THE INTERNET AND THE CLASSROOM

This chapter will not tell you what to do tomorrow in your classroom with the Internet, unless one of the examples just happens to fit your immediate needs.

Instead, this chapter first highlights two major ideas.

These are intended to help you make clear objectives for your uses of the Internet, and to help you see the whole terrain, rather than the narrow path ahead. With clear intentions, and a broad view of the Net, you will be better prepared to learn, and to guide others" learning on the Internet.

Next, several sources of already existing lesson plans, project ideas and educational Internet methods are provided. One of the great strengths of the Net is that anyone is able to build on the good ideas already available in the Net, and thereby have more time to creatively adapt projects to exactly meet special, local, and personal needs.

This chapter also reviews some of the many efforts now available to assist teachers who are beginners on the Internet. You also will find what I call the buzzword gibberish decoder (BGD), which will help you find your way among many projects that have similar sounding names. Finally, there are some technical sources you can go to if you happen to be the type of person who wants to understand why the computers are hooked up to the network the way they are, and a small sample of K-12 schools already on the Net. Tip: If you do need some quick ideas on what to do in class tomorrow, refer to Chapter 2. Choose a topic area you or your students would be interested in, and several resources will be at your fingertips!

So, here is what's ahead:

What's So Good about the internet as a Place for Learning?

Why use the Internet in my home or classroom to enhance student learning? The Internet has resources in abundance, and provides methods for teaching children more than just facts.

Will this be a good way to help children prepare for the future? The Internet is becoming an integral part of life. It is used in education, business, and in leisure, and students will need to become familiar with the Internet to become prepared citizens.

The following sections discuss new ways to to think about education, and the educational values of the Internet.

The Internet and Learning
What is good about the Internet and learning? The first answer is that it is a powerful releaser of emotion, motivation, and engagement for students. Some students gravitate to the Net like nothing before in their lives. While the Net is unlikely to completely replace athletics and/or music lessons, for some students it is the best opportunity ever made available to them. These children soon realize that their rewards on the Internet will be in proportion to their investment in learning Net skills, and learn all the more for it.

Contacts around the world, in far away places, make any project more dynamic, and more interesting. Often, the Internet has the most current information available anywhere. Both teachers and students can be invigorated by the freshness and immediacy of the Net.

Note: This is not intended to be a comprehensive review of all the good reasons why every school should be using the Internet. Rather, this will briefly list, in broad strokes, how the Net is being used to accomplish important educational goals, in some cases goals that could not be achieved without Internet access.

The next answer is that the Net is the future. It's probably less expensive than a high school sports program, and Internet fitness will stay with students for life, because these skills are intellectual, not physical. Keyboarding is only the surface. Kids learn to ask better questions, to make better arguments, and to present themselves more positively over the Net.

Beginning with e-mail, children concentrate harder to express themselves when sending a message to another country or state. They work on vocabulary and clarity as never before. When they know a student in Stockholm, or an engineer at NASA will be writing back, children recognize the difference between slang and formal language.

Speaking of formal language, learning computer languages, that is, learning to program computers, is a tremendous mathematical learning opportunity. Computer operation is based in math, and truly understanding computers requires some fairly sophisticated mathematical and scientific concepts. Kids who get hooked on the Net tend to excel in other areas of math and science.

The Internet is fast becoming the largest reservoir of knowledge ever known to this planet. Students quickly grow adept at finding and retrieving remote information, and then go on to develop more sophisticated search and retrieval strategies. They begin to really appreciate librarians for their access and retrieval skills, and no longer see them as magical sources of books and information.

Teachers are challenged to help determine how to deal with the masses of retrieved information. For students, this is the beginning of learning analysis, evaluation, and application. These writing, thinking, and knowledge skills are applicable in almost every curriculum area.

And many of the Net's best resources are human beings, not computers or databases! Old friends, new friends, experts of all types, colleagues, specialists, and fellows of stripe are on the Net, just waiting for you. Teacher isolation can become a thing of the past.

Time and Space Disappear
Old constraints of time and space are not relevant on the Net. In Net time, Australia is just as close as the state capital. E-mail arrives in minutes, and huge files can be copied in seconds.

Teachers can use e-mail to perform consultations without expecting to play telephone tag, and students can exchange several volleys with keypals before a surface mail letter would have made a one way trip. (Internauts--people who explore the Internet--often call surface mail "nail mail.")

Sending mail on a Listserv to hundreds of people is no more laborious than sending a single message--the Net does the extra work for you!

Learning on Your Own
Like a worldwide personal library, the Net encourages students, teachers, and parents to find and use new information. Internet tools enable anyone to find and retrieve almost instantly new information, data, images, and even software that is personally interesting. Sometimes the material is simply not available except on the Net. Students also can learn on the Net educational independence and intellectual autonomy.

Because the Net is more current and dynamic than any library could be, students and teachers learn that using the Net can save them time. (See Chapter 10 for more information regarding learning on your own.)

On the Internet, They Don't Know if You Are a Dog!
The Net is color-blind, and does not discriminate. Socially induced prejudices, such as appearance, gender, race, and behaviors can fade away, because students learn that they are judged solely on what they say and how they say it.

Hearing-impaired people actually may have an advantage on the Internet, because they are not distracted by outside noises.

In a popular New Yorker cartoon, two dogs are "talking" while one uses a computer. The pooch at the computer keyboard says to the other, "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog!"

It's true, class, race, ability, and disability are removed from consideration in Internet communication.

Are We All Adults Here?
Once a youngster has a sizable vocabulary and is articulate, there is little to keep him or her from conversing over the Net like an adult. Likewise, adults can masquerade as kids. This has recently been recognized as a security concern.

It now is widely acknowledged that safe telecomputing for kids must be taught before the keyboard and modem are freely available in an unsupervised environment. Local policies differ greatly, and general guidance is available in RFC 1578. Access information for RFC 1578 is discussed later in this chapter.

There simply is no substitute for incorporating issues of ethics into the technology curriculum. Just as teachers recognize safety issues in laboratories and around machines and shop equipment, these issues, too, must be addressed around Net access. Establishing clear rules, and consequences for breaking them, is a school-wide or district-wide responsibility. It cannot be done effectively without parental involvement and support.

RFC 1578, the Internet Q&A for K-12 schools says "...schools need to exercise reasonable oversight while realizing that it is almost impossible to absolutely guarantee that students will not be able to access objectionable material."

All Types of K-12 Projects on the Internet

Now let's explore the many ways that students, parents, and teachers can use the Net to improve and enhance learning. There are dozens of ways people are now using the Internet for learning in schools, homes, and workplaces.

Following are the most fundamental methods. It may seem simplistic, but there are only a few options that are inherent in the machine-human combination: 

Communication			Net Tool
Person-to-person		E-mail, IRC (chat)
Person-to-many			E-mail, Listserv, newsgroups
Many people-to-many people	E-mail, Listserv, newsgroups, IRC (chat), Moo and Muse
Person-to-computer		telnet, FTP, Gopher, WWW
Person-to-many computers	Veronica, Gopher, WWW
Computer-to-person		Personal news services, beeper services
Computer-to-many people		Custom news services
Computer-to-computer		Content indexing, updating, and Net monitoring
There are several ways to classify these Net tools with different combinations of students, teachers, and curriculum goals, as in the following:
Professional collaborations among educators
Students" collaborative investigations
Students" and teachers" access to scientific expertise
Students" and teachers" access to information (libraries, etc.)
Students" and teachers" access to computers and software
Collaborative development and delivery of instruction and materials
Teacher education and enhancement
Electronic publishing of students" products
And yet here is another practical method of organizing the options, from a different perspective:

Professional Activities

Research Collaboration, sharing, exchange of information
Overcoming space and time to bring together groups with common goals
Around the school district or county
Around the region, country, or world
Information Access
Catalogs, databases, archives
News services
Software
Text-Based Virtual Reality
MUDs and Muses with defined content, such as the following:
Oregon Trail, Lewis and Clark Small stream ecosystems Discovery of planet Mars French and American Revolutions Congressional or Parliamentary actions
How these combinations manifest with various Internet tools is truly fascinating to behold. This section covers briefly the some basic Internet tools--e-mail, FTP, and telnet. This section also mentions two other useful Net tools--Gopher and World Wide Web. (Specific instructions for using these and many other tools are in Appendix A.)
E-Mail
E-mail (electronic mail) is the most common Net service. Many people who have e-mail cannot use most other Internet services, except through e-mail.

E-mail is something new and different from face-to-face talking. E-mail is like an answering machine with text rather than voice. You respond when you like, if you like, and delete the messages you don't care about. You can save the messages on a certain topic and find a good way of dealing with them as a group, rather than one by one.

Net enthusiasts can send and receive e-mail from anywhere. Home computers, portables, and laptops quickly are growing in popularity, and home modems are flying off the shelf, especially since fast error-correcting modems are now around $100 or less. Note: A modem is similar to a telephone for your computer. Modems speak a type of weird computer Esperanto, so that two computers with modems can communicate.

Message slips waiting for you tell about a telephone call you missed. With e-mail, however, you often will have already received e-mail from someone and responded, before you even get to the classroom to see the telephone message slip that says they called before they resorted to e-mail.

E-mail, through the magic of the Net, can expand from the communication between two people to communicating with many people. It then can expand to many people communicating with many people.

To send a single message to many people, after you've composed and tested the message so you know what it "looks" like when it arrives, you just add more names to the address space in your mail program.

Listserv Lists
The predominate method for most people to communicate with groups of others on the Net is by way of Listserv lists. A Listserv is an automated mailing list, kept on a computer. You put your own name on the list, and remove your name when you no longer want to receive mail from that list.

