Interesting Sites Online

• For anyone who has ever wondered how and why the Internet was created comes this extensive essay, "The Roads and Crossroads of Internet's History." With this document, users can follow the development of the Net from its early stages as a military communication system to the multimedia extravaganza we know today.

• Operating Systems

• Computer Help Desk - This site is specifically designed for people who are both literate and non-literate computer users. If you want to build your own PC from scratch or simply change a hard drive you can find instructions on this site.

• Learn how to use MS Frontpage 2000. This online tutorial was created as a Grassroots project at PWC.

• Full of useful information about just everything visit How Stuff Works

• Check out this site which is a full index of all of the topics covered by The PC Guide: http://www.pcguide.com/topic.html This is definitely a great resource for everything you have ever wanted or needed to know about computers.

PowerPoint Presentations Online

• Computer Terminology - The Basics

• History of Computers Part I: From Counting to the Eniac

• History of Computers Part II: Generations

• Computer Networks

• Developing Cost Effective Uses of Technology for Schools

• Developing Critical Literacy Skills for the Internet - The Internet has created a need to help develop in students a new set of skills, which will enable them to locate, analyze, evaluate, and synthesize the vast amounts of information available. Not only must students learn how to read the Internet but for a critical element they must also construct texts. Students must learn to become information managers; they must become critically literate. Includes two PowerPoint presentations, one on how to become Search Engine Savvy and the other introducing Critical Internet Literacy.