Strategic Questions:
What to Consider When Planning for Electronic
Portfolios
by Helen C. Barrett
Assessing a student’s development over time is always a
challenge, especially
when the student’s earlier work is not readily available. In
this feature
article, Helen discusses how one alternative assessment
form—the electronic
portfolio— can help teachers track student improvement over
long periods.
She also presents the most important questions that educators must
answer
as they consider using such assessment tools.
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The Data They Are A
Changin’—
Using Real-Time Earth and Space Science Data in the
Classroom
by Tim Slater
Tim Slater describes various Internet resources containing
real-time
earth- and space-science data that students can use to study
an integral
process of science: Change. Visit these Web sites and start
using the
data and software tools in your classroom tomorrow.
Quilting Our History: An
Integrated
Schoolwide Project
by Cassandra Van Buren and Deborah
Aufdenspring
Cassandra Van Buren and Deborah Aufdenspring worked with other
teachers
at the New Technology High School in Napa, California, to help
students
learn cooperative work skills as well as educational content.
That project
is described in the October issue of L&L. Visit the
Web page
for the next whole-school project students took on.
Who’s Doing What on the Internet:
A Descriptive Study of K–12 Web Pages
by Ann E. Barron and Karen S. Ivers
Who’s doing what on the Internet? See the sample school Web pages described
in this month’s Telecommunications section by Ann Barron and Karen Ivers.
Finding the Bucks for
Technology
by Donn Ritchie and Karen Boyle
In the October For Tech Leaders column, Donn Ritchie and Karen
Boyle
describe some innovative ways to find the money for technology
in your
school. These Web sites point you to low-cost resources on the
Web,
from keyboard computer companies to shareware
repositories.
Mining the Internet
Online
by Glen Bull, Gina Bull, & Judi
Harris
Mining the Internet is an ongoing column in L&L.
Frequently
the Internet changes substantially in the six months between
the time
that a column is submitted and the time it appears in print.
The Mining
the Internet Web site will provide a location for updates to
each issue’s
column. It will also provide a way to offer active links to
Internet
locations mentioned in the column and a place for material
that would
not fit in the confines of a four-page column. The column will
therefore
become a hybrid mix of print materials that will appear in
each issue
of L&L and supplementary materials that will be
placed on
the Web each month.
