Suggests computer assisted instruction software that doesn't provide all necessary components of a lesson can be useful if the teacher identifies instructional functions (Gagne's Events of Instruction) provided by the program and supplies those that are missing. This framework is applied to analysis of a specific computer program. (MBR)

If techniques can be used that help disabled students while also having application for other students, the result can be overall program improvement. This approach to finding solutions for some of the more prevalent technology teacher concerns is explored in this article. (CT)

The article extends previous microcomputer software evaluation forms by providing an evaluation instrument based on research-based instructional techniques, providing a step-by-step approach for evaluating software, and adding a student evaluation component to the overall review. (Author/CL)

Guidelines for selecting and using pictures to guide instructional decisions and behaviors are based on three areas of research: role of pictures and how they improve learning, how context or environment in which pictures operate can influence usefulness, and how physical and perceptual characteristics of pictures affect their function. (MBR)

Presents guidelines for cost effective product development for training managers charged with quality control of products and training specialists who design materials. Discusses phases of educational product development--diagnosis, design, development, and evaluation. (MBR)

Using the example of a teacher preparing a science review, describes the necessary elements of successful classroom writing. Students' interests, controlled vocabulary and sentence structure, and logic and clarity in the prepared material are stressed. (CJM)

This pamphlet discusses open courseware, exploring its origin and educational potential. "Courseware" includes educational software and electronic course materials. "Open courseware" describes courseware that gives users a significant degree of openness (or accessibility) to these course materials. The courseware provides a technological and legal…

This book provides annotations for 300+ contemporary and classic fiction and nonfiction books that support and enhance the middle school curriculum. The selected titles represent top-quality literature that ties into all areas of the curriculum. The annotations are organized into chapters that cover the following subject areas and genres:…

This study guide for elementary and secondary level teachers is intended to be used with the One World Poster Series kit. In addition to the study guide, the kit includes eight full-color posters appropriate for hanging in a school or classroom, each poster featuring a work of art and corresponding text, quotation or poem relating to themes of…

This book provides guidance to beginning and experienced educational material developers. The targeted objectives are guiding developers on external funding, explaining the complex process of developing instructional materials, and pointing out the human interactions and issues involved in the development process. Chapters include: (1) "The…

For Black History Month (February 2000), three U.S. Postal Service lessons help students explore the nation's differences and similarities. Students are encouraged to think about the lessons of the past and to form solutions for the future. Lesson 1, "American Diversity," looks at the overall meaning of diversity, examines ways to stop…

Many unexplored possibilities remain for comprehensive and systematic use of popular song in the foreign language classroom. The song is both a pedagogical tool (for listening comprehension, vocabulary, grammar, conversation, composition, culture, and history) and a subject for literary study. (Author/MSE)

Describes a step-by-step outline for an efficient curriculum program encompassing: curriculum responsibilities; plans for a revision schedule; and revision committees and their schedules. (AH)

Questions the relevance of the traditional structural/grammatical approach to Russian course design. Suggests instead a functional notional approach and provides an overview of its rationale and principles. (EKN)

Briefly discusses some of the factors to be considered in selecting instructional software for microcomputers and presents an annotated list of instructional computer programs recommended by the authors for first purchase in developing software collections. A list of distributors is attached. (JL)