Until recently, computer technology has been used as a glorified worksheet, word processor, and CD-ROM interactive reader. Now, technology can move well beyond these basic functions into improving literacy skills and strategies, problem solving, and communication. This paper addresses methods in which a balanced literacy program, wherein the…

Given the strong sense of passing time which seems to be wired into human beings, it is only natural that the Year 2000, or Y2K in contemporary jargon, should lead to serious speculation about the future. Reading and literacy, old skills relatively speaking, continue rightly to figure in those predictions (along with the technologically advanced…

Participants in the 1998 annual technology conference of the Council of Educational Facility Planners, International discussed adapting today's school buildings to meet the new educational technology. This document presents the presentation materials (mostly copies of slides or transparencies, with little or no accompanying text) delivered by…

This publication offers aid for North Carolina schools in planning new and renovated facilities to accommodate technology. It is a supplement to the North Carolina Public School Facilities Guidelines and should be used in conjunction with the STS-1000 Telecommunications Wiring Guidelines and the North Carolina School Technology Plan and other…

This paper offers a theoretical rationale for the use of technology--and particularly interactive electronic media, such as graphics-enabled word-processing programs, "talking books," e-mail, computer-assisted writing programs, and the World Wide Web--in the classroom. The rationale focuses on two aspects of literacy development: the…

Technology is a word which seems unavoidable now in discussions of literacy theory and practice. The question of what form literacies will take in a century likely to be defined by a new technological environment has become a present issue for nearly everyone involved with literacy today. This paper contends that at the core of both the excitement…

Lists equipment necessary to get connected to the Web at home or at school and additional equipment needed to maintain a Web site and publish on the Internet. Provides short cuts and tips for maintaining a Web site. (PA)

Presents a glossary of 24 terms that deal with the World Wide Web. (PA)

Considers media ecology, the study of media environments, as a perspective that is concerned with the social, cultural, and psychological impact of media and technology. Describes this perspective and uses its principles in a critique of emerging computer-based media and their use in education. (PA)

Presents an annotated bibliography of 57 World Wide Web sites grouped by subjects, including language arts curricula and pedagogy, writing tools, "fun" writing tools, on-line libraries, on-line books, miscellaneous on-line collections, language arts indexes, technology planning guides, technology plan examples, censorship and copyrights,…

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)

Introduces different kinds of meta-knowledge which all have positive influence on the usage of knowledge-management systems. Presents results from a qualitative study conducted in five German companies, and derives relations between kinds of meta-knowledge and the characteristics of knowledge management systems. Only if this experience with…

Opines that the study of video production is important in better understanding the aural/visual aspects of television, especially since television production is undergoing a digital revolution. Assesses the impact of new technologies by examining a "cutting-edge" program, "American Gothic." Finds that digital technology offers…

States that development of more sophisticated interactive technology is one cause of the growth of the interactive movie, along with interactive multimedia's financial success. Examines how writing the interactive movie differs from writing linear video narrative; new challenges these differences create for the writer; and some of the approaches…

Discusses usage data that vendors should share with their information provider subscribers as well as additional helpful tools vendors could develop. Highlights include increased competition; integration of advanced technology; information literacy; examples from OneSource Information Services, Inc.; and an analysis of vendor usage statistics at…