Class Assignments

Weeks 12&13 (and Fall break): Nov 8-28

Highly interactive learning environments using web-based databases, JavaScript and Java Applets

Do by Nov 14	Go through the "highly interactive learning environments" Powerpoint. Go through Jim Peterson's Plug -n- Play Java Integration and Design Skim through JavaScript for the Total Non-Programmer. (If you don't like this tutorial, search for one you like better, and let me know.) Go through examples of Javascripts and Java applets. Skim through Andy's Introductory JavaScript Tutorials (or look through one at HTML Goodies (recommended by Terry Sullivan - thanks Terry). Look at Jim Peterson's introduction to Java applets (or look through a Java Applet tutorial at HTML Goodies (also recommended by Terry). Look at the Javascript archives at Javascript Source and/or Website Abstraction. or look in one or more of these Java applet libraries for a Java Applet that would be useful for you: Sun's Java applet library, Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles, Educational Object Economy site, and/or Java Boutique
Do by Nov 14
Do by Nov 28	Pick either a Java applet, a Javascript, or a web-enable database use to integrate into one of your web pages (ideally one that's part of your major project). Post a description of what you did and the URL of your web page with the use on WebBoard in the "Java, Javascript, & database" conference and in C-Base.
	Prepare a major project report web site (a set of pages that describes your major project, presents the evaluation, draws conclusion). Post the name and URL of the project in WebBoard.
	Establish an account in TAPPED IN, go to the CTER room, leave a message on the whiteboard. Use the TAPPED IN registration instructions.
	Read the following papers about educational uses of networked communities: "Affordances of a VR World as a Place for Learning: Discourse Patterns and Contextualization Cues Framing Learning Experiences for Adults in a Real-time, Text-based, Virtual Reality Setting" by Linda Polin, Pepperdine University "CTER OnLine: Evaluation of an online master of education focusing on curriculum, technology and education reform" by Sandy Levin, Jim Levin, & Greg Waddoups. Skim through the papers linked from the "Guidelines for Educational Uses of Networks" site and read one of the papers there.

Last updated: 2 Sept 2001
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