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Learning & Leading with Technology March 2001 From virtual tours online to staking out virtual vantage points via Internet Webcams, this month’s issue is filled with a little bit of everything—an omnivore’s delight, if you will.

The Virtual Tour—A Web-based Teaching Strategy
   by Lawrence Tomei and Margaret Balmert
Virtual tours introduce learners to an academic content area by presenting a series of multisensory, multimedia instructions for exploring material.
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In the Curriculum

Starship Gaia
Build a Solar System Model in Your Community
   by Bob Albrecht and Paul Davis
Keeping it in perspective, the authors take you through the steps of creating true-to-scale solar system models from modestly sized to city- and even county-wide projects.
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Mathematics and Science
SAMDADs for Your Classroom
   By Thomas P. Walsh
Stand-alone microprocessor-based data acquisition devices (SAMDADs) can ease data gathering and analysis in your classroom. This survey of some current products can help you pick the right one.
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Multidisciplinary
Making Bread—A Thematic Approach to Technology Integration
   By Elizabeth A. Lahm and Sandra S. Watson
Here’s a recipe for rising to the challenge of integrating technology by using a themed approach to slice through a variety of curricular areas.
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Telecommunications

Mining the Internet
Virtual Vantage Points—Using Webcams for Teleresearch
   by Judi Harris
Webcams can enable your students to not only visit places otherwise impractical, but they can conduct ongoing research through the Web.
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An Online Formula for Success
   By Daniel T. Lake
With a generous grant and a colleague’s assistance, a chemistry teacher finds the benefits of placing his course online exceed his expectations.
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Twelve Steps to a Telecommunity
   By Marge Cambre and Mark Hawkes
Distance-bridging interactive technologies allow students to access sources of knowledge outside the school community. Read these 12 considerations for school leaders integrating interactive technology into student learning.
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For Tech Leaders

Technology—What’s It Good For?
 By Steven E. Miller
Technology infusion can transform the education process, facilitate incremental improvements in learning, be a vital tool for educator’s professional growth, and prepare students for life in a high-tech world. Successful integration strategies combine these aspects of technology, drawing support from the unique contribution of technology to instruction, professional development, and administration.
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Research Windows

Literacy Skills and the Internet
 By Mary L. McNabb
How does a telecommunications technology such as the Internet change how and what teachers teach and students learn?
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Student Voices

Automating Processes to Increase Efficiency
 By Dustin Lyons
Technology has the power to ease many routine tasks. Find out how a high school student learned to automate and simplify school information needs.
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Software

Software Reviews
   edited by Judi Mathis Johnson
Read about an interactive physics package and two primary reading programs that work well together.
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Software Releases
   by Judi Mathis Johnson
New educational software titles.
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Editorial

Roles of IT in Improving Our Educational System
   by Dave Moursund
Part 5: Creating Human—Computer Teams. Understanding the strengths and weaknesses of both human and computer processing is a key to understanding how to use IT in education.
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Contributors

Find out about the authors and column editors in this issue.
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April 2001
Four information-packed features revolving around the theme of highly interactive computing in education (HICE). The theme is set by Dave Moursund’s editorial, and carried through the features. Popular sections such as In the Curriculum‚ Student Voices‚ and Software Releases will‚ of course‚ also be included.

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