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Markwood, Richard A., Ed.; Johnstone, Sally M., Ed. – 1992
The first year's observations of projects funded by the Annenberg/Corporation for Public Broadcasting in its New Pathways to a Degree project are summarized. The project was designed to help colleges use technologies to develop academic degree programs that are accessible to the new majority of learners, those who have jobs, home responsibilities,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Adult Education, Community Colleges
Childers, Robert D.; Leopold, Gregory D. – 1993
The Appalachian Regional Commission/International Business Machine Writing to Read (WTR) program was implemented over a 3-year period in 55 selected rural schools of Appalachia. WTR is a computer-based instructional system designed to develop the writing and reading skills of kindergarten and first-grade students in a lab setting. Project schools…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Attitudes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary School Students
Barron, Ann E.; Orwig, Gary W. – 1993
Designed for teachers, library media specialists, and educational administrators, this guide offers an objective overview of the full range of newer educational technologies. Presented in easy-to-understand terms, each chapter covers the advantages, disadvantages, and educational applications of one technology. Technologies covered are CD-ROMs,…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education, Glossaries
National Catholic Educational Association, Washington, DC. – 1993
This booklet is designed to provide pertinent information about Chapter 1 (Elementary and Secondary Education Act), explaining what it is, who can participate, how funds are spent, and how technology can be used in a non-public school to meet the needs of students. Chapter 1 channels federal funds to school districts with high concentrations of…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Compensatory Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Disadvantaged Youth
Reesink, Carole J., Ed. – 1998
A collection of articles from the journals "Arithmetic Teacher" and "Teaching Children Mathematics" provide ideas for the instruction and use of teacher-made instructional aids. Guidelines used to select articles for this collection called for the articles to have a clear purpose and be related to a contemporary topic in the elementary school…
Descriptors: Calculators, Computation, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology
Mac Iver, Douglas J.; Balfanz, Robert; Plank, Stephen B. – 1998
In Talent Development Middle Schools, students needing extra help in mathematics participate in the Computer- and Team-Assisted Mathematics Acceleration (CATAMA) course. CATAMA is an innovative combination of computer-assisted instruction and structured cooperative learning that students receive in addition to their regular math course for about…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Cooperative Learning, Disadvantaged Youth, Grade 7
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. – 1998
The Mass Communication and Society section of the Proceedings contains the following 19 papers: "Talk Radio as Forum and Companion: Listener Attitudes and Uses and Gratifications in Austin, Texas" (John Beatty); "'Willingness to Censor': Developing a Quantitative Measurement across Speech Categories and Types of Media"…
Descriptors: Agenda Setting, Athletics, Case Studies, College Students
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. – 1998
The Public Relations section of the Proceedings contains the following 15 papers: "The World Wide Web as a Public Relations Medium: The Use of Research, Planning, and Evaluation by Web Site Decision-Makers" (Candace White and Niranjan Raman); "Enlightened Self Interest--An Ethical Baseline for Teaching Corporate Public…
Descriptors: Advertising, Computer Mediated Communication, Conflict Resolution, Curriculum Development
Huang, Su-Yueh – 1998
This study investigated the nature of students' discussion in peer response sessions in an English-as-a-Second-Language composition class in Taiwan. Subjects were 17 university students, divided into four writing groups. Half of the 16 peer response sessions were computer-mediated (CM), the other half in face-to-face interaction (FF). Analysis of…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, College Students, Comparative Analysis
Carter-Tod, David; Roussell, John M. – 1998
This paper describes the activities and results of a year-long intergenerational electronic communication project. The fundamental purpose of the project was for two distinct generational groups in the same geographical community--second grade students and senior citizens--to get involved in a dialogue featuring discussion topics generated by the…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Community Involvement, Computer Mediated Communication, Elementary School Students
Bushong, Sara – 1998
This paper reports on a study conducted to determine if PowerPoint presentation is the most effective medium to explain two reference books: "The Storyteller's Sourcebook" and "A Guide to Folktales in the English Language." A secondary purpose was to see if the students who saw the PowerPoint presentation received higher…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Computer Assisted Instruction, Data Analysis, Higher Education
Green, Anson M. – 1998
Students in the Culebra Road GED/JOBS (General Educational Development/Job Opportunities and Basic Skills) class, an adult education class for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) students, created their own website. First, students completed a computer literacy survey to gauge their computer skills. Next, students were encouraged to…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Programs, Computer Uses in Education, High School Equivalency Programs
Grealy, Deborah S. – 1998
Students enrolled in the Freshman English Core at the University of Denver take a required course called "The Persuasive Voice" (PV), designed to teach basic library and research skills. Members of the library faculty received a grant to make basic World Wide Web-based instructional materials available via the library home page; the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Computer Uses in Education, Electronic Libraries
Steele, Shirley A. – 1998
To meet the nation's need for a well-educated workforce in the 21st century, President Clinton and Vice President Gore have challenged the nation's educators and high technology industry leaders to work together on new ways to accelerate student learning with technology. The Technology Innovation Challenge Grants represented in this publication…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Objectives
Wiley-Patton, Sonja – 1997
This paper presents a qualitative description of one of Hawaii's educational reform projects: the Electronic School Pilot Project, an innovative method of integrating advanced telecommunications technology into the classroom as a proposed cure for statewide inadequate or low performance on national standard exams (e.g., ACT and SAT). The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Case Studies, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Change
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