Most lists enable you to put your mail "on hold" when you go on vacation. Many lists also are stored as archives, so that you can search and read messages and exchanges that happened months or years ago.

Time acts differently on the Net--debates and discussions are preserved, as if suspended in time. Reading last year's discussion often feels as if it was currently happening. So much so that you might not be able to stop yourself from writing e-mail to those whom with you agree (or disagree!), even though the "real" discussion was recorded months ago.

When you add your name to a Listserv, you start getting mail from that computer mailing list. You alone choose the topics you're interested in, and you subscribe to only lists you want to explore.

Tip: Shortly after you subscribe, you might want to also practice unsubscribing and resubscribing, so that you know how to do it, if you ever need to stop your mail. Save the instructions!

On most lists today, everyone on the list gets every e-mail message sent to the list. Some lists, however, don't allow e-mail to be distributed to the list members unless the person sending the mail is a subscribed member of the list. Some lists are private, so that you cannot add your name to the list without the approval of a gatekeeper (list moderator).

The following example is an exchange that took place on a list devoted to discussions of education, in which one member of the list asked the others to recommend middle school hypercard stacks (complex Macintosh data files). 

To: Multiple recipients of list EDUFOO <EDUFOO@Nowhere.EDU>
Subject: Nifty Hypercard Stacks

John  said:

>I am teaching a middle school hypercard class this spring and would like

>to show my students some examples of student-created "cool" stacks.

Dear John,
I have recently done some training for teachers and downloaded quite a few
hypercard stacks to show them what is available out there. I cannot
guarantee that all of them were done by students, however I will give you
some names and places to get them.

1. Go to the University of Minnesota Gopher -> (then) Computer Information
-
> The Apple Computer Higher Education gopher server -> Macintosh Freeware
and Shareware -> University of Michigan Macintosh Archive -> Hypercard stacks.

Quite a few of these are nicely done. I have looked at bird anatomy (very
good, done by student at Yale); DNAteacher (good); fastball fractions
(shareware, good); whales (okay); and Internet tour (very good). There are
many, many more that I have not had time to download.

2. You might do a word search for a program called Hyper Frog SW. I do
not know where I got it from, but it was done by a high school student and
is very impressive.

3. Go to the Ecogopher at University of Virginia -> Education:  Ecogopher
Environmental Library -> KSC Kilburn Earth and Environmental Science
Information gopher -> Environmental Science -> Sense of Place. HQX.

This is a hypercard environmental newsletter produced by students at
Dartmouth. It is very nicely done. It is said to be published twice a
month and that you can subscribe to it, however I have only been able to
find one issue on-line (Jan, 1993). I have not yet tried to subscribe.
The address to subscribe is:  SOP@dartmouth.edu. This is for all inquiries
about back issues, submissions, subscription, etc.

4. Go to the University of Minnesota Gopher -> Computer Information -
> The Apple Computer Higher Education gopher server -> Macintosh Freeware and
Shareware -> Infomac -> Stanford University Info-Mac archive.

I have not "surfed" here much but have heard that they have some good stuff.

I hope this is helpful.
Sincerely,
Mary Jane
Notice that when Mary Jane responded to John's request, she only quoted a few lines from John's original message. This lets the reader know the context of the message, but does not "waste bandwidth" by resending the entire message back to everyone on the list.

Also, Mary Jane went out of her way to provide John with several excellent resources, exemplifying the Net cultural value of "giving back" to the Net community.

FTP-File Transfer Protocol
FTP is a way of requesting a file data or some software from a remote computer to send you a file, FTP transfers are usually made very quickly.

Until you know how to use FTP, you really can't say you're friendly with the Net. Sure, Gopher can bring home the bacon, too; however, not all FTP sites are set up for Gopher, and until you can FTP, you'll be missing out on a lot.

When you FTP, you first ask permission to visit the distant computer. If it's okay (not too busy, and so on), the remote computer lets you in and allows you to look around it's innards, asking what files are in each directory, copying files, and changing directories up and down at will.

If you know where to find the files you want, you can go right to them and transfer copies of them back to your computer. Otherwise, you can just snoop around and window-shop, looking for things that sound interesting.

Use mget
The mget (many get) command is more flexible than the regular get command, and easier to use. For example, mget allows you to ask for copies of all files that begin with a certain letter. It also will send you one file, if only one file matches your request. 
mget Ch*
This instructs the computer to send you copies of all files (in the current folder or directory) that begin with the letters Ch. mget will ask you for confirmation for each file copied, so you may have to press y a few times. It's much easier, however, to press y (for yes) 10 times than it is to type 10 exact, case-sensitive 20-letter file names. UNIX file names are case-sensitive, and can be very long and complicated. Additionally, there are not yet strong Net conventions on UNIX file-naming. Use mget, it's easier!
Let's run through a couple examples of what you can get by way of FTP, and show you actual commands to do it yourself.

To start, get a document called Scott Yanoff's Special Internet Connections, which you can use to get information on a lot of intersting sites including telnet, the next Net tool you'll need.

At the Internet prompt, type ftp, and then type the exact address shown on the following line. Press Enter when finished. 

%> ftp csd4.csd.uwm.edu
Very quickly, as the remote computer responds to your request to come for a visit, the screen will change: 
Connected to csd4.csd.uwm.edu.
220 csd4.csd.uwm.edu FTP server (Version wu-
2.1c(3) Fri Oct 29 13:50:21 CDT 1993) ready.
Name:
Your next job is to state your business by identifying yourself (in Net jargon), as an anonymous FTP visitor. So you type anonymous and press Enter.

If the remote computer is not too busy, and is in a good humor today, it will signify acceptance of your visit by asking you to sign the register book as you enter, just for the records, of course. 

331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-
mail address as password.
Password:
Your next response, while a little confusing, is to enter your full Internet address.

The following is a typical response after you type in your password: 

230-
University of Wisconsin-
Milwaukee FTP server
230-
Local time is Wed Jul 27 22:04:14 1994
230-
230-If you have any unusual problems, please report them
230-via e-mail to help@uwm.edu.
230-
230-If you do have problems, please try using a dash (-) as the
230-first character of your password -- this will turn off the
230-continuation messages that may be confusing your ftp client.
230-
230-Please read the file Policy
230- it was last modified on Mon Dec  6 08:06:40 1993 - 233 days ago
230-Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp>
Tip: It's hard to fathom, but the remote computer knows exactly who you are and is keeping a record of the date and time you visited. If you don't give your real Internet address as a password, the remote computer will know you are fibbing, and may scold you.

You're now connected to a remote computer in Milwaukee!

Moving along, you need to change directories (or folders for you Macintosh users), because the file you want is not in the first (or top) directory; it's in a sub-directory. To get to the right directory, type cd (for CHANGE DIRECTORY) and then enter the name of the directory to which you want to change (in this case, /pub), and then press Enter. 

ftp> cd /pub
The computer in Milwaukee responds with the following: 
250-This directory contains public files for anonymous users.  Files may
250-be read, but not written (use "/incoming" for writing new files).
250-
250-CWD command successful.
ftp>
Now that you're in the correct directory, type get, press the space bar, enter the exact filenames as shown in the following example, and then press Enter. The file name inet.services.txt is not in a format that a DOS machine could use, so I have to give it a new name--yanoff.txt. 
ftp> get inet.services.txt yanoff.txt
(original name)      (new name)
Note: Why are two filenames are given? Because long UNIX filenames aren't accepted on DOS computers, and I want to ensure that you actually get something out of this first example. So, you first type the name of the file as it is on the remote computer, and then you type the new name with which you want the file to arrive.

Now you have a copy of the new file named yanoff.txt. It is full of great telnet sites, which you will want to explore in the next section. The Yanoff guide is not limited to educational resources, but you will find many interesting items in there.

You can shop around for more files, but for this example, there is another site to visit.

To tell the computer in Milwaukee that you're ready to leave, type bye and press Enter. When you are prompted if you're sure you want to leave, confirm by pressing y. No gratitude is necessary. Milwaukee did it's job, and you followed the rules, got your file, and you're out of there.

That's how FTP works. You visit a remote site, and bring back your goodies. How fast can you fill up a hard disk with this kind of free information and stuff? (Very fast!)

FTP Goals 2000 Documents
You can FTP Goals 2000 documents directly from the U.S. Department of Education in Washington, D.C. The files also are available by Gopher and WWW, as shown in the following example. There also are folks to help (by e-mail) if you have trouble. These kind souls usually respond with solid help within 24 hours on weekdays. 
FTP to  ftp.ed.gov  then change directories (cd) to /ED_wide/initiatives/goals
  then get the file named  00-INDEX
Where to find it

Anonymous FTP

Site		ftp.ed.gov

Directory	/ED_wide/initiatives/goals
File	00-INDEX
Tip: Almost all the directories at this site contain a file named 00-INDEX. If the site administrators keep the file up to date, the 00-INDEX files will tell you the names of all the other files in that directory, and sometimes a little bit about them. You usually should first look at the 00-INDEX file, to save yourself from FTPing the wrong file by mistake.

You now have the main listing of all the directories on Goals 2000.

Now you can dig one step deeper, and look in the /overview subdirectory for file7.txt, which provides a nice summary of what Goals 2000 is all about. Go ahead and change directories and get the file named file7.txt.

Tip: Although the access instructions will always give the complete directory name that you would use from the very top directory, in this example you aren't in the top directory. You only need to move one directory down, from the /goals directory to the /overview directory. To make it simpler, just type cd /overview.

