The Teachers Complete Easy Guide To The Internet

THE TEACHER'S COMPLETE AND EASY GUIDE TO THE INTERNET shows K-12 teachers how and why to incorporate the Internet into their program, providing teaching strategies that ensure that they and their students can use the Internet as an effective learning tool. This guide is packed with easy-to-understand information that teachers need to incorporate the Internet successfully into their classroom.

Contains step-by-step instructions for a variety of projects designed to help teachers and students use the Internet.

The fully updated edition of this popular book offers a wealth of ideas for using the Internet as a teaching tool.

The book covers all aspects of teaching Web design, from optimal class size and classroom configuration to peer review of completed projects. It uses many examples from the Web design course taught by the authors at MIT.

This comprehensive guide shows K-12 educators exactly how the Internet can help them bring study topics to life as it captures and holds interest. Includes 30 reproducible lesson plans and reviews 50 top educational Web sites. Comprehensive listings are highlighted of Internet resources for teachers.

In this easy-to-use reference, over 1600 websites have been carefully researched and selected with educational and recreational needs in mind. Sorted into thirty categories including all National Curriculum subjects, the book provides brief descriptions of each website and the resources you can expect to find there. Some of the wide-ranging categories include art, attractions, careers and students, environment, film, TV and radio, reference and revision. The format is unique and simple, making this a perfect resource for young people, parents and teachers and an excellent support tool for schools and libraries.

To many people, the use of computers and the Internet as research tools is not a new concept. To others, though, computers are a relatively recent if necessary addition to their research toolkit. A lack of experience presents many difficulties for first-time users and others with limited computer know-how. This work, a second edition to the acclaimed Internet Research: Theory and Practice provides useful information for anyone who wants to broaden the range and scope of their research tools or anyone who wants to increase their knowledge about what is available electronically. The author discusses the following: basic methods of research using Internet protocols, Internet history, techniques for online searching, research theory and suggestions for maximizing results, mechanisms helpful in distinguishing good from bad or mediocre information, and ways for individuals to improve their research skills. Also included is an expanded discussion of Internet search engines and their operation, issues in scholarly communication and other emerging matters, and an enlarged and updated bibliography.