Presents teacher perspectives on the impact of Internet usage on their teaching practices. Semi-structured interviews and two online surveys provide data from teacher participants in the West Virginia K-12 RuralNet Project. (DDR)

Documents the growth of Internet use by university students in Japan. Focuses on the use of the Internet as part of the biochemistry curriculum in Japanese medical schools. (DDR)

Under the 1996 Telecommunications Act, the Federal Communications Commission established a $2.25 billion annual fund to support communications services for needy K-12 schools and libraries. Services eligible for Universal Service support include telephone lines, integrated digital networks, private lines, and Internet access hookups. The…

Provides resources for those who teach weather in science class. Focuses on Internet resources that describe the weather pattern around Australia. (DDR)

Through a $7.5 million U.S. Department of Education grant, students at the Hudson (Massachusetts) Public Schools "attend" Virtual High School--a network of 30 schools in 10 states. Kids attend classes any time, work collaboratively, and choose among innovative, timely, technologically rich course offerings. Other sites are described.…

Discusses electronic mail use in elementary/secondary education focusing on a comparison/review of award-winning Internet-based Virtual Reference Desk Exemplary Services (Ask Dr. Math, Ask A Volcanologist, How Things Work, AskERIC, Mad Scientist, Shamu, and American Art) that provide ask-an-expert question and answer services. Home pages, delivery…

Explores metasearch engine (metasearch engines search several Web indexes and/or directories and/or Usenet and/or specific Web sites) efficiency and problems, focusing on four engines in specific: Dogpile, Cyber411, Internet Sleuth, and Metacrawler. Concludes that because no engine has precisely the same coverage as another, the searcher using a…

Suggests loaning older computers, including Macintoshes, to student teachers so they would have e-mail available for feedback from college supervisors. Other possible computer uses include dialogs with other student teachers via the Internet, and dialogs between student teachers, cooperating teacher, and college supervisor. (LRW)

Discusses how the World Wide Web can be used as a major resource for teaching projects and building team skills. Presents a project assignment using the World Wide Web that might be included when teaching a unit in the primary grades on likenesses and differences. (CR)

Describes a theoretically and empirically based framework for how users formulate and employ information-seeking strategies in open-ended information systems (OEISs). Discusses challenges related to OEISs. Describes OEIS theoretical and users' perspectives. Presents an example based on a recent study to illustrate use of the OEIS…

Discusses the main objectives of school newspaper production, emphasizing media competence and hypermedia literacy, which may be achieved through work with electronic papers on the Internet. Compares the linear reading mechanisms of traditional papers to those of online papers based on hypertext and provides rules for writing an electronic…

Describes a study that was conducted to describe and analyze how college students reacted to mathematics instruction delivered through the Internet, and their perceptions concerning the potential of the Internet to teach and learn mathematics. Suggestions for further research are included. Contains 53 references. (Author/LRW)

Discusses the difficulties involved with pricing an online training course. Looks at such issues as the size of the marketplace, the ability to use the same course many times, the switch from time-centered to content-centered courses, the amount of time needed to complete a specific course, and the need for multimedia training materials. (JOW)

Offers the opinions of faculty, lecturers, and graduate teaching associates on the use of electronic technology in the teaching of English. Suggests that most faculty members are receptive to considering new ways of enhancing teaching, and that the faculty needs training for this new responsibility. (CR)

Launched in 1990 by WNET, the National Teacher Training Institute is a grassroots initiative to boost technology integration, active learning, and interactive teaching methodologies. Teachers are trained to choose appropriate topics, explore them on the Web, devise meaningful student activities, and publish and circulate information on the Web.…