Contends e-business is particularly the domain of college and university business officers, with today's officers facing an unprecedented opportunity to exercise a critical leadership role in the deployment of advanced information technology solutions on campus. Describes relevant issues and advances, and presents ten initiatives that business…

Proposes a three-tiered model of online teaching, consisting of low-level information dissemination, Web-enabled course supplements, and Web-engaged activities. Discusses how existing online course management systems generally do not support the full range of Web-engaged activities currently possible. Highlights stand-alone tools which do so and…

Technology has profoundly altered the economics profession. The use of statistical models and simulations has changed economics curricula and teaching methods in higher education, and these changes are moving into pre-college economics curricula. Recommends a different kind of economics instruction for pre-college economics teachers, including the…

A survey of 91 secondary trade and industrial teachers found that, although many schools are wired, teachers have not been adequately trained to use the equipment. Although 79% felt hands-on experience resulted in the best learning, most inservice training allowed for little hands-on time. (JOW)

Examines metaphor's limitations as a visual-rhetorical framework for designing, evaluating, and critiquing user interfaces. Outlines an alternate framework for visual rhetoric, that of genre ecologies, and discusses how it avoids some of the limitations of metaphor. Uses an empirical study of computer users to illustrate the genre-ecology…

Explains the mechanism of producing dynamic computer pages which is based on three technologies: (1) the document object model; (2) cascading stylesheets; and (3) javascript. Discusses the applications of these techniques in genetics and developmental biology. (YDS)

Discusses the use of interactive whiteboards for enhancing technology in the classroom and helping both teachers and students in the learning process. Using whiteboards to project software images from computer screens for teaching about technology and engaging students in the learning process is examined.(GR)

Discusses some aspects of learning to read the process of the variation in congruence and relate it to the original geometry of the sphere since it touches on more general questions about how models are appropriated and used. Presents a learning episode that implemented projective models for both spherical and hyperbolic geometry in Object Logo.…

Describes teachers' use of education technology for instructional purposes in their classrooms and schools, the availability of this technology, teachers' training and preparation for using this technology, and the barriers to their using it. Data, most of which are from the Fast Response Survey System, indicate that about half of teachers with…

Presents experiments with lightsticks in which the activation energy for the light-producing reaction is determined. Involves monitoring the light intensity of the lightstick as a function of temperature. Gives students the opportunity to explore the concepts of kinetics and activation energies and the world of computer-interfaced experimentation…

Presents transcripts from an interview with Dr. Alfred Bork, Professor Emeritus of Information and Computer Science and Physics at the University of California-Irvine, concerning the future of distance learning. Dr. Bork's vision of distance learning calls for investments in large-scale computer-based distance learning experiments that use the…

Discusses the use of MAPLE, a computer algebra system, to find Chinese pseudoprimes. (MKR)

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)