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Teaching Students to Think Like Historians--The Great American History Machine.

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Miller, David W. – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 1995

Computer software designed to help college students of history think like historians is described. The software enables students to search for patterns in large bodies of evidence using interactive access, through a map interface, to historical county-level United States census data. The software and a history course in which the software has been…

Descriptors: College Instruction, Computer Assisted Instruction, Databases, Educational Technology

PDAs and the Library Without a Roof.

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Foster, Clifton Dale – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 1995

A project demonstrated the feasibility of accessing library information (online public access catalogs, commercial online databases, Internet) from a distance using handheld personal digital assistants (PDAs) equipped with cellular communication capability. The study is described, and other uses of wireless communications in libraries and…

Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Networks, Computer Oriented Programs, Databases