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Learning & Leading with Technology October 2001 Full of treats, and a few tricks to get the most out of your classrooms, the October issue focuses on communication. From our featured article on using technology to increase parent–teacher interaction, to other stories dealing with the power of desktop video to convey ideas, there's plenty to fill your bag!

The School–Home Connection
By Melissa Huseth
Using technology to increase parent–to–teacher communication.
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Feature

Digital Video Goes to School
   By Helen Hoffenberg and Marianne Handler
A video may be the ideal format for the culminating product of a project-based learning experience.
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In the Curriculum

Special Needs
Reaching Students with Emotional Disabilities—A Partnership That Works, Part 1
   By Keith Wetzel
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ESL
Digital Me Books
   By Timothy D. Green and Jody I. Peerless
ESL students grades 3–4 create autobiographies using HyperStudio.
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Science, Math
The Metric Backpack
   By Bob Albrecht and Paul Davis
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Language Arts
Sherlock Holmes on the Internet
   By Carol Truett
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Telecommunications

Laying the Foundation
   By Judi Harris
Using Metaphors to Design Web Sites.
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For Tech Leaders

Assessing Technology Skills for Educational Leaders

By Doug Johnson and Eric Bartleson
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Student Voices

From Switzerland to the Serengeti
 By Sam McClain
A middle schjool studnet used his technology know-how to help students learn social studies content and to enhance the experiences of those attending the school band concert.
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Software

Software Reviews
   Edited by Judi Mathis Johnson
Judi and her cadre of classroom testers turn their eyes toward the sciences in this month's software reviews
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Software Releases
   By Judi Mathis Johnson
Judi takes a quick look at some of the new educational software titles.
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Research Windows

In Search of Appropriate Usage Guidelines
   by mary L McNabb
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Resources


Links, and supplemental info from this issue of L&L
Web links are organized by article title. Go there.

November 2001
Coming up next month we have a first hand account of a teacher's use of a new media classroom. Also for our ISTE members enjoyment, Visualizing 3-D Possibilities; when and how to intergrate 3-D imagining into your curriculum. And for our last feature, Using LoTi as Research tool; learn how to categorize the levels of appilied technology in your classrooms.

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