Where to find it

Anonymous FTP 

Site		ftp.ed.gov
Directory	/ED_wide/initiatives/goals/overview
Files		file7.txt
		00-INDEX
Now you have a nice summary of Goals 2000. To get an idea what else is in the /overview subdirectory, so that you can FTP back here in the future. You might also want to get the 00-INDEX file.

The U.S. Department of Education has many useful K-12 items in this location, so come back and visit again soon. Following is what you'll see: 

Goals 2000 on the Internet

Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 19:19:31 -
0700

Sender: kstubbs@inet.ed.gov (Keith Stubbs)
Subject: GOALS 2000 Legislation

                      GOALS 2000 ON THE INTERNET
  
        The most comprehensive federal education legislation in decades has hit the superhighway.

        The GOALS 2000: Educate America Act -- which President   Clinton
   signed into law on March 31, 1994 -- is now available via
   Internet in the Education Department (ED) "online library."

        "This is part of our effort to improve customer service,--
   said U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley. "We are going
   to be stocking the shelves of our online library, in the months
   ahead, with information that can help parents and teachers,
   citizens and students transform their schools and reach the
   National Education Goals."

        The library offers the full text of GOALS 2000, and also
   fact sheets and other information on the Act, which is designed
   to help America reach the National Education Goals and to move
   every child toward achieving high academic standards.

        Other materials available in the department's online library
   include the National Education Goals Panel 1993 annual report,
   ED's "helping your child" series for parents, A Teachers Guide to
   the U.S. Department of Education, various research reports and
   education statistics compilations, as well as "pointers" to other
   education resources on the Internet.

        The department's online library is currently maintained by
   the Office of Educational Research and Improvement on its
   Institutional Communications Network (INet).

        The library also includes:

        o    announcements of new publications and data sets;
        o    news releases;
        o    funding opportunities;
        o    event calendars;
        o    general information about the department;
        o    searchable ED staff directory;
        o    descriptions of ED programs;
        o    directories of effective programs;
        o    directory of education-related information centers;
        o    research findings and syntheses;
        o    full-text publications for teachers, parents, and researchers;
        o    statistical tables, charts, and data sets;
        o    pointers to public Internet resources at R&D centers, regional laboratories, ERIC
              Clearinghouses, and other ED-funded institutions.

         Accessing the library requires certain software -- either a
   Gopher client software or World Wide Web client software (such as
   NCSA Mosaic or Lynx) -- or you must be able to "telnet" to a public access client elsewhere.

        If you are using a Gopher client, point it to:

	  gopher.ed.gov 

   or select "North America-->USA-->General-->U.S. Department of Education"
   from "All/Other Gophers in the World."  Follow the path:  Department-wide Initiatives (Goals 2000...)-
   ->Goals 2000 Initiative.

        If you are using World Wide Web (WWW), point your WWW client
   to our uniform resource locator (URL):

                          http://www.ed.gov/

   and follow the link from our WWW server to our Gopher server.

        Another way to access the library is by using file transfer
   protocol (FTP). To do this, FTP to:

                     ftp.ed.gov       (logon anonymous)

        If you have difficulty accessing our services, please contact
   us at one of the following addresses:

           inetmgr@inet.ed.gov
           gopheradm@inet.ed.gov
           wwwadmin@inet.ed.gov

Keith M. Stubbs                                               (voice) 202-219-1803
Director, Education Info. Resources Div.         (fax) 202-219-1817
US Dept of Education/OERI                  Internet:  kstubbs@inet.ed.gov
555 New Jersey Avenue, NW  Rm 214c
Washington, DC  20208-5725
Telnet
Using telnet, you can access a remote computer, read files and data, and use the remote computer's other services.

A few telnet servers also enable you to e-mail files or session output to your e-mail address. So you see, telnet can expand beyond just reading information onscreen, or capturing the screen image in a file for later editing or printing.

Telnet is a lot like your local dial-up computer Bulletin Board Service (BBS). You use your computer to talk to another computer, about information and services the remote computer can provide for you.

Telnet also is a way you can use powerful Net access programs, such as Gopher, WWW, Veronica, Archie, WAIS, and others. If your local site can't, or won't, provide you with these services, you can telnet to a site that does have them, and use them there. It's a little slower, but you usually can accomplish the same goal.

You start a telnet session much the same way you start an FTP session. Type telnet followed by the address of the location you want to visit.

To be sure you are getting the format used for this particular example, using, here is how the first example is summarized in English: 

telnet to the site  k12.ucs.umass.edu  and login as  guest
To get you started, following are some places to which you can telnet.
University of Massachusetts (UMassK12)
Where to find it

Site		k12.ucs.umass.edu
Login		guest
Tip: Many telnet sites require you to register upon entry. This is really no big deal, except that you need to remember your password from one visit to the next, so you don't have to go through the new user question-answer routine every time you visit.

This is one of the best developed telnet sites of K-12 educators. The registration is simple, and DOS/Windows users can choose color ANSI graphics, which makes the screen easier to read and understand. Note: Under item 13 of the UMassK-12 telnet site--Access other online services" you will find item 7 called Fun, Games and Sports. Sports scores and schedules are available here, 24 hours a day!

Try out a couple of the menu items, exit, and then move onto the next site.

Virginia's PEN (Public Education Network)
Where to find it

Site		vdoe386.vak12ed.edu
Login		guest
Password	guest
For more information 
E-mail		Harold Cathern  (hcathern@vdoe386.vak12ed.edu)
Surface mail	Virginia Department of Education
		101 North 14th Street, 22nd Floor
		Richmond VA 23219
This is a typical example of a statewide educational network. As a guest, you will not be allowed access to most of the areas that registered users may access. If you are in Virginia, however, you will want to register and try out this service.

Educators access Virginia's PEN via a local call to one of several sites across the state, or through a toll-free line if they are located in a remote area. PEN includes discussion groups, news reports, study skills guides, reference works, and curriculum resources.

A unique and exciting feature is the History Pavilion (under main Menu item Electronic Academical Village), where students and teachers can pose questions to designated historians who will respond in the character of key historical figures, such as Thomas Jefferson and James Madison!

FedWorld
Where to find it

Site		fedworld.gov or 192.239.92.201
Login		new
For more information 
E-mail		Bob Bunge 	bob.bunge@fedworld.gov
You can access FedWorld over the Net in several ways, including FTP, telnet, and WWW. The FedWorld telnet site supports up to 50 simultaneous connections. White House documents available from this telnet site can be searched using keywords. You are required to register as a new user, so save your password, or you'll have to start all over again the next time you visit.

From the main menu, choose Library of Files. From the Library of Files menu, select a topic library, such as W-house. You then can choose option F to find files and then choose option K to search by keyword. Keywords are very general'such as security, world, order, economy, health care, crime, state names, executive, and so on.

All free files at this telnet site can be transferred using FTP from ftp.fedworld.gov (192.239.92.205). Conveniently, directories at the FTP site have the same names as the Libraries at the telnet site. Each FTP directory has a directory_name.LST file that lists a description of each file in that directory. They claim the list file is updated daily!

What Should a Teacher Try First in the Classroom?
As usual, that depends on your own comfort level, and on the equipment and support available. Watching adults learn can be quite helpful to kids, so you shouldn't necessarily wait until you're an expert to start using the Net in school. It can be very comforting to some youngsters to see an authority figure be just as frustrated with this new technology as they are.

The least expensive alternative starting place is e-mail. No color is required on the computer monitor screen, and practically all Internet service providers offer some type or variation of e-mail. And even the youngest children, perhaps even kindergartners, can learn many things from e-mail, such as the following:

As your learning audience becomes more experienced and more sophisticated, the whole Net opens to their keyboards. Teachers around the world are using this new information medium to foster learning in every conceivable curriculum area. Chapter 2 provides you with leads for a dozen different topical areas and examples of how teachers are incorporating the Net into every curriculum!

Classroom Methods and Lesson Plans

Teachers are interested in tried-and-true lesson plans, as long as they know they have the freedom to use them as they please. The nice thing about the Internet is that you can get good projects that already have been tried, and then make them even better by customizing them for your circumstances and needs.

Many sources for lessons plans and project ideas are already available on the Net. The following sections discuss a few, just to get you started.

AskERIC Database Of Lesson Plans
AskERIC has been collecting lesson plans for some time now, and as a consequence, their collection is extensive. Have a look! Where to find it 
Gopher		ericir.syr.edu
Telnet		ericir.syr.edu
Login		gopher
How Teacher Find Projects
In May 1994, Beverly Hunter asked three Listserv lists (Kidsphere, CoSN, and NII-Teach) where teachers find projects. The responses are categorized, summarized, and available by Gopher. Where to find it 
Gopher		unix5.nysed.gov
Directory	K-12 Resources
Gopher		digital.cosn.org
directory	CoSN Activities/COSNDISC/CoSNDISC Topics
The following is a sample from one of the responses: 
*William Gathergood <wgatherg@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>

In the last two years, I have started five projects which involved over 1500
students in 28 countries. I started one called The Reynoldsburg Geography
Project. I listed the registration information on a local newsgroup in
Columbus, misc.education and Kidsphere. Within three days, I had 380
participants from 22 states and countries.

The key to finding projects is to understand how someone starting a project
gets the word out. I use List-servers and Newsgroups. Two Listservers I
use are Kidsphere and k/12.Euro-teach, the latter because most of my
projects are international.

The best general education newsgroup is misc.education. There are probably
a hundred thousand teachers around the globe who read that one. There are
other newsgroups which specialize in certain subjects.
The newsgroup misc.education is on Usenet. For information on how to access Usenet newsgroups, see Appendix A.
NASA Spacelink Lesson Plans
The NASA Spacelink site also doubles as a dial-up site, so some menus offer you the option of choosing a download protocol (such as Kermit, Xmodem, or Ymodem).

