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Peer reviewedDescy, Don E. – TechTrends, 1993
This first of a two-part series highlights three tools that improve accessibility to Internet resources: (1) Alex, a database that accesses files in FTP (file transfer protocol) sites; (2) Archie, software that searches for file names with a user's search term; and (3) Gopher, a menu-driven program to access Internet sites. (LRW)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Databases, Electronic Mail, File Transfer Protocol
Peer reviewedSmaldino, Sharon E.; Muffoletto, Robert – TechTrends, 1997
Examines a nonintrusive model for technology training in teacher education and describes the University of Northern Iowa's basic preservice technology training course: educational media and classroom computing. Discusses media production, distance education, hypermedia, e-mail, telecommunications and the Internet, database construction,…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Databases, Distance Education, Educational Media
Peer reviewedLee, John K.; Bennett, Clifford – TechTrends, 1999
Provides definitions of the following words and phrases that are related to technology and its use in the social sciences classroom: CD-ROM, database, discussion group, e-mail, hypertext and hypermedia, Internet, simulation, spreadsheets, virtual field trip, and World Wide Web. (AEF)
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Databases, Definitions, Electronic Mail
Peer reviewedKlinck, Nancy A., Ed. – TechTrends, 1990
Reviews networking projects that have been developed by educational institutions and computer companies. Highlights include minicomputers that network personal computer workstations; voice mail messages; data processing systems; linking university databases; the National Science Foundation Network (NSFNET); a computer link between a high school…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education, Court Reporters
