Book Description
This new edition offers clear guidance on the practicalities of the Internet as a resource and classroom tool and a range of practical activities grouped by themes and levels. ... Read more

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Gavin Dudeney's Internet book
Excellent book. The first pages (Guidelines) serve as the basis to understand what Internet is all about and how it can be used in ELT . It's got tips, hands-on sections and Website FAQs. They're a must for newbies like me. For us,EFL/ESl teachers, this book is an excellent resource to start our journey towards the integration of ICT into the language classroom. Wonderful activities, smartly organized by levels and themes.

Valuable resource book
I bought this book despite the comments made by the reader from SÃO PAULO, and therefore had some hesitations in using it in my classrooms. However, I found the book to be incredibly informative and chock full of useful and practical ideas that can be easy implemented into the classroom. It is written in such a clear way that there's no need to have any in depth internet knoweledge at all. A god send for the likes of me. I would recommend this book withput hesitation to any teacher wanting to utilise the capabilities of using the internet in the classroom. I'm not sure what problems are friend in Brazil encountered, but I had no trouble at all. All of the pages listed in the book led to straight to the sites they were supposed to. I have already started an email exchange with another school. I'm not sure what problems are friend in Brazil encountered, but I had no trouble at all.

Worth having
This is a really useful book.Although a fan of the internet and an EFL teacher I could never quite work out the best ways to use the net to help my students.This book is full of practical and workable ideas.It opens up a whole new resource for teachers.You don't have to be a computer whizz either! ... Read more

Book Description
See how to effectively integrate the Internet onto your classroom- with this new guide designed specifically to help educators improve teaching and learning in grades K-12. The focus on teaching is what sets this book apart from others. Each chapter begins with an example of a teacher using the Internet in the classroom and goes on to discuss the lessons we can learn from that teacher's unique experience. Here you will see how the Internet is changing the nature of classroom instruction- and how you can use it successfully to enhance your students' learning opportunities- through the fascinating Internet insights an experiences of many educators from across the US and Canada, as well as throughout the world. What's more, in many chapters you get listservs and newsgroups to put you in touch with other teachers facing the same challenges you do. The entire K-12 curriculum is covered.In the pages of this new 1999 edition you will find resources and instructional strategies immediately applicable to your elementary, middle, or secondary classroom.The authors have also expanded coverage to include both Macintosh and Windows platforms, and both major Internet browsers: Netscape Communicator (Navigator) and Internet Explorer.All of this, plus a look at the growing commercialization of the Internet and information resources...new photos of actual e-mail contributors to this new volume... and listings of the many new Internet sites that have appeared to help you and your students in the classroom, make this your most up-to-date, valuable resource for teaching with the Internet.AUTHORBIO: Donald J. Leu and Deborah Diadiun Leu first began teaching in the Peace Corps where they worked as elementary classroom teachers of English as a Second Language (ESL) in the Marshall Islands of Micronesia. Since then, both have worked to support language and literacy learning among many different populations using a wide variety of electronic media. Deborah has taught many types of ESL learners from engineers at the Bechtel Corporation in San Francisco to her current position where she teaches students in the English Language Institute at Syracuse University. She received her Masters degree form Syracuse University in Linguistics and English as a Second Language. Don worked as a classroom teacher and a reading specialist in California. He is currently Professor in the School of Education at Syracuse University and author of numerous books, articles, and software devoted to supporting teachers in literacy education and electronic learning environments. He received his Ed.M. from Harvard and his Ph.D. in Language and Literacy from the University of California, Berkeley. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (8)

Good Resource
The is a very good resource. It gives great ideas on how to use the internet in the classroom. What I like particulary is the wealth of ideas it gives on how to incorporate the internet in the classroom.

A Must Have for Teaching with the Internet!
Don and Deborah Leu have created a great Interent reference/teaching guide for teachers of all computer skill levels, from beginners to old pros!

The book not only inlcudes explicit explanations of Internet terms andprocedures, but includes plenty of figures and examples of what the screenwould actually look like as you are working. The Email to You sectionscontain real teachers describing real projects that they have sucessfullydone with their students. Leu and Leu also provide many, many links toresources and project ideas in the major academic disciplines for teachersto use as they begin to incorporate the Internet in to the classroom.

