Netquest-Exploring Botany

Since its inception in 1969, the Internet has grown from a national defense-oriented technology to a worldwide tool of information exchange.Using the Internet provides a convenient and unobtrusive way for all of us to learn and allows for communication with other users and experts in numerous fields. This text provides activities and self-testing questions that will take the student on a botanical journey via the Internet. Probes and queries will prompt readers to access the enormous amount of information available in cyberspace, while teaching them how to discriminate and evaluate the quality and reliability of a variety of web sites.