Please note: the first section below "Reference
Books" Is a content outline for the reminder of the page.
Clicking on the categories there
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Harris, Judi. (1998).Virtual Architecture, ISTE, Eugene, Oregon.
FORMER required text:
Kaye, B.K. and Norman J. Medoff, N.J. (1999). The World Wide Web:
a mass communication perspective.
Mountain View, California: Mayfield Publishing Company.
Here are some other suggestions to get you started.
Cafolla, R., Kauffman, D., & Knee, R. (1997). World
Wide Web for Teachers: An Interactive Guide.
Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon.
Irvine, M. (1997). Web
Works.
New York: W.W. Norton.
Owen, T., Owston, R., & Dickie, C. (1995). The
Learning Highway: The Canadian Student's Guide to the Internet.
Toronto, ON: Key Porter.
Schrum, L., & Berenfeld, B. (1997). Teaching and
Learning in the Information Age: A Guide to Educational Telecommunications
Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon.
Introduction to the Internet and the WWW
Internet Terminology and Internet Etiquette (Netiquette)
The Nature of Hypertext and Hypermedia
Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC)
Telecommunication Networking
Guidelines for Developing Web Based Sites, Courses,
and Projects
Writing for the Web
HTML Tutorials and Editing Software
HTML Graphics
Web Based Course Development Tools
Textbook Publishers - Web Based Course Material
Web Based Assessment Tools
Directories of Online Courses
Working with Frames (Tutorials)
On-Line Projects
Evaluation of On-Line Projects
On-Line Articles/Papers About the Use
of Telecommunications in Education
On-Line Forums About the Use of Telecommunications
in Education
On-Line Journals About the Use of Telecommunications
in Education
Some Advanced Topics in Web Page Authoring
The Future of Telecommunications
General Reference
History of Internet
and WWW : View from Internet Valley
An overview to the philosophy and history of the Internet with related
links and a section on pertinent statistics.
iwonder
This site is devoted to the idea of inquiry-based learning and teaching
utilizing the WWW.
Mind Travel Guide
This site presents "Mind Travels" or "webtours" as a way of sharing
ideas on the WWW.
New
Tools for Teaching: J. J. O'Donnell
A guide to using the WWW in education.
Search
Engines
A collection of search engines to use on the
WWW.
Web
101: Web Basics
An introductory on-line class to using the WWW.
Glossary of
Terms
A collection of Internet terminology to accompany Entering the World-Wide
Web: A Guide to Cyberspace.
Glossary
of PC and Internet Terminology
This site features a large table displaying all the available entries
in its dictionary.
Internet
Terminology 101
A sampling of much of the relevant Internet terminology.
NETGLOS
NETGLOS is a multilingual
glossary of Internet terminology currently being compiled as a voluntary,
collaborative project by a number of translators and other professionals.
Net
Knowledge
A glossary of terms for users of the Internet and World Wide Web.
NetLingo - The Internet Language
Dictionary
This online dictionary contains definitions of hundreds of words that
are emerging as a new vocabulary surrounding the technology and community
of the Internet and the World Wide Web.
Netiquette
A
Beginner's Guide to Effective E-mail
E-mail, as a form of communication, has its own characteristics.
For example, because the turnaround time can be so fast, email is more
conversational than traditional paper communications. This site offers
suggestions for effective e-mailing.
E-Mail Etiquette
This document offers guidance and suggestions on e-mail etiquette.
InternetBASICS
A compilation of "rules of etiquette on the 'Net" featuring the use
of e-mail.
Netiquette Home
Page
This site addresses netiquette as both common courtesy online and the
informal "rules of the road" of cyberspace.
Netiquette
and Nethics
This is an e-lecture from a university course about the net. (Visit
Netropolitan
Life, the course homepage, for more interesting stuff about the Internet
and virtual communities.)
Practicing
Good Netiquette
A collection of helpful guidelines for communicating with others on
the Internet.
Hypertext
"A kind of document that contains links to other documents. Hypertext documents can be structured in many kinds of relationships, rather than in a restricting hierarchical order or menu. Hypertext is text that is not constrained by physical limits like printed text. On the Web, hypertext links (hyperlinks) allow connections to be made to files and information on many computers around the world. Hypertext is both the conceptual and technical foundation of the Web as a globally distributed system of information" (Irvine, 1997, Web Works).