Iwould highly recommend this book to teachers and teacher educators alike. Iconsider my self to be an advanced user of the Internet and I learnedseveral new things from reading this book!

Good Resource
This book proved to be very informative, giving step-by-step models to use to incorporate internet resources into classroom activities, computer workshops, research projects and student inquiries.It is organized bychapters that give curriculum based internet ideas, with excellent relatededucational web-sites.It is geared for all levels of teacher ability, soeveryone can get their classroom started.Although some ideas and sitesseemed repetitious, it allows you to refer to a specific chapter by subjectarea to find related sites and sample activities.This book iscomprehensive enough to highlight features of various navigation tools,cover both MAC and PC platforms for grades K-12.

A Practical Internet Teaching Resource
Teaching With the Internet: Lessons From the Classroom is a practical, hands on guide well suited for layman use.It encompasses both Netscape and Internet Explorer browsers as well as the IBM and Macintosh systems. Each chapter is devoted to either a specific Internet strategy such asnavigating and communicating or to specific subject areas and concernswithin the public school curriculum K-12.This text should be included asan essential component in every school's technology reference library andutilized as an indispensable resource in effective Internet teaching.Itis packed with countless creative teaching suggestions and noteworthy websites as well as step by step instructions on how to implement it all.

Review of Teaching with the Internet
I highly recommend Teaching with the Internet to the novice and experienced net user. It is a great sounce of "current" web sites spanning the educational needs for K-12 students. I have used lessons takendirectly from the book with great success. I consider the text to be aninvaluable resource in my personal journey in understanding the"net" as well as to open new areas of exploration for my youngstudents. This book is also a wonderful tool for parents trying to assisttheir children with study projects, book reports, etc. The information inthis book is updated regularly through its web site as changes take placeon the www. This educational tool is a wise investment for anyone who usesthe "net". ... Read more

Book Description
Although administrators, parents, and teachers all want access to Internet information and services in K-12 schools, no one is sure how such access will serve teaching and learning goals. Design Tools for the Internet-Supported Classroom offers staff development professionals an important resource for helping educators create powerful, curriculum-based online activities.

It's not enough for teachers to know how to use Internet tools like e-mail or search engines. Teachers who successfully use telecomputing technology instead focus on the instructional design of their activities, accommodating students' needs, preferences, and past experiences.

Author Judi Harris draws on research and extensive online experience to demonstrate how teachers can best become designers for Internet projects. She offers 18 structures for successful telecomputing activities, an 8-step process for creating those activities, 5 purposes for students' teleresearch, and 10 types of Web pages teachers can use to support their projects.

Have you ever considered who is likely to adopt an innovation first--or last? How can you work with those educators, and what types of staff development should you offer them? Harris answers these questions as well, providing numerous online resources and examples of successful, classroom-tested projects. ... Read more

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Great Professor
I really like the book because I took a class from the professor that wrote it.Everything I learned about supporting classroom instruction with technology, I learned from her and is reinforced in this book.I highly recommend this book!

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Dreamweaver CS3, now included as part of Adobe's Creative Suite 3, isthe leading professional Web design and development application in themarket, and is a must-have tool for any Web designer or developer.Dreamweaver CS3 offers new CSS layouts, a unified CSS panel, and CSSvisualization tools that let users create interactive Web sites withouthaving to delve into code. Dreamweaver users can now create dynamicinterfaces using the Spry framwork for Ajax. (Spry is 99% HTML, so it'saccessible to both designers and developers). Spry widgets (pre-builtuser interface components) let users quickly add common user interfacecomponents to Web pages. Each chapter in this full-color book containsa project that builds upon the reader's growing knowledge ofDreamweaver, while review questions at the end of each chapterreinforce the most important skills. Readers will learn how tocustomize a Dreamweaver workspace, apply cascading style sheets, enterheadline and body text, insert graphics and rollovers, and add links toa page. They'll also learn how to add interactive elements to theirsite, such as behaviors, effects, and Flash video; add new code or codesnippets; and publish their finished site to the Web.

SPECIALNOTE: Before starting the lessons in the book visitwww.peachpit.com/dwcs3cib for important lesson and project file updates.

