Education & Web Tutorials
recommended by EdPsy 387 Spring 1998 participants

Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 12:01:30 -0600
From: s-tu@students.uiuc.edu
To: j-levin@uiuc.edu
Subject: Edpsy387

Dear Prof Levin,

I found the site "Developer Zone" quite useful and interesting. It has a good interface design. And the content is to teach you HTML, Javascript and other useful tools for your web pages.

http://www.projectcool.com/developer/

Thank you

Shang-fan
Email: s-tu@students.uiuc.edu

Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 12:23:33 -0600
From: kolias@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu
To: j-levin@uiuc.edu
Subject: URL for WWW/Internet Tutorial

I selected the site: http://www.learnthenet.com/english/index.html for a variety of reasons. I contains not only information on the WWW, but other features which often get neglected: ftp, telnet, gopher, telnet, e-mail, newsgroups, etc. as well as how to design web pages for different audiences and finally, how to use the mark-up language.

The site has a variety of feature which enhance the site:

A list of languages you might select from to read the site

A search engine and an index

A glossary of internet and computer terms with links to other sources or examples

A set of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's)

A series of frames on how to do web publishing with numerous links to other sites

A history of web development

A frame-based index which is always displayed - this allows you to better navigate and know where you are and want to go at all times

While it does not contain the specificity of the GSN site, it does have a section on teaching children how to use the net and issues surrounding use of the web by children. It has a broader coverage then GSN and appears to be a good launching point for learning about the broader picture - the full potential of the internet.

Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 12:29:05 -0600 (CST)
From: seung-won yoon <yoon2@students.uiuc.edu>
To: j-levin@uiuc.edu
Subject: Re: Web Tutorial & about myself

WEB Tutorials:

The GSN web tutorial seems to provide the core content of using the net for language teachers in the subject matter (K-12, here). It gives good layout for navigating and has a lot of informative and authentic resources for novice computer-using teachers. It is especially true in using the net that too much sites and little in-depth description of information make the user feel frustrated. This site, even though does not (seem to) provide much interactive features, is surely well organized in terms of the amount and necessity of information, eye-pleasing simple design, eye-catching colors, and mixtures of letters and symbols. Especially, the feature that netters can see the other nodes of access (higher and lower, and presence of index page together) is wonderful - it saves time and pains!

To compare the above page with other tutorials, I visited a site kept by the university of Texas using the Alta Vista (after coming across several unrelated and "useless" sites. Most of all, it seems that only a few places provide tutorials for people with specific interests - I couldn't find many tutorials for people with special interests. The site I visited included questions regarding the target content (advertising majors) such as JAVA, Web site development for business and Advertising, and measuring the effectiveness of the net ads in the index page. However, it did not have any in-between links to facilitate surfing, thus netters had to scroll up and down and read long list of texts. Also, each lower nodes had a long text few links and grahic, which made me quickly turned off.
http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~chaekm/webtutor.htm

Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 12:31:28 -0600 (CST)
From: steven t rutledge <srutledg@students.uiuc.edu>
To: j-levin@uiuc.edu
Subject: Ed Psych. 387

WWW Tutorial: http://www.lycos.com/wguide/network/net_242006.html

This site offered some interesting choices for teachers of English.

Thanks,

Steve Rutledge

Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 13:57:28 -0600 (CST)
From: do-sik moon <d-moon1@students.uiuc.edu>
To: j-levin@uiuc.edu
Subject: Re:Introducing myself

Hi, Dr. Levin.

The URL I found useful is provided by the univesity of Montana, http://www.umt.edu//homepage/tutorial.htm. One of the good points of this page is that each section of the page is organized in the form of the question which Web user might ask frequently.The user can understand what the internet and WWW are step by step. It provides wide scope of information from the basic definition to the way to test the sound and viewer application in web pages. Also, it provides the information to the Mac users and PC users respectively, so we can get proper information for the computer we use.If the users are not beginners, then they can get information of where they can get the soft ware to use with their browser and editor.

Dosik.

Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 21:49:34 -0600
To: j-levin@uiuc.edu
From: Khitam Alghazo <kalghazo@students.uiuc.edu>
Subject: class

have a nice day.

Khitam Alghazo

Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 20:52:51 -0600 (CST)
From: jason c meltzer <jmeltzer@students.uiuc.edu>
To: j-levin@staff.uiuc.edu
Subject: Interesting Web Education Page - ED 387

Dr. Levin,

Here is the web page for EdPsy 387

http://www.htmlgoodies.com/primers.html

This a great primer with 6 different chapters

Jason Meltzer

Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 21:08:16 -0600 (CST)
From: koon hwee kan <kkan@students.uiuc.edu>
To: Jim Levin <j-levin@uiuc.edu>
Subject: 1st Assignment

Dear Sir,

This is the web-site that I found useful and interesting:

http://sunsite.unc.edu/edweb/resource.cntnts.html

Reasons:

1. The loading time is shorter than many other web-site of similar nature.
2. The visual effects are quite appealing, as compared to many other web-sites that provide information in a very non-aesthetic way.
3. There are no unnecessary gimmicks to distract the readers' attention.
4. The information is decently OK.

See you.

Yours sincerely,
Koon Hwee

Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 18:16:48 -0600
From: Khalid <khahgagg@pdnt.com>
To: j-levin@uiuc.edu
Subject: Tutorial Menu 5

http://www.ualberta.ca/~maldridg/tutor/WebTut.html

Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 18:24:27 -0600
From: Khalid <khahgagg@pdnt.com>
To: j-levin@uiuc.edu
Subject: Finding Information on the Internet: A TUTORIAL

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html

Khalid Almermish

Date: Sat, 07 Feb 1998 17:15:00 -0600
To: Jim Levin <j-levin@uiuc.edu>
From: Adrian John Kok <ajk@uiuc.edu>
Subject: www page EdPsy 387

Found this page to be of interest to beginners of HTML

http://www.bfree.on.ca/html/

Adrian

Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 23:19:07 -0600
To: j-levin@uiuc.edu
From: Khitam Alghazo <kalghazo@students.uiuc.edu>
Subject: first Home work

how are you/ you said that if our URL examples were not the right ones that we could send the right one. well I have sent you only part of what I choose so here is the following URL for our first assignment:

http://iconnect.com/jordan/

have a nice day
Khitam Alghazo