It may be that you have one Internet-connected computer in your classroom or that you share a computer in the media center. Planning for access may mean that your students use the Internet station in small groups. It may also mean that you will need to create desktop files that contain hot links to sites for your students or that contain whole sites so that students can efficiently do their work. You might consider timing your heaviest use to occur early in the morning on the East coast and later in the day on the West coast. If your classroom has limited access to Internet-connected computers, you can print whole Web sites and create a classroom library of website booklets.
Students can create their own set of Web booklets as resources for their individual projects.
If the class creates its own Web site for a curriculum project, the site can be published for parents as a ClickBook booklet. Use these booklets each time you teach the unit. Combining software Web Buddy and Personal Web Sharing are a powerful duo. If you have limited access to computers with Internet connections, you can preselect sites, download them with Web Buddy and save them to a central computer. Myrmidon and Personal Web Sharing can create simple lists of URLs which can be posted to the central computer.