Introducing Internet4Classrooms

Who is Internet4Classrooms? A decade ago (February, 1997) Susan Brooks and Bill Byles began a collaborative effort to extend assistance to fellow teachers. In November of 2000 that project expanded to a web presence known as Internet4Classrooms (i4c). The web portal which we call i4c is free to anyone who wants to find high-quality, free Internet resources to use in their classroom instruction. The portal is used by teachers on six of the seven continents (there are not many classrooms in Antarctica) and is available to anyone with an Internet connection. No subscription fee is charged. To find out more about Susan and Bill, please go to our short bios.

Is Internet4Classrooms a company? Yes and No. Since Susan and Bill (the entire staff of i4c) travel thousands of miles each year conducting professional development, they have incorporated because of liability concerns. However, if you want to contact either of us, look at the bottom of any of our web pages to find our email addresses. We answer requests for help, concerns, or anything you want to write about.

Why did you post this site on the web? Together, Susan and Bill have over six decades of teaching experience; all the way from Kindergarten to University. They are giving back to a profession that has been good to them.

Why do some links open in a new page? Some web sites have special instructions that make it impossible to use the Back button. Others require so many clicks to back up to the starting page. In those cases we write links so the page opens in a new window. To alert you to that fact we place the following notation at the start of the link description: [this link opens on a new page]

Why are your links purple rather than blue? Our signature color (purple) happens to be the favorite color of Susan. If you ever come to i4c and discover that we have a brand new look and the links are blue, please check the spelling of our name in the web address that you typed. A company has bought numerous misspellings of our name hoping that people would make keystroke errors in their attempt to reach Internet4Classrooms. Their signature color is not purple.

Why are some links green? Most of our links send you to a web page. However, some of the links are to documents to open or download. Sample documents include; .doc (MS Word), .xls (MS Excel), .ppt (MS PowerPoint), .pdf (Adobe Acrobat)

What do the icons stand for? We strive to help teachers quickly find what they are looking for. Icons used on our site are to identify what type of information or file will be found at a linked location. Icons used on our site include: designed for the teacher MS Word document a lesson plan video format MS PowerPoint document a quiz something to print MS Excel document an interactive lesson sound included Adobe Acrobat document up to a higher grade added recently something on another i4c page down to a lower grade

Will you participate in a link exchange program? No. If you discover Internet4Classrooms, and decide that the people who normally come to your web site would benefit from a link to us that you provide for them, feel free to link to us. We search the Internet looking for high-quality, free resources which can be used in classroom instruction. When we find those we write links to them. We will never write a link to another site simply because they have a link to us. Feel free to suggest your site for inclusion on one of our pages if you have high-quality, free resources which can be used in classroom instruction.

Why can't I copy your (i4c's) content and post it on my server? Well, for one thing, Susan and Bill own the copyright of all material posted on the i4c site. Copying our content and posting it on your server is copyright infringement. Another major consideration is the validity of the information copied and posted on another's server. Susan and Bill continuously check links and edit the pages containing the links; taking out old dead links and adding new resources. The Internet is a highly mobile community. Links written over a year ago may not be valid today. People who plagiarize our work tend to forget that the links change so rapidly. Posting our content on your server will cheat your teachers from the updates which we constantly make to i4c pages.

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Internet4Classrooms is a collaborative project developed by Susan Brooks and Bill Byles