A science teacher at an Alaska correspondence school discusses the educational uses of electronic mail (enhancing the relationship between teacher and distant student, encouraging early computer literacy and reflective communication skills, and promoting interschool collaboration) and describes a telecommunications-based science project involving…

A physics and chemistry teacher from rural Elmira High School (Oregon) describes his own and his students' experiences with the LabNet teacher telecommunications network and related project-based science instruction; the reactions of teacher colleagues and administrators to LabNet; and technological, psychological, and resource-related barriers to…