A Project with Paradoxical Goals

 

Networking the K12 Classroom

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For a brief (1 page) tutorial on basic computer skills, click on the link (the colored text) at the end of this paragraph. To do this, slide the mouse along the desktop (by the computer keyboard) until the cursor (the arrow on the computer's screen) moves onto the colored "Click Here Now". Then "click on the link"; which means to tap (press and quickly release) the mouse's button with the cursor on the colored text. Ready? To go to the tutorial Click Here Now. (If a menu pops up by the cursor, you held the button down too long. Release the mouse button to make the menu go away and try again). Links change color once you've used them. But they work just as before. The change is to help you remember that you've used them.

Destinations and Highways to take you there

Now that everyone has the four basic skills you need to use the web effectively, exploring the web becomes a matter of clicking links as you did in the tutorial. Links will be mixed within text without further explanation. Just click on links to move to new destinations, use the scroll bars to read the pages that interest you, and use the arrows at the top to return to your starting point, exactly as you did in the tutorial.

You will occasionally find links that don't work when you click them. Here's an example of a broken link. These are not unusual. They can result from errors by those who developed this informaton or system outages around the globe. Just move on to another link or try the broken links later.

So let's dive in and start exploring. Just remember, it really is an Electronic Frontier you're entering, a volcanic place where fundamental social rules are still being invented. And reinvented. So hey, let's all be careful out there!

Orientation for this course. Please read this first.

Destinations: Web destinations relevant to K12 teachers.

Highways: that get you to those destinations: the web, internet, computers, communications and other components of the information highway.

MetaSelf -- Metaphor Model of the Self. Common spatial metaphors comprise an accessible visual model of the self. Aims: to introduce h.s. students to power of metaphor, and to offer a unifying cultural image.

Using Internet in the K12 classroom

Attendee list for this week's class.

Wildflowers The students and teachers who visit your site might find WILDFLOWERS to be a useful resource for spring science projects. Information is organized by states and includes: gardens, events, catalogs, WWW links and resources. Additional information is provided on references, plant identification and photographs of wildflowers.All links have been checked for the 1996 season and NON WWW resources are now being verified by mail. by Gary_Lipe@msn.com; garylipe@onramp.net

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