LEARNING CONNECTIONS
Multidisciplinary
26 Yes, Kindergarteners
Can Blog, and So
Can Their Teachers!
Sharon E. Davison
Apps
29 What’s That Tree?
Leafsnap Knows
Nicole Cooper
Multidisciplinary
30 You Don’t Need an iPad
for These Web Apps!
Juan Carlos Venegas
LEADING CONNECTIONS
4
Issue Oriented
Explore Avenues of Learning
Kate Conley
5
ISTE in Action
Make Your Voice Heard!
Holly M. Jobe
6
Point/Counterpoint
Does the U.S. Education
System Support Innovation?
Selena Ward and Pete Welter
7
Readers Respond
8
ISTE News
Research Windows
10 Forward Thinking
from Washington, DC
Clare Strawn
PRODUCTS & SERVICES
Buyer’s Guide
42 Webpage Editors
Maureen Yoder
Review
44 Adaptive Curriculum
Math
Julie Leckman
Digital Equity
31 Comcast Offers
Low-Cost Internet
for Families in Need
Rebecca Brown
Physical Education
Multidisciplinary
Know the NETS
36 Can You Observe the
NETS•S in Practice?
ISTE R&E
As I See “IT”
37 Five Lessons from a
New Tech Coordinator
Caroline Haebig
Member Profile
40 Krista Moroder:
Personalizing Student
Learning with Good
Paul Wurster
47 Coming Next Issue
Last Byte
48 MOOCs
Benefits & Issues
46 What’s New
Volume 40 Issue 6
Editorial
Editor .................................................... Kate Conley
kconley@iste.org
Senior Editor ........................................ Diana Fingal
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Managing Editor ..................................Paul Wurster
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Associate Editor.............................. Andra Brichacek
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Art Director .......................................... Tamara Kidd
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Acquisitions Editor Emeritus............. Anita McAnear
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Columnists
Connected Classroom................................ Glen Bull
Dr. Eval and Research Windows...........ISTE R&E Staff
Voices Carry................................... Hilary Goldmann
Curriculum Specialists
Computer Science ........................ Chris Stephenson
IC T....................................................... Julie Lindsay
Language Arts.................... Julie Duffield, Lisa Wahl
Mathematics ..................................................... TBA
Physical Education and Health ............... Ken Felker
Science............................... Jared Mader, Ben Smith
Social Studies........................................... Judy Britt
Special Needs........ Joan Thormann, Cindy Anderson
Visual and Performing Arts ............. Savilla Banister
World Languages ............................Kathryn S. Land
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ISTE Senior Leadership
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