Approximately 435,000 personal computers (roughly 10% of all computers in K-12 education) are used for administrative work. Administrators find that four applications are proliferating: organizing information with database software; communicating with electronic mail and bulletin boards; enhancing presentations with graphics or multimedia…

NetLearning, an online directory of Internet-based resources that would be useful in teaching Internet skills, includes over 200 annotated resources organized in four sections: general resources, educators' resources, a list of other lists, and specialist resources. Use of the directory was monitored by e-mail survey and automatic counter. (JAK)

Describes a project at a middle school in Michigan, stretching across several years, that provided students with the equipment and training to make them computer literate. Discusses hopes and plans for educational uses of the Internet, e-mail and electronic bulletin boards, and various software. (SR)

Discusses the need for tools and instruments to measure and document the impact of technology, particularly microcomputers, on teaching and learning. Describes several tools currently being used, highlights efforts in North Carolina to track technology implementation, and includes a chart of profiling instruments. (LRW)

Describes investigative choices made and strategies used by students to solve problems in classrooms that provided access to a computer algebra system (CAS). Reports that technology-neutral mathematics questions were attempted by approximately equal numbers of students using CAS and traditional paper and pencil. Reveals that students who used the…

Describes a cooperative effort using telecommunications. Utilizes a potential e-mail dialog between the authors and a secondary mathematics teacher from a rural Kansas community who had heard about the interclass Hexiety project, which allows students to develop a context for their mathematical knowledge, to present ideas about the project. (ASK)

Presents a survey on the degree of training in geographic-information systems (GIS) given to prospective geography teachers. Reveals that only a handful of programs intentionally expose student teachers to GIS in a meaningful manner. Discusses implications for plans to integrate GIS into the curriculum. (DSK)

This elementary-level reproducible focuses on the flourishing of children's literature on the World Wide Web, offering an activity that involves tracking down summer reading by answering questions at various Web sites. (SM)

Describes the Catalyst project, an effort at the University of Washington to provide faculty using technology with instruction at the point of need via a Web-based suite of services developed by the university's "Uwired" Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology. Emphasis is on reaching pragmatists, who comprise the majority of…

Discusses the issue of increased air-conditioning demand when schools equip their classrooms with computers that require enhanced and costlier air-conditioning systems. Air-conditioning costs are analyzed in two elementary schools and a middle school. (GR)

Describes how St. Louis-based Webster University is integrating its 80 campuses in the United States and abroad through intensive use of technology to create an extensive virtual library, develop a course authoring system with a university-wide standard software program, reduce costs (exclusive of hardware), and allow system-wide online…

Calls for the transformation of black studies that moves from ideology to information. Argues that eBlack, the virtualization of the black experience, is the basis for the next stage of this academic discipline. Presents three theoretical principles of eBlack studies (cyberdemocracy, collective intelligence, and information freedom); describes…

Presents a director of information technology's insight concerning the reasons his school district went wireless, including funding and cost issues. Also discussed is the decision making on going from 3-megabit cards to 11-megabit cards, renovating versus new construction, providing laptops to the students, and the benefits of laptops in large…

Describes the increasing trend of incorporating electronic commerce methods to purchasing systems at colleges and universities. Provides examples from the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University (Massachusetts), California State University at Fullerton, and the University of California at Los Angeles. (DB)

Discusses reasons for and ways of using computer software to teach mechanics. Describes using software to explore mechanics, challenge misconceptions, make links between mathematical representations and motion, and solve non-standard problems. Stresses the need for structured approaches to the use of software. (Contains 24 references.) (Author/ASK)