Problem Solving:
Powerful Ideas Shaping Our Educational System

Dr. David Moursund (dmoursund@iste.org) has been teaching and writing about information technology in education since 1963. In 1979, he founded the International Council for Computers in Education (ICCE). In 1989, ICCE merged with the International Association for Computing in Education to form ISTE. He currently serves as ISTE’s executive officer for research, development, and evaluation.

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Research, Analysis, Communication:
Meeting Standards with Technology

Elva Marie Bowens (elva_bowens@mail.cl.k12.md.us) is a staff development specialist at the Center for Educational Progress, a product and staff development branch of the Caroline County Public School System in Denton, Maryland. She is featured in the National Council for Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) video series Reaching Higher II and has published articles in the Banneker Banner, a journal for Maryland math teachers, and Wonderful Ideas, a nationally published newsletter. Contact her at the Center for Educational Progress, 204 Franklin St., Denton, MD 21629.

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Worth 1,000 Words

Pat McInerney (pmcinerney@fc.fcps.k12.va.us) has taught elementary school students for 16 years. He currently teaches at the very-state-of-the-art Deer Park Elementary School, 15109 Carlbern Drive, Centreville, VA 20120; 703.802.5000; fax 703.802.5097. Technology, particularly multimedia technology, has always been an important aspect of his teaching practice. A self-described Renaissance man, Pat is inspired by the creative possibilities that this technology offers. His long-time commitment to technology has paid off: on March 27, 2000, Pat received VSTE's Technology Educator of the Year award.

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Too Few Computers and Too Many Kids: What Can I Do?
Part Four

Douglas Bedient (ga3213@siu.edu) is a professor of curriculum and instruction at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. He directs a secondary teacher education center and is a past international president of Phi Delta Kappa. Contact him at Curriculum and Instruction, SIUC, Carbondale, IL 62901-4610.

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Jacqueline Scolari (jscolari@som.siu.edu) is an assistant professor of information and communication sciences in the School of Medicine at Southern Illinois University. She also directs SIU's Medical Resource Center. She investigates practical technology initiatives in public schools.

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Tamela Randolph (trandolph@semovm.semo.edu) is an assistant professor at Southeast Missouri State University. She teaches mathematics content courses for preservice elementary teachers. Her research interests include integrating technology into the classroom.

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Richard Dillon (rwdillon@seanet.com) is editor of L&L’s One-Computer Classroom column. He teaches in the Shoreline (Washington) School District. He holds master's degrees in music, educational administration, and curriculum and instruction as well as a computer science teaching minor.

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Elemental, My Dear Holmes, Elemental

Bob Albrecht (dragonfun@aol.com) is a writer and developer of science, math, and technology curricula. George Firedrake is his alter ego and takes the form of a dragon. Laran Stardrake, whose quotes sometimes lead off this column, is another of Bob’s “accomplices.” She’s half-dragon and half-human. As Laran is fond of saying, “Reality expands to fill the available fantasies.” The DragonFun image is from an original painting by Marcy Kier-Hawthorne.

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Paul Davis (ctec1@mchs.srcs.k12.ca.us) is a mathematics teacher at Maria Carrillo High School in Santa Rosa, California. He was a happy, normal teacher until he met Bob Albrecht and George Firedrake in 1992 and became another one of their accomplices. Since then, Paul has been intertwingling math, science, and technology in his classroom with the help of Bob and George.

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Teach a Novel without the Internet? Never Again!

Elaine Insinnia (elaine@columbia.bhs.k12.nj.us) is a middle school English teacher in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, and coauthor of Educators Take Charge: Teaching in the Internet Revolution—The Liberation, Transformation, and Metamorphosis of Two Teachers (ISTE, 1998).

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Eileen Skarecki (esp@columbia.bhs.k12.nj.us) is the K–12 technology coordinator for the district of Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, and coauthor of Educators Take Charge: Teaching in the Internet Revolution— The Liberation, Transformation, and Metamorphosis of Two Teachers (ISTE, 1998).

