The World Wide Web is one way for middle school students and teachers to demonstrate creativity and innovation. Effective Web sites from Eastchester Middle School (NY), Monroe Middle School (WY) and Olmsted Falls (OH) are highlighted. The VOICES (Vision, Originality, Integrity, Community, Empowerment, Structure) methodology for Web site evaluation…

Demonstrates the importance of Real-Time, Sensor-Based (RTSB) computing and how it can be easily and effectively integrated into university student laboratories. Describes the experimental processes, the process instrumentation and process-computer interface, the computer and communications systems, and typical software. Provides much technical…

Compares classroom environment in a group which used multimodal computer-based activities with that of a control group which used traditional science instruction strategies. Results indicate that for most climate dimensions, students in the experimental group perceived their classroom in a more positive light than did students in the control…

Considers the issues policymakers must confront if they intend to use technology as a means of raising educational quality in America's schools. Explores competing investment priorities and the necessary alterations in pedagogy, classroom management, and the role of the teacher. (GR)

Investigated the impact of integrated proofreading strategy training, which combined a computer-based spelling checker and student strategies, on the proofreading of three secondary students with learning disabilities. Students showed an increase in strategy use and percentage of spelling errors corrected on controlled proofreading materials and…

This article presents a list of the most current and commonly used computer networking terms, providing brief descriptions of each. The terms are related to hardware, software, electronic networks and services, making the connection, and locating information in cyberspace. (SM)

Surveyed preservice teachers regarding important factors in predicting their professional uses of technology and having K-12 students use technology in the classroom. Results found that setting high expectations for designing and delivering instruction using technology was effective in getting student teachers to use technology during clinical…

Examined whether performance on causal influence diagraming activities (CID) influenced performance on traditional assessment while engaging teacher candidates with software that facilitated representation of knowledge in nontraditional ways. Participants demonstrated understanding of complex learning domains through CID, and performance on…

Presents a case study of one student's passage through an online M.ED. in Educational Technology degree program and her subsequent experience integrating her newly acquired knowledge, skills, and methods in the real world of her own teaching practice, focusing on her dilemma in assessing her students' learning as she shifted her educational…

Focuses on weighing the options to find the right technology-based assessment tool in schools and discusses questions to ask: "Do our state tests meet our needs?"; "What type of data is of most value?"; "How do today's assessment choices compare?"; "How important is support?"; and "Which criteria are most important in choosing the right test?"…

Provides a collection of Web sites useful for teaching about slavery in the United States and the transatlantic slave trade. States that some Web sites include access to primary sources on slavery while others offer teaching materials on the topic. (CMK)

Offers a description of a learning module called "Reading the Research" that teaches students about empirical research. Presents the results of a formative evaluation with students in an experimental psychology course as well as an evaluation with students in an introductory psychology course. (CMK)

A U.S. Department of Education grant helped Alabama State University's education students learn to integrate technology in the classroom. Developed by a consortium involving the university, two high schools, and an elementary school (which served predominantly minority students), the grant provided training and gave participants take-home laptop…

Discusses ways in which colleges are making creative use of their existing computer and media technologies to promote healthier student choices through social norms campaigns and engaging web sites. Describes a campus AIDS project the utilized the web, as well as describing a study conducted by the author. (Contains five references.) (NB)

Focuses on several examples of software design that have been pedagogically successful and have demonstrated what is possible in software design and online learning. Contrasts are made with some examples of the current push into e-learning and how best to structure learning environments to ensure student participation and high quality learning…