Welcome to ASPIREations, ASPIRE's online e-zine.   What is an e-zine?  This is what John Labovitz, maintainer of probably the world's largest e-zine list has to say:

For those of you not acquainted with the zine world, "zine" is short for either "fanzine" or "magazine," depending on your point of view. Zines are generally produced by one person or a small group of people, done often for fun or personal reasons, and tend to be irreverent, bizarre, and/or esoteric. Zines are not "mainstream" publications -- they generally do not contain advertisements (except, sometimes, advertisements for other zines), are not targeted towards a mass audience, and are generally not produced to make a profit.

An "e-zine" is a zine that is distributed partially or solely on electronic networks like the Internet.

For an in-depth history of e-zines, please visit John Labovitz's e-zine-list at http://www.meer.net/~johnl/e-zine-list/

     ASPIREations goal is to keep the K-12 education community aware of various things that are happening in the world of computing, particularly computational science.  This means reviews of software, techniques to help teachers and students in the classroom, useful resources, as well as other things that prove beneficial.