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

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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 The book is unforgiveably outdated, and has no business still being in print. The publisher, McGraw Hill should be ashamed of themselves for selling this outdated book to unsuspecting buyers, most likely students of Internet courses.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.