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>1.  What do you teach?
        High school math
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>2.  How long have you been using the Internet?
        off and on for about 7 years (in 1988 I don't recall it was called
the internet but all university students at Simon Fraser Uinversity in
Vancouver had id's and I used mine extensively to send messages and FTP
stuff mostly from sumex)
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>3.  Where did you learn how to use the Internet?
        SFU
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>4.  Why do you continue to use the Internet?
        for various shallow reasons
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>5.  Does your school provide the access or do you?
        my school provides but of course much good info is not available
such as stock prices or the Globe and Mail newspaper:  these have to be
paid for.
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>6.  How much do you pay for access?
        nothing (this is what will kill the internet as it killed TV -
people don't respect what they don't pay directly for.)
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>7.  If you use the Internet in your curriculum, please describe how you
>do that.
        I have tried with very minimal success.  The school has only three
modems.  Currently I have four teams of students involved in a six week
investing competition run by Wilfred Laurier University in Waterloo,
Ontario.  This is quite successful but it is extracurricular.
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>8.  Do you have any advice for teachers new to the Internet?
        It's probably a waste of time for most teachers as it stands.

Doug Sly
Nelson, BC, Canada
dsly@cln.etc.bc.ca