This ties our hands in the area of integrating outside material and technology. The Internet will not be on this test. With all of the Government content on the Internet, I can use the Internet to bring these concepts to life on the computer screen, and students can write about those concepts for the Web. In addition, George has found the Internet to be a wonderful way of fulfilling his district's curriculum guidelines. I started word-processing lesson plans and poetry, and after a couple of years, I was pretty handy with WordPerfect.
All lesson plans are now on-disk and updated regularly.
Like many other teachers, George became interested in Web technology as a result of seeing the power it had to offer. He used an old computer and monitor to capture and project the text from the electronic discussions so that his whole class could partake of he dialog. Later after he acquired an America On-Line account, George was able to actively participate in listservs and newsgroups dealing with history and government. These forums provided the first places for George's students to publish their essays. One exchange involved Dr. Peter Temes, a professor of historical writing from Harvard University.