Why We Are Here

• Evolution is taking a deliberate step forward, and K12 educators play a key role. Staying ahead of and enabling the students: a key challenge
• Internet is not a hobby or a casual interest but a "need to know" subject now
• Impossible to ignore
• Dissolving boundaries between school and home, between school and school, between countries. Need to create a new language to describe and understand our new roles as parents and educators in the online environment.

• Cisco Systems

  "The success of the Internet is a stunning testament to the capability of Cisco routers."

  John Duhring, Vice President, WAIS, Inc.

• Educators Plus --- Dan Fleming, Principal, Rockport High School
  
• Teachers, Professors and Practitioners
  
  • Mort Sternheim, Dept. of Physics, UMass-Amherst, Proprietor, UMASS/K12 network
  • Rita Hannaford, Library Science and Rosanna Moakley, World Studies
  • Online BookStore, (OBS), pioneers of distributive publishing
    • Laura Fillmore, President
    • Dee Landergren, Vice President

• Equipment we are using and connectivity in this room

• Places we will touch into during this talk

• Our seminar is itself a living Internet hypertext publication

What are the Goals of this Seminar

• Basic familiarity of the Internet

• A view of what your colleagues are doing today on the Internet

• Understanding of the components of a "Tech Plan"

Who Is Today's Audience?

• Use Email? Every day?

• Here for personal learning? Professional? Both?

• Use Web? Every day?

Learning by Surfing: An Introduction to the Internet

Introduction

1. What Are Computer Networks
   
   • Two computers 'talking'
   • Bits and Atoms
   • The whole is more than the sum of its part
   • Client/Server
2. Internet
   
   • Beginnings: National Park System
   • Academic and Research Oriented: The Culture
     • Acceptable Use Policies (AUP)
     • Collaborative development of tools
     • Open standards
   • Open networking: TCP/IP standards enabling any computer to talk to any other computer.
     • Packet Switched Network
     • Bits about Bits
   • Commercialization starting in 1992: Six Flags over Disney Gardens
3. Distributed vs. Contained Network
   • No front door - no single phone number
   • Not a service such as CompuServe, Prodigy, or AOL
   • Global Access/Local Phone Call
   • Analogy to Contained vs Distributed Books
   • No one in Control: uncensored
4. Three tools and a rule: The Internet Tool Box
   • Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
   • Email--the glue that binds
   • Telnet
   • FTP or File Transfer Protocol
   • All together now: The World is my School!
5. Hypertext: Chunks and Packets
   • Shakespeare by the Bit
   • Dissolving, transporting, and reconstituting documents and pictures
     • The London Bridge Example for Packets
   • Textbooks as early examples of printed hypertext
     • Multiauthored
     • Multisourced
     • Involved reader (students) in Q&A
   • The reader rules in a kinetic world where boundaries are erased
6. World Wide Web (W3 or "The Web")
   • Subset of the Internet: Computers all talking HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) to each other
   • Point and Click Hypertext publishing system
   • Multimedia: Anything digitized can be linked into Anything
7. Surfing the Web: What is a Browser?
   • Gopher--Text only, hierarchically structured. Librarians loved it.
   • Meshworks of Associative Thought
   • Chaotic: Multidimentional channel surfing
   • Browser is analogous to the "car" you drive around the Web:
     • Mosaic the First (again, academic in origin)
     • Lynx
     • Cello
     • NetScapes
   • Browser Wars Imminent: Film at Eleven: Big Money being spent on secure browsers
8. How to Connect and What Does it Cost:
   • Computers
   • Modems Speed Rules
   • Phone Line
     • Dialup shell, SLIP, PPP, (TIA)
     • Leased Line
9. How to pay for it
   • Leased line scales best with fixed rate costs
   • Start small: biggest challenge is imaginative
   • Sponsors possible; government monies
   • Has anyone ever *dis*connect a school for lack of interest?
   • Involve community
   • Accounts for parents and students
   • School as participant on the net
   Summary:
   Change in attitude at these seminars, from curiosity to a real hunger for knowledge and eagerness not to be left behind. We can help with one-on-one visits and seminars, especially during the upcoming summer.

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   K12 - Seminars

   OBS Seminar

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   The StarChild Project: NASA + K12 Classroom

   Virtual Frog Dissection Kit Info Page

   Art-ROM Museum Web

   Web of Wonder - Index

   Web of Wonder - Elementary

   Web of Wonder - Secondary

   http://riceinfo.rice.edu/armadillo/Rice/Resourc...

   Index of WWW Resources for the K12 Teacher

   KID List

   KidPub WWW Publishing

   Cisco Systems' Special Offer

   The Internet and Schools: A Survey of Networking Activities

   gopher://unix5.nysed.gov/

   The J.R.R. Tolkien Information Page

   Children's Literature Web Guide

   Welcome to Maynard High School

   Welcome to the Maynard Public Schools

   Hanscom AFB Schools Home Page

   Connecticut SNP

   State Networking Project

   World-Wide Web servers: Connecticut

   CallNet Home Page

   Connix

   Welcome to Insurance News Network

   PCNet HOME Page

   NetAxis - Your Link to the Internet!

   ACES -- Area Cooperative Educational Services