Using Internet Media Resources

1. How to Download Media Sources
2. Resources for Creating Multimedia Projects
3. Saving and Using Web Pages
4. Searching the Internet
5. Expanding Your Searching Toolkit
6. Issues Associated with Internet Use

Teachers design Internet Research Guide sites as portals for their students who are researching particular topics on the Internet.  These guide sites accomplish two important goals:  They provide students with starting places for their Internet searches, and they eliminate the need for them to type in URL's directly.  Guiding students to pre-selected sites on their topics enables them to quickly find many other quality sites, just by following the links.  Creating links with correct URL's prevents the common problem of error messages and confusing excursions into irrelevant Web sites.

Examples of Internet Research Guides

1. eNature.com- The complete guide to over 4,800 North American plants and animals, with detailed descriptions and photographs.
   http://www.eNature.com/
2. SciNet - Einstein never had it so easy. Search over 88,000 science listings along with science news.
   http://www.scinet.cc/

Publishing on the Internet

The Internet is a powerful publishing tool for collaborative class projects.  Much like any collaborative research project, a Web site is, by nature, a collection of interconnected parts with a common theme.  Class project sites work well around topics with multidisciplinary interest and can include images, text, and even multimedia elements.  Upon completion and publication on the Web, students often feel a strong sense of accomplishment.  Projects created as PowerPoint or HyperStudio documents can be saved as Web Pages (html documents).  Many word processing applications also have the ability to save documents as Web Pages.

1.  The following is a good examples of a class project site.

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