University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Educational Psychology 387

Computer Uses in Education

Spring 1995

Jim Levin

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

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 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.