WebStuff for Classes @NAU April 1997

Newsgroups using usenet news

Text and/or graphics. Noninteractive.
- Mail.
- NewsGroups.
- MS Word or Wordperfect.
- HTML.
- "plugins": pdf or envoy. Advanced printing on the web.
  - Organic Chemistry Course On-Line using pdf
  - Warning do not click on the following physics course links without loading envoy. To download envoy, click here
    Links from Gary Layton's Phys.112 and Phys.141 courses.
Discussion:
- Pros
  - Access is ubiquitous and scales well over long distances.
  - Easily manipulated from one posting.
  - Very Promising for Distance Education.
- Cons
  - InterNet Access is still limited.
  - Deferred printing.
  - Machine Intensive if not printed.
- K-Mart vs Dillards or MTV: "The Real World" in the Classroom.
  - Self-service approach. Motivation from within not without.
  - Asynchronous pace. Skip the boring and dig into the interesting.
  - Economics: The Blue Light Special Lesson.
Interactive Software
- Demonstrations.
- Testing: Diagnostic or "Official"
- On-line-evaluation.

These may not work--depends on the web manager

To see these demonstrations, you will need to download the Shockwave plug-ins. Click here to download.

For a whole list of plug-ins available for Netscape, click here. Direct any comments to (Jim.Maxka@nau.edu)