Now I'm developing smart agents to guide students learning while working together. This book has been a good refernce for me. I am sure it will be good for you, too. It can be your great introduction to cooperative learning for reviewing details of good cooperation and bad competition and systemic approaches to them.

Along with the prequel to this book, Every Minute Counts : Making Your Math Class Work, you get a TON of useful tips, strategies and techniques to help your math students learn. Every new math teacher should read it and even experienced teachers may get some good ideas from it. I recently lent my copies to a new teacher at our school. They were given to me when I was fairly new to the profession by another experienced teacher.

A very useful book for this type of course. It might not be exactly what you're looking for if you want something to read on your own.

WOW!!! Talk about a user-friendly piece of scholarship/literature!!! This book takes you from the simplest "How to write a multiple choice test" to the elaborate, yet simple, manageing/monitoring for effective group performance. This book is a MUST for both educators and after-school program facilitators!!!

This book is great for the beginner. It covers Windows95, Office 97, Internet, Word 97, Excel 97, Power Point, Outlook, and integration between the applications. It is a great book for a beginner because it is very explicit and includes excellent illustrations. If you are familiar with a certain application, you can easily skip over sections and get to what you want to learn about. It also has sections that show how to the information from one application in another. It will quickly get you up to speed in using these applications. It would definetly be a good tool to use to gain computer skills for those just being introduced to Microsoft Office applications

This is a great book if you are a beginner. It has a brief introduction to PowerPoint and the illustrations on how to get started with a presentation and how to complete a presentation is very informative. This book is more of hands-on and guides you through every step of the way.

This also has Independent challenges where you can apply the tools you learned in the chapters to create your own presentations.

This wonderful guide book allowed me to stroll through the streets of Old Montreal and the entire downtown area, discovering the architecture and history of the many fine old buildings. The two fold-out colour maps were very useful to get around. They are air photographs of the city with buildings and cars and everything in detail. VERY COOL! I really liked the way it pointed out architectural features that I would certainly have missed. The stories about the places it guided me to made me learn more about the city in which I live. I'm reccommending it to all my friends who are planning a visit to me in Montreal. The historical background brought the city into perspective.

This book is definitely an eye-opener to those of us who are curious about how the economy really works. Although some of the language in the book can get confusing, the concepts are easy to understand. David Johnson uses great examples to explain these concepts and will really make the reader understand how the political economy affects his or her life. I especially found Johnson's discussions on the economics of elections/voting very interesting. Although the book is out of print, it would be a good idea to get your hands on a copy. The only way to improve this book would be to have the author, David Johnson, read it in an audio version. He's a great lecturer!

I strongly recommend this book. I first saw this book in abouit 1980 - it is still the very best and most practical book I have ever met for synthesis of the tradtional range of active filters. Contains excellent advice on practical techniques. Covers high, low, band pass plus other designs. Anyone with a basic understanding of electronics can design a working filter of their choice in minutes.

This is a fantastic book for kids to learn how to cook beyond opening a can of spahgetti. It doesn't make things cutesy, because kids want to eat real food. Not tacos decorated to look like sharks. These are really kid tested and make cooking fun.