EDUC 791C - Using Computers in the Classroom

Listed below are some resources on the World Wide Web (WWW) and in books that will help you to efficiently and effectively use computers in the classroom.

Books and Other Materials in Print

Resources on the WWW

• Look it up with E-mail. If your students are reluctant to look up definitions and synonyms in books, try suggesting they do it on-line instead. A system called Wordsmith, devised by Anu Garg at Case Western Reserve University, allows anyone who can send Internet E- mail to look up words in a dictionary and thesaurus. The service also unscrambles acronyms and anagrams. Send a blank E-mail message to wordsmith@viper.elp.cwru.edu to find out how to use the service.
  
  
• Internet use in the classroom. You've found a neat resource on the Net--now how do you integrate it into your teaching? Try asking other Internet-using educators on INCLASS, a new moderated Internet discussion list about using the Internet in the classroom, sponsored by Canada's SchoolNet. To subscribe to INCLASS, send an E-mail to listproc@schoolnet.carleton.ca with the command subscribe inclass firstname lastname on the first line of the message, substituting your own name.
  
  
• SyllabusWeb from the publishers of Syllabus magazine, covers technologies of interest to educators in high schools, colleges, and universities. It contains news, case studies, product reviews and announcements, and feature articles on technology written by educators and experts in educational technology. Among the technology areas covered are multimedia, graphics and visualization, quantitative tools, the Internet, telecommunications and networking, classroom products and technology infrastructure, personal computer and workstation technologies, and video and presentation technologies.
  
  
• Electronic School The Electronic School is a publication for all K-12 school leaders and educators who are striving to enhance student learning through the judicious and appropriate use of technology. It is an editorially independent source of unbiased information on the people and trends, developments, case studies, and controversies relevant to education and technology in elementary and secondary schools throughout North America.

Publications On-line

• Engines for Education by Roger Schank and Chip Cleary, The Institute for the Learning Sciences. Quote: "The Institute for the Learning Sciences is now offering Engines for Education on the WWW. Engines, a hyper-book by Roger Schank and Chip Cleary, discusses what's wrong with the education system, how to reform it, and especially, the role of educational technology in that reform. It describes the progress we've made at the Institute for the Learning Sciences using computers to provide motivating learning environments that let students learn things by doing them. Engines is constructed as an ASK system, a form of structured hypermedia developed at ILS based on the metaphor of a question-answer conversation."

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