Below is a description of the November issue of The Technology Source, a
free webzine at
http://horizon.unc.edu/TS.
As always, we seek illuminating articles that will assist educators as they
face the challenge of integrating information technology tools in teaching
and in managing educational organizations. Please review our call for
manuscripts at
http://horizon.unc.edu/TS/call.asp
Jim
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James L. Morrison
morrison@unc.edu
Professor of Educational Leadership CB 3500 Peabody Hall
Editor, On the Horizon The University of North
http://horizon.unc.edu/horizon Carolina at Chapel Hill
Editor, The Technology Source Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3500
http://horizon.unc.edu/TS Phone: 919 962-2517
Fax: 919 962-1693
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Multimedia has been gaining in importance over the last
several decades, and knowledge of it is becoming increasingly
necessary in today's instructional world. Pat Gantt discusses
the applications of multimedia for education and the attitude
needed to utilize it effectively in this month's Vision article.
Distance learning and electronic instructional forums are
often denigrated as being of less worth than traditional
learning methods. In this month's Commentary, Nancy Levenburg
and Howard Major discuss the validity of distance learning
as a tool for both instruction and research. If electronic
teaching methods are to be valued equally with traditional
ones, we must come to see the skills of individuals with
non-traditional educational backgrounds as a potential asset
to teaching institutions, rather than as a handicap.
In this month's Case Study, Harvey Moody discusses the Internet
technology that allows him to greatly enhance his chemistry
classes, using e-mail, online tutorials, quizzes, and bulletins,
animated three-dimensional models, and PowerPoint lectures.
In our Faculty and Staff Development section this month, Patricia
Cravener details the attitudes that contribute to faculty
resistance toward using information technology tools in education,
and offers suggestions on how to overcome this reticence and
successfully train teachers in the use of new technology.
The Site of the Month for November is Tapped In, the site of
the Teacher Professional Development Institute, which encompasses
a growing community of educators that allows members to hold
real-time discussions and classes, browse Websites with other
members, post and read about new professional opportunities,
and hold discussions using mailing lists and discussion boards.
In this month's Letters to the Editor, Glenn Ralston critiques
what he sees as the "old-fashioned" attitude toward technology
innovations held by many educators, and our editor steps upon
the soapbox to offer a brief but heartfelt welcome to our new
editorial board and the establishment of TS as a refereed electronic
periodical.