An
Introduction to Hypertext
The University of Colorado at Denver's School of Education has compiled
the resources found at this site. Resources relating to hypertext
include history, theory, and educational applications.
How Should
Hypertext Be Used in Education?
A collection of resources addressing various hypertext applications
in education.
Hypertext
in the Secondary School Classroom
The purpose of this document is to examine the benefits, issues, and
implications of hypertext usage in the secondary English classroom.
Hypertext '96
The on-line proceedings of the Seventh AMC
(Association for Computing Machinery) Conference on Hypertext.
Hypermedia
"The method of linking and displaying computer files in more than one digital medium (text, audio, image or graphics, and video). Hypermedia expands the hypertext concept to embrace all digital media. The Web is a hypermedia system" (Irvine, 1997, Web Works).
(Please note that the term "multi-media", used in the strictest of senses, refers to using, involving, or encompassing several media at the same time. Some of the links below are for information or resources on hypermedia, while others refer to multimedia.)
A Hypermedia
Timeline
This resource outlines significant events leading to how hypermedia
is presented today on the WWW.
Index to Multimedia Information Sources
A collection of links to the topic of multimedia, including FAQs, guides,
and tutorials.
Memex and Beyond
This web site represents a major research, educational, and collaborative
web site integrating the historical record of and current research in hypermedia.
CMC Information Sources--John
December
A series of links to computer-mediated communications (CMC) sites on
the WWW.
Computer Conferencing on the
Web (Discussion Forums and Groupware)
This site evaluates the use of different computer conferencing software
on the WWW.
Computer Mediated
Communications Workshop
An introduction to asynchronous and synchronous computer mediated conferencing
systems.
FirstClass
Software
This York University WWW site allows you to download the different
versions of the FirstClass client software.
FirstClass
Tutorial
An on-line tutorial which outlines how to effectively use the FirstClass
computer conferencing software.
Groupware
An introduction and overview of web based groupware software.
Interaction/IP
This site discusses the issue of creating interaction through the use
of CMC.
MUDs
and MOOs
This page is an overview of the development of MUDs and MOOs, and their
evolution in
telecommunications.
The Online Report
on Pedagogical Techniques for Computer-Mediated Communication
An online paper by Morten Flate Paulsen about the effective use of
CMC in education.
International Telecommunications Union
The ITU, headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland is an international organization
within which governments and the private sector coordinate global telecom
networks and services. ITU activities include the coordination, development,
regulation and standardization of telecommunications and organization of
regional and world TELECOM events.
Telecommunications
Information
This site contains links to WWW sites which have useful information
on telecommunication networking (including high speed networks, ATM, ISDN,
Network Management, SNMP)
Keys
to a Successful On-Line Project
A gopher site which outlines key issues which must be addressed in
order to develop and implement a successful on-line project.
Maricopa
Center for Learning and Instruction
One of the best on-line tutorials for learning how to write and use
the html language.
Project
Cool
A guide to applying some advanced HTML tools to your Web site.
Teaching Routines
on the Internet
An online handbook about creating the necessary interactions with students
(and between students) in an online course.
Weave A Web Page
An on-line course which deals with building Web pages. Lots of good
links for designing and developing your own Web pages.
Web Style Guide
Sun Microsystems guide to Web style.
What Makes a Great
Web Site?
An overview to site design guidelines by Andrew King..
WWWDEV Listserv Home Page
This World Wide Web Courseware Developers Home Page contains information
of interest to people developing courseware that is to be delivered in
part or totally over the WWW (including a listserv).
Yale C/AIM WWW Style
Manual
A comprehensive on-line style manual for developing Web pages.
The Alertbox: Current Issues
in Web Usability
Jakob Nielsen's guide to writing and reading for the web.
Classroom.tripod.com
Tripod's is an online environment exclusively for teachers and students.
Expand the ways you teach and learn, embrace and use the powers of the
Web, and bring technology into your classroom in a fun and easy way. Let
Tripod's homepage-building tools help you to create the classrooms of the
future.
Homestead
Free web page development software and the ability to host your web
site for free as well.
HTML
Programming for Beginners
A tutorial designed to teach basic HTML programming skills to people
with little or no programming experience.
HTML Testbed
Use this site to practice writing HTML. Just type your HTML into a
box, click a button, and view the result in a separate window. You can
experiment with any HTML or work through the logical sequence of examples
to cover the basics.
