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The Internet allows students to publish their work for an audience of millions and provides a forum to receive feedback and new ideas. Students can discuss issues with others from around the world, and when they need a question answered, teachers, professors, and scientists are at their fingertips. This sharing allows students to reach beyond the classroom, expanding their world and their horizons.
- Homework Help - choose from various academic areas (Science, English, Math, Civics), and enter questions and requests for homework help. Other students and volunteer teachers can provide helpful homework tips.
- The Mad Scientist Network -
scientists field questions in 26 areas of science, from Agriculture to Zoology. Ask a question or browse the archives.
- Electronic Field Trip to the United Nations - explore the background and current activities of the U.N., while learning about international relations.
- Pomona Joyce Web - an English class at Pomona College presents student essays and episodes from Joyce's Ulysses through a hypertext version of the Dublin Evening Telegraph.
- High Ground -
more than just a high school newspaper, High-Ground is cooperative journalistic effort of Missouri students from 35 schools. Web design, graphics, pictures and articles are all created by the students.
- The GLOBE Program -
a worldwide network of students, teachers, and scientists working together to study and understand the global environment.
- The JASON Project -
sponsors annual scientific expeditions that allow students and classrooms to interact with the scientists.
- California Web Project - watch California students as they create a home page containing their own original research and information.
- Where on the Globe is Roger? -
follow Roger Williams as he drives around the world, inviting students to learn about geography and culture in a vivid, interactive way.
- The Online Educator - seeking to
make the Internet an accessible, useful classroom tool, the site includes online lesson plans, an archive of useful sites for educators, and current news about technology and education.
- Science Information Infrastructure - a NASA-funded project linking science museums, research centers, and teachers, to produce Earth and space science curricula using NASA remote sensing data.
- Biology Teachers Home Page - designed to help biology teachers find resources that they can use in the classroom.
- Web66 - comprehensive resources for schools to build a presence on the WWW. Includes a complete index of online schools around the world.
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"Increasingly, instructors are beginning to understand the Web's
offerings
of countless and creative possibilities for training. Today, you can
find
a course on the Internet covering almost any topic, from learning how to
play a harmonica, via e-mail, to system administration."
from Dyro's Web, http://www.dyroweb.com/
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