The process for making a celluoid etching (drypaint technique) is feasible for the high school art room because the use of acid is avoided. The procedure outlined includes; 1) preparation of the plate, 2) inking the plate, 3) printing the plate, 4) tools necessary for the preceding. (BF)

Describes how a first-grade class created an operetta about losing their teeth. The students told stories about losing teeth and made those stories into songs using Orff-type speech and music techniques. (AM)

Proposes student-taught minicourses as a way of fostering self-directed learners while meeting the demands of an extensive and varied curriculum. Outlines a procedure for establishing such courses. (FL)

Describes how Wantagh Elementary School's reading lab became the School Publishing Company's Write-In Center where students can write stories and have them bound into books. Discusses the motivational benefits of a school publishing program. (SJL)

Presents a directory of cultural journalism periodicals arranged according to geographic location in which they are published. Publications are written, edited, and produced by students, and many contain an ethnic emphasis. The United States, Samoa, Australia, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico are represented. (KC)

Describes and explains three types of models: a student-centered model for the processes involved in gaining and demonstrating proficiencies in information literacy; a student-centered authoring cycle model which is applied to a framework for reading; and student-created models that help in the inquiry process. (LRW)

In this study we describe a mechanism for supporting a community of learning scientists who are exploring educational technologies by helping them to share and collaboratively build design knowledge. The Design Principles Database (DPD) is intended to be built and used by this community to provide an infrastructure for participants to publish,…

Twenty-six scholarly papers and ten abstracts comprise the content of the thirteenth annual Brick and Click Libraries Symposium, held annually at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Missouri. The proceedings, authored by academic librarians and presented at the symposium, portray the contemporary and future face of librarianship. The…

This report describes an approach to self-access work with first-year college students at Hong Kong University, explains the rejection to this approach, and outlines the current development of study guides for students in line with the adoption of an approach that seeks to provide a guided independence for students. The idea behind the study…