University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Educational Psychology 387
Computer Uses in Education
Spring 1995
Electronic office hours: any time, any day
Email: jim-levin@uiuc.edu
Phone: 244-0537
Face-to-face office hours: Tuesday, 10 AM - 11 AM
Room 130 Education Building
The focus of this course is on the joint construction of a
hypertextual document on Computer Uses in Education. The
members of the course have been taking on various aspects of
this knowledge construction task, creating and modifying
sections of a World-Wide Web document, of which this
document is the starting point.
If you're viewing this page, you may also want to see
the pages for this course during
the other semesters it has been conducted.
Members of this class are carrying out interesting
major projects.
Resources for the class
- One resource for our class' joint effort is Ed
Krol's book The Whole Internet User's Guide &
Catalog, available in many bookstore. The second part of
this book, The
Whole Internet Catalog, is also available
electronically.
- Here is a tutorial on writing forms.
- Another resource is a collection of network information related to
copyright and the WWW.
- Here is a description of how to create web pages on
your Unix account.
- Betty Collis' Spring 1994 course at the University of Twente, Enschede, The
Netherlands,
served as inspirational source for the organization of this course. The
collaboratively
written book Online and Distance Education
that she and her students created working with telementors from around the world
is now available on the Web.
- The web pages from
last semester's EdPsy 387 class
will be a major resource for our class.
- Another major resource for our effort is the
Internet itself. Course members will find
resources on the Internet to link into the course hypertext.
Here are some of my favorite
places on the Internet.
- Here are the favorite educational places found
by other members of the class.
- Here are the favorite personal web pages found by
members of the class.
- Another resource we will use to aid us in this project
is a taxonomy of
educational technology uses created by Chip Bruce.
- Here are examples of
Chip Bruce's Taxonomy of Educational Technologies that class members have found.
- A paper by Nick Burbules and Chip Bruce called "This is Not a Paper"
was mentioned by Chip Bruce during our discussion with him in our February 16th class.
- To help us create our class web document, we'll
use the
HTML Editor.
- There are
Web Indexes to help us find things in the Web.
- An interactive graphic (or "map") is an in-line
graphic that is linked to other web documents, and for which
clicking in some parts of the graphic takes you to different
places than clicking in other places. Here's a quick guide to
creating such interactive graphics. To create
"interactive graphics", we'll use MacMapMaker.
- Here are exemplary examples
of "clickable maps" we have found.
- Here are some "clickable maps" created by class
members.
- The
process of creating digitized sounds for Web
documents using SoundMachine
2.1 has been nicely documented by the "Web 66" folks at the
College of Education at the University of Minnesota.
- Another useful resource is the set of papers presented
at the Chicago
Mosaic/WWW conference in October 1994.
- Here are the
statistics of accesses to the NCSA Web servers
during the period from July 1993 through December 1994.
- Here is information
about how to connect to the Internet via dialup to UIUC.
- In our March 9th class, we discussed
the paper by Lin and Levin.
Our class notes will be updated
weekly.
Members of our class