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This study explored elementary school teachers' personal experiences with using computers in the classroom, their present use of computers in the classroom, and their views on current computer use as compared to their preferred use in classroom instruction. A total of 149 teachers from 15 elementary schools randomly chosen from two counties in western New York participated in the study. Teachers answered a survey questionnaire on their training in, and knowledge of, computers; their comfort level in using computers for teaching; and their computer use in classroom instruction. The teachers also discussed the amount of training they would prefer to receive, their preferred comfort level in using computers in the classroom, and their preferred level of integrating computers into their teaching. Based on teachers' responses, significant differences and positive correlations were found between teachers' present computer training, level of comfort, and computer usage in the classroom as compared to their preferred training, comfort level, and usage. The questionnaire is appended. (Contains 26 references.) (SM)

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert