Technology, which has fueled the emerging global economy and increasingly networked society, must finally become a catalyst for educational change. More than any other technological tool or medium, the World Wide Web offers the greatest potential to re-design education to meet the needs of the third millennium. On-line education will undoubtedly become a key to life-long learning.

The rapid rise of the Internet and World Wide Web are about to change forever the time, place, and pace of education. Learning is no longer regulated by the annual school calendar or the length of the school day. Learning is no longer limited to the curriculum offerred on a single school campus or to the resources available within the four walls of a classroom. Learning need no longer be controlled by the scope and sequence of a teacher's lesson plans or the collective pace of one's classmates. On-line education empowers students to take responsibility for their own education.

The ability to use on-line resources is quickly becoming a core competency for an Information Age education. Consequently, Thomasville City Schools is offerring this course--Using the World Wide Web--to help prepare students to be effective citizens and productive knowledge workers of the 21st century. The goals of this course are to provide students with the knowledge and skills to:
use e-mail safely and efficiently to communicate with other members of the on-line community:
locate on-line resources that enrich academic studies and allow career exploration; and
contribute to the global on-line community by creating home pages about local issues.

Using the World Wide Web is an elective course for 1/2 credit. Assignments will be posted on this web site and discussions will be held with the instructor and other class members via e-mail. If you are interested in taking this class, you may enroll at almost anytime during the school year; however, you must register with the instructor. Students from other school districts may also take this class by gaining prior approval from the instructor and their home school.