Several of the papers in this collection describe university programs or provide practical suggestions for using technology to enhance literacy instruction; other papers focus on a diverse range of issues, instructional strategies, and research findings related to different aspects of literacy. Papers in the collection are: "A Community of Thinkers: Creating Multimedia Literacy Environments Overview" (Victoria J. Risko and others); "Creating a Community of Thinkers within a Preservice Literacy Education Methods Course" (Victoria J. Risko); "A Community of Thinkers: Literacy Environments with Interactive Technology" (Marino C. Alvarez); "Technology and Literacy: Challenges of the Twenty-First Century" (Michael C. McKenna); "Integrating Technology and Reading/Language Arts at the Undergraduate Level" (Jo Ann F. Bass and others); "Building Critical Reading Skills and Countering Biases: Using Tradebooks with the 'Oregon Trail'" (Deborah L. Thompson); "Linking Reading to Math and Technology: Adventures on the 'Oregon Trail'" (Lynn H. Fox); "Learning from a Distance: Triumphs and Challenges" (Jane Meeks-Hager and Marilyn Eanet); "'Black Milk of Daybreak': The Literacy of Testimony and Witness" (Ray Simmers-Wolpow); "Reaction Paper: "'Black Milk of Daybreak': The Literacy of Testimony and Witness" (Eunice N. Askov); "Response Paper: 'Black Milk of Daybreak': The Literacy of Testimony and Witness" (Noemi Ban); "A Survey of Teachers' Reading Habits" Jerry L. Johns and Peggy Marciniec); "Factor Analysis of Teachers' Responses to Why They Don't Use Published Reading-Teaching Methods and What Would Cause Them to Do So" (Anthony V. Manzo and Ula C. Manzo); "Student Readiness to Learn: Judgments of Prospective Teachers about Background Based on Language Usage" (Richard Telfer and others); "A Content Analysis of Current Content Area Reading Textbooks" (Alexandra Ruschko and others); "Undergraduate Reading Metaphors: Traversing the Information Superhighway or Weaving the Web?" (Alice Randlett and Bobbie Stokes); "An Analysis of Story Content and Discussion through the Lens of Banks' Stage Theory of Ethnic Identity Development" (Louise M. Tomlinson); "Children's Book Awards and 1995 Shortlists from Five English-Speaking Countries" (Ira E. Aaron and Sylvia M. Hutchinson); and "Alternate Routes to Understanding: Reading and Writing in a Second Language" (Mary S. Benedetti and others). The collection concludes with a "problem court" article and a reaction paper in which various presenters take a humorous, but critical, look at issues related to implementing technology and "surfing" the information superhighway. (RS)