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Download full textDirect Marketing Association, Washington, DC. – 1997
The ability to meet people, visit places around the globe, and make purchases online has added a new dimension to teaching children about the opportunities and accompanying risks that exist in everyday life. The Direct Marketing Association has created this guide to information use, behavior, and privacy on the Internet to help parents supervise…
Descriptors: Computer Attitudes, Computer Security, Electronic Mail, Information Industry
Bang, Tove; Gronbaek, Kaj; Hansen, Per Steen – 2002
This paper briefly describes the WebNize system and how it applies a Metro Map metaphor for organizing guided tours in Web based resources. Then, experiences in using the Metro Map based tours in a Knowledge Sharing project at the library at Aarhus School of Business (ASB) in Denmark, are discussed. The Library has been involved in establishing a…
Descriptors: Business Education, Computer Oriented Programs, Educational Resources, Foreign Countries
Tunon, Johanna – 1999
This practicum was designed to help doctoral education students entering the Child and Youth Studies (CYS) program at Nova Southeastern University (NSU) feel more confident about accessing online resources and more comfortable about using online information technologies for their research. A method was developed for integrating bibliographic…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Assignments, Curriculum Development, Distance Education
Muccigrosso, Robert; Blazek, Ron; Maggio, Teri – 1999
Geared to the needs of high school and undergraduate students, this guide presents 500 term paper ideas and print and nonprint sources on 20th-century U.S. history. Entries on 100 of the most important topics, issues, and developments in U.S. history, beginning with the Spanish-American War, are organized in chronological order. Each entry…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, High Schools, Higher Education, Information Sources
Abilock, Debbie – MultiMedia Schools, 1997
Discusses how to teach online research techniques and how to design research activities for beginner searchers. Highlights include contextualized learning; task definition; one-stop resource pages; words and search topics; search engines, including metasearch engines; browser techniques; management techniques for organizing sources into folders;…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Evaluation Methods, Information Sources, Instructional Design
Peer reviewedThomasson, Gunilla; Fjallbrant, Nancy – Education for Information, 1996
Describes the EDUCATE program (End-User Courses in Information Access through Communication Technology), funded by the European Union for the education of information users. The aim is to produce a self-paced user education course in the selection and use of information sources found on the World Wide Web. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedEasterbrooks, Susan R. – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2002
This annotated bibliography contains recent research and publications on the efficacy of cochlear implants for children with hearing loss. Materials are provided for the following categories: rules and regulations (2); available devices (3); and the impact of implants on development (18). Factors affecting the benefits of the devices are…
Descriptors: Assistive Technology, Cochlear Implants, Early Childhood Education, Early Intervention
Raeder, Aggi – Searcher: The Magazine for Database Professionals, 1996
Discusses how to find statistical data on the Internet, particularly with awareness of lag times associated with posted data and of the large quantity of university sources. Lists World Wide Web sites under the headings of metasites, agriculture, banking, business, crime, economics, education, energy, government, health, international, local…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Banking, Crime, Demography
Raeder, Aggi – Searcher, 1997
Discusses the present state of networked technology in K-12 education and gives examples of Internet use in student research and projects. Lists and describes educational meta-sites on the World Wide Web, including school directories; distance learning directories; company-sponsored sets of links; sites for children, parents, and teachers; virtual…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Computer Uses in Education, Distance Education, Educational Technology
Peer reviewedHuber, Richard A.; Harriett, G. William – Meridian, 1998
Suggests ways to better implement the World Wide Web as a powerful teaching tool. Considers three general educational strategies, each of which taps into different strengths of the Internet as an information delivery system. Describes daily Internet-based exercises, project involvement activities, and cyber field trips. (AEF)
Descriptors: Assignments, Class Activities, Computer Uses in Education, Field Trips
Buchanan, Larry – MultiMedia Schools, 1998
Describes issues related to machine compatibility, download time, and storage space to consider when creating a downloadable library. Highlights include file storage on Web servers; compressing PC files; compressing and binhexing Macintosh files; setting up the library; and summer "standards institutes." (AEF)
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Computer System Design, Computer Uses in Education, Electronic Libraries
Snyder, Herbert; Rosenbaum, Howard – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1998
Examines the use of Robot Exclusion Protocol (REP) to restrict the access of search engine robots to 10 major United States university Web sites. An analysis of Web site searching and interviews with Web server administrators shows that the decision to use this procedure is largely technical and is typically made by the Web server administrator.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Artificial Intelligence, Decision Making
Peer reviewedVan Brakel, Pieter – Electronic Library, 1999
Discussion of distance learning courses offered via the World Wide Web focuses on the Postgraduate Diploma in Information Management implemented by Rand Afrikaans University (South Africa). Highlights include requirements of a successful Web-based distance learning course; interrelated modules; electronic information sources; easy updating…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Distance Education, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries
Harmon, Stephen W.; Jones, Marshall G. – Educational Technology, 1999
Suggests levels of uses of the World Wide Web representing a continuum from basic occasional use to advanced continual use common in schools, colleges, and corporate training: no Web use, information Web use, supplemental Web use, essential Web use, communal Web use, and immersive Web use. (AEF)
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Corporations, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Robinson, Rhonda S.; Koos, Marybeth – 1996
The introduction of affordable multimedia computers with CD-ROM capacity, videocassette recorders, and connections to the Internet and the World Wide Web have expanded opportunities to help society develop visual literacy. Art images are a natural choice for the teaching of visual literacy. At Northern Illinois University, a course was added in…
Descriptors: Aesthetics, Course Objectives, Educational Technology, Higher Education
