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Learning &
Leading
with Technology
December/January 1999–2000
This month, L&L focuses on
collaboration.
Also covered are keyboarding instruction, using
photography in science
classes, spreadsheet activities, virtual high schools, and
activities
centered around “The Twelve Days of Christmas.”
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Collaborative
Classrooms
by Richard Goldsworthy
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Technology coordinator Richard Goldsworthy discusses key
elements
of effective collaborative and cooperative learning,
provides
specific strategies for increasing the effectiveness of
collaborative
groups, and offers several online resources for
beginning electronic
collaborative projects.
 Download
the full article (PDF, 379 KB, PDF Instructions)
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Collaborative Internet
Tools
by Frank Odasz
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Internet-based tools, such as e-mail, mailing lists, and
videoconferencing,
can help teachers create collaborative online projects
with students.
Download
the full article (PDF, 358 KB, PDF Instructions)
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The Twelve Days of
Christmas
by Ivan W. Baugh
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Have you ever wondered about the origin of “The
Twelve Days
of Christmas?” As a youth, I remember thinking
about how
many gifts were received. Back then the math would have
taken
quite a bit of time. Today, students can use a
spreadsheet to
determine the number of gifts enumerated in the
Christmas song.
And they can use the song to begin studies in history,
music,
language arts, multicultural studies, and economics.
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Kiss Clip Art
Goodbye
by Bonnie Meltzer
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Treat artwork as you would any other piece of student
work in
any class—not just art. Don't provide students with
the finished
product to put their names on and turn in as their own.
Provide
them with the opportunity to create their own art to
illustrate
their projects.
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To Keyboard or Not to
Keyboard
by Ivan W. Baugh
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Wouldn't it be great if we could talk to our computers?
Until
we can, we'll need to type, which is why children should
be taught
keyboarding from their first encounter with a computer.
Ivan discusses
ways to teach keyboarding and how combining this
instruction with
subject matter can help students view the computer as a
tool rather
than as another subject.
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Learn from the Past,
Invent the
Future
by Bob Albrecht and Paul Davis
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As part of their ongoing discussion of projects
involving Mars,
Bob and Paul show students how to review the past to
reveal the
future.
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Electronic Texts in the
Classroom:
Open Books Online and Find a World of
Possibilities
by Glen Bull, Gina Bull, Laura Blasi, and
Paula Cochran
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Thomas Jefferson, founder of the University of Virginia,
valued
both innovation and libraries. His personal library
became the
nucleus of what is now the Library of Congress. He also
was an
advocate for public libraries. Carrying forward
Jefferson's tradition,
the University library established the Electronic Text
Center
in 1992. It offers more than 50,000 electronic volumes.
Glen,
Gina, Laura, and Paula describe how to use these
resources with
students.
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Virtual Learning?
Research on Virtual High Schools
by M. D. Roblyer and Bonnie Elbaum
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Virtual high schools are changing American secondary
education
by allowing access to more and different learning on
demand. But
are they effective? M. D. Roblyer and Bonnie Elbaum
review the
research on these innovative new high schools.
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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.
Copyright © 1999, ISTE (International
Society for Technology in Education).
All rights reserved.
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