Sue Zess'guide to building
a home page.
This site has been designed as a tutorial to teach basic HTML programming
to people with little or no programming experience, who would like to create
their own web page.
Web Page
making for beginners
This is a course in basic Web Page making for the young at heart. It
is designed as a Junior High Course for students in Grades 7-9 (ages 11-15),
but everyone is welcome to try this site.
Writing HTML
Writing HTML was originally created in 1994 by Alan Levine to help
teachers create learning resources that access information on the Internet.
Here, you will be writing a lesson called Volcano Web. However, this tutorial
may be used by anyone who wants to create web pages.
HTML Editors- Advanced (TUCOWS Interactive)
HTML Editors - Advanced (TUCOWS Interactive)
Bignosebird.com
Links to all kinds of web building and development software.
Trout Software - HIPPIE (Hypertext Interactive Personal Page Integrated Editor)
Trellix Web
Trellix Web is a code-free Web-site builder. That means no HTML, no
FTP, and no graphic-design experience is necessary.
Digital Clay
A website featuring digital clay-art icons and images.
Microsoft
Image Gallery
A collection of images - rulers, buttons, clip art
Reliable Web Page Colour
This page is for anybody who has ever wondered why the colour on their
web pages looks different according to the machine on which they're browsing
at the time.
Which
Color Palette? Optimizing Web Graphics
A discussion about how to optimize your web graphics using various
colour palettes.
Learning
Space
IBM Lotus' web based course development system.
TopClass
The web based course development tool used within the McGraw-Hill Learning
Architecture.
The Learning Manager (TLM)
The Southern Alberta Institute of Technology's (SAIT) course development
tool.
University of Pittsburgh's
Review of Web Based Course Development Systems
An extensive review of web based course development system's by the
University of Pittsburgh's Teaching and Learning Centre.
ITP Nelson Publishers
Online teacher guides and resources for most major subject disciplines.
McGraw-Hill Ryerson Canada
Some online teacher guides and resources available for most major subject
disciplines.
Prentice Hall Canada
Some limited online teacher guides and resources available for most
major subject disciplines.
Hot Potatoes
A series of freeware assessments built as java-scripts (e.g. cross-word
puzzles, multiple choice questionnaire)
Inquisite
A web based survey tool.
JavaScript
online Quiz generator
A link to Dave Kelley's free QuizMaker beta software.
Quiz Lab
A site run by FunBrain.com which specializes in developing quizzes
for K to 12 students.
QuizMaker
2.0
A freeware quiz tool designed for developing online quizzes.
The World Lecture Hall
The World Lecture Hall (WLH) contains links to pages created by faculty
worldwide who are using the Web to deliver university-level academic courses
in any language.
World Wide Web Courseware
Developers - Members Courses
A listing of courses developed by members of the WWWDEV.
Sharky's Netscape
Frames Tutorial
In five lessons, this tutorial will teach you everything you need to
know about frames to get them going on
your web site!
Educational Projects
An overview to the types of telecommunication projects taking place
in Montgomery County Public Schools in Virginia.
Global
Education Telecommunications Network
A paper (with hypertext links) on the criteria required for a successful
on-line project.
How Teachers
Find Projects - A Survey
A gopher site which summarizes a survey on how teachers go about finding
and developing on-line projects.
Learning Link 2.0:
A series of links to educational telecommunication projects.
National Education Association - Focus
on Technology
The National Education Association's professional development program
to enhance the use of telecommunications in the American education system.
Rescol Canadien - Canada's SchoolNet
Industry Canada's "official" K-12 on-line project site.
TeleEducation New Brunswick
NB TeleEducation assists in the the delivery of distance education
courses in the province of New Brunswick, Canada.
The
NODE: Ontario's Network for Learning
The Northern Ontario Distance Education Web site, featuring examples
of on-line projects.
Use
of Telecommunications in Education
A vast list of links to K-12 on-line education projects.
Using the World Wide Web to Build
Learning Communities in K-12
An on-line paper discussing how the WWW can be used to build K-12 Learning
Communities.
Welcome To Bay Link
A series of links to lesson plans and on-line project ideas.
Effective
Use Of The Web For Education
An on-line workshop framework for exploring the effective use of the
WWW for education.
Evaluation
for Distance Educators
An extensive paper (with links) on how to evaluate distance education
experiences.
