Product Description: This sourcebook and guide is designed to help teachers plan and implement their own effective social studies programs. Covers a philosophy for teaching, emphasizing that no single method of instruction is sufficient to achieve all goals and objectives of elementary social studies instruction...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Second to None: Vision of the New California High School

Product Description: A truly comprehensive resource on educational computing, this machine-independent text offers future instructors a coherent, functional blueprint for using computers in the classroom to achieve educational goals.

Product Description: This comprehensive text reviews all areas related to technology, especially computer-based technology in K-12 schools. The objective is to help pre-service and in-service teachers reflect upon and discover the range of issues that need to be addressed in order to achieve successful integration of computer-based technology for teaching and learning into the K-12 curriculum...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This revised edition looks at how computers facilitate learning among groups of individuals. Taking account of the impact of the Internet and web-based learning, the text is aimed at those in the open and distance learning, education and training fields. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Interchange 1 Video is designed to: - review and extend the topics and language presented in the Student's Book - provide the basis for a short course The Video contains 15 dramatized sequences based on the language and vocabulary in the Student's Book...read more

Product Description: Here is a book that pointedly focuses on what teachers need to consider in their classroom decision-making. Its main emphasis is on classroom and curricular integration, not on the panoply of available technology. It addresses the needs and concerns of preservice and inservice teachers of different experiential backgrounds, from computer novice through long-time proficient users...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This text aims to assist future teachers in either becoming computer literate or using computers more effectively in a classroom situation. Practical examples are provided, including samples of various types of hardware and programs for use in instructional planning and classroom instruction. This edition includes a new chapter on telecommunications, including such topics as videoconferencing and distant education, Internet and on-line services. The chapter on "Multimedia" has been revised and incorporates classroom projects and coverage of virtual reality, morphing and warping in order to introduce students to ways of using the computer to combine text, graphics and sound into a multimedia presentation capable of improving instruction. There are also updated discussions of software and an updated list of annotated software including CD-ROM and laserdisc. (view table of contents)

Product Description: As your complete guide to creating video projects with students in elementary and middle school settings, this book features step-by-step plans for 25 creative curriculum-based video projects. The plans include notes to the teacher and fully reproducible student handouts...read more

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Product Description: The new edition of this award winning book features extensive revisions and updates including: -- Free CD-ROM with every copy containing Web sources for a range of curriculum areas!-- How to use new internet technologies-- Important new sites and updated address changes for sites listed in the first edition-- Updated examples of classroom applications-- Tons more information on Web searching and developing Web page...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Written from the viewpoint of the teacher, this successful book does an exceptional job of realistically detailing the use of media and technology in today's classrooms. The focus on the selection, utilization, and evaluation of media, along with new full-color photographs and more than 100 illustrations, make it one of the most comprehensive instructional media texts available...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume integrates research findings from three multinational studies conducted to examine the impact of children's use of computers in school. Conclusions are drawn from in-depth analyses of trends in more than 20 nations. Its seven authors from four nations were key researchers on these projects...read more

Covering everything K-12 educators need to bring the Internet into the classroom, a comprehensive guide provides ready-to-use lesson plans, virtual tours of eight leading sites, and listings of important Internet resources. Original. (All Users).

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Product Description: Behaviour management in the classroom and schoolyard is one of the most challenging aspects of teaching. Student Behaviour offers a comprehensive overview of the major theories of behaviour management in schools, illustrated with detailed case studies...read more

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