Electronic Learning articles from November 1994

Electronic Learning archives from November 1994

Teaching visual literacy.
November 1, 1994... In the hit movie Forrest Gump, the fictional main character appears in authentic-looking "archival" footage shaking hands with, in turn, Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon. In a NBC news program, a staged truck explosion is passed off as...

What's new in digital video? (Emerging Technologies)
November 1, 1994... Fits like a glove. Digitized video is at the heart of an ever-growing number of multimedia products. Digitizing video reduces images to mathematical algorithms that computers can read, which allows video to fit onto a CD-ROM or the average...

Why wait for bandwidth? Schools can teleconference, even with ordinary phone lines. (Column)
November 1, 1994... A few months ago I was changing planes in Dallas on my way home from the East Coast. On the way to my connecting flight I stopped to look at an Intel exhibit set up in the gate area. They were demonstrating ProShare--the two-way video...

Art history - 2001. (J. Michael James and his virtual sculptures) (Interview)
November 1, 1994... Much of the art in multimedia applications is scanned-in images from other media, for example, paintings from museums, photographs or video clips from motion pictures. Yet there is another art form emerging in the world of computers--fine art...

Listening to multimedia: the (in)sane person's guide to multimedia in education. (includes glossary and related article on networking multimedia) (Panel Discussion)
November 1, 1994... IF THERE WERE EVER A MORE HYPED TERM in educational technology than "multimedia," we don't know about it. It's gotten to the point where today everything is multimedia. Which makes it very hard for thoughtful educators to find the right...

To convert teachers to multimedia, you've got to first get them into the church. (staff development)
November 1, 1994... IT WASN'T EASY FOR Chiquita Marbury to leave her third grade classroom after 18 years, but when she was offered the job of training teachers in the Jefferson County, Ala., school district to use technology in their classes, she said yes...

One-upping your old PC: straight advice about multimedia upgrade kits. (includes installation instructions and directory) (Buyers Guide)
November 1, 1994... For this special multimedia issue, EL decided to look at multimedia upgrade kits for MS-DOS/Windows computers, which outfit a minimum 386 with CD-ROM drive, sound card, and speakers. We recognized that most school computers cannot handle much...

A sturdy, well-made system. (Compaq's Prolinea 4/66 CDS PC) (Hardware Review) (Evaluation)
November 1, 1994... Until recently only two national companies, IBM and Tandy-Radio Shack, have been consisten and aggressive educational MS-DOS marketers. Competition in the PC business and personal markets is fierce. Because of that, Gateway, Dell, Zenith,...

More than skin deep: anatomy programs bring the human body to life. (A.D.A.M. Software Inc's A.D.A.M. Essentials, Intellimation's The Human Body: Structure and Function; Informative Graphics' Body Insight) (Software Review) (Evaluation)
November 1, 1994... The life of a biology or anatomy teacher can be pretty taxing. If you aren't trying to teach your students the interworkings of the 12 systems of the body, along with anatomical structures with elaborate Latin names, you are wheeling an...