information technology

Surveys the ways in which electronic technology including laptop and portable "powerbook" computers, supercomputers, modems, and videophones have altered work and production.

A collection of practical strategies for teaching information and communications technology skills in middle school, and includes audio CD.

Explores the growth of the Internet and development of interactive television which occured in the 1990s and highlights other innovations in computer animation and the rise of other forms of media.

Traces the history of communication in the 1970s and 1980s discussing how the developments of those two decades contributed more to the field of information technology than any other time in history.

Explores the technical developments of satellite communication during the 1960s and highlights the raw images captured by photojournalists around the world during the decade.

Presents ideas elementary school educators to encourage information literacy skills with the Big6 approach that defines information literacy, and discusses how to use the Big6, suggestions for student problems, citation, evaluation, and other related topics.

Discusses how to use the Big6 method to teach information and communications technology skills to kindergarten through third grade students, and describes lessons and activities. Includes a CD-ROM.

Focuses on cyberbullying and offers a variety of perspectives-eyewitness accounts, governmental views, scientific analysis, newspaper and magazine accounts, and many more to illuminate the issue.

Discusses where the Internet is leading us and what the information highway really was, is, could, and should be.

Presents information on the issues concerning our privacy and our rights to privacy.