The Classroom of the Future - A Guide to Using the Internet in Irish Schools

Contents

Foreword

Credits

1. Introduction

What's inside?
About the Classroom of the Future
About the authors
About Broadcom

2. What is the Internet?

Classroom learning
E-mail
World Wide Web

3. How Irish schools can use the Web

Subject ideas and examples

4. How Irish schools can use the Internet

Communication
Educational research
School Web site

5. How to get on-line

What you need
Other considerations

6. How to use the Internet (once you're on-line)

E-mail
WWW
Newsgroups
Mailing lists
FTP
Gopher
Telnet

7. Case studies of Irish schools using the Internet

Experiences of Irish schools using the Internet

8. The Internet and the Classroom of the Future

Considerations and possibilities for the future

9. What next?

Ideas on where to go from here

Appendix A

The Internet - where it came from and how it works

Appendix B

How to get on-line - more information

Appendix C

Internet terms explained

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