Evaluating
Internet Based Information
An on-line course framework with several links and assignments on developing
an evaluation framework for Web sites.
Flashlight Evaluation
Triads
A PowerPoint slide show with RealAudio that discusses the importance
of collaboration when undertaking evaluative studies about teaching, learning
and technology .
Flashlight
Starter-Kit The TLT Group
An introduction to the Flashlight Project a series of evaluative studies
about teaching, learning and technology
On-Line
Class Evaluation
A hypertext reference list with regards to the evaluation of the use
of technology in education.
Thinking
Critically about World Wide Web Resources
An evaluation framework developed by the UCLA Library for evaluating
Web sites.
What
Does Research Say About Assessment?
An on-line paper which discusses the issue of assessment and evaluation
in education. A great overview to this topic.
Educom Review: Teaching
and Learning Index
A list of hypertext linked articles from Educom Review, sorted alphabetically
by author, that pertain to Teaching & Learning issues.
Electronic
Collaboration: A Practical Guide for Educators
An excellent PDF document on electronic collaboration in education.
Higher Education
and the World Wide Web
A whimsical examination of the relationship of higher education and
the WWW.
Hungry Minds
A provactive essay by Stephen Downes of the U of A about the future
of online learning portals.
Internet, Telecommunications,
and Education
The November/December 1995 issue of Syllabus which deals with
the use of the Internet and telecommunications in education.
Intranets: Readings
and Resources
A series of links to readings and resources about the use of Intranets.
Issues in
Teaching with Technologies
Office of Learning Technologies - Human Resources Development Canada
- online articles address issues related to teaching and learning with
technologies.
Journals
for Distance Education
A list of Distance Education journals that has been put together by
The International Centre for Distance Learning (ICDL). Note: The majority
of these journals are off-line.
Making the Web Your
Own While Making Your Own Web
A paper dealing with a conceptual context and practical process for
effective use of the World Wide Web in classrooms.
New Tools for Teaching
An on-line paper by James J. O'Donnell of the University of Pennsylvania
which outlines various strategies for using the Internet as a teaching
tool.
Plugging
In
A paper about the effective use of technology in education.
Report of
the University of Illinois Teaching at an Internet Distance Seminar December,
1999
Final report from a year-long faculty seminar at the University of
Illinois on the implementation of technology for teaching.
Resources
for Distance Education
A list of distance education resources maintained by Professor Charles
Darling of Capital Community-Technical College in Hartford, Connecticut.
Reinventing
Schools: The Future is Now
A publication from the National Academy of Sciences and National Academy
of Engineering.
The Computer
Delusion
This on-line paper offers a critical examination of the goal of "computers
in every classroom".
The Future of
Networking Technologies for Learning
A series of papers that discuss the future use of telecommunications
in education.
The Rise of the
Net Generation (N-Gen): Growing Up Digital
This site, dedicated to the latest publication by Don Tapscott, deals
with the influence of technology on society, youth, and the forces of transformation
which are poised to emerge out of this trend.
Virtual
Classroom[tm]
A series of links to papers by the New Jersey Institute of Technology
about the use of CMC and the Internet in classrooms.
The Rise of the Net Generation
(N-Gen): Growing Up Digital
A selection of N-Gen and Grown-Up forums on issues dealing with the
Net Generation and education.
The Chat Room
An introduction to "chats" for the newbie.
Boardwatch Magazine
An on-line guide to Internet Access and the World Wide Web
Computer Mediated
Communication Magazine
Reports about people, events, technology, public policy, culture, practices,
study, and applications related to human communication and interaction
in online environments.
eduport.com
A professional development, education and distance learning portal.
Electronic
Journals Related to Learning Technologies
The Office of Learning Technologies has compiled this useful list of
electronic journals related to learning technologies.
From Now On - The Educational Technology
Journal
An on-line journal devoted to the use of technology in education.
Hot Wired Magazine
An on-line magazine about the newest WWW and Internet developments.
Learning and Leading with
Technology
Bi-monthly publication of the International Society for Technology
in Education
Mining the Internet
Monthly on-line commentary about the effective use of the Internet
in the classroom.
New Horizons
On-line Journal
An online journal for K to 12 educators wishing to integrate technology
into their teaching practice.
