Amazon.com description: Product Description: Using an easy-to-read style and numerous examples taken directly from the Internet, this text helps teachers explore the various functions of the Internet and its applications to classroom learning. Truly interactive in approach, the book has its own Web site that allows students to engage in Internet activities and explore Internet resources of an educational nature. An accompanying Internet home page for educators - linked to text content - contains chapter guides and key Internet links. This allows users to cruise the net with appropriate guidance and instruction, to try out examples of strategies, to connect to hundreds of useful resources, including software for e-mail and composing home page and to share Internet activities with others. It also features easy-to-read discussions of the components of the Internet and their use, presenting only the essential elements of the Internet and only practical and effective strategies. A graphic overview, highlights, and a summary for each chapter are complemented by extensive use of graphics and boxed text throughout as well as actual screen images of WWW in detailed illustrations and photographs.