Introduction

Abstract: This document provides a short description of an EdMedia'97 tutorial on Designing and Building Course Webs.

For the past few years, teachers have been building "webs" of information for their students, using HTML, the hypertext markup language. Some of these webs have significantly positive effects on student learning, while others may have no effect, or even a negative effect. In today's tutorial, we will talk about the design of useful and usable course webs.

Our approximate schedule for today is as follows. We will modify it as appropriate depending on your interest and expertise. You can find most of this information in the accompanying course packet.

• Introduction

• Overview of basic issues
  • Hypertext and Hypermedia
  • HTML and the World-Wide Web
  • General Design issues

• Getting started with a course web
  • Motivation: why build a course web
  • Types: what kind of web
  • Components: what belongs in the web

• An Introduction to HTML
  • Terminology
  • Authoring Options
  • "Raw" HTML editing
  • WYSIWYG editing
  • Site-level editing
  • The structure of tags
  • The primary structure of an HTML document
  • Basic markup tags

• Designing for Class Webs
  • Deciding on components
  • Deciding on organization
  • Logical design of pages
  • Physical design of pages

• Advanced HTML Markup
  • Visual design with tables
  • Forms and their uses
  • About Java, JavaScript, and more

• Tools for HTML Markup
  • Visual editors
  • Text editors
  • Translators

• Advanced Techniques: Search Engines
  • Overview
  • Custom-built search engines
  • Standard search engines

• Putting it all together: a methodology for building course webs
  • Before, during, and after the course
  • Before, during, and after the class

• Wrap up

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