Connecting Kids & the Web: A Handbook for Teaching Internet Use and Safety (Neal-Schuman Netguide Series)

This comprehensive multimedia handbook is designed specifically to help teach kids to use the Internet and web resources safely and effectively. School media specialists, children and youth librarians, teachers, home schoolers, parents, and caregivers -–even those with no prior knowledge --can quickly get up to speed and use these resources, lesson plans, and ideas to challenge students and enhance teaching and learning. Internet basics; browsers, e-mail, chat rooms, virtual libraries; search engines and subject trees; sound, streaming video, and other Web media; Web safety, resources and more are covered is this user-friendly CD-ROM and book package. The accompanying CD-ROM contains links with annotations to sites covered in the book and hundreds of additional sites carefully selected and organized by subject. Whether you are using the web with children or teens, for education or recreation, here is the tool you will want to keep at your side.