Companies are using new learning technologies for training, such as interactive multimedia, electronic just-in-time performance support, and the Internet. These methods change the role of the trainer to that of enabler of learning and performance enhancer. (SK)

Compares the author's pleasurable experience of getting on citizens' band radio and learning its language to her equally pleasurable experience of getting on the Internet and learning its language. (TB)

Offers an annotated bibliography (with Internet addresses) of web sites that address questions concerning which material children should have access to and how to limit them to that material. Includes a list of software programs to block access to web sites. (TB)

Shows how to go about accessing the plethora of material on the Internet about First Amendment rights, both text and video based. (TB)

Shares several treasures that one writing teacher found by using the keyword "writing" to search on the Internet. Discusses games suggested by the "Atlantic Monthly" web site and tips on journal writing found on another web site. (TB)

Outlines the basic features of the transformation of the computer into a communication medium. Describes elementary forms of computer-mediated communication in the global network Internet: ways of retrieval and asynchronous/synchronous forms of interactive communication. Presents dynamics of communication in virtual environments, focusing on…

Describes the ways in which federal policy with regard to the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) must change and the massive restructuring ERIC will require in order to continue to meet the information needs of the education community. Suggests that ERIC's success has been largely due to activities beyond its contracted scope and…

Explores potential online media service access in light of motivational factors, existing media use level, home communication technology infrastructure and demographic attributes. Findings indicate perceived gratification expectation dimensions were strong predictors of likely online media service use. (Contains 64 references.) (AEF)

Contains data on state library agencies, including these agencies' governance, staffing, income and expenditures, electronic services, and services to libraries. Data are from the State Library Agencies Survey. (Author/SLD)

New economy corporate Web sites have pioneered exciting techniques-rich media, interactivity, personalization, community, and integration of much third-party content. Discusses business-to-business (B2B) Web commerce, with examples of several B2B corporate sites; portal and content elements of these sites; and corporate content outlooks. (AEF)

Discusses communities of practice and their role in organizational knowledge. Topics include situated learning and situated actions; distributed cognition; discourse analysis, conversation analysis, and genre analysis; performative perspective; interpretive approach; motivation; creating environments for participation in communities of practice;…

Describes a project conducted in England and Scotland that engaged teenagers in using Internet-based tools to collaborate in problem-based learning. Explains Motorola Expeditions, designed to help young people develop skills in using new network technologies to work together in teams to solve real world problems. Results showed a significant…

Provides a summary of some of the technical solutions for producing anonymous communication on the Internet and presents an argument that anonymity is as much a part of crime prevention as requiring people to provide their names. Discusses identity theft; the three major techniques that make anonymous cash possible; and anonymizing Internet…

Examines intelligent software agents, presents nine design principles aimed specifically at the technology perspective (to personalize task performance and general principles), and discusses what librarians can do that software agents (agents defined as activity-aware software programs) cannot do. Describes an information ecology that integrates…

Reports on an on the development of online resources with special reference to the development of an online bilingual glossary designed for Chinese English medium courses for their degree (Author/VWL)