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Without having a school assignment behind them, students explore the Web for their own interests, oftentimes encountering other individuals with the same goal. Arguably its most powerful aspect is the Web’s ability to reduce geographical boundaries...

This paper presents results from an ongoing, three-year case study of the perspectives of 13-year-old students on the value of podcasts, PowerPoints, and Web sites for their own scholarly advancement. Thus far, one hundred sixty nine middle school...

In this paper, the mechanism that has caused the most emotional impact—online social networks—will be explored. Online social networks contribute daily to fear, love, disbelief, consternation, validation, and excitement. Without having a school...

Multimedia Juvenile Victimization: Helping Teachers Understand Youth Behavior is a subset of a the larger project, which is a two-year study whose goal and purpose is to contribute to the understanding of Internet and technology-facilitated crimes...

This paper discusses the results of school faculty (N=425) perspectives on youth behavior online. Data was gathered via a 22-item questionnaire in Virginia, Wyoming, and Hawaii. Issues such as opinions on where students should learn about internet...

This paper describes the development challenges of an online learning community for teaching science as inquiry. Fourteen teachers part of the a cohort of teachers patterns of participation were examined via activity logs. Though teachers were...