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Watchung Hills Regional High School freshman Jarnail S. Tucker (peachuh@aol.com) plans on venturing into a career as either a criminal defense lawyer or a financial consultant. Although writing is just a hobby, he may, in fact, see a career or at least a side source of income in that field. Even though Jarnail has set aside plans for his future, who knows what is to come? For now though, he enjoys spending time with his computer, notebook, and pen.

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Dr. Rose Reissman ( rreissman@yahoo.com), L&L’s language arts editor, is currently president of the Association of Computer Educators, New York; R&D consultant for FutureKids Technology Literacy Training Center; president of the NYCATE; educational consultant for the Museum of the City of New York; and language arts standards consultant for CityLore/Multimedia Cultural Resource Center. She has developed media and technology courses for the reading and writing master’s program at Manhattanville College. Contact her at 110 Seaman Ave., 5C, New York, NY 10034.

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Old Computer Tricks Enhance Algebraic Thinking

Louis Feicht (lfeicht@capnet.k12.or.us) has 12 years’ teaching experience in mathematics and computer education. He works as a technology and network specialist in Silverton, Oregon, where he lives with his family. He is also interested in developing database applications for the Web.

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Margaret L. Niess (niessm@ucs.orst.edu) L&L’s mathematics editor, is a professor at Oregon State University. In 1993, she received OSU’s Burlington Resources Foundation Faculty Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching and Research. Contact her at the Dept. of Science and Mathematics Education, OSU, Corvallis, OR 97331; 541.737.1818; fax 541.737.1817.

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Java Applets

Glen Bull (GlenBull@virginia.edu) is a professor of instructional technology in the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia. You can contact him at Curry School of Education, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903.

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Gina Bull (GinaBull@virginia.edu) is a computer systems engineer in the Information Technology and Communication (ITC) organization at the University of Virginia. Contact Gina at Information Technology and Communications, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903.

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Stephen Bull is a rising senior at Charlottesville High School. His current preferred programming environment is NQC for LEGO MINDSTORMS™.

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The Next Small Thing:
Handheld Computing for Educational Leaders

David Pownell Pownell can be reached at 016D Bluemont Hall, 1100 Mid-Campus Dr., College of Education, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506-5318; 785.532.5886; fax 785.532.7304; dwp4231@ksu.edu; http://educatorspalm.org.

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Gerald D. Bailey can be reached at 303 Bluemont Hall, 1100 Mid-Campus Dr., College of Education, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506-5318; 785.532.5847; fax 785.532.7304; jbailey@ksu.edu; www.educ.ksu.edu/go/bailey.

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Digital Desperation:
Reports on a Growing Technology and Equity Crisis

M. D. Roblyer (mroblyer@westga.edu) L&L’s Research Windows editor and chair of ISTE’s publications committee, has been an educator, researcher, and author in educational technology for 25 years. Her work includes Integrating Technology Across the Curriculum (Prentice Hall/Merrill, 1998), a technology lesson plan database based on ISTE publications; Assessing the Impact of Computer-Based Instruction (Haworth, 1988); and Integrating Educational Technology into Teaching (Prentice Hall/Merrill, 2000).

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Software Reviews

Richard Dillon

Patrick Greene (pgreene@fgcu.edu) is finishing a doctorate in Instructional Technology at the University of South Florida and has been a College of Education faculty member at Florida Gulf Coast University since it opened its doors in August 1997. He has a strong interest in the application of technology to K–20 education and contributes regularly to the wwwedu, classweb, and digital divide listservs.

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Judi Mathis Johnson (judimj@iste.org) has evaluated educational software since 1979. She has published with ISTE since 1986 and continues to edit the Educational Software Preview Guide. Contact her at 2749 Birdsong Lane, Powhatan, VA 23139; 804.598.6138.

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Software Releases

Judi Mathis Johnson (judimj@iste.org) has evaluated educational software since 1979. She has published with ISTE since 1986 and continues to edit the Educational Software Preview Guide. Contact her at 2749 Birdsong Lane, Powhatan, VA 23139; 804.598.6138.

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