Internet Survival Kit

K-12 & Beyond Resources

Net Survival Kit: Tutorials, Hoaxes, Netiquette & other helpful info

Tutorials, General information

Learning the Web From "Newbie" to expert, this compendium of links will get you online, teach you the lingo, introduce you Includes archives of internet courses, tutorials.
Internet Basics Elective: Grades 9-12Intro to the WWW; also includes Curriculum, Objectives, &ÊRubrics; Acceptable Computer Use
Surfing Safely on the Internet: 2-3
OnLine Projects: How to Develop Them and Pointers to On-Going Projects

Scams & Hoaxes

If you're becoming Net-savvy, you've either run into these or soon will. Don't be caught passing them on -- the chain-letter versions will get you kicked off most discussion lists (a word to the wise). Here's a quote from one of the lists I'm on:

"Another ironic twist is the availability of web sites devoted to listing and debunking rumors. Examples include the Computer Virus Myth home page and Don't Spread That Hoax! sites, which provide details about common net hoaxes. You probably know the stories about the $250 cookies recipe, the Good Times virus, and Microsoft buying the Vatican (wait -- is that last one *really* not true?). These and a legion of other bogus stories are laid out in their weird glory."

For the latest information, see:

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Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 10:16:58 -0600
From: Tracy Marks
Subject: Some useful urls for Nettrainers

Here are some urls I've just explored that Nettrainers are likely to find relevant and useful personally and professionally.

http://www4.zdnet.com/pccomp/srchoff/srchoff.html
ZDNet's article on their big SEARCH ENGINE challenge, chronicling battles comparing the Alta Vista, Infoseek, Excite and Hotbot, and the search questions that were asked the competing search teams. Guess which search engine won?

http://www.hotsheet.com/
http://www.metaplus.com
Two excellent, compact all-purpose METASEARCH pages

http://www.gamecenter.com/Features/Exclusives/Beginners/?ttv
Cnet's beginner's guide to DOWNLOADING- useful url to pass on to your students

http://homepages.together.net/~lifelong/
Lifelong Learning: Adult Ed and DISTANCE ED Resource Center with catalog of online schools

http://computernewsdaily.com/149_052997_182201_6723.html
Online Boston Globe article comparing the different bills being proposed to combat spam

http://www.cnet.com/Content/Tv/Stories/Overload/index.html?dd
Current CNET article on how to handle information overload

http://home.earthlink.net/~ivanlove/internet.html
Internet and Electronic rights articles

http://www.onnow.com/
List of current live Net events, continually updated, some educational

http://www.internic.net/aldea/attframes2.html
Internic's Academic Guide to the Internet (Harvest)

http://www.mcp.com/queet/trainers_guide/
The Computer Trainer's Personal Teaching Guide Que Book online

http://www.ora.com/webdeluxe
New OReilly books for computer training (online for 3 weeks only - html, perl, javascript etc.)

http://www.sjsu.edu:80/depts/itl/index.html
Mission Critical: Critical Thinking online tutorial

http://www.windweaver.com/w95tips5.htm
Might as well also mention that I recently posted a detailed step-by-step guide on how to TELNET using Windows 95 - with an example on using telnet to access and experience educational moos...and with links to all the online telnet tips and EDUCATIONAL MOO pages I could locate (moo links at http://www.windweaver.com/w95tips6.htm#MOOS).

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