Teaching With the Internet: Lessons from the Classroom

See how to effectively integrate the Internet onto your classroom- with this new guide designed specifically to help educators improve teaching and learning in grades K-12. The focus on teaching is what sets this book apart from others. Each chapter begins with an example of a teacher using the Internet in the classroom and goes on to discuss the lessons we can learn from that teacher's unique experience. Here you will see how the Internet is changing the nature of classroom instruction- and how you can use it successfully to enhance your students' learning opportunities- through the fascinating Internet insights an experiences of many educators from across the US and Canada, as well as throughout the world. What's more, in many chapters you get listservs and newsgroups to put you in touch with other teachers facing the same challenges you do. The entire K-12 curriculum is covered. In the pages of this new 1999 edition you will find resources and instructional strategies immediately applicable to your elementary, middle, or secondary classroom. The authors have also expanded coverage to include both Macintosh and Windows platforms, and both major Internet browsers: Netscape Communicator (Navigator) and Internet Explorer. All of this, plus a look at the growing commercialization of the Internet and information resources...new photos of actual e-mail contributors to this new volume... and listings of the many new Internet sites that have appeared to help you and your students in the classroom, make this your most up-to-date, valuable resource for teaching with the Internet. AUTHORBIO: Donald J. Leu and Deborah Diadiun Leu first began teaching in the Peace Corps where they worked as elementary classroom teachers of English as a Second Language (ESL) in the Marshall Islands of Micronesia. Since then, both have worked to support language and literacy learning among many different populations using a wide variety of electronic media. Deborah has taught many types of ESL learners from engineers at the Bechtel Corporation in San Francisco to her current position where she teaches students in the English Language Institute at Syracuse University. She received her Masters degree form Syracuse University in Linguistics and English as a Second Language. Don worked as a classroom teacher and a reading specialist in California. He is currently Professor in the School of Education at Syracuse University and author of numerous books, articles, and software devoted to supporting teachers in literacy education and electronic learning environments. He received his Ed.M. from Harvard and his Ph.D. in Language and Literacy from the University of California, Berkeley.