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This paper focuses on using the Internet for instruction in terms of World Wide Web-based software that project organizers or participants can use to facilitate a richer collaboration when using the Internet for inquiry lessons and that facilitates the process of developing on-line communities of learners. Knowing the potential use and strengths of this software enhances the knowledge of techniques and tools for those who wish to facilitate or participate in Internet-based instruction or an Internet-based community of learners. The following topics are discussed: (1) expected outcomes of using the Internet for instruction, including exemplary science instruction, Internet-based collaborative inquiry, and communities of learners; (2) software to promote collaborative inquiry or communities of learners; and (3) two Web-based project components and the "Forum" and "Links" software used to facilitate these processes, i.e., organizing and facilitating student-student or teacher-teacher interactions, and locating and using Web sites for the collaboration or inquiry process. (Author/AEF)

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert