Classroom Materials & Media Reviews

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Welcome to the Classroom Materials & Media Reviews column, with a transition to announce. For many years we have been very well served by column editor Remy Dou, who is stepping down. I am pleased to be taking over as the new editor, so please join me in thanking Remy for all of his contributions and wish him the best of luck in his new pursuits.\n\nWhen I sat down to write this introductory column, I spent a lot of time thinking about how classroom media and technology have changed over the past 20 years. When I first started writing technology reviews for ABT back in 1999, many of the items I reviewed included CR-ROMs and videos. Publishers were fairly generous sending out their materials when the cost of an expensive software package was a good trade-off for an unbiased and professional review in a well-known journal.\n\nOne of the greatest video programs I reviewed was called The Shape of Life . This 10-part series covered the evolution of all the major animal phyla, from Porifera to Chordata. It included great state-of-the-art …