Are you a parent with kids in elementary, middle, or high school? This book is for you. You may feel that your children are experts on using the Web, technology wizards, computer geniuses. Please don’t despair. First of all, they are not necessarily all of these things simply because they may know more than you do about using the Web. Or are you someone who keeps hearing about the Web, but you haven’t explored it for various reasons— for example, fear, timidity, or you don’t think there is a reason to use it? Even if you search the Web using Google or Yahoo! you are probably not using the vast array of great Web tools. You have come to the right place.

For parents who want to raise their comfort level with todayÕs Web capabilities, for those who want to enhance their childrenÕs Internet usage in and out of school, and for those who want to be prepared for potential dark alleys in the online world, The Web and Parents: Are You Tech Savvy? is a welcome new resource.

Don't know a blog from a Wiki? MySpace from Facebook? An RSS feed from an instant message? The Web and Parents provides a brief introduction to these and other aspects of Web 2.0, including podcasts, forums, graphic generators, photo storage and file-sharing sites, and more. Parents will get a sense of what each tool or resource does, how they themselves might use them—lots of grownups do, really—and the role each plays in current K-12 education and in the lives of school-age children. With this crash course on todayÕs Internet, the Web becomes a place where families come together, not drift apart.