The Internet has added a fourth dimension to our three dimensional world. It has changed how we function as we hyperlink in cyberspace with virtual communities and simulated experiences. It has changed who we communicate with and how we learn. Telecommunication networks provide a means of dissolving the physical, social, and metaphorical walls of the school classroom and allow learning to take place anytime, anywhere and with anyone. It also offers educators a new medium for organizing their teaching, extending curriculum, motivating students, resource building, and presenting information. http://www.uvm.edu/~jmorris
Elementary education students at the University of Vermont are required to enroll for Computers in the Elementary Education Classroom, a course preparing them to use technology in their learning as college students and future educators, in their teaching. Course information and resources are electronically based on the Internet permitting present and prospective students the opportunity to view syllabi, objectives, requirements, and readings in an electronic medium. Many course materials and readings are also online. http://www.uvm.edu/~jmorris/course.html
	Motivating students is just as important at the college level as in the K-12 classroom. The Internet, the world's largest bulletin board, is a place to show off exemplary student work, as well as offer models and resources for the larger educational community. Students demonstrate their mastery of the drawing and painting tools in ClarisWorks, by creating their dream schools and classrooms. Each semester a gallery of the best products are published on the Internet. http://www.uvm.edu/~jmorris/dream.html
	In another course requirement students use and critique educational software. In writing their reviews students become familar with current software, learning how to install the programs and assess the value of a program from an educators' perspective. The quality of students' work has steadily improved with concrete exemplars and the prestige of having their work selected for electronic display. http://www.uvm.edu/~jmorris/software.html
In the spring 1998 semester, classes were introduced to basic html coding and required to publish two pages on the Interent: an introductory page and another of educational resources. Their pages had to have all links working and they had to use graphics, some original. The rubric for this assignment can be seen at http://www.uvm.edu/~jmorris/wwwrubric.html. These sites were coded with simple text writers, and all students uploaded their own pages. They were allotted two weeks for the assignment and their efforts, most of which went beyond the requirement, can be seen online. http://www.uvm.edu/~jmorris/students.html
	As students critique educational sites, an assignment that can be found at http://www.uvm.edu/~jmorris/siteA.html, these are added to a repository used by other students seeking good educational sites. http://www.uvm.edu/~jmorris /pointtable.html

The Internet has also provides a medium to organize and disseminate information. Using a browser and a text writer, multi-hypermedia presentations are possible and publishable and provide an interactive resource for the audience. Examples include, Ten Ways to Use Technology in Your Teaching, a presentation to UVM faculty, http://www.uvm.edu/~jmorris/hied.html. Internet: Our Newest Frontier, presented at VermontFest'97 to the Vermont K-12 community http://www.uvm.edu/~jmorris/VtFest97.html, and Elementary Education on the Internet, presented to South West Addison School District Elementary Teachers http://www.uvm.edu/~jmorris/ElemEdu.html.

The Internet can be integrated into any subject area. In teaching a science methodology course I provided links to accompany each weeks readings,

http://www.uvm.edu/~jmorris/scisyl.html and lessons as well as an accompanying resource page for students http://www.uvm.edu/~jmorris/Sci.html. An Electronic Portfolio course to be taught during the summer of 1998 can be found at http://www.uvm.edu/~jmorris/elecport.html. with syllabus, readings and resources.

The web has added another dimension to education, one where students can access, communicate, and generate information, as part of the cycle of learning, regardless of place or time or space and teachers can organize their courses, motivate their students, and disseminate their research and products.