Education & Web Tutorials
recommended by EdPsy 387 Fall 1997 participants
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 1997 11:22:30 -0500 (CDT)
From: <k-tai@students.uiuc.edu>
To: j-levin@uiuc.edu
Subject: introduction
http://www.gsn.org/teach/articles/collaboration.html
The site above is really interesting. It talks about the idea of
telecommunicating collaboration over the Internet and all over the world.
To my mind, this is greatly helpful for knowing backgrounds and ideas from people
around and thus coming up with ideas of how to provide them with better
teaching.
My name is Kuei-fen Tai.
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 1997 11:29:34 -0500
From: Jen Kozenski <kozenski@uiuc.edu>
To: j-levin@uiuc.edu
Subject: introductory email
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/EdReformStudies/EdTech/overview.html
From: Hamad@students.uiuc.edu
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 1997 12:06:34 -0500
To: j-levin@uiuc.edu
Subject: intro
The site I like is the education resources site, because to offers
variety of resources almost in all aspects of interest for educators.
http://www.hood.edu/seri/serihome.htm
Elnour Hamad
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 1997 12:16:51 -0500 (CDT)
From: Avatans Kumar <avatans@students.uiuc.edu>
To: j-levin@uiuc.edu
Subject: Introductory message!!
The following is the URL that I found very interesting.
http://tqd.advanced.org/teacherscorner/index.html
This website has some interesting and inportant stuff that can be used
for educational purposes. I found it very easy to use as it has
classified links according to 'sublect', alphatical order and hit
counts.Within each category, there are varioous subcategories. I
paarticularly browsed through the History section. It uses audio-visual
aids for teaching history and some of the text are available in more than
one languages. Within this very web site, there is a site which gives
plentifull of information about using internet resources for educational
purposes (http://www.advanced.org/thinkquest/guidelines.html).
SIncerely,
Avatans Kumar
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 1997 12:24:11 -0500
From: Katalin Zaszlavik <zaszlavi@uiuc.edu>
To: j-levin@uiuc.edu
Subject: Assignment 1
Mr. Levin!
I read part of the "Harnessing the Pover of the Webs: A Tutoria" and I
became slowly excited about all of this course since I need to write down
every step I take to be able to learn. Anyhow I see the benefit of it as
in the introduction parts represent that how big inpact the computer has
in the education and I read the "Communication:The Power Behind the Web"
that how schools can use Web and how it is affect lot of things and open
wider door for make contact all over the world. Then i went to search
"with Your help" and found a lot of information about how schools use
the computer. Since I'm interesting about schools's art educational
program I went to see the K-12 web site:
http://rps.nwsc.k12.ar.us/k12/home.html then within that I checked the
International WWW schools which is if I remember correctly
under:http://web66.coled.umn.edu/schools.html . I wanted to know about
know mainly how many schools are on www from Europe because I from there
and see if my country:Hungary is involved in it. It doesn't as i saw. My
wonder is only that how can I save all of this information and steps I
went through without write down everyting. Can I use disk and directly
copy information from the web?
From: jbuell@students.uiuc.edu
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 1997 12:35:09 -0500
To: j-levin@uiuc.edu
CC: jbuell@students.uiuc.edu
Subject: introductory comments
The Global SchoolNet site is quite impressive. I'd like to say there's
something comparable for English language learning, but if there is I
haven't seen it. Far more common are sites like these:
http://cc2000.kyoto-su.ac.jp/people/teacher/trobb/projects.html
and
http://www.wfi.fr/est/activity.html
Tom Robb's and the Rosen et al. pages are useful overviews of some of
the kinds of projects that ESL teachers and students can create on the
WWW. Tom links to some of his own students' projects, like the "famous
Japanese personages" pages. Rosen, Bowers and their colleagues at the
Hawaii conference provide suggestions for interactive communication
centered around web-page creation.
There are also articles like Carolyn G. Fidelman's "Language
Professional's Guide to the WWW":
http://agoralang.com/calico/webarticle.html
Fidelman's pages go somewhat beyond Robb's and Bowers', in offering a
comprehensive set of recommendations for where to browse and how to get
started with authoring. Still, the emphasis is mainly on "how to."
Where GSN is different, and special, is in centering on a theoretical
and conceptional discussion of _why_ the web is so darned special.
