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But first ...

• Who am I?
• Who are you? (send email to j-levin@uiuc.edu: name, department, 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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For next week:

• Read Harnessing the Power of the Web: A Tutorial
• Send me an email message introducing yourself briefly and containing the URL to another introduction to educational uses of the web that you like; also include the answers to the initial questionaire (your name, your department, your goals for this course)

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During the lab period:

• Use Netscape to look at the tutorial and to look for other interesting introductory tutorials
• Get your picture taken

Announcement: PBS "telecourse" "discussion of Internet uses and abuses" - today, 1:30-3:00, 240 Comm West