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Williams, Karen Cachevki – Young Children, 1997
Argues that involving children in curriculum planning develops communication, literacy, and social study skills. Describes four areas to address in the joint planning process: (1) what interests the children; (2) how to get the information; (3) what materials are needed; and (4) what materials the children and teacher will bring. (SD)
Descriptors: Curriculum, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Enrichment
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Kafai, Yasmin B.; Ching, Cynthia Carter; Marshall, Sue – Computers & Education, 1997
Discussion of the use of multimedia in educational computer applications focuses on a project in which seven teams of elementary school students were involved in designing and implementing interactive multimedia resources in science for younger children. Results indicated improvement in science understanding and programming skills. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer System Design, Computer Uses in Education, Courseware
Distance Education Report, 1997
Discusses room videoconferencing systems and describes the basic equipment needed for producing and transmitting signals. Outlines guidelines for producing instructional videoconferences: know your equipment, follow principles of television production, prepare instructional materials in advance, test graphics in advance, script the program,…
Descriptors: Communications, Distance Education, Editing, Educational Media
Glasgow, Jacqueline N. – Learning & Leading with Technology, 1997
Discusses building fluency in reading and writing and teaching students to read and write for pleasure. Highlights include multimedia storyboards; bilingual instruction; writing programs for building fluency; CD-ROM storyboards; student-created storyboards; and an annotated bibliography of CD-ROM storyboards, poetry collections, and composing…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Bilingual Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Multimedia Materials
Duzzy, Rachel – English Teachers' Journal (Israel), 2002
Describes a book writing project implemented by one Israeli English-as-a-Foreign-Language teacher. Pupils decide what they want to write about and what format the project will take. The project incorporates many of the principles and practices outlined in the English curriculum. It requires extensive writing and reading, drafting, rewriting and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Grade 7, Grade 8
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Hurwitz, Marsha – Mathematics Teacher, 1990
Described is a learning activity that requires students to write a manual to explain how to apply procedures and algorithms used in mathematics. A list of possible precalculus and calculus topics that can be used in this activity is included. (KR)
Descriptors: Algorithms, Calculus, Cognitive Development, Learning Activities
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Wildman, Diane – English Journal, 1990
Describes a class activity in which students gathered pictures and wrote and recorded narration relating to the first successful flight by the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Notes that, in the process of gathering pictures, the students were motivated to read the information accompanying the pictures. (RS)
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, English Instruction, Interdisciplinary Approach, Junior High Schools
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Gorrell, Jeffrey; And Others – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 1991
Confirms the hypothesis that elementary school science students recall science concepts for which they generate their own examples and definitions better than science concepts for which they do not generate their own examples and definitions. (BB)
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Energy, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades
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Estrin, Herman A. – Bulletin of the Association for Business Communication, 1992
Describes a project in which engineering students wrote science books for children as part of a technical writing course focusing on how writers adapt to the audience. Discusses children's positive reactions to the books, and notes the engineering students' enthusiasm for the project. (MM)
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Childrens Literature, Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education
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Huntley, John – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 1991
Using a custom-designed hypercard program, 26 University of Iowa students collaborated to create an interpreter's annotated edition of "Paradise Lost." Successful use of these technical resources required teachers to consider student computer skills, specific learning tasks, social dynamics of collaborative, creative work, and ways to…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Cooperative Learning
Bourdet, Jean-Francois – Francais dans le Monde, 1994
Four French language instruction ideas are presented, including an exercise in using articles and possessive and demonstrative adjectives; student production of radio programs; a lesson in writing postcards to friends; and a young children's game focusing on recognition and assimilation of written words and structures already learned orally. (MSE)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Audiotape Recordings, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques
Beasley, Augie E. – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1994
Describes the use of camcorders for in-house student and teacher video productions in middle schools and high schools. Topics addressed include advantages of producing in-house videotapes; student involvement, including at-risk students; scheduling enough time for the project; scriptwriting; and production techniques, including transitional…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, High Risk Students, Middle Schools, Photographic Equipment
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Lueckenhoff, Mark – Journal of Geography, 1993
Asserts that geography teachers should consider using HyperCard because of its ease of use and capabilities. Maintains that HyperCard can be used by teachers to develop nonlinear instructional materials and by students to present research projects. Concludes that the process of creating HyperCard stacks promotes student investigation and…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Databases, Educational Media, Educational Strategies
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Speziale, Michael – Preventing School Failure, 1993
Students with learning disabilities can produce quality content area reports while sidestepping their written language difficulties by using multimedia, in which a computer integrates visual, graphic, audio, and textual information. Multimedia is motivational, provides a multisensory learning environment, gives students the ability to break…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Higher Education, Hypermedia, Learning Disabilities
Ingram, Traci – Technology Connection, 1998
Describes the Computer Support Program (CSP) at Monett (Missouri) Schools where high school students operating from a "control room" assist students and teachers throughout the district in their use of technology. Benefits include increased teacher self-reliance and increased self-esteem in CSP students, and CSP student-created Internet scavenger…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, High School Students
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