CyberEducator: The Internet and World Wide Web for K-12 and Teacher Education with Free Student CD-ROM and PowerWeb [Spiral-bound]

Joan Bissell (Author), Anna Manring (Author), Veronica Rowland (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0072546425 | ISBN-13: 978-0072546422 | Publication Date: November 1, 2001 | Edition: 2

CyberEducator is a hands-on, comprehensive, inexpensive, and easy-to-use overview of the Internet for educators. It includes extensive Web resources for all content areas within education. The guidebook lists the Internet sites most relevant to K-12 and teacher education, including lesson planning, collaborative projects with other schools, general references, and more. This updated edition includes a companion CD-ROM that provides extensive resources for integrating the Web in K-12 classrooms and includes multimedia resources, video clips, and extensive Web links. Updated at Web Site: Web sites change often. Check the CyberEducator companion Web site at http://www.mhhe.com/cybereducator/ for updated resources.

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Joan S. Bissell, Ed.D., is currently Director of the Educational Leadership Doctoral Program and Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of California, Irvine. She received her Ed.D. in Human Development from Harvard University where she was on the faculty from 1972 to 1975. An expert in the Internet and World Wide Web applications in education, she has developed a number of award-winning Web pages for educators. She received campus Distinguished Teaching Award, Excellence in Teaching Award, and Outstanding Professor Award in 1997, 1998, and 1999 respectively. Her special interests are technology in education, out-of-school learning, and Internet tools for educational reform.

Anna Manring is currently a Programmer Analyst in the University of California at Irvine's Department of Education. She graduated with a B.A. in English from the University of California at Irvine and was a technical writer for 3 1/2 years, taught workshops in multimedia and Internet search strategies, and engaged in freelance work in graphic design and Internet research. She is co-designer/editor of "Launch Point," a weekly Internet column for kids that appears in the Los Angeles Times. Her special interests are educational technology, user interface design, and multimedia.

Veronica A. Rowland is a Program Development Analyst at the University of California, Irvine, specializing in K-12 education and after-school programs. She received her Bachelor of Liberal Arts degree from Swarthmore College. Since that time, she has served as a middle school teacher, assisted in the development of online higher education courses, and co-authored curriculum guides for after-school programs and the first edition of CyberEducator. Her special interests are educational technology, youth development, and curriculum frameworks.

Product Details

• Spiral-bound
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages; 2 edition (November 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0072546425
• ISBN-13: 978-0072546422
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.4 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,619,190 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars Don't Waste Your Money!, August 5, 2005

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This review is from: CyberEducator: The Internet and World Wide Web for K-12 and Teacher Education with Free Student CD-ROM and PowerWeb (Spiral-bound)

Take my advice and DO NOT buy this book. It was a required text for a course I was taking, and myself and the entire class complained to the instructor and the University. The book is unforgiveably outdated, and has no business still being in print. The publisher, McGraw Hill should be ashamed of themselves for selling this outdated book to unsuspecting buyers, most likely students of Internet courses. This book should either be updated or yanked from publication. It purports to be a guide to the Internet for educators. Well, let me tell you it is more like a guide to a dead end. For $31.95 you get a book and a CD-ROM, both of which are pretty useless. Both the book and the CD are full of links to web sites that prove to be dead links. Either the web sites no longer exist or the URLs haved changed since this book was published in 2001. For example, as part of a discussion of educational listservs, the book and CD provided a list and links to 10 listservs. Out of those 10, only 5 of the listservs are still in existence and of those only 2 of the links provided were still working. Another fine example of currency or lack thereof, a section on search engines touted Alta Vista and Lycos -- no mention of Google of course. Who even hears anything about Alta Vista and Lycos anymore? There is very little of value in this book, and what there is can most certainly be found in another source that is much more current. Enough said! I would have given "0" stars if I could.