Tip: Downloading over the Net is never as fast as FTP. First, FTP the document to your "holding area" on the host computer through which you access the Net. Then download it to your personal hard drive from your "holding area" on the host computer.

Where to find it

Telnet site	spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov or 192.149.89.61
login		newuser
password	newuser
Anonymous FTP 
Site		spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov or 192.149.89.61
Password	guest
File		README
Modem		205/895-0028
Register and carefully read the instructions--it is menu-driven. The response sometimes is quite slow, so you may have to wait.

Tip: Look for the default option in brackets near the cursor. [V] means "view."

The main NASA Spacelink menu looks like this: 

1. Log Off NASA Spacelink
2. NASA Spacelink Overview
3. Current NASA News
4. Aeronautics
5. Space Exploration: Before the Shuttle
6. Space Exploration: The Shuttle and Beyond
7. NASA and its Centers
8. NASA Educational Services
9. Instructional Materials
10. Space Program Spinoffs/Technology Transfer
11. International Space Year (ISY)
Choose 9. Instructional Materials, and you will see the following: 
Instructional Materials

0. Previous Menu
1. Main Menu
2. Living In Space Activities
3. Space Science Activities
4. Commercially Available Software for Aerospace Education
5. How to Obtain NASA Educational Publications
6. Astronomy Information
7. Very Lo-Res "Graphics--
8. Film/Video List
9. Careers in Aerospace
10. NASA Educational Fact Sheets
11. Computer Programs & Graphics
12. Key Dates (by Ralph Winrich)
13. Materials from Outside Organizations
14. 1990-1991 High School Debate Topic Information
15. Liftoff to Learning Series--Educational Videotapes
16. Miscellaneous Aeronautics Classroom Activities
17. Using Art to Teach Science
Select 2. Living In Space Activities and you will see 
Living in Space

0..Previous Menu
1..Main Menu
2..Food Lesson Plans
3..Clothing Lesson Plans
4..Health Lesson Plans
5..Housing Lesson Plans
6..Communication Lesson Plans
7..Working Lesson Plans
8..Space Station Research & Design, 7-12
9.."Down on the Moon" Activity
Most of these options are groups of lesson plans. To check out one set of plans, select 2. Food Lesson Plans to display the following screen: 
Living in Space
Food Lesson Plans

0..Previous Menu
1..Main Menu
2..Background, 1-3
3..Background, 4-6
4..Background, 7-12
5..Grades 1-3
6..Grades 4-6
7..Grades 7-8
8..Grades 9-12
These well-developed lesson plans have background information, objectives, vocabulary, motivation, activities, and experiments. As you can see, they are presented by grade levels in progression.
51 Reasons-FARNET Success Stories
In February, 1993, a call went out from FARNET (The Federation of American Research Networks) for the submission of success stories. Over 150 submissions were gathered from across the United States, and beyond. FARNET makes a selection of these stories available as a printed book, 51 Reasons: How We Use the Internet and What It Says About the Information Superhighway. The book provides concrete examples of how the network is being used to further research, education, industry and manufacturing, the health services industry, and more.

In cooperation with The Coalition for Networked Information, FARNET makes the full collection of stories available on the Internet.

Where to find it
Anonymous FTP 

Site		ftp.cni.org
Directory	/CNI/documents/farnet
Files		stories-index
		README
The stories are sorted alphabetically by the state from which they originated. The file names end with the two-letter postal abbreviation for that state. When you FTP to get them, all the stories for a particular state are within a directory just for that state. All 37 of these stories have K-12 educational themes.

Where to find it 

Filename		Story Name
story141.AL	Alabama high school teachers use Internet via Alabama Supercomputer Authority
story087.CO	Project assesses Internet role in operations of an entire school district
story130.IL	Study on telecommunications use in teacher/student communication
story121.IL	Collaborative Visualization (CoVis) project allows teachers to communicate
story119.IL	9th grader collaborates with researcher on lake-effect snow project
story112.IL	A constructivist introduction to Newton's Laws of Motion--NASA
		engineer and a 5th grader
story111.IL	How children use networks to make "giant leaps" in space
story110.IL	Pre-service teachers use PowerBooks and the network to communicate
story109.IL	Students study outer space while improving writing skills via network
story108.IL	Earth Day Treasure Hunt Project
story134.IN	Ball State U. assists local school to develop networked curriculum
story025.MA	SCANNING FOR GOLD III: Kidnet--networks in education
story024.MA	SCANNING FOR GOLD II: Creative Writing Groups and Peer Review of
		Articles
story028.MI	Interactive Communications & Simulations: The Arab-Israeli
		Conflict Simulation
story027.MI	Interactive Communications & Simulations: The [poetry] Guild
story026.MI	Interactive Communications & Simulations: The 1990's Earth
		Odysseys
story084.MN	International Arctic Project engages students in environmental
		awareness
story051.MS	FARNET Stories--Mississippi
story162.NE	Math teacher uses Internet to have students telecommute
story090.NE	KIDLINK provides forum for children to discuss global environment
story050.NJ	The Future is Present with my Students
story045.NJ	Public schools have access to wealth of shareware software via Internet
story046.NV	Nevada elementary school is tutored from Antarctica via Kidsnet and Ednet
story116.NY	Exploring the World of the Internet
story103.NY	Bringing Supercomputers to High School Classrooms
story101.NY	Internet Collaboration Facilitates Innovative Science Collaboration
story100.NY	Supercomputers in the Classroom: Internet Catalyzes Curriculum Change
story022.NY	CyberPuppy's Storyware----networked" authoring software for K-12 market
story122.PA	KIDSNET Mailing List
story038.PA	Geometry Software Story
story073.RI	Geogame, an on-line geography exercise by the FrEdMail Foundation
story036.TX	What is MathMagic?
story043.VA	Using Global Educational Networks: Topics from the Internet
story042.VA	Telecommunication Projects That Work... and Why!
story031.VA	Our Global Neighborhood--Telecommunications in the Classroom
story207.VT	Vermont: Telecommunications for Educational Reform
story124.WV	Mentoring Science Students via Electronic Mail
For more information E-mail: Martha Stone-Martin (stories@farnet.org).

Tip: If you are FTPing stories from two or more states, you can use the cdup FTP command after getting your first state, to move back to the /farnet/ directory. Then, use the cd command to move to the next state directory from which you want to get.

The following are excerpts of two sample FARNET stories, just to give you an idea of what they are like: 

Document:  50  "  story162.NE
Submitted by:  Cindy Carlson, Teacher
Department:  Math Department
Organization:  Kearney High School
      Address:  3610 Ave. 6
                         Kearney, NE   68847             USA
        Phone:  (308) 234-1720
       E-mail:  ccarlson@nde.unl.edu

The Story

I teach math at Kearney High School, Kearney, NE and I have been
using telecommunications, i.e.. Internet, quite extensively in my classes.
In particular, I have been using Internet in a class labeled Consumer
Math. This class is comprised of kids for whom the phrase
'students at risk" was coined. The main objective of telecomputing
in this class is to keep the students interested and to keep them in
attendance.

These students have been actively corresponding with other students
from across the US as well as from places as far away as Korea, Fin
land, Japan and Australia. Being a consumer class, incorporating
specific objectives of the course has been quite simple since everyone, no
matter where they are in the world, is a consumer.

Of course, dialog has not been just about simple price
comparisons and in some instances has become quite personal between
writers, but the interest of these students has grown tremendously.
Not only have they gained knowledge of other parts of the world but
their writing skills have improved and most importantly, they have
shown enthusiasm towards something good and worthwhile.

Since the beginning of second semester, I have not incorporated
telecomputing in my consumer math class. There are two main reasons
for this:

     1. My class doubled in size at semester and we do not have
     the facilities to accommodate that number of students in the
     telecomputing.

     2. It has become nearly impossible to access Internet within a
     reasonable time and at a reasonable time of the day. I do have
     access to a local number at Kearney, but because of the system
     set-up I do most of my work at home on my own PC and it is long-
     distance to utilize the Kearney number.

Occasionally, I present math problems taken from BBSs and data bases to
my accounting classes, but I hope to be able to telecommute again with my
consumer kids.
Following is another excerpt of a story: 
Document:      33  "  story050.NJ
Submitted by:  Ferdi Serim, Computer Teacher
Department:  Upper Elementary School
Organization:  West Windsor/Plainsboro Regional Schools Street
      Address:  75 Grovers Mill Rd.
                         Plainsboro, NJ   08536          USA
        Phone:  (609) 799-0087        Fax:  (609) 520-1376
       E-mail:  wwp@tigger.jvnc.net

The Future is Present with my Students

In reflecting on my life as a teacher in the past year, the Internet played a
major role for me and my students. I strive to make my classroom a
place where children feel comfortable exploring, and through the Internet our "playground" is truly global.

Communication is the key to everything we undertake, and I want the
children to know me as a lifelong learner who enjoys their progress and
is unafraid to learn new things before an audience. Knowing one's limits
requires defining boundaries of skill, understanding and imagination.

Transcending present limits happens when one becomes motivated,
excited by an idea or ability just out of reach, and becomes sufficiently
dedicated to disregard the discomfort of inevitable obstacles until they
become visible in the rear view mirror!

Highlights

By choosing the Internet as a focus for my Professional Improvement
Plan, unusual, innovative and special programs were inevitable. Among
these, Chernobyl, Eagle Excellence, Solar Sailing and Festival Artwork
stand out in my mind.

