Bibliography

“About the Journey Inside.” The Journey Inside. 2004 Intel. 11 February 2004 < http://intel.com/education/journey >

This is the fourth edition of The Journey Inside composed by teachers, and ISTE. It was originally created to provide teachers with material on how computers work, because resources were very limited in this topic area. It was originally a kit sent to teachers but since computers are now more prevalent in classrooms Intel moved the kit online including student activities and customizable resources that teachers can print off and use.

Achtman, Myron and Malcolm Achtman. “Computer Literacy” 1998 ADITA Video Inc. 11 February 2004 < www.adita.com/literacy.htm >

This website provides a detailed explanation of how the computer works, who makes computers, what makes a computer good or bad, and the difference between Hardware and Software. This site take a detailed look into these topics that provides a familiarity with the basic computer terms and components. The page was created to help people understand the elements of the computer in order to understand advertisements that listed features such as Ram and Mhz. The website is divided into three parts: Computer Fundamentals, What makes a Good Computer, and Hardware and Software. ADITA Video is a web based company dedicated to helping people create quality videos. They are based out of Canada. In addition to video help they provide Pinnacle Edition Tutorials, ADOBE Premier 6.5 Tutorials, and Computers Inside & Out on their website.

ADITA was created by twin brothers who after working in the oil business followed their hobby and created their own company. They specialize in computers and photography. They both have degrees in Geology from McGill University.

Bontchev, Vesselin. “Future Trends in Virus Writing.” International Review of Law, Computers & Technology. 11.1 March 1997: 18pp. Academic Search Elite. EBSCOHost. 9 February, 2004 < http://search.epnet.com/login.html?profile=web >.

This extensive article provides an in-depth look to the world of virus writers. Describing how thy write and the different techniques that they use to get the nasty viruses onto peoples computers. Initially written for the computer literate and possibly computer programming audience it provides valuable information for those who have the free time t read the very lengthy article. The author Vesselin Bontchev is a German professor who works at the virus test center and the university of hamburger in Germany.

Borman, Jami Lynne. Computer dictionary for kids – and their parents. Hauppauge, NY: Barron’s Educational Series Incorporated, 1995.

This book is composed of over seven hundred terms that are prevalent in the computer world. Written in 1995, it uses easy-to-understand language and fun illustrations. This book is meant for children in the third grade and higher, because it’s very easy to understand the definitions and normally the only foreign words are italicized because that’s the word you originally looked up. You have to be able to read it to understand it. The illustrations help to decrease learning rather than enhance it, because they make you think a computer is an elephant with a plug for a tail. Borman works for the publisher’s educational series department. Everything I read although it may be slightly silly is very accurate, and it includes terms from both Macintosh and IBM computers. It has some pictures of the windows that display directly on a computer or pictures of keys within the text. It also has pictures of keyboards at the beginning of the book.

Brian, Marshall. “How Computer Viruses Work.” How Stuff Works. 2003. February 11, 2004 < http://computer.howstuffworks.com/virus.htm >.

From the How Stuff Works website comes “How Computer Viruses Work.” Like the website the information is written on an elementary school level, approximately fifth grade, explaining how different viruses work, where they come from and how to protect yourself from them. It includes a section about the origin of viruses and the histories and includes hyperlinks throughout the document to specific viruses, worms, and other important vocabulary.

The How Stuff Works website is divided into eight different categories. It is designed to help students understand the world around them explaining many everyday items that they would be curious about in terms that would be developmentally appropriate.

Brown, Marc Tolon. Arthur’s Computer Disaster. Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1997.

Marc Brown is the popular author of the Arthur series. All these books are written for emergent readers, whose environment is full of these stories. Arthur Computer Disaster deals with the issue of using his mother’s computer without her permission, taking turns with his best friend, Buster, when they play and solving the problem of fixing the computer when they drop the mouse and the screen goes black. The two friends and D.W. go to Brain and the computer store to find help for fixing the computer before returning and confronting the issue when Arthur’s mom begins to use the computer.

Chard, Sylvia C. The Project Approach: Book One Making Curriculum Come Alive. New York: Scholastic, 1998.

Sylvia Chard is one of two profound authors, who are the leading supporters of the project approach to education. She is an associate professor at the University of Alberta, where she teaches courses on the project approach and other related topics at the graduate and undergraduate level of the elementary education department.

