North Carolina
Educational Technology Conference

A Newbie's Guide to
Using the Internet

919-571-3292
david@landmark-project.com

What to do next:

• Bake that person some cookies!
• Start asking, “what does TCP-IP and FTP mean?”
• Ask them, “What was the latest thing that ‘knocked your socks off’ with technology?”
• Then ask them to fix your printer…and to let you watch.

• Think of some place you would like to take your students (any place, time, or dimension)
• Research the Internet using the skills you have been exposed to here to find information on your field trip destination (pictures, text, video, etc.)
• Construct an information product that describes your virtual field trip, utilizing the resources that you found on the Internet (preferably, a web pages)

• Where are you in the plan?
• What’s going to happen next?
• Learn about the approaching technologies -- find people on the Internet who are already using them.

• Read books and share.
• Set up a mail group or a mailing list.
• Send at least one e-mail message a week to the group describing something that you found on the Internet or something that you learned.
• Conduct a project between your community members.
• Have each member join a different Internet mailing list and share the most valuable messages with each other.

• A picture as a transparency
• A video clip on your classroom computer
• Text in a handout
• A quote from a famous person to open a lesson.

• Learn to organize your mail
• Learn to filter your mail
• Make connections

Use the Internet as a magnifying glass!

Use the Internet to change the way that you look at things!