Beam me aboard
Scottie!!
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What is a "Virtual Tour"?
It's a trip to the Smithsonian Institute
without having to pay admission. It is a guided tour of France,
without the cost of and international airline ticket. It is a trip
through history experiencing the sights and sounds that once inhabited
this earth. It is all of these things and without ever leaving home.
How you ask? The journey begins by turning on a computer and
learning to navigate a browser
through the World Wide Web.
The World Wide Web
(Web or WWW for short) is the huge multimedia document of the Internet
with pages stored on computers all over the world. These pages contain
text, graphics, animated clips, audio and video clips, and just about anything
else you can imagine. Using a special probram called a Web browser,
you can open and navigate these Web pages.
I have
included numerous links on this page to help my students get started on
the Internet explorations. The sites are all educational in content
and will link parent or student to some very interesting sites. For
further Web explorations, I recomend linking to my computer page
to use one of the search engine hyperlinks. You may want to read
the brief summary of what a search engine is before you begin. Enjoy
your journey. The information you will find at your fingertips is
mind-boggling. |