Customer Reviews (18)

Not very good, even for a beginner
I bought this book because I remembered using the CIB series to learn Photoshop 3. That book was very good. This one is not, and is definitely not worth the $54.99 list price.

There is very little explanation of WHY you do each task, and most (if not all) of the examples are nearly complete already - you just add the last bit of the project. You don't create anything from scratch, you just follow along and complete the project with little to no explanations about what you're doing or why.

Also, the lesson on creating forms informs you 4 pages into the lesson that although the lesson teaches how to create a form, the form won't actually do anything when you click "submit" because you'll need to "see Dreamweaver Help, 'Building applications visually'" to learn that part.

While constructing forms that can't do anything may seem helpful, I expected a little bit more from a book that lists for $55 and has "Adobe Press" as the author/publisher. I would have thought this book would be the most thorough beginner class you could find, but instead it's more like the first day of the beginner class, where they give the overview of what you'll learn.

I feel especially disappointed when I see other books such as the Dreamweaver CS3 Bible that are four times as thick and $5.00 cheaper.

expert
the best css, html, xhtml, javascript, flash, photoshop, flex, actionscript wrapped into one book

A MUST

2 [reluctant] stars.
Dreamweaver CS3 is undoubtedly the single best web/html authoring application to have ever been published, i.e., at the time of this writing, but this instructional manual is not worthy of the software. Note that reviewers who give this book high marks seem to do so while making no comparison to anything that is, or potentially might be, better. In other words, `the book has been of some help' (as compared to having no help at all). Well, I'll grant it that much, but that's hardly a ringing endorsement.

I have found it to be clumsy, opaque, disjointed, pretty much annoying. But yes, it's slightly better than nothing. I definitely recommend taking a look at reviews for other Dreamweaver manuals.

I dream with Dreamweaver.
This book most importantly than telling me how to do it, it gives me examples of what it will look like on my computer. I know when I finish reading it, I will understand how to build a web page.

Frustrating but somewhat useful.
The book does introduce a novice user to many features of Dreamweaver but often when following written instructions my example does not look like it does in the book.The instructions are often wrong or incomplete, causing frustration.They need an associated site and/or telephone number that a user can contact for help.Adobe should have checked these projects much more carefully before publishing this book. ... Read more

Book Description
20 Fun, Web-based Activities With Reproducible Graphic Organizers That Enable Kids to Research and Learn--on Their Own!
Great for Independent Learning!
What was life like on the Oregon Trail? How did the pioneers build their homes? What kinds of toys did pioneer children play with? Students find the answers to these and more as they research pioneer life on the Internet. Reproducible activity sheets he ... Read more

Book Description
This digital document is an article from Instructor (1990), published by Scholastic, Inc. on January 1, 2004. The length of the article is 493 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The internet in the classroom: it's changed the way we teach and the way students learn.
Publication: Instructor (1990) (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2004
Publisher: Scholastic, Inc.
Volume: 113Issue: 5Page: S7(1)

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This digital document is an article from T H E Journal (Technological Horizons In Education), published by T.H.E. Journal, LLC on May 1, 1997. The length of the article is 3598 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Georgian Court College expanded its Internet training, services and support as faculty and staff become self-sufficient. The college's information systems department developed an introductory class on the World Wide Web and using Netscape Navigator. As instructors became proficient using the Internet, they developed curriculum based on Internet technology. One education professor introduced students to the Web in an introductory teaching class. A biology professor encouraged students to follow discussions on various listservs. Another professor taught students to conduct literature searches using the Internet for a class on research methods in social work. One teacher developed a proposal to deliver a meteorology course over the Internet.

Citation Details
Title: Using the Internet: concept to classroom. (Georgian Court College's Internet strategy) (The Internet in Education) (Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
Author: J.B. Greenhalgh
Publication: T H E Journal (Technological Horizons In Education) (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 1997
Publisher: T.H.E. Journal, LLC
Volume: v24Issue: n10Page: pS15(5)

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Book Description
Whether it's simply a class on telecommunications and education, a full-blown M.B.A. degree program, or something in between, today's technology has vast implications for the educational community.

