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Useful Skills for Your Web Treks

  Below you will find detailed instructions about how to save graphics and information from the web to your hard drive or a floppy disk. REMEMBER copyright guidelines if you intend to use these items outside the classroom.  These pages will take you through this step-by-step process. Bookmark this page in your web browser.

1. Saving graphics to a folder or disk
2. Viewing the graphics you save
3. Saving text to a folder or disk  

Where to Find It: Your Web Compass

1. Acceptable Use Policies:
   • Bellingham, Washington's Web Policies
   • Ligon Middle School's Acceptable Use Policy (Includes permission for web publishing)
   • MidLink Magazine's "Permission to Publish" Template
2. Citing Your Sources How to cite Internet sources
3. Copyright Guidelines Keep it Legal
4. Handouts: Rubrics, Evaluation Forms, Electronic Fieldtrip Tickets, etc.

Useful Downloads

1. Decompression:  Unstuffing and Unzipping Your Downloads
   • Stuffit Expander Decompression utility for Macintosh
   • WinZip Decompression utility for Windows
2. Software Downloads: Large collections of shareware to download
   • Shareware.Com  
   • Tucows