Global SchoolNet's focus on project- and problem-oriented education
illuminates both what classes can do, and have done, with WWW access,
and how their doing this is transforming the entire process of
education. From K-12, through lifelong education in informal settings,
the WWW's potential to communicate synchronously and asynchronously on a
global scale is making it possible, desirable and even necessary for
students to learn how to locate, share and synthesize information. GSN's
pages capture this reality, and provide links to a wealth of examples at
all levels and settings.
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 1997 12:49:38 -0500
From: Jennifer Mathes <JennifLM@HCC.CC.IL.US>
To: j-levin@uiuc.edu
Subject: Course Introduction
My name is Jennifer Mathes.
Here is the web site that I found interesting:
http://homepage.interaccess.com/~ghoyle/
Date: Sat, 06 Sep 1997 15:26:49 +0000
From: Michael Weinstein <maweinst@students.uiuc.edu>
To: j-levin@uiuc.edu
Subject: First Message
Here is the address I found:
http://www.indiana.edu/~ssdc/links.htm
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 1997 02:23:32 -0700
From: Alina Reznitskaya <reznitsk@students.uiuc.edu>
To: j-levin@uiuc.edu
Subject: homework
This is the site that I found interesting mainly because of the way
information was organized. First several pages are similar to the table
of contents in a book. They have minimum text, mostly links. This makes
it easier to get to the information you need.
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tl/index.html
See you in class,
Alina
From: gosling@uiuc.edu
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 1997 09:43:39 -0500
To: j-levin@uiuc.edu
Subject: EdPsy 387: Introduction and Assignment for 9-4-97
URL WITH INTRODUCTION TO EDUCATIONAL USES:
http://www.ncrel.org/tandl/homepg.htm
The North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL) created this page to assist educators in linking research and technology to student learning.
This site is a great resource and a very well designed one at that!
...........................
Ana-Lucia Gosling
Project Coordinator
Web Technology Group
.....................................................................
Office of Continuing Education and Public Service
1502 University Inn, MC-433,
302 East John Street
Champaign,
Illinois 61820
(217)244-9058
........................................................
http://www.extramural.uiuc.edu/webtech/
To: j-levin@uiuc.edu
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 10:40:19 -0700
Subject: Assignment #1,EdPsy387
From: siddp@juno.com (Sidd Purkayastha)
I found a URL to a website. This is a tutorial in the Math/ Science area.
I like it because it has a very simple approach, walking the student or
teacher through each aspect of Internet use. The site is located at
http://discover-net.net/~dhenton/mathsci.html. The site that you asked us
to look at has alot of text to go through. This is fine at a Univerisity
level and at some High Schools. At the grade school or middle school
level the text needs to be as simple as possible.This website provides
a nice clear introduction.
I do not know how to copy and paste the site to this e-mail note. Any
help will be welcome. I will try to do this later today.
Thank you,
Sue Purkayastha
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 15:04:40 -0500 (CDT)
From: jennifer michelle leavitt <jleavit@students.uiuc.edu>
To: j-levin@uiuc.edu
Subject: edpsy 387
I found this site http://seamonkey.ed.asu.edu/~storslee/internet.html
It seemed really interesting and the graphics were very colorful. It is
about a class offered to help teachers use the internet.
Jennifer Leavitt
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 1997 19:45:13 +0100
From: sana alkhalileh <alkhalai@uiuc.edu>
To: j-levin@uiuc.edu
CC: alkhalai@uiuc.edu
Subject: First Assignment!
Examples of Model Student Web Projects
http://www.gsn.org/web/models/index.htm#begin
First of all, I am interested in the educational purposes for children
in the Elementary School or level (as my previous thesis research
titled). So, I went from the previous address to the Elementary
Schools...I tried from this choice to know what exactly written in this
document, and how this homepage introduce the school projects. From that
point it will be easy to find some other examples through the internet
to make a kind of comparison study between these two homepages.
D.1.Elementary Schools
http://www.gsn.org/web/_lib/_models/kirby/index2.htm
In this location, I found so many interesting sites and information
about so many schools. each school tries to introduce its projects by
using the internet by using the html language. Here I will select one
example so it will be easy to give an idea about all of the others.
http://www.bga.com/~kirby/index2.html
See also: http://www.bga.com/~kirby/khs.index.html
Kirby Hall School, Austin, Texas, USA
A beautiful site with art work, poetry, information and
related links concerning
their local leaders.
Ages: 7-9
Subjects: History, Social Studies
Here an idea about this school project:
"Project Overview
We entered our Web site in CyberFair Category:
Local Leaders
Description of "Our Community"
The local community the students will focus on is local leaders
and their occupations and roles in local civic government.
