This web page is dedicated to showing how the Internet can be used for educational purposes. When using the Internet for educational purposes, there is no difference between local and distance education. The classroom becomes a virtual classroom and the location becomes transparent.
The purpose of this page is to:
The Internet tools that can be used for educational purposes are:
You can take a peek at an elementary physics course and a simple (ha!)
problem to solve at
arkimedes.lhg.hib.no/itu/english.html
Of
course, the best resource to find information on Education on the Net is
www.yahoo.com/Education/On_line_Teaching_and_Learning
A new player on the block with great potential is the Shockwave Plug-in by Macromedia. It is similar to a helper application except that code is downloaded that allows the browser (Netscape) to run an executable. You must be running Netscape 2.0 to use the Shockwave Plug-in which is free to download from Macromedia. Here are some very diverse, unusual and as I found surprising applications:
Here is an interesting CGI application of an interactive coloring book that
could have important impact in other areas:
www.ravenna.com/coloring
Another unique use of the Web as an interactive tool is found at
crayon.net
My name is Eugene Blanchard and I am an electronics/computer/networking instructor at a post secondary institute in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
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