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Drawing on research and extensive online experience, this book demonstrates how teachers can best become designers for Internet projects. The author shares 18 structures for successful telecomputing activities, an eight-step process for creating those activities, five purposes for students' teleresearch, and 10 types of Web pages teachers can use to support their projects. She also provides numerous online resources and examples of successful classroom-tested projects. ... Read more

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Used for Class
I can't say that I was particularly intrigued but needed this book for a class.It served its purpose.

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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This book for students comes complete with a CD containing links to the most popular educational resources on the Net, including the major "Ask the Expert" sites on the Internet. Every K-12 student should have a copy of this Helper as they embark on homework on special research projects. ... Read more

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Covering everything K-12 educators need to bring the Internet into the classroom, a comprehensive guide provides ready-to-use lesson plans, virtual tours of eight leading sites, and listings of important Internet resources.(All Users). ... Read more

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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

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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

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This title offers ideas and strategies for exploiting the ever-evolving World Wide Web. Focusing on changes to the way languages will be taught in the future, this book is complemented by a Web page which ensures that links to recommended websites are regularly updated and instantly accessible. ... Read more

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As more and more teachers need support with the use of technology, we gathered our experts from around the country to showcase ways in which teachers of all grade levels and subject areas are using the Internet in their classrooms. How to Use the Internet in Your Classroom demonstrates how easy it is for teachers to get up to speed. It can also be used as the basis for professional development courses or as a supplemental support for a course on using technology in the classroom. ... Read more

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20 Fun, Web-based Activities With Reproducible Graphic Organizers That Enable Kids to Learn the Very Latest Information‹On Their Own!
Great for Independent Learning!
What are hurricane hunters? Where is the Ring of Fire? How can kids help disaster victims? Students find the answers to these and other fascinating questions to develop their Internet research skills and learn key social studies and science information. Also includes reproducible graphic organizers for students to record their findings and extend their learning by inventing legends about earthquakes, creating a game show about hurricanes, developing a brochure about a career in volcanology, and more. ... Read more

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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, 1999. The length of the article is 835 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: A case study of Internet-based collaborative learning in a kindergarten through sixth grade classroom environment is presented. Teachers found that dedicating time to learn new hardware and software tools could be nearly impossible, and the school's lab of 24 Windows 95 machines was not especially useful despite its state-of-the-art software and ADSL Internet connection. School staff also found that teaching students how to use a particular piece of software or code in HTML made them focus on the computer itself rather than the content. Educating parents about the potential of the Internet was another challenge. The school chose the software program Zebu for its ease of teacher training and Internet integration, slowly integrating the Internet into existing classrooms. Zebu let teachers flexibly design projects that met a variety of needs. It is now used by all grade levels within the school, which has received help from Learning Systems and MC2.

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Title: Creating a Collaborative Learning Environment in K-6 Classrooms.(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
Author: Bruce Carabine
Publication: T H E Journal (Technological Horizons In Education) (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 1999
Publisher: T.H.E. Journal, LLC
Volume: 26Issue: 10Page: 76

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This book is a product of a dissertation project that was completed in December2006. This project investigated teachers' experiences in relation to teaching and learningusing the hybrid-context instructional model. The dissertation itself has been noted as oneof the best in providing practical tips for teachers in this area. The study methodology isincluded as appendix B. To answer the questions raised during the interviews, the findingsof the study have been supplemented and supported with extensive literature review ofempirical studies to provide theoretical and practical solutions. The literature review drawsfrom total Internet, blended, and hybrid instruction studies. The literature on the totalInternet instruction has relevance in that the Internet piece of the hybrid-context course shares the same course managementsystems and requires the same approaches and principles as do total Internet instruction. The book discusses the conceptualand descriptive presentations of the hybrid-context model, media, applicable teaching philosophies; strategies bestaccomplished in each medium; various ways of linking the face-to-face and the Internet activities; the why and how thestudy participants transitioned into teaching hybrid-context courses, teachers' expectations, etc. The discussion on 'labor oflove' is the core of this book as the discussion has captured the surprises the study participants met in a way that is notreflected in the current literature. Built into this discussion are the amounts of things teachers had to learn in order tofunction well as hybrid-context model teachers. The contents of this book will aide teachers who teach in any way using theInternet. Therefore, any establishment/individual using the Internet for teaching andlearning will benefit from the contents of this book. Also, the administrators will findthis book a selling point to encourage more participation in the adoption of thehybrid-context instructional model as well as realizing what the teachers would needto successfully implement this phenomenon. ... Read more