Electronic Learning articles from November 1993

Electronic Learning archives from November 1993

Copper vs. fiber. (choosing wire for networks)
November 1, 1993... The minute a school or district begins to plan for networking, questions about wire crop up like weeds in a garden. The first question, and the one I'm most frequently asked, is: What kind of wire do we use? Everyone has a different opinion...

Do we need (do we want) national standards? (Real Time Online) (debate on the need for national education standards)
November 1, 1993... Alan says they're inevitable, but David certainly hopes not EL Here are the issues: 1) Do we need national standards? 2) Even if we don't need them, are they inevitable? 3) Can we talk abput standards and not talk about assessment? 4)...

Panning for gold; electronic portfolios encourage student reflection.
November 1, 1993... IT'S FINALS WEEK: MARY ENTERS her revised and polished essay into the computer, Juan digitizes his videotaped physics experiment, and Tisha scans in her best artwork. When they are finished, these students will compress files, add them to...

Planning for Technology: A Guidebook for School Administrators.
November 1, 1993... A new guide to take you through the technology race, start to finish While technology continues its headlong horse race into the future, many school districts are still at the starting gate. What's holding us up? Money, certainly. But I...

The quest is over; EduQuest's new all-in-one machines for the future. (Hardware Review) (IBM Corp.'s EduQuest Fifty 486-based microcomputer) (Evaluation)
November 1, 1993... EduQuest has created a computer line for schools that has all the capabilities for the future built in. The EduQuest Thirty, Forty, and Fifty represent the first IBM highend entry in the education market. The three models are available via a...

The searchers: multimedia encyclopedias bring research to light. (Software Review) (Grolier Publishing Co.'s New Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, Compton's New Media Inc.'s Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia and Microsoft Corp.'s Encarta electronic books) (Evaluation)
November 1, 1993... It's estimated that the amount of information in the world doubles every two years. Thankfully, technology is enabling us all to keep up with it. Back in the mid-1980s, we were awestruck with CD-ROM's ability to store vast amounts of...

Technology and the standards. (New Standards Project co-director Lauren Resnick) (Interview)
November 1, 1993... The co-director of the New Standards Project says requiring technology to be a part of national standards will exclude those schools that don't have access EL There are 19 states and half a dozen public school districts working to create...

Update on: word processing, multimedia, and literacy.
November 1, 1993... Review of Research On Writing and WP A recent and comprehensive review of research by Ilana Snyder ("Writing With Word Processors: A Research Overview" Educational Research, Spring, 1993, 49-67) finds that word processing, on the whole,...

Go for broke; with computer projection panels, you get what you pay for. (Hardware Review) (Apollo Space Systems Inc.'s Vision 262K, InFocus Systems Inc.'s Panelbook 550, nView Corp.'s Spectra C, Proxima Corp.'s Ovation 820 and Sharp Electronics Corp.'s Sharp QA1150)(includes buyer's guide and article on related technologies) (Evaluation)
November 1, 1993... In education, because of frequently tight budgets, we often are placed in a dilemma: Should we spend money on quantity or quality? Do we buy five dot matrix printers or one laser? Four regular monitors or one full-page? Computer...