This
site was developed to provide training and resources for you to
teach students to navigate the world-wide web safely and efficiently
(with
excitement and enthusiasm too,
of course!) The best learning will occur when students are
prepared and have a clear purpose in mind before going online. To
help achieve those goals, the following key instructional concepts
have been included in the lessons on this site. 
Note:
Each
page in this site progresses from critical information at an upper elementary
level at the top, to highly detailed information at an adult level
near the bottom to enable you to differentiate your instruction for all
levels of learners in your classroom.
1.
Safety on the Web: prepare
students to make wise decisions about their use of the
web.
2. Touring the Web: sample varied
uses of the web, from informing, persuading, communicating, and
sharing, to reaching a global audience.
3. Searching: search more efficiently
and find the perfect site amidst the millions available.
4. Sleuthing: realize that anyone
can publish anything online if they
have the proper tools, without going through any editors, and with
professional-looking results. Consequently, it is imperative
that students know how to critically evaluate what they see and
read online.
Key Phrase for this decade: Information literacy.
5.
Citing: understand online copyright issues and use the
proper standards for citing works in bibliographies.
6. Projects: develop projects that
are standards-based and meet the needs of the learners in your classroom, or
feel free to use the samples provided to give students
opportunities to practice their newly developed web-research
skills.
Vocabulary:
Some of the pages in this site contain fairly sophisticated vocabulary,
primarily because some of the subjects discussed require the use of
specific terms used in the technological community of educators.
If you feel some of the terms are too difficult for your class, challenge
some of your students to become Web Term
Research Analysts who will go through the
site and investigate challenging words to define and present to the rest
of the class. Have them post a Researching
the Web Glossary on a wall near your computer
center, or have them create a Glossary of
Technological Terms
that you can put
in stand-up frames near your computers.
Cyber
Control Center for Teachers
