Explains how e-portfolios were developed using the resources available at an elementary school. Concludes that e-portfolios help students get motivated, take educational risks, and learn topics in greater depth. (SOE)

Presents a graphing activity to show transverse and longitudinal waves using spreadsheets. (Author/NB)

Presents a semiotic analysis of the potential of computer algebra systems (CAS) for enabling mathematical activity on a conceptual level higher than usual. Illustrates examples of theoretical points from a development project in the context of a first year university course in calculus. Discusses how CAS may be used in a didactical analysis and in…

Describes a planning framework that provides the technical foundation necessary to support Web-based relationships and applications in higher education. The framework enables delivery of information, tools, and services to all of a university's constituents. (EV)

Explores how new media and technology can radically alter liberal education, but asserts that they help illustrate how much is not known about effective teaching and learning. (EV)

Describes the development of McGill medical school's online, multimedia-enhanced, undergraduate medical curriculum. Pedagogical values were deemed to include: (1) the ability to use the media to implement adult learning principles such as learner-centered, self-directed, and guided learning; (2) the inherent interactivity of the technology; and…

Describes the use of the California Central Coast Online Dictionary, a database-supported Web site, in teaching an introductory class on linguistics and lexicography. The project allowed consideration of several models for teaching in the information age: teaching as modeling, teaching as negotiation, and teaching as defamiliarization or…

Provides an analysis of several dimensions of weblogs (or "blogs," which consist of links to particular Web materials with specific commentary, generally presented chronologically) that make them of special value in university and college contexts. Also relates how weblogs are serving important roles in the approaches toward knowledge acquisition…

Found that in an introductory biology course at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, adoption of the Data Aggregation Project (free software that allows students in a course to aggregate a large body of data for some particular problem) resulted in an increase in the number of data points students analyzed per semester by a factor of almost…

Attempts to place the issues associated with computer-automated scoring within the context of current validity theory and presents a taxonomy of automated scoring procedures as a framework for discussing threats to validity that may take on increased importance for specific approaches to automated scoring. (SLD)

Provides ways of using geostrips to make different kinds of quadrilaterals. Employs combinations of four different length geostrips and works on classifying all of the quadrilaterals using different combinations of the strips. Discusses impressions for the classroom and presents some examples of class activities using geostrips and dynamic…

Presents some activities for elementary school mathematics classes using a Cabri computer program. (KHR)

Discusses using computer technology to teach science. Demonstrates how computer technology can enhance science learning at different levels. Concludes that the use of technology helps students develop skills for the future. (NB)

Handheld computers provide students tremendous computing and learning power at about a 10th the cost of a regular computer. Describes the evolution of handhelds; provides some examples of their uses; and cites research indicating they are effective classroom tools that can improve efficiency and instruction. A sidebar lists handheld resources.…

The issue editor introduces the various components of this volume to the reader by looking at the new communication technologies in light of cultural change. Addresses some of the implications of technologies for teaching and learning, viewing technology as a catalyst to improving educational practice. (EV)