The Internet and Online Research for Teachers

How Schools Use the World Wide Web

Chapter Seven provides examples of how schools across the country are using web sites, as well as information on how to set up a school web site.

Examples of School Web Sites

Web 66 provides lists of the addresses of hundreds of schools both in the United States and abroad:

Web66
http://web66.coled.umn.edu

The Classroom Internet Server Cookbook is a great place to learn how to set up a web site for your school.

Classroom Internet Server Cookbook
http://web66.coled.umn.edu/Cookbook/Default.html

For an extensive list of school web sites at various levels of the educational system, as well as from around the world, Web 66’s Internet Registry is outstanding:

WWW Schools Registry
http://web66.coled.umn.edu/schools.html

Setting Up a School Web Site

This book is too brief to provide you with an introduction to creating a school-based web site. If you are interested in pursuing this topic, visit the following sites, which should prove valuable.

Setting Up a Web Site for Your School: An On-Line Presentation
http://www.fred.net/nhhs/html2/present.htm

Ten Steps to creating a School Web Site
http://pd.l2l.org/linktuts/website.htm

How Do They Do That with HTML?
~http://www.nashville.net/~carl/htmlguide/

Internet in the Classroom Tutorial
http://www.indirect.com/www/dhixson/class.html

If you are interested in learning more about clip art the following sites provide a good start.

All Clip Art Site
http://www.allclipartsite.com/

Clip Art Central
http://clipartcentral.homestead.com/clipartwelcome.html

Clip Art Connection
http://www.clipartconnection.com/

Clip Art for Web Sites
http://www.graphicmaps.com/clipart.htm

For resources on using animations in web sites or in the types of backgrounds that can be used for a site, visit the following sites:

The Animated GIF's Library
http://www.arosnet.se/agl/

The Backgrounds Archive
http://the-tech.mit.edu/KPT/bgs.html

Information on protecting students online can be found at:

Safekids.Com
http://www.safekids.com/index.html

Various “filtering” programs that block students from inappropriate web sites include:

Cyber Patrol
http://www.cyberpatrol.com/

Net Nanny
http://www.netnanny.com/netnanny/home.html

SurfWatch
http://www.surfwatch.com/

In addition to child safety issues using the Internet, teachers, administrators, and parents need to set up guidelines for computer use in their schools. High school students visiting pornography sites is not a desirable use of computers in most schools, nor is vandalizing or breaking into someone else’s site. Information on acceptable use guidelines can be found at:

Acceptable Use Policies
http://www.nmusd.k12.ca.us/Resources/Policies.html

Acceptable Use Policy from Web66
http://mustang.coled.umn.edu/Started/use/Acceptableuse.ht ml