Teaching at a
Distance: Strategies
for Successful Planning and Development
by Lynne Schrum
Distance learning can enhance professional development,
encourage lifelong
learning, provide educational opportunities to traditionally
underserved
populations, and reduce travel. Learn the strategies you need
to plan
and successfully implement distance courses.
Are You Still
Typing?
by Irene Smith and Sharon Yoder
As you replace your typewriter with your computer, you need to
change
some of the ways you interact with text. Remember, the
computer is
not a typewriter.
Working with the ClarisWorks
Text Ruler
by Linda Rathje, Jill Heyerly, and Becky
Schenck
Teach your students how to align text, insert and set tabs,
add columns,
and change line spacing without ever pulling down a menu. This
easy
activity (adapted from Jill, Linda, and Becky’s book
ClarisWorks
for Students [HRS Publications, 1995]) can be put
to use
in your classroom right away.
Online Ethics: What’s a
Teacher
to Do?
by Cal Carpenter
Allowing student use of the Internet can be scary to educators
and parents.
Cal describes the current “state of the Internet”
and describes
an ethics model for students to use to protect themselves and
others
on the Web.
KidsMall USA
by Patricia A. Smith
In KidsMall USA, students create their own businesses and
learn to use
computer applications to make their ideas prosper. What makes
the project
distinctive is that it focuses not on the technology but on
the ways
the technology can help students support and develop their
business
skills.
