But first ...

• major project proposals due next week
  • What question or issue are you going to address, in the broad area of technology and education?
  • What set of learners are you particularly interested in?
• major project timeline
• 12 noon-1 pm today: Steve Ehrman (remote): Room 242 Ed Bldg, "Shining a Flashlight on Teaching, Learning and Technology"

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Tele-task forces

• short term
• interaction of folks inside and outside of the educational system
• "authentic"
  • Noon Observation Project

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Grand and Everyday Challenges for Education

• Range of challenges
• People posting "real" problems they face
• students and teachers selecting appropriate challenges

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Web-based support for Grand & Everyday Challenges

• Challenge posing
• Challenge seeking
• a Challenge workspace

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Kinds of Challenges

• Long-shot problems
• Distributed datasets
• service learning

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Highly interactive web pages: web-interfaces to databases, Java, and Javascript

• web-interfaces to databases
• Javascript
• Java

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Web-interfaces to databases

• interactive paper by Sugimoto & Levin
• CTERbase

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Javascript

• What is Javascript?
• Javascript prompters

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Java applets: highly interactive learning environments

• applet: a little application
• Java illusion example

• <APPLET CODEBASE="classes/" WIDTH=400 HEIGHT=250
          CODE="Illusion"
          ARCHIVE="Illusion.zip">
  

• Java source

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Object Oriented Programming

• program components (objects)
• "black box" functional definition (can be used without knowing what's inside)
• message sending; message receiving
• can assemble a larger application from object-oriented components

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How to get a Java applet you want

• Find one that does what you want
• Write one (ie. learn Java and become a programmer)
• Get someone else to write one for you

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Finding Java applets

• Educational Object Economy site
• Gamelan

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Learning Java

• web sites
• Buy a book ("Learn Java in 21 days" - 21 weeks? - 21 years?)

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Get someone to write it for you

• Jim Peterson's project

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For next week

• major project proposal due
• finish your comparison to the visions of others (create a web file, put it on the server, send me the URL)
• check your links from the class page

• 12:00 noon today: Steve Ehrman, Room 242