The Chernobyl exercise lasted only 36 hours, but it was profound. On
Monday at noon a message came in over the Internet stating that 40
students from the contaminated zone in Chernobyl would be visiting a
health spa in England for recuperation, and requested greetings. On
Tuesday morning, my first two classes discussed the implications for
these children, and used our word processing skills to craft "get well--
messages.

We received a reply from the two Russian teachers, who clearly were 
amazed that US children knew and cared about the plight of their
students, and proceeded to answer the questions gleaned from our
messages. History, science and language arts blended to make a
personal sense of current events tangible to our students in a way
otherwise impossible and nearly unimaginable!

75 of our students have now gained the distinction of having their
original computer artwork on display in a worldwide gallery of
computer art on the Internet.

Solar Sailing captivated 3 sixth grade classes during the initial month of
school. Students designed and researched their own original Solar
Sailing spacecraft, established jobs and staffing, and joined in with over
50 schools to conduct a simulation on October 18 to celebrate Columbus's
500th anniversary. We had help from a NASA physicist, and real video
footage from space to add to the realism.

I have used the Internet to make contact with Spanish speaking students
and had some of our bilingual students write to keypals in Spanish. We
have used graphics and Logowriter programs to speak in the universal
language of images and mathematics for students who do not yet have
sufficient command of English to work exclusively in that language. I
have devised individual projects for special needs students to succeed in
mainstreamed classes by pairing with other students in a mentor role, or
using storymaking software to create success and pride in
accomplishment, and opportunities to share these with entire classes.
Individualization is the key to meeting diverse needs of students.

Working together, we all will ultimately reach the goal of extending
similar opportunities (to those my students enjoyed) to learners
everywhere of any age.
Interne Resource Directory (IRD) for Educators
The Internet Resource Directory (IRD) of resources was written and revised by educators. The "infusion ideas" volume includes some elaborately developed lesson plans. Several topic areas are covered, including archeology, art, chemistry, Earth Day, and foreign language telecomputing, among others. One of my favorites is Bringing the History of Mathematics into the Mathematics Classroom by Carol A. Waldron. It is appropriate and adaptable for grades seven through ten.

Where to find it
Anonymous FTP 

Site		tcet.unt.edu
Directory	/pub/telecomputing-info/IRD
File		IRD-infusion-ideas.txt
While you're there, you might as well FTP the whole IRD set, so go ahead and get these files too: 
Files		IRD-ftp-archives.txt

		IRD-listservs.txt
		IRD-telnet-sites.txt
As you might expect, these files contain Anonymous FTP Archives, Lists of Listservs, and selected telnet sites favored by K-12 educators.
Internet Reference Success Stories
Librarians in K-12 settings will want to obtain this wonderful sampler of what the Internet can do for librarians. In many cases, particularly for the smaller libraries, the Internet provides information that would otherwise be inaccessible. In some cases, currency or speed of retrieval makes the Internet the best resource to which to turn.

Where to find it

E-mail		Karen G. Schneider
		kgs@panix.com
		karens@queens.lib.ny.us
A couple of the listings might be of interest, even to non-librarians! Have a look. The following stories have been collected by Karen Schneider. 
Brian Herman, Glenview Public Library, Illinois:

A high school student needed the geographical coordinates of
Glenville, Illinois for his math project. I used the Geographic
Name Server which I accessed through telnet to
martini.eecs.umich.edu 3000. I left the printout on the desk for
others to use, since we often get a barrage of calls on the same
topic when certain High School projects are assigned.

Rachel Cassel, Binghamton University, New York:

A patron was looking for the text of the UN Declaration of  Human
Rights in 1948. We did a Veronica search and located the full
text of the document at the gopher kragar.eff.org, path
/academic/civil-liberty/human-rights.un.

I've seen a problem instructors have given in classes on gopher
where they have students use Veronica to search for data to
compare the unemployment rates of  Detroit and Los Angeles.

Help for Teachers Using the Internet

Several groups have recently recognized that many teachers may need special services to become Internet-literate. Even after a classroom teacher overcomes all the hurdles of finding time and money for buying computers, getting a telephone line installed, connecting the modem, learning to use the communications software, and getting connected with access to the Internet, there still is a need to sort out the myriad of options for what to use in class tomorrow.

Well, maybe you're still just trying to get that phone line installed. Where can you seek help in making the argument that your classroom needs a phone line? Where can you find other teachers who can walk you through the decisions about which software to use on which projects? How do you keep up with new Net stuff without spending all night on the computer? Here are some projects that are designed to help K-12 teachers!

Tip: After you get 'smooth as silk" with this Internet stuff, don't forget that you were once a "clueless newbie" and didn't know FTP from telnet! Everybody has to start where they are, and if you can lend a helping hand, it will pay off in the long run!

NASA Knowbot Project
During the summer of 1994, NASA began recruiting grade 3 through 8 teachers in Texas to collaborate in designing "knowbot" technology for teachers to locate information on the Net. While this project now is in its infancy, NASA has had sustained successes with K-12 educators in areas of science and mathematics, and this project will be worth watching. Texas educators in grades 3 through 8 are invited to e-mail Wanda Jackson at wjackson@tenet.edu or voicemail at (512) 471-3241.
The GENII Project-University of Tasmania, Australia
GENII is a worldwide volunteer consortium of networked educators. GENII means Group Exploring the National Information Infrastructure. They say the Internet is the "precursor of the NII," and they have the foresight to name themselves for what the Net is becoming! GENII is intended to facilitate the training of classroom teachers in skills that are necessary to use the profusion of resources on the Internet, so that teachers can incorporate the Net into their classrooms.

GENII has the following goals:

  1. Create a VIRTUAL FACULTY.
    The VIRTUAL FACULTY is intended to be a networked group of educators dedicated to "being there" for the K-12 teacher when they are ready to learn the new skills associated with accessing the Internet. This FACULTY will be an ongoing resource for teachers as they become more familiar with the workings of cyberspace and begin the process of introducing the tools/resources to the classroom.
  2. Write the Curriculum.
    The VIRTUAL FACULTY will research, write, and publish a manual that covers the following:
    1. Develop a Pointer Repository.
      The VIRTUAL FACULTY will establish pointers for the following:
GENII's goal is to help organize access first by teaching the basic skills necessary to achieve a connection, and then providing an entry point into the Internet "jungle." Once inside, the Virtual Faculty will be there to be your friendly, knowledgeable guide.

Where to find it 

E-mail		kwallet@vdoe386.vak12ededu or kwallet@mwc.vak12ed.edu
U.S. contact	Ms. Katherine B. Wallet
		Chairperson of the Science Department
		Courtland High School
		6701 Smithstation Road
		Spotsylvania, VA 22553
E-mail		gduckett@deakin.oz.au
Surface mail	George Duckett
		Deakin University, Burwood Campus
		Faculty of Education
		221 Burwood Highway
		Burwood, Victoria 3125
		Australia
Following is a list of other active members of the GENII Virtual Faculty Project: Marty Gay, Port Townsend School District, Port Townsend, WA 
martini@olympus.netTerry Lee Moore, Environmental
Research Laboratories, Boulder, CO
tmoore@erl.noaa.gov
Tice Deyoung, Department of Defense, ARPA, Virginia
deyoung@arpa.milLeni Donlan, East Whittier City School District, Whittier, CA
ldonlan@netcom.com
The Global Quest: The Internet in the Classroom-NASA
NASA (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration) is offering a great 12 minute video, entitled The Global Quest: The Internet in the Classroom. It features K-12 students and teachers. The video is a good short piece to show reluctant administrators and interested parents. High school and middle school teachers praised this video. The opening states that the video may be freely copied for educational use.

Where to find it 

Voice	216-774-1051, ext. 293
Beginning Teacher Computer Network-Harvard University
The idea of the Beginning Teacher Computer Network at Harvard University School of Education started out primarily as a way to support brand new teachers, using e-mail. Teacher education faculty, student teachers, and supervising teachers can stay in close contact electronically. The University of Virginia's Teacher-LINK and the University of Kansas" UNITE work along similar lines.

These groups use electronic text communication to enable teacher training faculty, student teachers, and teachers in the field to improve teaching by staying in touch and solving problems together. Although the Harvard network is growing and adding new services (a CHAT room, and current education majors have recently been allowed on), these efforts generally are not yet open to all K-12 teachers. Rather, they support the graduates of particular universities.

The following section, and the GENII project mentioned previously, are the first steps toward dealing with these needs on a career-long basis for all teachers.

NOVAE>>GROUP>> Teachers Networking for the Future
This grassroots group is designed to keep teachers abreast of new developments in educational uses of the Net. It is by teachers, and for teachers, and free. They share articles and tips on many topics of interest to teachers: The following are some excerpts from their announcement: 
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 05:44:48 -0600 (MDT)
From: Arthur Galus <c6460101@idptv.idbsu.edu>
Subject: NOVAE GROUP
      THE UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO PROUDLY HOSTS THE NOVAE>> GROUP>>

     _        __     |
    /  \    /  /   \ | /        NOVAE>> GROUP>>
   /    \  /  /   " * "           Teachers Networking for the Future
  /  /\  \/  /     / | \
 / /   \    /        |      Robin Powlus robin_p@server.greatlakes.k12.mi.us
/_/     \ _/_______         Leni Donlan                      afcleni@aol.com
         / _______/         Kathryn Amanda Cossi            kcossi@tenet.edu
        / / _____           Bob Melchert      melchert@raven.csrv.uidaho.edu
       / / /__  /           Bill Jacobson               wmjake@pen.k12.va.us
      / /____/ /            Andy Wright          awright@ccantares.wcupa.edu
     /________/             Arthur Galus            c6460101@idptv.idbsu.edu


Fellow Educator:
     Your most valuable asset is your time. How best to invest your
time often forces you to forego opportunities that, frankly, you may wish
you had time to enjoy. If you have found yourself with very little
time to explore the Internet and to learn of the opportunities opening
up for educators there, then perhaps NOVAE>> GROUP>> is the listserv
for you.
     Created by educators, NOVAE>> GROUP>> is a listserv that provides
timely news articles to classroom teachers who really don't have time
to drive the Information Highway. Weekly postings from teachers and
other educators just like yourself keep you abreast of the electronic
world pulsing around us all. Here are some comments from users who
have found NOVAE>> GROUP>> to be an important tool in their day to day
operations:

          "Educators are better judges of content and process issues
          than computer folks (myself included) and we really benefit
          from your mining of resources that we may not know of."

