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This comprehensive multimedia handbook is designed specifically to help teach kids to use the Internet and web resources safely and effectively. School media specialists, children and youth librarians, teachers, home schoolers, parents, and caregivers –even those with no prior knowledge --can quickly get up to speed and use these resources, lesson plans, and ideas to challenge students and enhance teaching and learning. Internet basics; browsers, e-mail, chat rooms, virtual libraries; search engines and subject trees; sound, streaming video, and other Web media; Web safety, resources and more are covered is this user-friendly CD-ROM and book package. The accompanying CD-ROM contains links with annotations to sites covered in the book and hundreds of additional sites carefully selected and organized by subject. Whether you are using the web with children or teens, for education or recreation, here is the tool you will want to keep at your side.

 "This book is a fabulous resource."
-- VOYA
 
"I cannot conceive of anyone, except the most technically savvy and narrowly focused, who could not find something useful here."
-- Public Libraries
 
"Whether you are a Netscape Navigator person or a Microsoft Internet Explorer fan, a newbie or a computer guru, this well-illustrated comprehensive encyclopedic multi-media handbook should be your bible."
-- Catholic Library World
 
"A bit of something for almost every level of Web user....This package will be a valuable reference tool and source for teaching activities. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED."
-- Library Media Connection
 
"The main focus is on teaching about great Web resources, and, in this way, kids will be ‘safe’ on the Internet....a treasure-trove."
-- MultiMedia Schools
 
"This package will be a valuable reference tool and source for teaching activities. Highly Recommended."
-- Library Media Connection
 
"This book is a fabulous resource."
-- VOYA
 
"I cannot conceive of anyone except the most technically savvy and narrowly focused, who could not find something useful here."
-- Public Libraries
 
"Whether you are a Netscape Navigator person or a Microsoft Internet Explorer fan, a newbie or a computer guru, this well-illustrated, comprehensive, encyclopedic, multi-media handbook should be your bible."
-- Catholic Library World
 
"A bit of something for almost every level of Web user...This package will be a valuable reference tool and source for teaching activities. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED."
-- Library Media Connection
 
"The main focus is on teaching about great Web resources, and, in this way, kids will be 'safe' on the Internet...a treasure trove."
-- MultiMedia Schools
 

List of Figures.................................................................................................................. v

List of Tables................................................................................................................... xi

Foreword by Matilda Raffa Cuomo................................................................................ xiii

Preface........................................................................................................................... xv

Conventions Used in Connecting Kids and the Web.................................................... xix

Acknowledgments......................................................................................................... xxi

Part I: Web Basics Parents, Teachers,
and Librarians Need to Know

1. Fundamental Facts.............................................................................................. 3

2. Child Safety and Computer Security................................................................. 19

3. Staying Current.................................................................................................. 41

Part II: How to Introduce Young
Learners to the Web

4. Browser Basics................................................................................................. 53

5. A Few Favorites................................................................................................. 69

6. Virtual Trips and Pen Pals................................................................................. 89

7. That’s Entertainment....................................................................................... 115

Part III: Creating Web Fun For All Ages

8. E-Mail Essentials............................................................................................. 129

9. Mailing List Mania............................................................................................. 147

10. Multimedia Marvels.......................................................................................... 159

11. Launching Your Own Home Page................................................................... 189

Part IV: Ready-to-Go Web Learning
Activities for All Ages

12. Homework Research Results......................................................................... 211

13. Discovering Libraries Without Walls............................................................... 233

14. Browsing Virtual Newsstands and Bookstores............................................... 243

15. Serious Sites................................................................................................... 257

Part V: How to Make Teens Web Masters

16. Shell Shock...................................................................................................... 275

17. Telnet Travels.................................................................................................. 287

18. Newsgroup Nation........................................................................................... 311

19. FTP Fun........................................................................................................... 319

Glossary. 333

Index ... 341

About the Author.......................................................................................................... 345

CD-Rom Instructions................................................................................................... 346

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