Discusses effective professional development in education and describes a frame for professional development in the context of teaching with technology. Explains the use of PLATE (Plan for Learning And Teaching with Educational Technology) for a higher education faculty in a teacher education program and discusses the impact on students. (LRW)

Defines cyber-fundraising and discusses reasons for using online fundraising in North Carolina public libraries. Discusses survey results on how North Carolina public libraries are using the Internet for fundraising; four steps for incorporating the Internet into a development program; measuring success; and using a "pull" strategy for…

States that photography and the newspaper industry are at a crossroads with the new computer technologies. Discusses implications for photojournalism and for educating photojournalists. Lists 12 photography resources on the World Wide Web. Reports on "Visual Revolution," wherein a newspaper photo staff discusses pros, cons, and ethical…

A complete school district technology-integration plan includes student information and business information. To avoid entering the same data numerous times, the plan should include student information, financial information, human resources, and specialized applications, thus interfacing core student and business information. (MLF)

Discusses how emerging technologies enhance existing methods of learning and create new ways for institutions of higher education to fulfill their core teaching and learning missions, particularly in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. Explores technology planning. (EV)

Explains problem-based learning (PBL) and describes the role of technology in developing undergraduate PBL at the University of Delaware. Discusses integrating information technology and PBL; using course Web sites to organize PBL courses; and using online resources to support PBL courses. (LRW)

Reviews a laptop computer technology program that has been in effect for nearly four years in a middle school in Bethesda, Maryland. Topics include initial opposition from parents; benefits to teachers, students, and learning; copyright issues; problems with plagiarism; accessibility; accountability; and email issues. (LRW)

Describes how, enabled by technology, business officers are integrating student financial services, providing the kind of seamless service that students and their families increasingly expect. (EV)

Explores the centrality of genre to print-driven literacy teaching and learning. Discusses the disjunction for many people between the print and digital or media texts they read and write. Contends there is a need for genre-focused theories and practices of literacy education that explicitly attend to the characteristics of digital texts. (PM)

Discusses how to grade papers online. Proposes that students whose papers are graded online internalize information more readily than students whose papers are not. Concludes that through meeting on the Internet, many students sense a narrowing culture gap between teachers and students. (PM)

Proposes that positions which claim that classrooms and institutions are historically situated in economic and political structures lack a critique of capital. Examines the technologizing of composition through the critical lens of political economy. Concludes that in order to speak ethically, compositionists who theorize the role of technology in…

Explores the influence of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure changes on higher education. Addresses issues such as ICT hardware, networks, and leadership and skills; budgets; policy (including access to information, information privacy, information security, and ownership of faculty course materials); changes in…

Identifies the use of ICT (information and communication technology) as a weak aspect of professional practice in Scottish and English primary schools based on school inspection reports. Suggests that the adoption of rational integration methodologies has resulted in a failure to understand the complex cultural, psychological and political…

Discusses introducing computer-based technology to Montessori administrators and teachers, and the difficulty of taking on new operating methods while keeping up with ongoing demands day to day. Suggests making a plan that includes implementation of hardware (computers), software (programs), and ongoing staff development. Addresses questions that…

Reprints five articles originally published between 1933 and 1983 showing that the library field was ready to use technology: "People and Machines: Changing Relationships?" (S. Michael Malinconico); "Guilds or Technocracy?" (Margery C. Quigley); "The Librarian and the Machine" (Jesse H. Shera); "From the…