Reporter Volume 26, No.23 April 6, 1995

Share a lane on the Information Highway with a favorite kid in your
life! Kids Web: A World Wide Web Digital Library for Schoolkids makes
searching the Internet fun and enlightening for kids. The Kids Web
grew out of a computer class taught to 8th graders as a part of
Syracuse University's Young Scholars program.  The goal of its
architects is to provide kids with links to web sites all over the
world that have material that is "useful, intelligible and interesting
to schoolchildren."
	The Kids Web menu containing the following broad categories:
"The Arts," "The Sciences," "Social Studies," and "Miscellaneous."
Within these areas you will find a wide range of resources: The Froggy
Page: Lots and Lots of Weird Stuff about Frogs, How to Become an
Astronaut, Theater: Text and Discussion of Plays and Screen Plays
including the Complete Works of Shakespeare, Midlink Magazine: An
Electronic Magazine for Kids, The Children's Literature Web Guide, and
Charlotte the Vermont Whale: The Story of the Discovery of the Bones
of a Whale Beneath the Fields of Rural Vermont among many, many
others.
	The menu ends links to "Other Collections of Web Sites for
Kids," "Web 66: The World Wide Web Schools Registry" (Williamsville
North High School is among those listed) and "The Classroom Internet
Server Cookbook" for teachers interested in setting up a web server in
their classrooms. Teachers and students are invited to suggest links
to other relevant Internet documents in order to foster the growth of
this parcel of the World Wide Web.
	Although the developers of Kids Web proclaim that it is a site
on the Net for kids from grades K-12, parents and adult friends of
elementary school children might prefer to make searching it a shared
activity. To access the Kids Web via your UB electronic mail account
type lynx http://www.infomall.org/kidsweb/ at your system prompt (vax
or unix) or www http://www.infomall.org/kidsweb/ (ibm). For further
information on accessing the World Wide Web, contact the Computing
Center Help Desk at 645-3542. Please note that graphical www browsers
such as Mosaic or Netscape -- if you have access to one -- will
enhance the experience of using Kids Web.
 -- Gemma DeVinney and Loss Peque