Florida Cooperative Extension Service educators (n=261) completed the Computing Concerns Questionnaire. Analysis of the variability in computer-use mean scores using the Concerns Based Adoption Model identified the influence of informational, personal, and consequence concerns on computer use. Ways to reduce these concerns in training were…

Highlights the importance of new electronic technologies for the humanities and provides the basis for departmental and institutional support of modern language faculty who use such technologies and integrate them into their work. Provides guidelines for reappointment, tenure, and promotion reviews. (TB)

Examines what fourth-grade students learned by using computer-based tools intended to help them understand sound and music. Findings provide critical information for future instruction with the goal of supporting learning about sound and music from such tools. They also indicate the need for more studies examining learning from computer-based…

Discusses a few reasons why many public schools are just now beginning to embrace computer literacy and technology. (SR)

Presents a case study of one six-year-old that suggests that e-mail messages foster different skills and conventions than does print-based letter writing. Hopes to illuminate the writing practices children might develop as they engage in e-mail communication. (SG)

Describes some elementary science and technology programs and what can be learned about them from the Internet. Discusses what is available from each. (Author/NB)

Explains how e-portfolios were developed using the resources available at an elementary school. Concludes that e-portfolios help students get motivated, take educational risks, and learn topics in greater depth. (SOE)

Presents a graphing activity to show transverse and longitudinal waves using spreadsheets. (Author/NB)

Presents a semiotic analysis of the potential of computer algebra systems (CAS) for enabling mathematical activity on a conceptual level higher than usual. Illustrates examples of theoretical points from a development project in the context of a first year university course in calculus. Discusses how CAS may be used in a didactical analysis and in…

Describes a planning framework that provides the technical foundation necessary to support Web-based relationships and applications in higher education. The framework enables delivery of information, tools, and services to all of a university's constituents. (EV)

Explores how new media and technology can radically alter liberal education, but asserts that they help illustrate how much is not known about effective teaching and learning. (EV)

Describes the development of McGill medical school's online, multimedia-enhanced, undergraduate medical curriculum. Pedagogical values were deemed to include: (1) the ability to use the media to implement adult learning principles such as learner-centered, self-directed, and guided learning; (2) the inherent interactivity of the technology; and…

Describes the use of the California Central Coast Online Dictionary, a database-supported Web site, in teaching an introductory class on linguistics and lexicography. The project allowed consideration of several models for teaching in the information age: teaching as modeling, teaching as negotiation, and teaching as defamiliarization or…

Provides an analysis of several dimensions of weblogs (or "blogs," which consist of links to particular Web materials with specific commentary, generally presented chronologically) that make them of special value in university and college contexts. Also relates how weblogs are serving important roles in the approaches toward knowledge acquisition…

Found that in an introductory biology course at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, adoption of the Data Aggregation Project (free software that allows students in a course to aggregate a large body of data for some particular problem) resulted in an increase in the number of data points students analyzed per semester by a factor of almost…