But first ...

• Written progress reports due today
• Understanding and Trouble Shooting of Technology

Network Project-based Learning

• Network project stages

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Network Project Stages

• Proposal
• Refinement
• Organization
• Pursuit
• Wrap-up
• Publication

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Educational Network Project Planning Guide

• Javascript prompter

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Javascript

• Poetry Writing Assistant

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Do It Yourself Java Tools

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The Web as a Distributed Network Learning Framework

• web as a network of interlinked geographically distributed servers
• information flowing dynamically through the network
• mediator roles in determining the flow of information and the creation of structure (links) / knowledge
• incremental and distributed nature of this network learning

Spectrum of knowledge spaces

• Personal internal
• Personal external (own files)
• Narrowly shared (email to one other)
• More widely shared (email list or small group conference or web pages)
• Yet more widely shared (Intranet or larger listserve)
• Very widely shared (widely advertised and linked web pages)

Incremental construction of expert systems

• Specification of local rules (Eudora "filters", for example)
• Gradual movement of those rules outward toward where they are needed
• Standing answers
• Standing questions (agents/avatars)
• "push" technologies on the web (Pointcast, etc.)
• from procedural to object-oriented to agent-oriented
• externalization of the most routine, most boring leading to a local "expert system" assistant
• movement of that knowledge outward toward repeated requests
• movement of this knowledge as organizational learning
• "economics" of learning

Running your own server

• Web66 server cookbook
• implications of the low cost of running a server/low cost of being a publisher

For next week:

• Continue working on your major projects

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