Guide Helps One Teach w/Internet

New from the ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading, English and Communication, The Online Classroom: Teaching with the Internet offers ideas and lessons for integrating the Net into K-12 curriculum.

The 200-page paperback covers topics such as e-mail, Netscape, Gopher, FTP, Telnet and HTML. One chapter outlines how to embark on a virtual field trip to Washington, D.C., by visiting Web sites for the White House, Smithsonian, Library of Congress, etc.

The author, Eileen Giuffre Cotton, is a professor of education at California State University Chico.

ERIC/EDINFO Press, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, (800) 925-7853.

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