Home PublicationsL&LIssuesVolume 33 (2005-2006) March (No. 6)

MARCH 2006 This month we take a look at the serious issue of ethics and technology. Learn about plagiarism and how to identify and prevent it, as well as how it affects research. Read up on blogging, standards, and leveraging technology leaders to increase effectiveness. Thanks for taking our Reader Poll and sharing your opinion on Own or loan? Should students or schools own computers for 1:1 computing. Look for results in the May issue of L&L.

In This Issue

Features

Avoid the Plague: Tips and Tricks for Preventing and Detecting Plagiarism
By J.V. Bolkan
 Download the full article: (PDF, 447 KB)

Mapping Curriculum to Ed Tech and Industry Standards
By Bjorn Norstrom
Download the full article (PDF, 341 KB)

Managing the Communications
By Don Hall
Download the full article (PDF, 332 KB)

Leveraging the Business Teacher
By Melissa Bledsoe
 Download the full article (PDF, 306 KB)

Learning Connections

Learning Connections
Download the full article (PDF, 436 KB)

Information Literacy
Digital Citizenship at All Grade Levels
By Mike S. Ribble and Gerald D. Bailey

Social Studies
Go Blogging with Social Studies Field Trips
By Judy Britt

Science
Why Whyville?
By Cathleen Galas

Special Needs
Engage Students with Special Needs with Graphing Software
By Robin A. Ward

Foreign Language
Improving Students' Language Learning
By Lyn C. Howell and Robert Rose

 

Departments

Issue Oriented
Ethics and Community Building
By Anita McAnear
 Download the full article (PDF, 88 KB)

Readers Respond
Download the full article (PDF, 111 KB)

Point/Counterpoint
Own or Loan?
By Wesley A. Fryer and Miguel Guhlin
Download the full article (PDF, 152 KB)

ISTE News
Download the full article (PDF, 95 KB)

Hand in Hand
Expanding the Family
By Marilyn Brooks
 Download the full article (PDF, 96 KB)

Media Matters
Blogging and the Media Specialist
By Doug Johnson
Download the full article (PDF, 99 KB)

Research Windows
Ethics in Ed Tech Research
By Robert Kadel
 Download the full article (PDF, 96 KB)

Member Profiles
Download the full article (PDF, 170 KB)

• Evelyn Woldman
• SIGTel
• Intel
• MEMO

Want to be profiled in a future issue? Download the Member Profile Questionnaire (Rich Text Format, 17 KB

Guest Editorial
Meeting the Need for Computer Science Skills
By Angela Klein
 Download the full article (PDF, 91 KB)

Products & Services

Buyer's Guide
Multimedia Projectors
Download the full article (PDF, 416 KB)

Reviews
Download the full article (PDF, 395 KB)

Corefx Three Level
NEC VT676 Projector
FireStore FS-4
By J.V. Bolkan

What's New
A guide to the latest contests giveaways, hardware, software, books, and resources for the K–12 classroom
Download the full article (PDF, 353 KB)

Resources

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

Coming Soon

April 2006 (Available online approximately April 1)

Building a Millenial Middle School:  All across the United States, school districts are scrambling to replace again schools. L&L's J.V. Bolkan, Jennifer Roland, and Davis N. Smith take an inside look at how one public school district in Eugene, Oregon, tackled the challenge of building two high-tech middle schools. 

Revisiting the Digital Divide: L&L columnist Don Hall's feature on the digital divide discusses how technology is an accelerant. In itself, it doesn't provide solutions, merely help you move quicker in the direction you're already heading. Hall describes how to help ensure your district is heading in the right direction.

Attract Women to CS: Katie Siek and her colleagues from Indiana University describe a program they created to increase female representation in computer science careers. They took interactive lessons on the road to middle and high schools, just when many young women turn away from math, science, and technology. They also provide information on other such programs in the United States and Canada.

Note. The Web sites listed on this site were valid when the pages were posted. However, The Web is volatile, and we have no control over these other sites. Please e-mail the L&L Webmaster (ll_webmaster@iste.org) if you have an update for a link.

Copyright © 2005, ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education). All rights reserved.