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But first ...

• Who am I?
• Who are you? (send email to j-levin@uiuc.edu: name, goals for this course)

• Check your email boxes
  (i.e. much of the interaction for this course will take place via email)

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Structure of the course

• Project oriented
• Joint construction of resources for learning
• Mini-projects
• Major project

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Questions?

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New technologies for learning

• Multimedia
• Networks

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New Synthesis

WWW:
World-
Wide
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Hypertext

• Non-linear text
• Multiple paths
• "Reader" shares the initiative with the "writer"

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Example

• Our class home page

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HyperMedia

• Text, graphics, sound, video, etc.
• Non-linearly structured

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Distributed Hypertext and Hypermedia

• Non-linear
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• links are to items on other computers elsewhere

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World-wide hypermedia

• Web Browsers (or clients)
• Web Servers

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Netscape

• Instructions: Click on hilighted text

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Some interesting educational web sites

• Examples

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What's a URL?

• unique electronic address to a network resource: http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/courses/edpsy387/fa98/index.html
• what method: http://
• what computer: www.ed.uiuc.edu/
• what directories and subdirectories (or folders and subfolders): courses/edpsy387/fa98/
• what file name: index.html

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Search engines

• how they work
• using them to find exemplary tutorials

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  For next week:

  • Read Harnessing the Power of the Web: A Tutorial
  • Send me an email message <j-levin@uiuc.edu>
    • introducing yourself briefly (name and goals for the course)
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    • containing the URL, brief description, and evaluation of another introduction to educational uses of the web that you like

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  During the lab period:

  • Use a web browser to look at the "Harnessing the Power of the Web" tutorial and to look for other interesting introductory tutorials
  • choose the most exemplary tutorial
  • send me the URL and a short description and evaluation of the tutorial
  • Get your picture taken

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