Teachers who want to show their students how to use multimedia in their projects should consider using HyperStudio. Four sites listed show HyperStudio's capabilities. Discussion includes publishing HyperStudio stacks on the Internet. Sites for more information are also listed. (AEF)

Describes the use of technology at the Minnesota New Country School, a project-based, non-profit public charter secondary school. Discusses the project-based curriculum, including student self-paced projects that must relate to Minnesota's performance standards; the cooperative of teachers who provide services to the school; and personalized…

Examines innovative ways for school libraries to collect organize, and make effective use of student work. Highlights include recognizing original work; student writing; student posters of favorite books or characters; databases for organizing information; videotaping of students' activities and presentations; electronic products; events;…

Describes an integrated curriculum activity directed by middle school students to promote voting during the presidential election. Notes how students raised money to pay for a billboard advertisement they designed. Discusses the connection between the project and content areas, including electoral procedure. (JPB)

Discusses an art project for fifth and sixth grade that was inspired by a Laurel Burch plate with a jungle motif. Explains that students choose a project name, make lists of images associated with their chosen name, and use those images in their round designs. (CMK)

Describes two projects undertaken with the author's high school English classes in which students chose writing they wished to share with their own community, and then published it, in one case selling their class anthology to selected businesses around town. Describes the increase in enthusiasm for writing and care and professionalism caused by…

Focuses on the creation of children's books as a form of alternative assessment in the history classroom. Describes a project in which high school students developed children's books of historic persons. Incorporates three of Howard Gardner's multiple intelligences: linguistic, spatial, and personal. Provides the assignment, the grading rubric,…

Describes the theoretical premises of project-based instruction and its features. Presents a model of collaboration between teachers and university faculty designed to support teachers in attempts to enact project-based instruction. Describes the teachers in the initial collaboration, the science projects they enacted, and the methods used to…

Examines one teacher's attempts to understand and enact a nonprescriptive, nonlinear project-based approach to science instruction. Details the challenges the teacher faced in enacting two projects and some of the dilemmas she faced as some of her previous beliefs about teaching and learning came into conflict with her emerging understanding of…

Four case studies demonstrate how middle grade teachers addressed the challenges and dilemmas of enacting project-based science in their classrooms. Notes that the teachers attempted to enact several common features of project-based science, including student collaboration and ownership and the use of technology. Also notes that teachers'…

Draws conclusions regarding how five teachers learned to enact project-based science, a method grounded in constructivist theory. Describes how the teacher-researcher collaborative activities unfolded, based on a model of teacher change that focused on cycles of collaboration, enactment, and reflection and how these activities contributed to a…

Discussion of teamwork skills in library and information work outlines the objectives and components of a team-building program and assessed team project which are undertaken in the final year of the bachelor's degree program in Information Studies at Leeds Metropolitan University (United Kingdom). Results of an evaluative questionnaire are…

Describes some of the author's observations about information technology trends and their impact on her two grandchildren's classroom experiences. Topics include the shift from acquisition to information access, the shift from paper to electronic format, networked communications and computerized collaborative projects, and the emerging portability…

Student workshops can complement coursework in the academic disciplines and provide field training for public health, social work, urban planning, and other professions. This article describes three community-planning workshops for college students: a community planning workshop in rural east central Illinois, a neighborhood revitalization project…

Successful strategies for financing the Environmental Studies Programme at Grey-Highlands Secondary School (Flesherton, Ontario) consisted of developing a partnership with Project CANOE, establishing priorities in fund-raising activities; being financially independent by not relying on grants or special funding; and integrating money-making…