Argues that corporate style guides create consistency in documents, promote a professional image, train new employees, and define document generation. Describes how to develop a corporate style guide. (SR)

Like other technologies, the Internet is vulnerable to misuse by hostile individuals (flamers), sexual predators, and pornographers. Schools can shield students from these negative influences by using LinQ, a new product that restricts access to certain inappropriate Internet areas. Technology codes of conduct and staff development are alternative…

Presents a conceptual model for understanding occupational therapy performance and a model for practice. Evaluates both models on nine criteria, finding the conceptual model largely consistent but the practice model having technical, structural, and conceptual discrepancies. (SK)

Provides guidelines for home page design, and suggests that the physical appearance of a home page is similar to that of a good graphical user interface. In designing a complete home page file, the premise is that basic hypertext design principles could also be applied in the World Wide Web environment. (Author/JKP)

Discussion of the formulation of national information policy in eastern and southern African countries describes the UNESCO guidelines on national information policy. Case studies of efforts to formulate an information policy in Botswana, Zambia, and Tanzania are presented; issues raised by these case studies are discussed; and elements of…

These guidelines developed by the Genealogy Committee of the History Section of the Reference and Adult Services Division of the American Library Association are intended to assist public libraries providing beginning genealogical collections and services. They cover collection development, personnel, access, and fiscal considerations. (EA)

Creating higher, uniformly applied standards for students and teachers without creating clearly understood standards for schools or communities will simply result in another round of blaming the victim. The creation of standard-bearer schools, in partnership with the Center for Leadership in School Reform, attempts to assess the school…

Veteran newspaper reporter shares some rules for dealing with the press that should help schools get coverage. First rule is to notify local reporter well in advance of scheduled event. Developing good sales pitch when talking to reporters is helpful, as is being sensible about what constitutes a newsworthy event. Quick prepublication copy…

Offers guidelines for school districts interested in using win-win negotiation in which both sides come away as winners through a collaborative, problem-solving process. Both sides set the ground rules for successful negotiating. (MLF)

A Colorado district's high school social studies teachers have collaborated to design curriculum guides that are useful to teachers, challenging for students, and aimed at integrating content outcomes with the district's five learner outcomes. The shift toward outcome-based education has produced guides emphasizing student performance, not content…

Offers reflections and guidance on network navigation. The history of Internet growth and development, adding information to the network, guidelines for network behavior, and learning to use networks are covered. The results of the May 1993 "Internet Hunt" for 10 pieces of information and the pathways used to find the information are…

Advises school leaders to consolidate people's names in their memory, thus avoiding acute embarrassment. School Executives can use the L-I-S-T-E-N approach: listen carefully, initiate questions about the person's name, say it often, translate the name into pictures, etch key facial features onto their minds, and note salient information on…

Guidelines are offered for child protection workers who are appearing in court as expert witnesses. Guidelines include be objective, be accurate, stick to the area of expertise, don't get manipulated by lawyers, don't be greedy, and maintain one's expert witness work as a minor part of one's professional activities. (JDD)

To develop strong channels of communication with teachers, principals must first determine which communication style (intuitor, thinker, sensor, or feeler) each individual favors. Then principals can open one-to-one communication channels, establish effective teaching teams, form more productive committees, and solve problems efficiently. Also,…

Describes methods to use for successful humorous storytelling. Guidelines for story selection, preparation, and presentation are discussed in relation to various age groups from preschoolers through adolescents; types of humor are described; appropriate humorous stories and collections are suggested; and methods for learning a new story are…