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Electronic Teaching: Trouble with Computers: Addiction and Crime

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A scenario is depicted of a male high school computer addict, Albert, who shows symptoms such as withdrawal from peer communication, hours of computer time with no accompanying learning progress, and nasty comments to those who interrupt him. Albert had several restrictions placed upon his computer use at school, to relieve his symptoms. A second type of addict is described, who is enthusiastic, intelligent, and spends hours writing complex programs and adventure games. They are increasing their knowledge constantly, and remain distant from their peers. These addicts can be managed by using them as assistants in the computer center. A different computer center problem, computer crime, is also discussed.

Ethics, Computer crimes, Social conditions, Computer Crime, Social Issue, Student, Addiction to Computers

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Electronic Teaching: Computers in Your Library

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Three types of computers are appropriate for high school libraries: an outside host computer with library terminals receiving data over telephone lines, a microcomputer with floppy disk drive, and a microcomputer with a hard disk drive. The first, on-line computer, is too expensive. The floppy disks are inexpensive ($1000 per pair), but cannot hold enough data, and are easily damaged. The third option, the hard disk drive, has adequate storage and is not as sensitive to damage resulting in data loss. The prices of the hard disk drive start at $1795, and can store five million to twenty million characters of data, which relates to 10,000 to 40,000 books.

Hard disk drives, Hardware, Floppy disk drives, School libraries, Computer Systems, Floppy Disk Drive, Online, Integrated Systems, Hard Disk Drive

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Electronic Teaching: Computers in Art and Music

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Interactive Picture Systems distributes Movie Maker software for $60. Movie Maker allows the user to create animated color graphics. Koala Technologies distributes the Koala Pad for $99.95. The Koala Pad allows the user to draw on a tablet and have the information transferred to the monitor screen; it works with Movie Maker. Syntauri Corporation distributes Alpha Syntauri, a music synthesizer that works with small microcomputers; it can be used to add music to animated graphics. All three items work on an Apple computer. The included photograph shows the Alpha Syntauri.

Evaluation, Product/Service Evaluation, Graphics tablets, Graphics software, Music, Animation software, Computer art, Personal Computers, New Product, Software Packages, Review, Music Synthesizer, Graphics Tablet, Movie Maker, Koala Pad, Alpha Syntauri

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