internet in education

Helps educatores define and answer the questions they may have about the preparation needed to build high quality, lowrisk, and meaningful educational Web sites.

Introduces educators to Internet tools and applications that allow people to collaborate and share information online, comprising the second generation of the World Wide Web often referred to as Web 2.0, and covers such topics as blogs, podcasts, and virtual environments.

Describes how students are being exposed to a commercialized version of the Internet and includes information on how to develop noncommercial resources.

Presents the various Google tools and explores how they can be used within the classroom.

Provides guidance for using podcasting as a motivating educational tool, covering the basic technical process and presenting several lesson plans.

Offers tips and sample activities for teachers to encourage student understanding of technological devices, including the use of computers for Internet research, and provides a list of fifty Web sites.

Identifies and explains the teaching applications of Weblogs, Wikis, Really Simple Syndication feeds and aggregators, social bookmarking, online photo galleries, Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter, and features examples from teachers around the world.

An illustrated overview of Web 2.0 tools that can be useful in classrooms or school library programs, explaining the benefits of digital literacy, and describing social bookmarking sites, media sharing, social networking, digital mapping, and related topics.

Offers library media specialists and educators guidelines, models, and strategies for using Web 2.0.

A guide to using Google applications in schools that discusses Google Documents, Spreadsheets, Forms, Bloggers, Earth, Maps, Picasa, and more and provides instructions for their use and more than forty lesson plans.