Summary of Our Project
The students have been exploring local leaders through field
trips and class visits. The students will present their findings by summarizing
and presenting what they have discovered through their recent investigation into
local leaders in our community." http://www.bga.com/~kirby/cbsummry.html
This homepage is rerally very well organized, each child has his/her own
link to his/her personal project. The interesting thing in this site,
that all the information was available in one page, so its not that
confusing to return back to this page as you moved on...the colors was
really interesting to motivate the reader and designed well with the
background...you can feel that its something relate to the children's
simple and beautiful life...
I personally, don't feel that comfortable with pages that have so many
information and links, links also that have punch of links...so you feel
lost after a while!!!!. Here, this page is far from this problem and
makes you feel comfortable in going back and forth between the
information and other links. Even I am not that interested person in
political issues and history (generally speaking!), but I found it
really nice and interesting to read the information available about
those political issues as they introduced in simple and nice organized
way.
After that I tried to find another location that deals with the field of
education and technology. So I had this location address:
http://www.infoseek.com/Titles?qt=elementary+schools+and+educational+
technology&oq=educational+use+of+the+web&sv=N4&lk=noframes&nh=10
By moving through these different links, I was interested in the
"educational web homepage":
http://www.auetech.aichi-edu.ac.jp/~tkamada/education/urls_w.html
http://k12.cnidr.org:90/resource.cntnts.html
Now, I found a location that dealt with schools and educational
technology:
http://edweb.gsn.org/
http://edweb.gsn.org/resource.cntnts.html
http://sunsite.unc.edu/edweb/resource.cntnts.html
http://edweb.gsn.org/mideast/index.html
http://edweb.gsn.org/web.intro.html
http://edweb.gsn.org/web.hypertext.html
All the above mentioned links are related to the web and education, the
information through these links are most likely professionally
introduced and organized...so many links in each link (somehow
confusing), more formal in there organization and techniques. But also
very important in the kind of information each one submit at least for
someone who just started her search in this field like me!
These links opened my eyes to so many different ideas and information
that needed for my next project, and thatās why I found it so hard for
me to quit searching each one by one.
Thanks gain for this very important and interesting class, I hope I will
be able to succeed in it!? And thanks for your patience with me!
Sana' Al-khalaileh
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 21:03:38 -0500 (CDT)
From: smita garg <s-garg@students.uiuc.edu>
To: j-levin@uiuc.edu
Subject: Ed Psy 387 assignment
Here are the URLs of interesting sites pertaining to information on web
design, that I found on the web:
http://www.massnetworks.org/~nicoley/tutorial/index.html
(sponsered by sun microsystems)
http://pen1.pen.k12.va.us/go/techbook/toc.shtml
I have also read the article that you asked us to read.
See you tomorrow,
with regards,
Smita Garg
From: "Richard Makopondo" <rmakopon@lan1.als.uiuc.edu>
To: j-levin@uiuc.edu
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 22:22:02 CST
Subject: Introduction
As part of the first assignment, I surfed the net and found
one travel and tourism organization with a site that links potential
travellers and tourists with various services worldwide. The
organization is called Internet Travel Network and its URL is
http://www.itn.net. ITN provides Internet and Intranet based
reservation systems and services, accessibility with any common web
browser to over 4,000 corporations and travel offices worldwide.
Since its inception in 1995, ITN claims to have been visited by over
1.5 million travelers looking for timely air, car, and hotel
information and reservations. I am impressed by the ease with which
ITN makes it easy for individuals to be connected directly to service
providers.
Thank you.
Richard
From: "Richard Makopondo" <rmakopon@lan1.als.uiuc.edu>
To: j-levin@uiuc.edu
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 18:38:15 CST
Subject: Another interesting site onTutorials to HTML.
Prof. Levin,
Here is another interesting site on Introduction to HTML. The site is
called The HTML Station and its URL is http://www.december.com/html/.
The site is owned by valueClick Banner Advertising Network, a
subsidiary of Web-Ignite Corporation. The site links users to
reference information and demonstrations of Hypertext Markup Language.
It provides information about all levels of HTML, as well as examples,
tag summaries, and supporting and reference information. What I like
about the site is that information or material is organized logically
in sections such as i) HTML Demonstrations, ii)HTML Specifications,
iii) HTML Entities, codes, and types, and iv) Techniques and topics.
These sections are further split into subsections.
Thanks and good day
Richard