Electronic Learning articles from January 1995

Electronic Learning archives from January 1995

Online communities; they can't happen without thought and hard work. (Center for Children and Technology establishes online Mathematics Learning Forums for elementary school teachers)
January 1, 1995... If you listen closely, you can hear a theme running through a lot of current talk about educational reform, and it is embodied in the word community. Educators have recognized the failures of large, depersonalized "shopping mall" schools, and...

It's everybody's business: a school jobs program that works for both local industry and students. (Nancy Ingle, job program director at Evans High School in Orlando, FL) (Interview)
January 1, 1995... Relationships between scbools and local businesses are often strained, at best. Despite tbe national call for closer ties between business and education, tbere are, in fact. few, models that communities have to draw on to create a relationsbip...

E-mailiorating student writing. (use of E-mail may improve students' writing skills) (Editorial)
January 1, 1995... Some people say that, if not for personal computers, the "process" approach to teaching writing would have remained nothing more than a nice little theory. There was no way that students could ever be convinced to spend a lot of time revising and...

Reconnecting communities. (using computer and telecommunications technology to link communities and educational centers)
January 1, 1995... In the United States, community involvement has been a hallmark of our educational system since its inception. In the early days, schools served as locations for town meetings and as major centers of community activity. From the start, schools...

Building a school's nerve center. (history of creating a library media center at Agua Fria Union High School in Phoenix, AZ)
January 1, 1995... Drive out fifteen miles west of Phoenix, Ariz., and you will come upon Agua Fria Union High School. Arrayed in front of the Estrella Mountains is a group of low-slung, one-story classroom buildings. In the middle, however, is one building that...

Community-based schools: can technology help transform schools into real community centers? (includes related articles on Carrollton, GA school district's experience with telecommunications technology and use of freenet local BBSes)
January 1, 1995... A 14-year-old girl, pregnant and scared, sits alone in her family's apartment. She needs to tell someone. She even knows who she wants to tell - her school principal, whom she likes and trusts. But she can't bear to walk into his office and tell...

Dishing it out. (guidelines for schools purchasing satellite dishes) (includes related article on Washington Shores Elementary School's use of satellite technology) (Buyers Guide)
January 1, 1995... There was a time when buying a satellite dish for your school wasn't such a big deal. A few years ago, with fewer choices, it was easy to pick a dish that would get virtually all the distance learning programs a school could ever want. True, the...

Multimedia, as we like it. (Voyager's Macbeth, Intellimation's Shakespeare's Life and Times and Bookworm Student Library's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Macbeth and Romero and Juliet educational software) (Software Review) (Evaluation)
January 1, 1995... "He was not of an age, but for all time." - Ben Jonson, To The Memory of Shakespeare Compelling content is always the backbone of good multimedia, and nowhere is this demonstrated better than in new CD-ROM titles depicting William...