Date: Mon, 02 Dec 1996 15:32:32 GMT Server: NCSA/1.4.2 Content-type: text/html
The readings for this meeting are all online (on the WWW).
The first paper combines some degree of "vision" (a little) with some degree of technology (nothing particularly ambitious, but a description of the state of the art)
The second paper is a non-technical piece that promotes the theme of learners taking responsibility for their education -- something that will be increasingly important in the future.
The two choices for the third reading are papers that are more sophisticated than either of the first two. The paper "Beyond Browsing" elaborates on the possibility of group annotation of WWW materials. The paper "The DEC Web Toolkit" describes in technical terms a layer of Internet infrastructure that could make it possible to have "smart distributed tutorial" applications that do more than what Mosaic or Netscape can achieve.
Please read both 1 and 2 and either of the options for 3.
1. Advanced Educational Uses of the World-Wide Web http://www.igd.fhg.de/www/www95/proceedings/papers/89/paper.html (presentor: Jeremy Baer)
2. Empowering Students in the Information Age http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/IT94/Proceedings/Educ/ward/ward.html (presentor: Marla Baker)
3. Either Beyond Browsing: Shared Comments, SOAPs, Trails, and On-line Communities http://www.igd.fhg.de/www/www95/proceedings/papers/88/TR/WWW95.html (presentor: John Dietz)
or
The DCE Web Toolkit: Enhancing WWW Protocols With Lower-Layer Services