Supplementary Readings

E-mail services

• Comparing Two Approaches to Remote Mailbox Access: IMAP vs. POP

Free E-mail Providers

• Yahoo
• Hotmail
• Yahoo index of free E-mail Providers

E-mail: Hoaxes

• CIAC Chain Letter Page
• CIAC Internet Hoaxes Page
• Urban Legend Combat Kit by Patrick Crispen

Acceptable Use Policies

• Armadillo's Directory of AUPs
• Develop an "Acceptable Use Policy" (AUP) for Schools and Public Libraries
• Index of AUPs from NWREL
• Delaware's State and K-12 Network Policies
• Lexington Public Schools Guidelines for Student Internet Use

Copyright

• The Copyright Website
• The Fair Use Test
• Copyright Information organized by the University of Delaware Library

Other places to publish student and teacher pages

• Tripod
• GeoCities
• Angelfire
• For kids: FreeZone

Resources for Creating Web Pages

• Web Site Garage
• ReallyBig.Com's ClipArt Links

More Sources for Listservs and Newsgroups

• Educational Mailing Lists for Teachers from San Francisco Unified School District
• Newsgroups on the Net

Evaluating Sources

• Evaluating Web Sites for Educational Uses: Bibliography and Checklist
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly or Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources
• Evaluating Quality on the Net
• WWW Virtual Library: Evaluation of Information Sources contains pointers to many articles on this topic.
• Murray, Janet, et al. (1995). Searchin' the Net. [Online]. Available http://arlo.wilsonhs.pps.k12.or.us/search.html
• Schrock, Kathleen. (1997). Critical Evaluation Survey. [Online]. Available http://discoveryschool.com/schrockguide/eval.html.

Rating and Filtering Internet Content

• Recreational Software Advisory Council on the Internet --> Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA)
• Netparents.Org

Citing Sources

• Citing On-line References in Bibliographies and Footnotes. University of Maryland links to standards online.
• Quinion, Michael. (1996) World Wide Words: Citing online sources. [Online.] Available http://www.quinion.com/words/articles/citation.htm

 

Connecting to the Internet

• The UD Point to Point Protocol Page provides instructions for linking your home computer to the Internet.