Paper Title
A Study of Teacher Trainees Internet Usage in Relation to their Gender, Locality, Family & College Type

Abstract
The Internet has become one of the essential and latest updated tools of information. With the help of Internet we get latest information in a fraction of seconds any ware, any time in the world. The internet has becomes one of the most powerful academic and recreational tools for adolescents and adults. It provides an effective and easy way for teachers to teach, students to learn, people to access information and communication with other people all over the world. The purpose of this study is to study the Teacher Trainees Internet Usage in relation to their gender, locality, family type & college type. For the present study, the researcher has taken a sample of 1000 government-aided and private college teacher trainees in various colleges of University of Mysore of Karnataka state, India. Internet Usage Awareness Scale (IUAS) developed by the researcher. The classified and tabulated data were subject to statistical analysis using percentage,‘t’ test, one way ANOVA and multiple comparison. From the analyzed data, major findings, discussion, educational implications and suggestions was made and reported. Keywords - Internet, Usage, Teacher trainees, Awareness.