Educational Psychology 387
Computer Uses in Education

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.

Margaret Riel would also appreciate feedback on her "Learning Circle Teacher Guide".

Resources for the class

• Here is the "This is not a paper" paper by Burbules and Bruce that was discussed in class today. Note that our class is mentioned in the first "*" footnote!
• Here is Marty Weller's description of the steps involved in video digitizing.
• The papers to be presented at the Computer Supported Collaborative Learning Conference are resources for our course.
• One 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 the taxonomy found by class members.
• Here are the best personal web pages found by members of the class.
• The "Beginner's Guide to HTML" is a good introduction to the common HTML tags.
• 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.

• One major resource for our effort is the Internet itself. Course members have found interesting resources on the Internet. Here are some of my favorite places on the Internet.
• Another 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.
• The web pages from last semester's EdPsy 387 class and last fall's EdPsy 387 class will be a major resource for our class.
• Another interesting set of web projects were conducted during the summer of 1995 by the masters students in the Teacher Education Program (TEP) at the University of California, San Diego, who were practicing K-12 teachers.
• 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.
• To help us create our class web document, we'll use Web Weaver.
• There are Web Indexes to help us find things in the Web.
• Here is a constantly updated estimate of the number of Internet users and Web sites.