          "I am responsible for the K-12 computer activities in the
          Southern York County School District and enjoy your lists of
          interesting "finds". Keep them coming."

          "Thank you for sending the information that you have so far.
          It has been very helpful to me and my staff."

          "Myself and several members of the faculty at Bloomsburg
          Middle School are always interested in telecommunication
          project, information, and news about the Internet. Your
          messages are extremely valuable and helpful along these
          lines. THANKS!!"

          "It's a BIG world out there but (you are) helping to make it
          more accessible. Helps to know other teachers and kids have
          the same cares, concerns and frustrations. We have been in
          contact with others we could never have met without the link
          and have done collaborative projects with students thousands
          of miles away!   Thanks you!"

          "Since this is the first year for us, it has kept us informed
          about available resources on  the Internet. We were also
          able to make international connections from the materials
          which were sent."

          "We have distributed the information to the whole teaching
          staff. Some are excellent opportunities and others as
          information. Thanks for surfing the net to find this
          stuff... we don't have the time."

NOVAE>> GROUP>> selects articles to fit the following subject groups
as they become available:

     Internet Information (includes lists, FAQs, and information on
     gophers, WWW, etc.)

     Funding/Teacher Education Information (includes grants,
     workshops, televised conferences, etc.)

     Elementary (K-5) and Middle (6-8) School Projects (all subjects
     as well as keypal information)

     Secondary (9-12) School Projects (math, science, social studies, etc.)

If you are interested in requesting our service for yourself or for
your school, send us the following information and you will be added
to the list.

     YOUR NAME
     YOUR COMPLETE E-MAIL ADDRESS

Send your request to Bob Melchert (melchert@raven.csrv.uidaho.edu) or
Art Galus (c6460101@idptv.idbsu.edu).
PreSTO Listserv-Preservice and Student Teachers Online
Mississippi State University's College of Education offers the PreSTO discussion list as a forum to encourage collaboration among preservice and student teachers around the world. Faculty members are welcome, but are reminded that this is a *student* list!

Where to find it 

E-mail		Listproc@ra.msstate.edu
Body		subscribe presto YourFirstName YourLastName
For more information 
E-mail		Dr. Larry S. Anderson
		LSA1@Ra.MsState.Edu
Voice		601/325-2281
SuperQuest for Teachers-National Center for Supercomputing Applications
This is the newest variant of SuperQuest. SuperQuest now is an intensive three-week workshop in computational sciences and modeling (with discovery learning and exploration) for high school math and science teachers. National Science Foundation funding will allow a year-long follow-up on these master teachers. The first access point is about the project in general. The second access point is called the SuperQuest Daily Observer and is a day-by-day account of the teacher training workshop.

Where to find it 

URL	http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Edu/Superquest/sqt/index.html
URL	http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Edu/SuperQuest/sqt/observer.html
National Center for Student Research-Mandeville, Louisiana
Mandeville Middle School is the site of theNational Center for Student Research, which houses electronic journals and databases created and maintained by and for students. The Center stresses scientific methods and publishes reviewed abstracts of student research. They offer free program development and teacher training materials for those interested in a student research center approach to classroom instruction.

Where to find it Telnet 

Site		nptn.org
Login		visitor
Choose		The Science Center
Choose		National Student Research Center
For more information 
E-mail	John I. Swang (nsrcmms@aol.com)

Buzzword Gibberish Decoder (BGD)

Unfortunately, a few words are just too popular on the Net, causing confusion and unnecessary complexity. While no one person knows all the uses that a particular word is now enduring, this section is designed to help you distinguish some very popular and/or cryptic names and acronyms.

This decoder will not provide details on more than a few entries, but rather this section is designed help you tell one project from another and recognize organizations as they evolve through new names. At least one method of contact is supplied for over three dozen entities.

A1
See Academy One.
Academy One
Part of the National Public Telecomputing Network (NPTN) and associated with the Freenets (see Chapter 3 for Freenet listings). Also related to the Middle School Network. This is a resource for primary and secondary school teachers, students, and administrators.

Where to find it 

Telnet		freenet-in-a.cwru.edu or 129.22.8.75.
BBS
Bulletin Board System, a local dial-up service available by modem. One way to access the Internet.
Electronic Schoolhouse
A portion of the America Online (AOL) service environment, only available to paid subscribers to America Online. For America Online subscription and price information, send a brief e-mail request to info@aol.com or call 800/827-6364.
Empire Internet Schoolhouse
Marion French's New York NYSERNet gopher site for K-12 educators. Also mentioned in Chapter 3.

Where to find it 

Gopher		nysernet.org 3000
FidoNet
This worldwide system of over 15,000 BBSs has no headquarters. FidoNet enables you to log on to your personal account through a modem to use e-mail to and from the Internet (and sometimes FTP by e-mail). Local FidoNet BBSs generally are free to use, but e-mail users may incur per-message charges. K12Net is the K-12 educational portion of FidoNet. FidoNet reaches places where direct Internet connection is not available. A computer, modem, and telephone connection to a local bulletin board are all you need. To find the telephone numbers of active bulletin boards in your region, call a local computer store or your public library.
FrEdMail
Free Educational Electronic Mail Network started in 1986. It grew to be the largest BBS-based education network, and now is called Global SchoolNet (also mentioned in this list). FrEdMail projects included "Acid Rain," in which students around the country collected rain samples, plotted national data, and shared research, conclusions, and essays on the causes and effects of acid rain; and "Experts Speak," in which one group of students assuming the personalities of historical figures was interviewed by another group of students to determine their assumed identities. The Global Grocery List project (mentioned later in this list), also was begun under FrEdMail auspices.
Global Change Network
This project is associated with TERC, and funded by NSF. Where to find it 
Gopher		hub.terc.edu.
Global Classroom
Associated with Global Classroom Youth Congress, the goal is to bring the voice of youth into cyberspace, particularly comments and recommendations from youth on the use of global networking and the Internet in schools.

Where to find it 

E-mail		Seth J. Itzkan (GlobalCR@aol.com)
WWW URL	http://www.mit.edu:8001/afs/athena/user/a/w/awillis/
		www/GCYC/GlobalCR.html
Global Classroom List
A Listserv discussion list for international student e-mail debate.

Where to find it 

E-mail		Listserv@uriacc.bitnet with the message 
		subscribe GC-L YourFirstName YourLastName
Global Grocery List
GGL, a "global grocery shopping spree," started as part of FrEdMail. This project has no timetable. You just collect your local grocery prices at your convenience, e-mail them to GGL central, and keep checking your mail box for the price lists of other participants. Prices from around the world can be used in math, science, social studies, health studies, and writing. They can be used to practice calculations, as an information basis on which to draw conclusions, and as a springboard for writing assignments.

Where to find it 

E-mail		dwarlick%ncsdpi.fred.org@cerf.net
Global Learning Corporation
Corporate home of World Classroom, a curriculum and information network for K-12 schools, brings together students to work on structured curriculum activities in science, social studies, language arts, foreign languages, and current events. WorldClassroom also provides a series of Guest Speakers who are experts from a variety of professions that are of interest to students and teachers. Where to find it 
Telnet		global1.glc.dallas.tx.us or 198.140.162.1
Login		demo3
Password	WORLDCLASS (all uppercase) 
Voice		1-800-866-4452
GlobalNetwork Academy
Also known as Globewide Network Academy (GNA, which also appears in this list), is associated with Diversity University (formerly known as USENET University). See Globewide Network Academy.
Global Quest
A free video on the educational potential of the Internet, prepared and available from NASA.

Where to find it 

Voice		216/774-1051, ext. 293.
Global SCHLNet
A variant spelling of Global SchoolNet Foundation (formerly FrEdMail), a BBS network dedicated solely to K-12 education. Computer stores, the public library, education agencies, or computing centers at local colleges can provide information about available Bulletin Boards in your area.
Global Schoolhouse Foundation
This effort, funded by the NSF and other sponsors, has the motto "Linking Kids and Educators Around the World."

Where to find it 

		janice@cnidr.org or gfitz@cerf.net 
Voice		619/433-3413 or 619/931-5934.
Global SchoolNet Foundation
Formerly FrEdMail, this organization has an "ideas list" that connects you to over 150 electronic bulletin boards (called electronic mail centers) operated by individuals and institutions. Each bulletin board represents a "node" on the system and delivers Internet e-mail to many teachers and students. A mature, grassroots, inexpensive system, these nodes are located at universities, district and county education agencies, and local schools. They specialize in e-mail and collaborative projects. Their motto is "Linking Teachers and Students Around the World....We consistently publish the best curriculum-based collaborative learning projects via e-mail available on the net. Our volume is not high, but our quality is always consistent...We moderate the list and only top-notch projects get posted."

