USVI Department of Education

1998 Professional Development Institute

Introduction to Integrating the Internet

• Introductions and Overview
• What is the WorldWideWeb?
• Navigating the WWW
• Internet Resources for Teachers
• Creating Your Own Resources

Introductions and Overview

• Gail Doherty
  • gdoherty@sun-associates.com
  • www.sun-associates.com
  • 978-449-0200
• Goals for this session
  • Basic familiarity with the WWW and Netscape
  • Using the Internet for teaching and learning
• Specific Requests?

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What is the WorldWideWeb

• What is the Internet?
  • a network of networks
  • interconnected via a common standard (TCP/IP)
  • different ways to access the Internet (modems, direct access, etc.)
• What is the WorldWideWeb?
  • one of many services on the Internet
  • hypertext and HTML

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Navigating the WWW

• Using Netscape
• URLs (addresses)
• Search Engines
  • Excite
  • Yahoo
• Bookmarks
  • Creating Your Own
  • On-line Collections
    • Kathy Schrock
    • Sun Associates

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Internet Resources for Teachers

• Useful, example, WWW sites that support...
  • General resources
    • Kathy Schrock's Page for Educators
    • Integrating the Internet
  • Example curriculum resources
    • History and Social Studies Resources
    • Donner OnLine
  • Lesson plans
    • Social Studies Lesson Plans
    • Blue Web'n
  • On-Line projects
    • Internet Projects Registry
• Electronic Mail and Listserves
  • Email Discussion Lists and Listserves

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Creating Your Own WWW Resources

• An example from Shawsheen Voc

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Last updated,August 13, 1998