In the summer of 1998, representatives from the Bluewater, Greater Essex County, Lambton Kent, and Thames Valley District School Boards embarked on a project of gathering appropriate Internet sites to assist in meeting the expectations of the new Ontario Ministry of Education and Training's Science and Technology Curriculum.

Once identified, many webmasters from these sites have permitted the publication of their websites on this CD-ROM. The copyright and ownership of the webpages and reference materials remain that of the original webmaster. The advantage of accessing these webpages at CD-ROM speeds belong to the students in the afore named District School Boards.

Many thanks to the webmasters and organizations behind the websites that have been included in this project.

Thanks to the following for their efforts and contribution to this project.

Bluewater District School Board

• Stewart Nutt
• Jim Gartrell
• Mike Pitzen
• Sharon Pike
• Warren Hoshinzaki
• David Armstrong

• Doug Peterson
• Debbie Primeau
• Reg Houle
• Jack Breaton
• Rod Peturson

• Al Livingstone
• Mike Penner
• Dale Ripley
• Clayton Smith
• Garth Vanstone

• Greg Grondin
• Sandra Westaway

Dear Webmaster:

The Bluewater, Greater Essex County, Lambton Kent, and Thames Valley District School Boards are public boards of education which cover much of southern and western Ontario. A group of teachers from these Boards is creating a CD-ROM of exemplary Internet resouces to support the new Ontario Curriculum in Science & Technology.

We have found your website:

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and would like to use these excellent resources for our students.

Due to limited bandwidth and our desire to direct students to appropriate websites only, we have embarked on this project. Consequently, we are researching and locating websites such as yours and are producing a CD-ROM that would run on each school's computer network. Our students would then have access to the information using a traditional Internet browser such as Netscape or Internet Explorer.

We are, therefore, requesting permission to use your website in this manner. Using the Wing Flyer program, we would store your site AS IT EXISTS WITH NO EDITING on CD-ROM for this purpose. There is no intention on our part to claim any ownership of the resource materials and students will be advised of your actual URL so that they may access it "live" at home for further research.

Please return this message indicating your permission to use your website for this project. On behalf of our students, we express our appreciation for participating. If permission is not granted, we would appreciate a return note indicating your concerns.

Thank you very much for your assistance.

Special thanks to Netscape Communications Corporation, Adobe Systems Incorporatedand Macromedia Incorporated for granting permission to distribute Netscape Navigator, Acrobat Reader and Macromedia Shockwave on this CD-ROM.

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