This technology-based product is designed to teach the user how to use the Internet as a research tool for gathering information. It offers a hands on project-based approach to using the Internet to accomplish realistic tasks such as searching for jobs, planning vacations and business travel, retrieving investment and financial information, marketing a business and designing Web pages. The projects are designed to be used in a variety of settings with tasks geared toward real-life applications that will increase the user's knowledge of the Internet and enhance employability.