Preface

About the Editors and Contributors

1. Why Use Computer-Mediated Communication?

Sandy Zelhofer

Mauri Collins

Zane Berge

PART I: OVERVIEW

2. The Techno-Geeks Are Out to Get Us! The Challenge of Integrating Internet-Available Resources and Teaching Practices

Peter R. Hester

Nancy Butler Songer

3. Planning Cooperative and Competitive Learning Using Multiple Access Systems for Microcomputers

Henryk R. Marcinkiewicz

Brian Carlson

4. Students, Teachers, and Electronic Mail: A Journey of Discovery in Education

Paul D. Chandler

Stephen J. Loosley

PART II: CMC AND SOCIAL STUDIES

5. What's in the News: Time Sensitive Instructional Television and the Computer

Robert M. Butler

Timothy E. Swartz

6. The Camelot Project: Developing Student's Historical Understanding Through Interactive Electronic Storying

Ted Riecken

7. The Iowa-Japan Connection

Leigh E. Zeitz

Many Beth Kueny

8. Knowmagine-A Knowledge Park in Cyberspace

A vigail Oren

David Mioduser

PART III: CMC AND MATH AND SCIENCE

9. Computer-Mediated Communication in the Mathematics Classroom

Debra Dirksen

10. Computational Science at Lee's Summit High School

John Biggerstaff

Jim Laffey

Jim Nazworthy

PART IV: STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES

11. Improving Communication Skills in Learning-Disabled Students Through Immersion in a Science/E-Mail Based Curriculum

Leisa Zelda Winrich

12. Happenings: A Publication by Students Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing

Cathy Brandt

13. When There is No Other Way to Interact in English: Computer Networks with Deaf Students

Joy Kreeft Peyton

Martha French

PART V: LIBRARY MEDIA CENTERS

14. The Library Media Center: Growth and Change

Glenn Johnson

Christina Schell

Nola Wright

15. Integrating the Internet Into the Rural K-12 Library

Ray Schroeder

16. Teaching Information Literacy in a CMC Environment: The School Library Media Specialists as a Collaborative Partner

Kathy Latrobe

W. Michael Havener

PART VI: RESOURCES

17. A Framework for Selecting and Using Internet Resources for K-12 Educators

John December

Glossary

Zane Berge

Mauri Collins

Michael Day

Author Index

Subject Index