Presents basic facts and issues about using desktop video communication (DVC) in education. Discusses DVC's virtual "face-to-face" interaction; costs and quality of DVC software; the Internet Protocol (IP) address; types of Internet access; bandwidth; digital cameras; and the need for careful consideration and planning. (AEF)

A two-year, follow-up teacher survey to a 1993 study was conducted in 1994-95 to learn how changes in hardware and software markets have changed computer use in early childhood classrooms. Assessed what teachers viewed as important software characteristics, software market perceptions, and future software market directions. Found shifts in kinds…

Addresses the "T-cubed" or Teachers Teaching with Technology program and their courses utilizing hand-held technology such as graphic calculators, data-loggers and the TI-92 hand-held computer. Describes practical experiments involving discharge, a temperature probe, and an oscillating water sprinkler. (AIM)

The Geographic Information System (GIS) is a powerful computer-based system for entering, storing, manipulating, analyzing, and displaying geographic or spatial data. Presents a description of GIS, reasons for having this technology at universities, and potential limitations of the system. Possible ways to overcome problems are offered. Includes…

Offers a basic introduction and overview of the Internet, explaining what it is and how teachers and students can use it in the classroom. Discusses learning to use the Internet, and using the Internet to promote reading and writing. (SR)

Explores ways in which computer technology could be used to teach science to students with learning disabilities. Discusses the role of computer technology in individualizing the mode of delivery, developing expert tutors, anchoring instruction, integrating science with other subjects, reducing cognitive load on working memory, and motivating…

Presents a model to explain the behavior of oscillatory phenomena found in the soda bottle oscillator. Describes recording the oscillations, and the design of the model based on the qualitative explanation of the oscillations. Illustrates a variety of physiochemical concepts including far-from-equilibrium oscillations, feedback, solubility and…

Presents an activity that capitalizes on the particular advantages of physical and computer pattern blocks. (KHR)

Reports on a study designed to illustrate the need for self-regulated learning when using the Internet for education. Two alternate forms of an on-line instructional web site containing the same information were developed. Results indicated that typical learner characteristics were not road blocks to on-line learning. (Author/MM)

Validates a Personal Internet Teaching Efficacy Beliefs Scale (PITEBS) using a sample of 389 inservice teachers who were participants in an Internet-based professional development project. The scale was then used to assess changes in self-efficacy beliefs among 155 participants in summer workshops. The PITEBS appears ready to be utilized for…

Describes the continuation of a project that used collaborative technologies to team teach elementary science methods courses across three different public institutions. Student outcomes for the project indicate positive change in comfort with technology and understanding science education issues. (Author/MM)

Explores how technological changes facilitate communication and decision making, but add to faculty members' workload as they struggle to stay current in the vast amount of new and reconfigured information. Asserts that the use of these technologies also adds to increasing influence of professional administrators and technical specialists over…

Describes the authors' initial efforts to systematically address technology integration in their literacy methods courses. Describes a study of the technology integration practices of three preservice teachers in their first year of teaching. Provides a link between the work that has been done with preservice teachers during field placements and…

Considers how little scholarship concerns the roles that directors of computer classrooms play in maintaining computer classroom (CC) facilities. Argues that CC directors walk a tightrope between the role of teacher and manager. Suggests that focus needs to be placed on building partnerships to maintain facilities, because CC directors cannot do…

Describes the Virtual Solar System (VSS) course which is one of the first attempts to integrate three-dimensional (3-D) computer modeling as a central component of introductory undergraduate education. Assesses changes in student understanding of astronomy concepts as a result of participating in an experimental introductory astronomy course in…