In the Curriculum
Science
Linking to Life Beyond the Reservation:
The Takini Story
By Micheline Hickenbotham and Sandee Schamber
How the Internet, e-mail, and a connection down under helped the students
at an isolated school in South Dakota expand their awareness of cultures outside
of the Native American reservation on which they live.
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Science
Using Publisher's Web Sites
By Jane Marn Magni
Publishers have more to offer than just the textbooks in your classroom. Extensive
online resources are available from virtually every publisher—in many
cases freely available, even if you use textbooks from another company.
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Starship Gaia
Model the Movements of the Planets
By Bob Albrecht and Paul Davis
Create your own chart of the planets as they move about in their orbits.
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Humanities
Schools for a New Millennium
By Candice Katz and Jennifer Serventi
The goal of Schools for a New Millennium is to allow a critical mass of teachers—most
often in a single school—to immerse themselves in a subject and interactive
methods of teaching that subject using technology.
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Connectivity
Internal FTP
By Lih-Ching Chen Wang
Moving and storing files is no longer a job fit for a floppy—find out
how to save large files securely to free Internet storage sites, without even
leaving your favorite application.
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Telecommunications
Mining the Internet
Telecollaborators Wanted
By Judi Harris
Coming up with great collaborative projects is the easy part, finding the
partners needed to make them a reality can be the real challenge, unless of
course you know what Judi Harris knows.
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Distance Education
Online Education in a War Zone
By James Backer
A full-featured Web-site with distance-learning capabilities for your school
has many uses, but few more important than keeping the students safely away
from the battlefield. See how one Israeli school built an everyday Web site
that can double as a virtual school when the kids are at home in their bomb
shelters.
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For Tech Leaders
Tackling TCO in K–12 Education
By Steven Moskowitz
The common business formulas for discovering and then reducing total cost
of ownership (TCO) for technology can easily be applied to schools.
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Student Voices
Cruising in the Caribbean
By Abigail Olivia Cyntje
How Gen www.Y helped Abigail and her teacher place the U.S. Virgin Islands
on the technology map.
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Software
Software Reviews
edited by Judi Mathis Johnson
Read about a variety of tools from photography to online archives that are
intended to make teaching easier.
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Editorial
The Innovative Educator's Dilemma
by Dave Moursund
New developments aren't always easy to incorporate without compromise. Dave
looks at ways to embrace change to improve the classroom without destroying
the institution in the process.
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Contributors
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