There are thousands of education based sites on the net. There are different styles of sites that meet different needs and each can be used in a different way in the classroom. Some sites are designed as teacher background information sites, others as virtual representations of real places, experiments or communities. Some sites provide encyclopaedic information whereas other are investigative. Some sites encourage group collaboration and others are excellent as individual learning centres.
Some sites make good research centres and others encourage students to do the research.
Each of the styles will be looked at and what their place is within the curriculum and what objectives each type meets. Teachers will be able to use each of the different types of sites appropriately in the classroom. Teachers will be able to integrate web sites appropriately into their programmes of work. Teachers will be able to find relevant and appropriate sites to match the curriculum they are working with. Billions of dollars are being spent globally every year on technology and unfortunately the greater part of this money is being completely wasted.