Where to find it 

E-mail		Al Rogers at arogers@bonita.cerf.fred.org 
Voice		619/475-4852 
E-mail Request	fred@acme.fred.org (asking about the ideas list and
		Global SchoolNet templates)
The following is a brief introductionto Global SchoolNet guidelines: 
How to Design a Successful Project

Over the years, Global SchoolNet Foundation has evolved a number of 
guidelines and principles which have led to many successful collaborative 
projects involving hundreds of classrooms and thousands of students. 
Like many aspects of successful teaching, we have found that planning 
is the key to success.

The guidelines  presented below have been validated in numerous
highly successful classroom based projects on the FrEdMail Network.
These guidelines, along with the template for writing you own "Call
for Collaboration" will help guide you through a successful online
learning experience with your students.

1.  Design a project with specific goals, specific tasks, and
     specific outcomes. The more specific, the better;  the more
     closely aligned with traditional instructional objectives, the
     better. Avoid 'sister school" and "pen pal" projects.

2.  Set specific beginning and ending dates for your project, and set
     precise deadlines for participant responses. Then, make a time
     line and provide lots of lead time to announce your project. 
     Post your first call for collaboration at least six weeks before 
     the starting date. Repeat your call again two weeks before the
     starting date.

3.  If possible try your project out with a close colleague first, on
     a small scale. This can help you troubleshoot and solve both
     technical problems as well as problems with the basic project
     design.

4.  Use the template at the end of this article to design your call
     for collaboration. Then post your call to                       
     CALL-
IDEAS@ACME.FRED.ORG and we'll forward it to our
     international mailing lists for you. If you
     provide us 6-
8 weeks lead time, we'll re-
post it for you again
     two weeks before the project begins.

     In your call for collaboration, be sure and include:
     -
 Goals and objectives of the project
     -
 grade levels desired
     -
 how many responses you would like
     -
 contact person
     -
 Time line and deadlines
     -
 Your location and complete contact information
     -
 what you will do with the responses (The best projects provide
       some form of interaction; in any case, be sure you provide 
       some form of "payback" to your contributors so they will have
       incentive to collaborate with you.)

     Also, be sure your call includes examples of the kinds of 
     writing or data collection which students will submit. This is 
     important to the success of the project.

5.  Find responsible students and train them to be part of your
     project.  You're probably already doing this if you are using
     technology in the classroom.  This will be a big time saver.

6.  At the conclusion of the project, follow through on sharing the
     results of the project with all participants.

     -
 If you publish any student writing, send a hard copy to all 
        who participated.
     -
 Have your students collaborate on writing up a summary of the
       project, describing it, what they did, what they learned, and
       what changes they would make in the project.  Post that
       message on the network for all to see (not just the project
       participants).
     -
 Send a copy of this summary, along with project proceeds, to
       your principal, PTA president, superintendent, and board of
       education president.
     -
 Have your students send a thank-
you message to all
       contributors.
Global Studies High School
This is a Listserv discussion list.

Where to find it 

E-mail		Listserv@onondaga.bitnet with the message subscribe
		GLBL-HS YourFirstName YourLastName
Global Village News
This electronic newspaper is associated with K12Net and, therefore, part of FidoNet. This publishing project gives students of all ages a chance to produce and enjoy a worldwide educational newspaper.
Globewide Network Academy
Also known as Global Network Academy (GNA), this is associated with Diversity University Moo and affiliated with USENET University. This endeavor provides higher education via the Internet in a virtual campus setting. Age restrictions are not so important here as is readiness to learn. Where to find it 
WWW URL	http://uu-gna.mit.edu:8001/uu-gna/index.html
Help by e-mail	joe@astro.as.utexas.edu orgna-webmaster@sun.dsy.de
GNA
See Globewide Network Academy.
I*EARN
The non-profit International Education and Resource Network, includes over 400 schools in 21 countries empowering teachers and young people (K-12) to work together in different parts of the world. Their motto is "Youth Making a Difference in the World Through Telecommunications." I*EARN uses video-speaker telephones (using regular telephone lines, slow-scan, black and white images), e-mail and online conferencing for exchanges to enable students to make a meaningful contribution to the health and welfare of people and the planet. They want to see students go beyond both simply being "pen-pals" and working on strictly "academic-- work to use telecommunications in joint student projects designed to make a difference in the world as part of the educational process. I*EARN is associated with the Copen Family Fund.

A few examples of recent student projects include the following:

Where to find it 
E-mail		Ed Gragert iearn@copenfund.igc.apc.org
Voice		914/962-5864
Fax		914/962-6472
K12Net
This is an inexpensive, decentralized, grassroots method for schools to begin Internet use. K12Net has several curriculum-related conferences or "echo forums." It is based on the worldwide FidoNet organization of local dial-up BBSes. A growing network, K12Net provides estimable low-budget educational e-mail services to millions of teachers, students, and parents in metropolitan and rural areas throughout the planet, giving them the capability to meet and talk with each other on educational issues, and exchange information and share resources on a "global" scale.

Although direct connection to the Internet provides much faster communication (seconds or minutes), it costs far more than FidoNet's communication lags of hours and days. For K-12 educators with severely limited funding, K12Net and Global SchoolNet may be the only Internet e-mail options to seriously consider.

Where to find it Fidonet Helen Sternheim at 1:321/110 Internet e-mail helen@k12.ucs.umass.edu

KIDS
This is the KIDS part of KidSphere. Where to find it 
E-mail		joinkids@pittvms.bitnet
Kidlink Lists
This is a large collection of related Listserv discussion lists focused on children aged 10-15, including the following: 
List name	Topic				Listserv Address
KIDFORUM	Kidlink coordinators		@vm1.nodak.edu
KIDLEADR	Kidlink coordinators		@vm1.nodak.edu
KIDLEADRP	Portuguese Kidlink coordination 	@vm1.nodak.edu
KIDLINK	Kidlink Project list		@vm1.nodak.edu
KIDPLAN	Kidlink planning			@vm1.nodak.edu
KIDPLAN2	Kidlink workgroup		@vm1.nodak.edu
KIDPROJ	Special kidlink projects		@vm1.nodak.edu
KIDLIT-L	Children's Literature discussion	@bingvmb.bitnet
An example Kidlink project (desert and desertification) is highlighted later, in Chapter 2. Where to find it 
E-mail		listserv@vm1.nodak.edu
Message		get kidlink master
		get kidlink general
Kidlink Gopher
This is a Gopher with projects aimed at 10 to 15 year olds.

Where to find it 

Gopher		kids.ccit.duq.edu or 165.190.8.35
Kids Weathernet
This is an e-mail project for elementary classes to collect and share weather and climate data, coordinated at Manzano Day School in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Where to find it 
E-mail		Bill Wallace echo@bootes.unm.edu
KidsNet
See KidSphere.
KidSphere
KIDSPHERE (previously KidsNet) is a Listserv mailing list for grown-up's list associated with the KIDS list for kids.

Where to find it 

E-mail		KidSphere-Request@vms.cis.pitt.edu
Middle School Network
Associated with Academy One and the National Public Telecomputing Network. This program is for middle school parents, educators, students.

Where to find it 

E-mail		Herbert Vaughan
		xx104@nptn.org or hvaughan@rs6000.baldwinw.edu
National Public Telecomputing Network (NPTN)
This is a non-profit organization which develops free, public-access, community computer systems in cities throughout the USA. This growing network is attempting to build an apparatus similar to the National Public Radio system. Although based on the Freenets, this project has grown beyond them, joining Ameritech in the Learning Village project which has government cooperation in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin. Where to find it 
E-mail		Tom Grundner
		tmg@nptn.org
Voice		216/247-5800 or 216/368-2733
Fax		216/247-3328
E-mail		Linda Delzeit
		linda@nptn.org 
Voice		714/527-5651
E-mail		info@nptn.org
Anonymous FTP 
Site		nptn.org directory
/pub/nptn/nptn.info/basic.guide.txt
National Student Research Center (NSRC)
This project wants "children around the world to become humanitarian and ecological 21st century citizens in an ultimately diverse and highly interdependent, science and technology based, global community." The project is coordinated at Mandeville Middle School in Mandeville, Louisiana. Project E-Journals and databases are housed in the NSRC's Electronic Library located in America Online's Electronic School House (AOL KEYWORD: ESH). Once in the Electronic School House, Apple users should select Project Libraries and Exchanges. PC and Mac users should select The Schoolhouse Project Libs icon in the lower right corner, and then highlight National Student Research Center for access to the Library. The e-journals and databases also are housed in the NSRC's Electronic Library located on the National Public Telecomputing Network. Telnet to nptn.org and sign on as VISITOR, and then select THE SCIENCE CENTER. For access to the E-Library, select National Student Research Center, and then select E-JOURNALS. Users then can highlight journals or databases for perusal before downloading.

NSRC products also are on theTechnology Education Research Center's (TERC) Gopher nicknamed The Hub. Users should Gopher to hub.terc.edu to access The Hub or use the menu path GOPHERS AROUND THE WORLD\NORTH AMERICA\USA\MASSACHUSETTS\THE HUB. Once in, select RESOURCES FOR MATH AND SCIENCE\EDUCATION, and then select SCIENCE. To view e-journals and databases before downloading, select NATIONAL STUDENT RESEARCH CENTER ELECTRONIC LIBRARY.

NPTN
See National Public Telecomputing Network (associated with the Freenets and Academy One).
NSRC
See National Student Research Center.
NSF
The National Science Foundation, is a U.S. government education, research funding, and dissemination agency.
SCHL Net News Service
This is a news branch of Global SchoolNet. See Global SchoolNet.
Scholastic Network
This is a commercial educational publisher.

