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.

Major Project timeline

• Project Proposals (February 15)
• Feedback by Feb 22
• Oral progress report (March 7)
• Written progress report (March 21)
• Draft of final report (April 18)
• Final report, oral and written (May 9)

Resources for the class

• A paper by Nick Burbules and Chip Bruce called "This is Not a Paper" was mentioned in today's class (April 4th).

• Here is a description of NCSA's new National Workplace.
• Here is the Global Schoolnet tutorial I showed today: Harnessing the Power of the Web for Classroom Use: A Tutorial
• Here's his cautionary tale: Ballad of an EMail Terrorist
• Here is information about FTP clients for Mac and Windows computers.
• Here is a guide to creating "maps" (interactive web graphics).
• Chip Bruce has created a taxonomy of educational technology uses.
• Here are examples of the taxonomy found by class members.

• The "Beginner's Guide to HTML" is a good introduction to the common HTML tags.
• Here are other HTML guides.
• Here are the best personal web pages found by members of the class.
• A major resource for our effort is the Internet itself. Here are some of my favorite places on the Internet.
• Course members have found interesting resources on the Internet.
• Another resource for our class' joint effort is Bill Eager's book Using the World Wide Web, available in many bookstore.
• The web pages from last semester's EdPsy 387 class and last spring's EdPsy 387 class will be a major resource for our class.
• 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.
• 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.