Gives instructions in nontechnical terms for building a simple web site using Netscape Navigator or Communicator's web editor. Presents six steps that include: organizing information, creating a page and a background, linking files, linking to Internet web pages, linking images, and linking an email address. Gives advice for sending the web page…

This article describes development and implementation of a homework Web site to encourage parent involvement in students' homework. The Web site included homework policies, practices, and specific assignments and provided a format for individualizing homework assignments and communication. Insets include a summary of the literature, a list of…

Selection is the key to learning from the huge amount of information on the Internet. Describes how teachers can use a school Intranet or website to organize resources and direct students to the best interactive and educationally appropriate pages. (Author/MM)

A new website from the Institute of Physics, physics.org, will now provide answers to many questions about physics. Developers describe the design and purpose of the site and look forward to forthcoming enhancements. (Author/MM)

Describes a project where students publish their work on the World Wide Web. Enables students to share their work with other students and researchers around the world and to receive feedback from new sources. Discusses cyberscience, implementing web lab reports, and assessment strategies. (JRH)

Offers detailed instructions for getting on the Internet and publishing a web page using HTML (hypertext markup language). (TB)

Shares some ideas about facilitating inquiry-based learning in the classroom, in independent studies, in libraries, museums, communities, and all the arenas of life in which people attempt to make sense of experience and grow. Notes that the "Web-linked Inquiry Units" provide a tangible form of a community of inquiry as well as insights for future…

Teacher Web sites offer a means of establishing better communication between parent and teacher. We describe an example of a strategy we have found to be successful for a high school chemistry teacher. The Web site was available to parents and students using a dynamic database and provided a day-by-day lesson schedule, homework assignments, due…

Summarizes recent research into patterns of Internet use in schools providing detailed pictures which suggest that in the majority of schools, the use of the Internet is at a very early and restricted level of use. Reflects on the communication aspects of the Internet and web-based resources. (Contains 19 references.) (Author/ASK)

Discusses the advantages to using on-line assessment for both the instructor and the learner. Reports on the use of an online assessment tool that provides interactive feedback to students learning linear algebra. Measures success in terms of improved pass rate and students' satisfaction with the flexible learning opportunities that the tool…

Describes a course on the use of technologies for learning that studies the World Wide Web, multimedia, communication and collaboration software, tutoring systems, virtual reality, and other new digital technologies. Explores what educators are beginning to learn from this investigation of the past and future of learning technologies through use…

Offers a description of cyberspace or the "Web" or "Net" and explains how to find information on it. (TB)

Lists helpful web sites for First Amendment research in an annotated format. (TB)

Describes how to use the World Wide Web to study the current progress of the Human Genome Project. Uses free-access DNA databases and other web sites that are user-friendly for students. (YDS)

Students need to do more than just look at web pages to learn from the Internet, they also need to interact and communicate with others. Describes ways to use resources from the internet in physics teaching. (Author/MM)