1. Effects of the Internet on Education

2. Positive Effects
The Internet puts the concept of "anytime, anywhere" into a higher level as far as learning is concerned.
Both teacher and student also benefit from being able to research any topic from library catalogs, topical databases, and the World Wide Web.
Using a combination of and the Web, teachers and students can collaborate on research and creative projects even with those who don’t live in the same city or country.
With steaming audio and video students can now look over archeologists’ shoulders as they dig for Mayan artifacts in South America, observe animals in the zoo, interact with astronauts at NASA all in real time.

3. Negative Effects
Given the nature of the web and the fact that anyone with access to it can put information up on it – there will always be some information that will be incorrect and not valid.
The Internet also houses controversial materials that many adults prefer not to have available to children for various reasons.
There are numerous sites on the Web that offer term papers and book reports for sale or even free. This raises numerous issues concerning plagiarism and work ethic.
Some arguments may be raised concerning the time Internet activities take away from more traditional means of information retrieval such as reading a book.

4. Internet Safety
Never give out identifying information — home address, school name, or telephone number — in a public message.
 Remember that everything you read online may not be true. Any offer that’s “too good to be true” probably is. Be careful about any offers that involve you going to a meeting, having someone visit your house, or sending money or credit-card information.
Set reasonable rules and guidelines for computer use by your children. Discuss these rules and post them near the computer as a reminder.
Check out blocking, filtering, and ratings applications. Be sure to make this a family activity. Consider keeping the computer in a family room rather than the child’s bedroom.

5. Resources http://dragon.ep.usm.edu/~it/capstone/tonette/www3.html

6. What is Web 2.0?
According to Tim O'Reilly, "Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform."

7. Web 1.0 vs. 2.0
When the web started a small number of writers created Web pages for a large number of readers. As a result, people could get information by going directly to the source: Adobe.com for graphic design issues, Microsoft.com for Windows issues, and CNN.com for news, etc. Over time, however, more and more people started writing content in addition to reading it. This had an interesting effect—suddenly there was too much information to keep up with! People did not have enough time to visit all the sites. As personal publishing caught on and went mainstream there had to be changes.
Enter Web 2.0, a vision of the Web in which information is broken up into “microcontent” units that can be distributed over dozens of domains. The Web of documents has morphed into a Web of data. We are no longer just looking to the same old sources for information. Now we’re looking to a new set of tools to aggregate and remix microcontent in new and useful ways. In a very real sense, we’re now designing more for machines than for people. This may sound like we’re in the Matrix, but in the words of Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos, “Web 2.0… is about making the Internet useful for computers.”

9. To summarize, these are what we see as the six main themes covering design in the Web 2.0 world:
Writing semantic markup (transition to XML)
Providing Web services (moving away from place)
Remixing content (about when and what, not who or why)
Emergent navigation and relevance (users are in control)
Adding metadata over time (communities building social information)
Shift to programming (separation of structure and style

10. Curriculum Use
When we use search engines, portals, APIs (application programming interfaces, which provide hooks to data) and Web services we are using Web Google Maps provides the same functionality as similar competing services but features a far superior interface. Flickr’s interface is one of the most intuitive and beloved around. Del.icio.us offers personal and social functionality. Interfaces like these are changing the way we store, access, and share information.

11. Resources http://www.digital-web.com/articles/web_2_for_designers/

12. What are some Internet Legal Issues?
Children Privacy Rights
Copyrights

13. Children Privacy Rights
The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) intends to protect children on the Internet, from both individuals that may be using their personal information in inappropriate ways (cyberstalking, etc.), as well as from predatory advertising and business tactics.
In a nutshell, COPPA provisions require that a Web site obtain permission from parents before collecting any personal data from their children who are younger than 13.

14. Copyrights
A party is guilty of copyright infringement if they violate one of the five exclusive rights given to copyright owners under the Copyright Act. Included in those rights are the right to prevent others from reproducing (or copying) a work, publicly displaying a work, or distributing a work. As a result, web page authors should take care not to copy the work of others.
The selection and protection of a domain name may be the most important detail in the creation of a web site. Domain names function as the address for a web site, and disputes over domain names have become more common and more heated as the popularity of the Internet grows.
Nonetheless, web page developers must be careful to avoid defaming someone in their pages. If a statement is being made that may damage the reputation of a person or organization, care should be taken to make sure that the statement is not defaming.

15. Impact on Society
A federal judge rules that MP3.com willfully violated copyright protections in posting music files to its online service, awarding Universal Music Group $25,000 per compact disc -- a penalty that could reach as much as $250 million 2000 Jan. 10, 2000
Rock band Metallica delivers 335, 435 names of Internet users they say downloaded their music to Napster and asks for them to be banned from the service for copyright.
A study released by SoundScan shows declining CD sales at stores near universities, and some are pointing fingers at online music-swapping software such as Napster.
People have to realize that everything that is posted on the internet is not free and cannot be copied with permission.

16. Impact on Education
Educators need to be careful using pictures and names of students on the internet.
Many students listen to digital media players and and they download most of their music from the Internet. We need to make sure that they know the legal and social implications of "ripping off" the artists.

17. Resources http://www.bitlaw.com/internet/webpage.html