Information covering important topics for today's educators and parents. Exploring the Internet. The ten part series is designed to provide students and teachers with a basic understanding of how the Internet works as a worldwide means of interactive communication. This videotape aims to develop student interest in net surfing by highlighting Internet capabilities that include reading books from foreign libraries, finding weather forecasts for different locales, and watching astronauts work in space. In the video, students and their teacher use the Internet to create reports that are saved on computer disks and include sounds and pictures obtained from Internet databases.
Viewers also learn about software and games available on the Internet.
This material has been rated desirable in 1999 by the California Instructional Technology Clearinghouse. The link will take you to the CITC home page. ENC does NOT distribute this resource. Computer uses in education.