Author Description

This guide was especially created for educators- to show them how easy it is to travel the Internet. Unlike other Internet "how-to" books, this guide directs you to the vast storehouses of educational resources and how to gain instant access to them - subject oriented resources, reference resources, and global collaborative projects. Readers will bring new excitement into their classes. They'll participate in global collaborative projects such as NASA's Live from Mars or the JASON project. Expand intellectual horizons by using three thematic units-Rain Forest, Ancient Civilizations, and Oceans. Novice Net drivers will cruise the information superhighway with confidence, learning every step quickly and easily in just days- even in a few hours- they'll be at home with: e-mail, mailing lists (listservs), Gopher, FTP (file transfer protocol), Usenet, newsgroups, World Wide Web, Telnet. They'll also learn how to use the two premiere browsers, Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer. Elementary and secondary school educators and administrators. A Longwood Professional Book.