Webwalker:
Learning to Browse the Net

Web browser is a phrase for the software programs that can retrieve and display these Web documents. More recently, the same program that can read these files can also create them. There are many competing browser programs, including titles such as Netscape, Internet Explorer, Mosaic, Samba, Internet Works, Air Mosaic, Netcruiser, Cello, and Mac/Web or Win/Web. The browser in turn connects you to an array of special purpose programs and tools found on the Web.

To use the Web to find what you want is to be a Webwalker, or a more common expression, to be a net surfer or to surf. Click on the colored underlined words below to jump to other places that focus on beginners. Use the Back Arrow or Go command in the menu bar to return to this page.

You must learn to browse the work of others before you can effectively create and publish your own Web pages and develop your own Web site. For further beginning experiences and and places to practice, try these web sites for assistance.

Foreword

Scavenger Hunts

• Science/Math Scavenger Hunt by Susan Matthews
• Social Studies/Literature Scavenger Hunt by Christine Richardson
• Science Girl's Scavenger Hunt
• The Hunt

Educational Meta-Libraries

• Selected Meta-Libraries Organized by Content Areas
  Please make some Scavenger Hunts of your own based on a content area and share the web address with me. I'd like the Scavenger Hunt collection to grow.

Sites with a Web Teaching Focus

Every web browser that you might use to read this web page has its own Help options in its menu bar. Explore them for introductory information. Introductory tours are constantly being invented. For example:
• Global Village's Internet Tour

• Netscape's Internet Tour.

• The Internet Tour Bus and the Tour Bus Archive of past email tutorials.

• Jump Points for Beginners.

• Web Wandering Help from the Jackson County Web site.

• the Awesome List, emphasizing the breadth and depth of the Internet.

Beginner's Reference Room

• Delphi's Glossary of Internet Terms.
• Internet / Glossaries - WebReference.com
• Glossary of Internet Terms by Internet Literacy Consultants.
• Glossaries of Learning Technologies Terms

Textbook-Like for Beginners

Online books
• The Help Web: A Guide To Getting Started on the Internet
• Read Five Internet Books for Free, an online Macmillian resource.
• Learn the Net .
• Newbie University for new online users.
• Life on the Internet

  On the Bookshelves

• Amazon.com is an online bookstore that will allow you to search its collection of millions of books for books about the Internet. If you order from them using your credit card number they will ship the book directly to your home. There are many other online bookstores that provide similar service.

Use The Web to Teach: Share and Solve Problems

• C.R.O.P.: Communities Resolving Our Problems.