The Teacher's Complete and Easy Guide to the Internet. 2nd ed.

Charles R. Crawford, a former associate professor of computer science at
York University, is a computer-programming and mathematics consultant.

This guide to the Internet is divided into 10 chapters. Chapter 1
discusses how the Internet can aid the teacher in the classroom and
provides examples of how it is being used by teachers in Canada and the
United States. Chapters 2 and 3 examine how the Internet can be used for
student projects. Chapters 4, 5, and 6 concentrate on the World Wide
Web, Chapter 7 on e-mail, and Chapter 8 on miscellaneous Internet
features such as file transfers and chat environments. Chapter 9
describes the different ways in which a school can be connected to the
Internet. Finally, Chapter 10 describes how students and teachers might
use the Internet at home to support their classroom work. An appendix
provides a sample of a policy on acceptable Internet use, while the
CD-ROM that accompanies the book lists online curriculum resources in
files that can be read by a Web browser. The CD-ROM also includes an
evaluation copy of a shareware browser called Opera.

The authors present the Internet as a means of extending established
methods of teaching rather than automating them. In a section on
learning theory, they argue that the Internet can be used to support
“student-centered, project-oriented” learning and “the active use
of knowledge.” Their book, which avoids the usual hyperbole about the
Information Age, presents general strategies for using the Internet that
do not depend on particular Web sites or software. For that reason, The
Teacher’s Complete and Easy Guide to the Internet should be useful for
several years to come.