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Learn the Net: Internet Lesson Plans for Teachers
This resource provides lesson plans for teachers.
ACT360 Media
Act Den: The Museum of Modern Technology
Informative, fun, and humorous tutorial that uses cartoon characters to provide an introduction to information technology. The tutorial covers operating systems/desktops, email, the world wide web, and networks.
BBC
Bbc: Bitesize: How Ict Has Changed Communication and Collaboration
Computers and the internet have changed how people work, communicate, and share information, but we need to understand the advantages and disadvantages of sharing online. This tutorial looks at email, video conferencing, online document...
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A Beginner's Guide to Effective Email
Informative site offering a comprehensive definition of e-mail and its uses. Also covers formatting, page layout, gestures, formalities, intonations, and greeting and signatures used in e-mailing.
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Aardvark Internet: Aardvark Map
Want to create a map for your friends to show them in an email where to meet? This easy-to-use website works with Google Maps to allow you to create a custom map of a location. Site contains steps that are easy to follow.
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Education: Lesson: Show Respect Online (K 2)
Students explore the similarities and differences between in-person and online communications, and then learn how to write clear and respectful emails. Requires free membership.
Get Safe Online
Get Safe Online: Advance Fee Frauds
One type of internet fraud is the advance fee scam. Criminals promise huge returns on a small fee in advance. This article describes how to recognize some of the common advance fee scams and how to avoid them.
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Education: Scams and Schemes: Grades 6 8
Students learn strategies for guarding against identity theft and scams that try to access their private information online. Students learn what identity theft is, what kinds of information identity thieves want, and what can be done...
Goodwill
Gcf Global: Basic Skills
Intimidated by computers? New to email and the Internet? Curious about operating systems and online safety? We've got the information you need to better understand computers and how they work. This is a landing page that has multiple...
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Cpsr: Netiquette Training Whose Responsibility?
CPSR offers an article on the need to train new Internet users about netiquette. Includes experiences with E-mail, need for netiquette, and additional resources.
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Net History: Ian Peter
Biography information on Ian Peter, respected world-wide Internet expert and historian. He is credited as one of the early pioneers of the Internet. Link to his audio CD and EBook for more detailed information on Internet history. His...
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University of Florida
University of Florida: Netiquette Guide for Online Courses [Pdf]
This guide provides tips for how to behave during an online course and just in general when you communicate through the Internet. It looks at password protection, online communication, email, and message boards.
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Dave Net: Bill Gates on Privacy
Dave Winer ponders the issues of privacy on the Internet, citing an email from Bill Gates and discussing digital encryption. Goes into depth about the debate on free speech and censorship of the internet.
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Tel Aviv University: Mime
This technical article explains MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions). MIME is a specification for enhancing the capabilities of standard Internet electronic mail. It offers a simple standardized way to represent and encode a wide...
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Albion.com: Netiquette Home Page
A thorough netiquette guide to keep you from social communication blunders in your email messages. Includes a quiz.
NC State University
North Carolina State University: Ethics in Computing: Speech Issues
Curated collection of links to articles, essays, and related topics on responsible use of the Internet and information technologies with respect to speech and online hate compiled and maintained by a university instructor.
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Think U Know: Cyber Cafe
The Cyber Cafe from Think U Know offers a safe and interactive environment for students to learn and practice responsible digital citizenship. Learn how to safely use email, social media, and search the web.
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December.com: Net Tools
Provides links and evaluations of dozens of pieces of software, ranging from languages to multimedia to email.
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Gov Loop: The 7 Barriers to Digital Communication
For all its conveniences, significant barriers to effective digital communication exist. These digital communication barriers can interfere with the ability to get a point across via email, chats, texts, messaging, discussion boards,...
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Elk Grove Unified School District: Digital Citizenship: Digital Footprint
A digital footprint is all of the information online about a person either posted by that person or others, intentionally or unintentionally. Filling out a form, leaving a blog comment, updating your status, checking into a location,...
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Internet Privacy and Email Security
A site that gives information on how to maintain privacy and security on the net.
Get Safe Online
Get Safe Online: Use Webmail Wisely
Webmail is web-based email. The reason webmail is popular is because it provides convenient email processing from any internet connected computer. This site describes some of the security risks associated with webmail and how to avoid them.
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The 101 Series: E Mail Etiquette
This site from the 101 Series describes different types of guidelines for sending emails. Some of the guidelines are for the convenience of the sender/receiver. Some of the guidelines have to do with etiquette (manners), and some are...
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: Living in the Information Age
Read about the technological advances that brought on the information age at the beginning of the 21st century. The internet, e-mail, and the spread of fiber-optic cables revolutionized the amount of information available to the ordinary...