Creating the Virtual Classroom gets right down to the real issues of the design and management of distance learning programs -giving practical advice on putting together effective courses and programs. You'll find out how to propose, plan, and fund a distance learning program for any level from kindergarten through college. You'll learn all of the techniques you'll need to evaluate and advertise your program. There's in-depth coverage of all the latest technologies, including the Internet and the Web, as well as an illuminating chapter on reconceptualizing education and training through distance learning. Special appendices offer up-to-date information about newsgroups and mailing lists, instructional Web sites, online resources for grants and proposals, and much more.

The book features:
* Comprehensive coverage of the various forms of distance learning from e-mail and online teleconferences to the World Wide Web
* Sample checklists to make planning easier
* Tips on advertising and promoting your distance learning program
* Detailed advice on funding and grants
* Course design considerations for an international audience ... Read more

Customer Reviews (4)

Great Book.Helped me outline my research paper
I found this book to be a useful introduction to creating a virtual classroom.I am a student studying instructional technology and it has helped me put together the outline for my research paper.The book is nottechnical, nor is it a guide for online curriculum.What it does isdiscusses at an introductory level the tools of creating an onlineclassroom.

I thought it was a great book as a brief overview of keyissues of importance for creating a virtual classroom.It helped guide myweb sourcing while I put together a public interest web site utilizing freeinternet service providers.I am now ready to move to the next phase ofdevelopment with my web site.I have a clear understanding of what comesnext.

I would recommend this book to students and people beginning theirquest to understand the tools of the virtual classroom.

Graduate StudentInstructional Technology

Good overview for beginners
I found that the text filled in some blank spots around what I already know.It also provided a good outline not necessarily for the technical side of things, but more from a theoretical approach.It answers thequestions that begin with, "Why?"

for a project
I want this book for my project

Very lightweight book
I found this book to be very lightweight -- anyone with experience with the Web or with Web design will find little here that is not common sense. Very disappointing. ... Read more

Product Description
Middle-level teachers, librarians, and media specialists can use this book to meet current English language arts and technology standards and to prepare students to be literate citizens in the 21st century. You’ll discover the research base for including the Internet in your classes, learn the dynamics of digital reading and writing, and find out how to design online literacy opportunities that foster students' literacy development beyond the basics. Additional teaching tools include timelines of classroom events, reproducible rubrics for assessing curriculum units, suggested Web resources, and a glossary of key terms. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Computer User, published by MSP Communications on August 1, 2003. The length of the article is 2407 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The worldwide classroom: Internet collaboration: the other killer app for distance learning.(Back To School)
Author: Ari Kaplan
Publication: Computer User (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 2003
Publisher: MSP Communications
Volume: 21Issue: 8Page: 18(3)

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This book is an easy-to-use guidebook exploring the Internet's enormous potential in the classroom. ... Read more

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Reviewing Kids on the 'Net
Jessica Morton's book, Kids on the 'Net, is absolutely outstanding for any educator who is leery about bringing the Internet into the classroom.This book takes you step-by-step into how the 'net can be beneficial for yourstudents' or childrens' learning. The book is chock full of ideas andpersonal reflections by the author to show you that the Internet can be ourfriend. The book is written in a style that is non-threatening and easy toflip through. Morton's book teaches you how even young children can e-mailpen pals (e-pal) from around the world and be interactive in newsgroups.This is a must needed resource for teachers of the new millennium. Sheoffers web sites that are useful for creating projects and reproduciblesthat go along with certain lessons. If technology is the way to go in yourclassroom, then you need this book.

A must read for teachers and parents!
Jessica Morton's "Kids on the 'Net is inspiring.Between the lines it speaks to what 'good' teaching is really about and the lines themselves sing with a clear how to do it for using the net well.A great source forthose who want to be creative and for the many who fear, for one reason oranother, the use of the internet.It is so well written and presented thatI felt like I was reading a terrific story.At t he end I knew I'd donethat and more!

An outstanding book to use to get started 'using the net'.
Jessica Morton has an easy way of writing that will make the reader feelshe can use the 'net' with young children after reading about Mrs. Morton'ssuccesses in her own classroom.She does not use computer language thatthe average person cannot understand.She not only uses examples from herown classroom but also relates to the reader how to go about beginningusing e-mail with simple dos and don'ts.I have used e-mail with my secondgrade students for many years but while reading this book I discovered somegreat ways to improve the use of e-mail with my class of 7-8 year olds.Adefinite book to read! ... Read more