Surfing Safely with Social Navigation

Abstract: Many parents and teachers are concerned about the growing proliferation of published material on the World Wide Web, some of it being unfit for small children’s eyes and minds. Thousands of new websites are being added every month to the Internet with a wide range of HTML styles and structures. Navigating this vast sea of information safely becomes a nightmarish adventure for the uninformed and/or uninitiated.

Presented at SITE 2001 - Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education International Conference. This annual conference offers opportunities to share ideas and expertise on all topics related to the use of information technology in teacher education and instruction about information technology for all disciplines in preservice, inservice, and graduate teacher education as well as faculty and staff development.

Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education is an international association of individual teacher educators, and affiliated organizations of teacher educators in all disciplines, who are interested in the creation and dissemination of knowledge about the use of information technology in teacher education.