Presents one educator's opinions on the use of computers in foreign-language instruction, as well as in other areas of life in general. He suggests that computers, and particularly CD-ROMs, can be very useful in helping to instruct students, but they are no substitute for one-on-one interactions between students and teachers and should be kept in…

Describes a project at De Montfort University (United Kingdom) concerned with embedding the Teaching and Learning Technology Program (TLTP) and other resource-based learning (RBL) materials as major components of undergraduate psychology courses. Defines RBL materials as computer aided materials which have been downloaded from the Internet or…

Discusses gender equity and computer usage, reviews several software packages developed primarily for girls, and provides annotated bibliographies of seven CD-ROMs as well as book and Internet connections for each. Includes resources to guide girls on the Internet and resources for adults to help link girls with literature. (LRW)

Introduces educators to inexpensive, commercially-available CD-ROM software that combines speech, text, graphics, sound, video, animation, and special effects that may be incorporated into classroom activities for both normally developing and language learning disabled children. Discusses three types of multimedia CD-ROM products: (1) virtual…

This theme issue on landmarks includes annotated listings of Web sites, CDROMs and computer software, videos, books, and additional resources that deal with landmarksnatural and manmade, ancient and modern, architectural and politicaland why they are important. Sidebars discuss fallen landmarks, landmark speeches, and linking landmarks. (AEF)

This theme issue includes resources on nutrition, fitness, hygiene, and various illnesses, particularly those common to children. Resources include Web sites, CD-ROMs and software, videos, and books, with age levels specified. Appropriate activities are also suggested. (LRW)

A study investigated the effects of interactive CD-ROM software on children's reading comprehension. It explored whether 31 fourth-grade children in an elementary school in a suburban school district in the Midwest comprehended narratives better when reading from the printed page or from the same text displayed by the computer. One class read each…

This document chronicles the development of a hypermedia CD-ROM product that offered information on the island of Cyprus. The hypermedia environment was designed for use by students and educators in eleventh grade up to the college level, and it was intended to fill gaps in multicultural knowledge by enabling individualized, self-paced instruction…

Academic conferences are a long-standing and effective form of multimedia communication. Conference participants can transmit and receive information through sight, speech, gesture, text, and touch. This same-time, same-place communication is sufficiently valuable to justify large investments in time and travel funds. Printed conference…

The National Household Education Survey (NHES) CD-ROM for 1991, 1993, and 1995 contains an Electronic Codebook (ECB) program that allows the user to examine the variables in each of the NHES data sets easily and to create Statistical Analysis system and Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (for DOS or Windows) that will generate an extract…

This book discusses issues to consider when purchasing an encyclopedia and provides reviews of eight print encyclopedias, six CD-ROM encyclopedias, and one online encyclopedia. Each review provides an address and discusses the history, scope and treatment, and quality and currency of the encyclopedia; for CD-ROM encyclopedias, the database…

This paper discusses a technological enhancement of traditional portfolios, electronic CD-ROM portfolios. The Division of Technology at San Jose State University offers a concentration in document design and management (DDM) to prepare students for the future in global communications. As part of the requirements for graduation in the DDM…

The purpose of the study reported here was to investigate the impact of depository documents in CD-ROM format on academic federal depository libraries in Indiana. In the fall of 1992, a questionnaire was sent to all the federal academic depository libraries in Indiana. Topics covered in the questionnaire were the number of depository CD-ROMs…

This article outlines an Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) CD-ROM bibliographic instruction (BI) session at an academic library, which is intended to produce knowledgeable and competent ERIC searchers. The 1.5 hour lecture session includes: a basic introduction to the ERIC database; narrowing down a search topic; using the thesaurus…

This Toolkit is a guide to assessing student achievement and making students partners in the educational enterprise by clearly defining expectations for performance and letting students in on them. It is essentially about performance-based instruction and the role of student assessment in guiding and invigorating practice. This volume, Volume I,…