Book One is written as an introduction to projects and project work. Meant to illuminate the important topics in the classroom and theories of project work itself, this book is meant to be read before projects are introduced into the classroom. It is easy to understand, and doesn’t take long to read. She includes many examples of what is required by the parents, teachers, and even students, dividing complex issues into subcategories and even bullets.

Chard, Sylvia C. The Project Approach: Book Two Managing Successful Projects. New York: Scholastic, 1998.

Book Two provides an in depth understanding of the three phases of project work using the same easy-to-read and understand format as Book One. This can be read and utilized during projects, because it provides detailed examples of the how’s, when’s, and even why’s of each phase.

Charette, M. Louise. “Keep It Simple: A Reality Check for Computer in Early Childhood Classrooms”. Classroom Leadership. November 1997. Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD). February 11, 2004.

< http://www.ascd.org/publications/class_lead/199711/charette.html >.

This article is written by an elementary school teacher to explain to them how computers should be used in the classroom and how to teach early childhood students about computers. The essay was adapted from an article originally published in The Well-Connected Educator, an electronic publication of the global schoolhouse. It provides important information about integrating technology into the early-childhood classroom.

Cook, Peter. Why doesn’t my floppy disk flop?: and other kids’ computer questions answered by The CompuDudes. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1999.

Why Doesn’t My Floppy Disk Flop, is a list of questions and answers asked by children to the CompuDudes, which is a popular radio show on National Public Radio. The simple to understand explanations inform readers about the processes of the computer without insulting them. The book is filled with helpful information in grey boxes that relate to the information that they are providing in the answers. The illustrations help aid understanding of the concepts about which they are talking, creating visualizations for learning. The authors use their extensive computer knowledge to write about computers in the Philadelphia Enquirer and Knight-Ridder Wire Services. They have also been included in Discovery Channel, Home Matters, and Fox Network News.

Cringely, Robert X. “Triumph of the Nerds”. June, 1996 PBS. 11 February 2004 < http://www.pbs.org/nerds >.

Robert Cringely is the host of Triumph of the Nerds the television show aired on PBS in June 1996. The website is designed to provide viewers with more a in depth look at computers. There is a section about the history of computers, the important figures in the computer world, and a game that quizzes your computer knowledge as well as a comment and question and answer section. There is a link to the television listings as well so that viewers can find the time that this specific program will be aired again.

Dolecheck, Carolyn. “Protecting Student Labs from Computer Viruses.” Journal of Education for Business. 68:4 (March/April 1993): 3pp. Academic Search Elite. EBSCOHost. 10 February 2004.

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“Protecting Student Labs from Computer Viruses” was written in 1993 when computer viruses were still new and many people didn’t understand where they came from. Written for high school teachers. To help them understand what a computer virus is, where it came from, and how to prevent them from appearing in computer labs. It provides information that we all have hopefully internalized, but is well written providing and in depth look at the world of computer viruses. Caroly Dolecheck is a professor at North East Louisiana University in Monroe Louisiana.

Goldsborough, Reid. “Arming Yourself in the Virus War.” Black Issues in Higher Education. 20:18 (October 2003): 1p. Academic Search Elite. EBSCOHost. 29, January 2004.

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This article was written to help high school teachers understand where viruses come from and why people create viruses. It talks about the different anti-virus software that you can install on your computers and lists the cost of these programs, reviewing them to help the reader choose the most appropriate one for their school laboratory. The author is a columnist, an author of the book, Strait Talk About The Information Super Highway.

Helm, Judy Harris and Lilian Katz. Young Investigators: The project approach in the early years. New York: Teachers College. 2001.

Lilian Katz is the most prolific writer and best authority on elementary education. She has recently retired from the University of Illinois, where she was an professor EMERITA of elementary education for approximately thirty years. Young Investigators is an in-depth guide to creating and implementing programs in the early childhood classroom with detailed examples with problems that have worked with three- four- and five-year-old children. It includes documentation of children completing project work, As well as artifacts from the classroom such as observational drawings web maps and charts created by the children.

Hesse, Petra and Feona Lane. “Media Literacy Starts Young: An Integrated Curriculum Approach.” Young Child. 58:6 (November 2003): 13pp.

As part of the 2003 November issue of Young Child this article elaborates on the importance of teaching media literacy in the early childhood grades, elaborating on why it is important to educated young children on this important topic reviewing three books that can be used to included

this topic in a classroom already full of meaningful learning.

