Students practice quickly scanning the results of an internet search to determine which might provide the best information. They choose key words or phrases to type into the search engine and read the descriptions of each hit.

Fourth graders use the internet to search for pictures about historical events and then use those pictures for a timeline game

Students send and receive e-mail messages and find the location of each of the messages on a map. Students then write a description and trivia facts about their school to send to others.

Students write letters to e-mail pals and respond to letters received. Students describe the geography of their community to their pals.

Students explained and demonstrated what the Internet is and the safety rules for using it. They navigate the Internet using search tools and the browser.

Seventh graders use accessible technology to explore active research projects currently taking place, choose a current research project to study and create a presentation using the information that they have gathered.

A basic introduction to building Web sites. Includes getting started, communication, publishing power, files, words, pictures, color, links, and standards links.

The tutorial explains how learners can alter their computer, browser, keyboard, and mouse settings to make the web more accessible.

In this lesson, students talk about dressing up and taking on identities that are similar to or different from them. They are then introduced to the idea of avatars as a kind of "dressing up" inside video games and consider the ways in...

This personal site provides users with essential information on developing personal communication skills through mail and talk.

This site has a timeline with information about the world wide web dating back to 1945. The timeline includes links to other information relating to the web.

This tutorial site for NetPBL (Networked Project-Based Learning) offers guidance for developing collaborative learning.

Read about projects at Facebook and Google that are working to expand internet connectivity across the globe. Includes video.

This is the homesite for the National Writers Union, an organization for freelance writers. Contains an amazing amount of useful material, especially for aspiring writers, journalists, or storytellers.

This website, from the University of Edinburgh, provides a lengthy glossary of computer graphics terms written by Olin Lathrop, author of "The Way Computer Graphics Work". This site provides simple definitions of basic terms; no graphics...

Innovations in transportation, communication, and weapons transformed the world in the 20th century. The modern era is the most complex yet, and the most fragile. This photo gallery highlights some of these innovations.

This collection of instructional videos analyzes how the internet has created a system for everyone to engag.

This article provides a brief history of the web, including links to other topics.

Read about the technological advances that brought on the information age at the beginning of the 21st century. The internet, e-mail, and the spread of fiber-optic cables revolutionized the amount of information available to the ordinary...

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