Using Netscape

Basic Surfing

• Hypertext (imagine jumping to term paper footnotes)
• ONE click on underlined text to view linked document
• Distinguish visited links by color change and/or dotted underline
• Shortcuts: Home, Back, Forward

Tour: Features and Educational Examples

Basic Types of Web Resources (Multimedia)

• Movie (Fractal Animation, France)
• Sound (HCC Dinosaur Exhibit, Hawaii)
• Picture (Shoemaker-Levy Impact July 18, 1994, Spain)
• Clickable Map / Current Info (U.S. White House, See Publications)
• Text (K-12 Internet FAQ/RFC)
• Downloadable Software (Explorer Lesson Plan)
  Explorer Curriculum Browsers Home Page
• Data (Earthquake)

Interactive Resources

• Reference (Thesaurus)
• Database Program (Fermi Education Pages)
• Changing Information (Latest Chicago Weather)
  Interactive Weather Browser

Catalogs and Searching

• General Subject Catalog (EINet)
• Education Resource List (Math and Science)
• More Education Resources and Catalogs
• Internet Searching Program (WebCrawler)
• Educational Search (Lesson Plans from AskEric)

K-12 Web Servers

• Schools on the Web
• Student Publishing (D-Day: Patch High School, Germany)
• Student Publishing (Hillside 6th Grade Research Reports)