“How Computers Work.” World Almanac for Kids. 1998. p36 2pp. Primary. EBSCOHost. 9 February, 2004 < http://search.epnet.com/login.html?profile=web >.

“How Computers Work” from The World Almanac for Kids is a simple article explaining the different elements of a computer, and the different items that are important to using the computer in a very simple easy to understand language that can be read by third-graders if they have the computer background to understand the terminology. The voice of the article sounds like a teacher talking to a student in a gentle tone. The World Almanac for Kids is a yearly publication similar to The world Almanac written for adults, only it has topics that are natural to a child’s world written on a third grade level to make the knowledge easily accessible to children.

Junion-Metz, Gail. Coaching Kids for the Internet: A Guide for Librarians, Teachers and Parents. Library Solution Press, 2000.

This is a educator/parent resource about the use of the Internet, safety issues that should be considered, and activities to use with children. The appendix is the most valuable part of the book referring dozens of resources for the reader. It is the text book for a two day seminar but the in depth explanations and analysis provides the reader with such a deep understanding that the seminar instruction doesn’t seem to be required

Simon, Seymour. Meet the Computer. HarperCollins Children’s Books. 1985.

Meet the Computer is a children’s book written in 1985 aimed at introducing elementary students to the different elements of the computer, how it works, and how to use it. The cartoon-like illustrations are outdated as compared to current computers used in the everyday classroom, but the information in this book is historically accurate and valuable for providing a broad overview of where computers came from and what original computers looked like, sounded like, and how they weren’t very different from the computers we use today. When talking about how the computer works the book is not significantly outdated, because the only change in the past twenty years is that the ROM and the RAM share a connection to the CPU as do the input and output devices.

Seymour Simon is the author of many science books for young children. More than thirty have been selected as outstanding science books for children by the National Science Teachers Association. He was a science teacher before he became a writer. Using his education and understanding of children, he provides easy-to-understand explanations on a child’s level about complex science ideas such as space, computers, and dinosaurs. Ed Emberly, the illustrator, graduated from Massachusetts and was the winner of the 1968 Caldecott Medal for Drummer Hoff.

“Thinking Machines. “The Knowledge Network. Ed. Brian Hunter Smart. Brookfield, Connecticut: Copper Beech Books, 1998.

The Knowledge Network is a child’s encyclopedia written so that each article covers a two-page spread that includes picture’s important facts and historical highlights. Thinking Machines is a submission about computer chips that outlines the history of computer chips, their importance to the computing world and the operation of the tiny devices. The background is filled with close up photographs of computer chips. The submission is written with the simplicity that an average fifth grader can understand the key elements about computer chips. The book is filled with diverse submissions that range from Medieval history to Animal Knowledge, geared to help provide another medium for students to get information about topics that are important to Science and History.

“What is the Difference Between Viruses, Worms, and Trojans?”. Symantec Knowledge Base. August 7, 2003. Symantec. 11 February 2004 <http://www.symantec.com/search/ > 1999041209131106

As part of the Knowledge Base, Symantec has created detailed definitions of commonly asked questions relating to computers and viruses. This specific question discusses computer viruses and how they are different from Trojans, worms, and hoaxes. The document is written for the average computer-user to be able to completely understand these very important issues. It is broken up into very specific types of viruses Trojans and worms. Included with the definitions are some instructions on how to remove whatever it is that you seem to have on your computer, assuming that you are looking at this document because you are having computer trouble. Symantec is the creator of Norton Anti-Virus, said to be the best anti-virus software for Windows computers. Norton Anti-Virus* searches for 29642 different Viruses. And the definitions listed are what the company uses to classify the viruses the are fighting.

White, Ron. How computers work. Emeryville, CA: Ziff-Davis Press, 1993.

Ron White is the executive editor of PC Computing. He-+ and Timothy Edward Downs are the author and illustrator of a series that is updated approximately every two years. The most recent edition was published in 2003. How Computers Work is a detailed explanation of the different parts of the computer, which follows the information through the computer aided by detailed illustrations that do not require the text for understanding. This book is intended for adults, but the clarity of the illustrations allows universal use. The descriptions are numbered to help follow the flow through the computer, but the explaining captions are written on a computer science level and require specific vocabulary for understanding some of the explanations. For this an adult can inquire from the Computer Dictionary for Kids and Their Parents.