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Andy Reinhardt, "New Ways to Learn"
Enhanced version of a 1995 Byte magazine cover story examining how electronic technologies are changing classrooms and educational paradigms.

Writing the Information Superhighway
(English Composition, Wayne Butler, University of Michigan)

Communication and Technology
(Speech Communication, Ben Attias, California State University at Northridge)

Imagining the Future: The Politics and Possibilites of Emerging Technology
(Literature Seminar, Ted Friedman, Duke University)

Stephen R. Acker, "Space, Collaboration, and the Credible City: Academic Work in the Virtual University"
Acker, a professor at Ohio State University's Center for the Advanced Study of Telecommunications, writes in the paper's abstract: "Collaboration, greatly facilitated by advanced telecommunication networks, has become a dominant mode of conducting academic work. However, when collaborators meet in both physical and "electronic" spaces there are a number of unexamined costs that go with the efficiency and inclusiveness made possible by easy telecommunication-based exchanges..... The concluding section of this article considers how to build the collaborative university so that the pleasures of physical space are preserved, and the efficiencies of reaching across distances with telecommunications can be leveraged...."

George Gilder, "The Issaquah Miracle"
Gilder examines the wiring of a western Washington State school district -- and the participation of students in all aspects of the project -- as a microcosm for networking on a larger scale.

Richard Holeton, "The Semi-Virtual Composition Classroom: A Model for Techno-Amphibians"
Written by the editor of Composing Cyberspace, as first published in the newsletter of Stanford's Writing and Critical Thinking program, this article suggests ways to combine electronic and face-to-face teaching practices in a college writing course.

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Claudia Wallis

Orson Scott Card
A fan-oriented site, with links of course, by Chuck Cadkins at Clemson University.

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EdCom International
"EdCom International is dedicated to filling the vastly under served niche for technology consulting, administration and support in addition to educator and staff training services for elementary, middle and high schools."

CMC & Education
Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine from 1996 with several articles about educational uses of electronic technology.

Horizon
Edited by James L. Morrison. "Our mission is to inform educators about the challenges that they will face in a changing world and steps they can take to meet these challenges."