Where to find it 

Gopher		Scholastic.com 2003
WWW URL	http://Scholastic.com:2005/
E-mail		Eadie Adamson
		eadie@aol.com
Voice		212/343-4940
School Renewal Network
The National Education Association (NEA) and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation) are backing this effort at school reform. This electronic network is intended to create a research base by a community of actively engaged practitioners and researchers.

Where to find it 

Voice		Shari Castle at 202/822-7783
Schoolhouse
See Electronic Schoolhouse, Empire Internet Schoolhouse, Global Schoolhouse, and Virtual Schoolhouse.
TERC
The Technology Education Research Center, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a center that provides valuable help to K-12 school people all over the Net. A special interest is curriculum projects involving telecomputing. Services include outreach, technical assistance, curriculum guides, and information dissemination. TERC a publishes a free newsletter called Hands On!.

Where to find it 

Gopher		hub.terc.edu
E-mail		Ken Mayer ken_mayer@terc.edu
Voice		617/547-0430
Surface mail	Technology Education Research Center (TERC)
		2067 Massachusetts Avenue
		Cambridge, MA 02140
Virtual School of natural SSciences (VSNS)
This is part of Globewide Network Academy. See Globewide Network Academy.
World Classroom
This is brought to you by Global Learning Corporation in Dallas, Texas. See Global Learning Corporation.
Youth Congress
See Global Classroom.

Technical Help for K-12 Schools

U.S. schools have a tremendous need for technology planning. Some of the more affluent schools are already on the Net, as you'll see at the end of this chapter. But what about schools (and districts) where not even one computer is networked to another? What about thousands of classrooms with no telephone connections? Vast numbers of schools in the U.S. still have only two telephone lines, often for a dozen or more adult workers to 'share."

The task of K-12 technology planning, while daunting and financially challenging, is already begun for you. The following sections discuss some guides and well thought-out answers to your K-12 technology planning questions.

Building the Future: K-12 Network Technology Planning Guide
This comprehensive "final draft" guide addresses the latest in technical communications networking and will be the basis of network and school site infrastructure planning in California. It will assist in planning for the use of technology as an integral part of the education reform goals as required in Goals 2000: Educate America Act signed into Law, March 31, 1994. The guide is in Gopher form, so you can access it one chapter at a time only.

Where to find it 

Gopher		goldmine.cde.ca.gov or 165.74.7.50
Directory	California Dept. of Education-general information
For more information 
E-mail		Carole Teach

		cteach@goldmine.cde.ca.gov
Voice		916-654-9662
National Center for Technology Planning
At Mississippi State University, graduate students have prepared technology planning aids which are available to FTP or by WWW.

Where to find it
Anonymous FTP 

Site		ftp.msstate.edu
Directory	/pub/archives/nctp
Gopher		gopher.msstate.edu
Menu		/Resources Maintained at MsState University/National Center
		for Technolgy Planning
K-12 Internetworking Guidelines
This Internet Working Draft provides technical guidance to the K-12 educational community on school networking and connections to the Internet. It is too technical for new computer users, but has two very important points that anyone involved with schooling should be aware. If your school doesn't yet have a 'star topology" computer network, then the technical people who are working on it should have this working draft.

Where to find it
Anonymous FTP for the East Coast 

Site		ds.internic.net or 198.49.45.10
Password	guest
Directory	internet-drafts
File		draft-ietf-isn-k12-guide-01.txt
Anonymous FTP for the West Coast 
Site		ftp.isi.edu or 128.9.0.32

Password	guest
Directory	internet-drafts
File		draft-ietf-isn-k12-guide-01.txt
Anonymous FTP for the Pacific Rim 
Site		munnari.oz.au or 128.250.1.21
Password	guest
Directory	internet-drafts
File		draft-ietf-isn-k12-guide-01.txt
Anonymous FTP for Europe 
Site		nic.nordu.net or 192.36.148.17
Password	guest
Directory	internet-drafts
File		draft-ietf-isn-k12-guide-01.txt
Internet Request for Comments (RFC) 1578, FYI #22
This document is designed to help you from the very beginning of getting the Net into your school. The real title on this easy to read document is FYI on Questions and Answers--Answers to Commonly Asked "Primary and Secondary School Internet User" Questions. You can expect to hear it called RFC #1578, or FYI #22, or simply "that neat Internet Q&A for K-12 schools."

It's author, Jennifer Sellers of NASA NREN (sellers@quest.arc.nasa.gov), organized FYI #22 as a set of commonly asked questions, each followed by their answers.

This is one of the places to begin a search for answers to questions about how to do the following:

RFC 1578 (February 1994) also contains a detailed, seven page glossary that you can use to broaden your understanding of the intricacies of the Net.

Where to find it
Anonymous FTPfor North America 

Site		ds.internic.net or 198.49.45.10
Directory	/fyi
Filename		fyi22.txt
Anonymous FTP for the Pacific Rim 
Site		munnari.oc.au or 128.250.1.21

Directory	/fyi
Filename		fyi22.txt
Anonymous FTP for Europe 
Site		nic.nordu.net or 192.36.148.17
Directory	/fyi
Filename		fyi22.txt

K-12 Schools Already on the Net

Elementary, middle, junior high, and high schools (and school district offices!) are already on the Net, providing their communities, parents, students, and teachers with exciting new information opportunities. The following sections discuss a sample of Gopher and WWW sites operated on K-12 campuses. First up are elementary schools, followed by middle, junior high and high schools, and then followed by district offices.

Note: This is not intended to be a comprehensive list of K-12 sites. The site called Outpost at URL http://k12.cnidr.org/janice_k12/k12menu.html will help you with even more.

Glenview District 34 Schools' WWW Server
Glenview District 34 Schools, a K-8 district in Glenview, Illinois, has an interesting World Wide Web server. The seven schools of this suburb, north of Chicago, offer something unusual on the Internet--the online public access catalogs of its seven primary libraries. In addition, they offer access to the Glenview Public Library through the Web server as well.

In addition, the students of the John H. Springman Junior High have just created their own homepage by and for kids. They also are involved in a Global School House project, and will be contributing their findings in the area of disaster planning.

Where to find it 

URL		http://www.ncook.k12.il.us/dist34_home_page.html
URL		http://www.ncook.k12.il.us/sp/sp_home_page.html
For more information 
E-mail		John Mundt  mundtj@ncook.k12.il.us
Voice		708/998-5007
Grand River Elementary School-Lansing, Michigan
The fifth grade class seems to be the ring-leaders here at this school Web site, but the rest of Grand River Elementary is close behind. This is a Web site where the kids have actually created the homepage themselves, and maintain the informtion with their teacher.

Where to find it 

URL		http://web.cal.msu.edu/JSRI/GR/BradClass.thumb.html
For more information 
E-mail		Brad Marshall  grsch21@pilot.msu.edu
Claremont High School-Claremont, California
This site includes links to academic resources for Claremont High School students, current research data and publications in knot theory, and access to their anonymous FTP site, along with descriptions of the school and its computing resources.

Students have created their own homepages. They expect some departments to add additional links to discipline-specific high school resources.

There also is a link to the Claremont Colleges" Library system. This WWW server also includes links to Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Lab, Harvey Mudd College's Web site, and Pitzer College's new WWW server for K-12 access.

Where to find it 

URL		http://www.cusd.claremont.edu
For more information 
E-mail		Robs John Muir  rmuir@chs.cusd.claremont.edu
Voice		909-624-9053
Monta Vista High School-Cupertino, California
Monta Vista High School has been exploring new ways that the Internet can be used in K-12 education. This server is part of their ongoing project integrating the Internet into a high school setting, both for their own benefit, and as an example for other schools showing how easily students can get involved.

Where to find it 

URL		http://www.mvhs.edu/
For more information 
E-mail		Mark Wang  mwang@walrus.mvhs.edu


Mark Wang, Student (--95) * Monta Vista High, Cupertino, CA USA
"The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, poison with correctness, this is surely 
the ideal."
  William James

Internet: mwang@walrus.mvhs.edu  AOL: MarkWang1
WWW: http://www.mvhs.edu/~mwang   Disclaimer: I speak not for Monta Vista
Armadillo Gopher and Web Server
Donald Perkins of the Houston (Texas) School District has been on the cutting edge for a long time. He has just added a WWW interface to the renowned Armadillo Gopher. Although this is the site for Texas studies, Donald packs this site with links to educational resources worldwide.

Where to find it 

URL		http://chico.rice.edu/armadillo
For more information 
E-mail		Donald Perkins  dperkins@tenet.edu
Princeton Regional Schools
Great student created WWW home pages and the school newspaper are just the start of this Web site. Here, you also will find administrative information about the district, New Jersey State Education Policy news, and much more. Where to find it 
URL		http://www.prs.k12.nj.us
Vocal Point-Boulder Valley School District
The district publishes a monthly online newspaper called Vocal Point, prepared by students. The first edition was released in June, 1994. Noah Horton, a 13-year-old at Centennial Middle School, designed and programmed the HTML (HyperText Markup Language) that creates your online newspaper while you read it.

To quote Jill Tucker, an information contact for the project, "By creating a newspaper using the networks as a key information source, the students are allowed to complete a cycle of information processing: hypothesize, retrieve, process, theorize, and produce."

Where to find it 

URL		http://bvsd.k12.co.us/cent/Newspaper/Newspaper.html
For more information 
E-mail		Jill Tucker  jtucker@knightrider.com
Voice		303/938-8427

From Here...

Next, in Chapter 2, you can look up Internet resources by areas of the K-12 curriculum, such as literature, biology, history health and more. Then after that, Chapter 3 has information on resource material in other curriculum areas.




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