Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-gxg78 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-22T17:23:35.828Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Using the Microcomputer in the Classroom: Initial Considerations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

Anne Permaloff
Affiliation:
Auburn University at Montgomery
Carl Grafton
Affiliation:
Auburn University at Montgomery
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
The Teacher
Copyright
Copyright © The American Political Science Association 1991

References

Notes

1. This article expands on Permaloff's, Anne presentation “Using Computers in the Classroom,” Innovations in Teaching Political Science Roundtable, Western Political Science Association Meetings, Seattle, WA, March 1991.Google Scholar

2. SimCity: The City Simulator, MAXIS Software, 1042 Country Club Drive, Suite C, Morgan, CA 94566. Available for IBM, Tandy, and compatibles. Runs best on a hard disk but will operate on two 5–1/4″ 360K floppies.

3. For an examination of these and other relatively inexpensive student statistical packages, see Permaloff, Anne and Grafton, Carl, “Student Statistical Packages,” PS: Political Science & Politics, XXIII, 1 (December 1989), 820–31.Google Scholar