Online Family: Your Guide to Fun and Discovery in Cyberspace [Paperback]

Preston Gralla (Author)

Book Description

Plan a complete family vacation on the Internet.

Learn how to keep your kids safe online.

Get news and reviews on family-oriented movies, television, and music.

Find out where to go for help with homework.

This user-friendly, jam-packed guide is a great resource for finding the best family-related sites on the Internet. Preston Gralla, author of Online Kids and a leading authority in the field of family computing and Internet resources, explains how families can best access and use cyberspace. His expert advice covers everything from choosing the right online service and navigating the World Wide Web to sending e-mail, using newsgroups, and keeping safe online. You'll discover the best places to go online for current events, entertainment, and up-to-the-minute information on vacation and travel, home improvement, games and hobbies, finance, parenting, and much more. Each chapter includes dozens of useful site listings. Put the awesome potential of cyberspace to use for you and your family!

Editorial Reviews

Review

Preston Gralla, author of Online Family, gives advice to parents concerned about their children's computer use in the syndicated column, Child Life, by Beverly Mills. Gralla suggests, "using the computer as a bridge to other activities," as well as, "giving a child one or one and a half hours on the computer, unless it is for research or educational."—Dallas Morning News

From the Publisher

A parents' guide to making cyberspace a safe, virtually inexhaustible source of information and entertainment for the whole family. Following in the footsteps of his award-winning Online Kids, Preston Gralla provides parents with a complete guide to making the most of this resource. In addition to profiles of hundreds of family-related sites currently available on the Net, Gralla tutors parents in the basics of cyberspace navigation and offers valuable advice and guidance on how to keep kids safe online, how to use email effectively, and how to do everything from get kids help with schoolwork to plan family vacations online.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass (February 27, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471195731
• ISBN-13: 978-0471195733
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,623,759 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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