses why the partnership between the research university and its central information technology (IT) organization must be rebuilt and strengthened. Asserts that research universities should be reassessing their involvement with and planning for technology as a critical resource for research activity and success. Offers recommendations for…

Explains the prevalence and rationale of ubiquitous computing on college campuses--teaching with the assumption or expectation that all faculty and students have access to the Internet--and offers lessons learned by pioneering institutions. Lessons learned involve planning, technology, implementation and management, adoption of computer-enhanced…

Notes that according to a position statement from the International Reading Association, technology needs to be an integral part of literacy instruction. Describes how one professor integrated technology into her literacy curriculum for pre-service teachers. Explains that the goal was not to add new pieces to the curriculum, but to integrate the…

Discusses criteria developed by the Expert Panel on Educational Technology for elementary and secondary school educational technology programs and describes how they have been used by Boston Public Schools to integrate technology into the classrooms. Offers suggestions for using the framework and suggests it needs to address the challenges of…

Discusses the strategic role of learning in information age organizations; analyzes parallels between the application of technology to business and the application of technology to learning; and proposes a learning architecture that aligns with the knowledge-based view of the firm and optimizes the application of technology to achieve proficiency…