Purpose and Benefits The purpose of the project is to develop an Internet Classroom Training Course (ICTTC) including course materials, intended to be presented live by a local sponsoring host to K-12 classroom teachers. The purpose of the course is to instruct K-12 classroom techers to infuse the Internet into their existing curriculum to enhance the learning experiences of their students and also provide the attending teachers with the materials and strategies to teach others in their home school, the skills and knowledge they have learned in the course. The course would include a discussion of the function and capability of modern technology and technology resources and would come to assume that participating schools have c omputers which are, or could be made, available to the students whether the computers are centralized in a "lab" environment, or in the classroom, or both. The course would instruct the teachers on how to make these existing resources more functional and useful in educating then students.

1. Students and teachers can have access to an enormous amount of information in seconds. 2. Students can access information in order to develop projects and reports in all content areas. 3. Students can access information and utilize higher order thinking skills to develop hypothesis or to determine decsions and actions that are needed to solve problems. 4. Students can obtain knowledge and understanding about a variety of topics (people, places and things) in all content areas 5. Students can actually have visual /auditory experiences and interactions with other people and places, whether for personal interest or for academic projects. 6. Students can learn to function in an "information based" society that values "learning on demand" and "lifelong learning skills". 7. Teachers can improve their instruction by utilizing the most current and relevant information that is available. 8. Teachers can benefit from internet-based activities which are not only interesting and motivating for their students, but can be facilitated through individual and group projects. 9. Teachers can assign individual internet-based projects that allow students to utilize their own learning preferences (i.e. learning styles). 10. Teachers can assign groups internet-based projects to promote cooperative and collaborative activities.