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[MultiMedia Schools]
A Practical Journal of Technology for Education, including
Multimedia, CD-ROM, Online, Internet & Hardware in K-12
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May/June 2002 • Volume 9, Number 3
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Cover Illustration by Erica Pannella

-Editorial

DirectConnect • What a Difference a Decade Makes[Full Text]
Ferdi Serim — Page 6
 

- The Online Educator

Moving Every Child Ahead: The Big6 Success Strategy[Full Text]
Bob Berkowitz with Ferdi Serim — Page 16

CyberBee • Building Prior Knowledge[Full Text]
Linda C. Joseph — Page 30

The Internet in Juvenile Fiction Revisited: What's Out There Today for Young Cybersurfers
Jean Reese — Page 38

Avoiding Pornography Landmines While Traveling the Information Superhighway
Key Lehmann — Page 44

ThinkFest! • The Untethered Scholar: Free at Last!! (Part 2)
Larry Anderson — Page 50
 

- Practical Matters

The Media Center • Why Are Media Positions Cut? How Not to Survive![Full Text]
Mary Alice Anderson — Page 23

Testing for Text: How to Use Assessment Data to Select Student Reading Materials [Full Text]
Larry Kleiber, Ph.D. — Page 26

Japanese Librarians Learning from American School Librarianship [Full Text]
Chiaki Sakai, Yuriko Nakamura, and Yumi Kitamura — Page 34

I.D.E.A. Works • Speech Recognition — The Lay of the Land for Word Processing
Rob Reilly — Page 38
 

- Reviews/Products Tested

The Reference Shelf • Summer Reading and the Internet
Jean Reese — Page 42

Product Reviews • Electronic Resources for Schools
compiled by Kathie Felix — Page 55

HARDWAREPage 55
GeoSafari Talking Microscope • Charles Doe
Sharing Product • Mike Ballard

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SOFTWAREPage 58
The Letterbugs Get Ready to Read • Susan W. Hixson
BoxerMath: Fundamental Math • Yukiko Hill

MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL SOFTWARE/WEB SITESPage 61
Discoveries: Explore the Everglades Ecosystem • Sally Finley
American Scrapbook: Detroit Memories • Alice Kurtz

GENERAL INTEREST SOFTWARE/WEB SITESPage 64
RubricMaker • John Drag, Jr.
World Book Online Americas Edition • Agnes Dunn
 

- Departments

NewsWatch[Full Text]
Kathie Felix — Page 10

NetWatch[Full Text]
Kathie Felix — Page 14

TitleWatch[Full Text]
Kathie Felix — Page 52
 

-Index to Advertisers
 
 

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