Science and Technology Review
A monthly review to highlight the Livermore Laboratory's scientific
and technological accomplishments
Social Science
Computer Review
"The Social Science Computer Review is an interdisciplinary journal
covering both social science instructional and research applications of
computing as well as social science research on societal impacts of information
technology."
Syllabus
Web
A free service from Syllabus Press. This site contains useful
information on technologies used to enhance education.
The NODE Learning Technologies Network
An excellent weekly resource about online learning in Canada.
The Technology Source
An online journal about technology issues in higher education.
The WebNet Journal--Internet Technologies,
Applications & Issues
A quarterly print magazine written for an international readership
of researchers, developers, and Internet users in educational, business,
and professional environments.
Web Page Design for Designers
An online journal on web page design.
An Introduction
to the Common Gateway Interface
An introduction to CGI by way of tutorials, examples, and resources.
The Common Gateway Interface
The Common Gateway Interface, or CGI, is a standard for external gateway
programs to interface with information servers such as HTTP servers.
This site presents resources to learn about CGI.
CGI Configuration
A collection of tutorials designed to create documents "on the fly"
with CGI scripting.
Java
Java HomePage
This site explains why Java technology is widely regarded as revolutionary.
(Java software works just about everywhere -- from the smallest devices
to supercomputers. Java technology components don't care what kind of computer,
phone, TV, or operating system they run on. They just work, on any kind
of compatible device that supports the Java platform.)
Gamelan:
The Official Directory for Java
Gamelan is an index that organizes and focuses the growing world of
Java resources on the Internet.
The JAVA Repository
A resource collection for JAVA programmers.
Commission
of the European Communities
White Paper on growth, competitiveness, and employment - The challenge
and ways forward into the 21st century
European Commission
Directorate General XIII
This site provides links that describe Europe's goals for the future
of telecommunications, information market and exploitation of research.
Federal Communications Commission
- Telecommunications Act of 1996
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 changed the way our American neighbors
work, live and learn. It affected telephone service -- local and long distance,
cable programming and other video services, broadcast services and services
provided to schools.
German Ministry of Post and
Telecommunciations
This collection of sites, presented in German, outlines Germany's stance
on the future of telecommunications.
Introduction
to the Information Society the European Way
The site explores some of the technological, industrial and social
changes we are currently living, which are leading us inexorably towards
the Information Society.
OFTEL
The British Office of Telecommunciations (OFTEL) is the regulator ö
or ãwatchdogä ö for the UK telecoms industry.
The Information
Society
An excellent compilation of links outlining specifics about the Information
Society, including healthcare and education.
The Institutions of the European
Union
Administered by common institutions, the Union is subject to democratic
control on two fronts: by the directly elected
European Parliament and by the national Parliaments which monitor their
governments' activities.
Towards
the Information Society
This paper outlines how information technologies and communication
are bringing about an industrial revolution based on information, on the
scale of that which rocked the 19th century.
Workshop on The
Internet: Convergence and Self-Governance
Work on telecommunication policy and information services at the OECD
(Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry / Division for Information,
Computer and Communications Policy) is undertaken by the Committee for
Information, Computer and Communications Policy (ICCP) through its working
party on Telecommunication and Information Services Policy (TISP).
Digital Diploma
Mills: The Automation of Higher Education
This paper takes a critical look at technology in higher education.
Distance Learning
Handbook
An extensive distance learning handbook maintained by Maricopa Community
College's Centre for Teaching and Learning.
Distance Learning Resource
Network
The goal of this website is to disseminate information from and for
educators, administrators, policymakers and parents interested in the effective
implementation of distance education.
Electronic Sources:
APA Style of Citation
A guide to citing electronic sources in APA style.
Learning Resources - Academic
Technologies for Learning - University of Alberta
A series of links to learning resources on the WWW.
Teaching
with Technology - Articles and Tips
These articles provide concrete information about how to use technology
effectively in your teaching.
Web Quest - Matrix
of Examples
WebQuests have been developed by student teachers, experienced teachers,library/media
specialists and others. The matrix below shows some examples. Some are
more complete than others; many were of a course or workshop and are not
fully fleshed out or tested.
Well Connected Educator
- Publishing Center and Forum
Teachers, administrators, parents and others write about educational
technology, join in conversations, and learn from one another.
World Wide
Web Virtual Library: Distance Education
An extremely comprehensive set of links to sites that discuss distance
education issues.