WebNet World Conference on the WWW and Internet
2000
Table of Contents
Number of papers: 328
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Study on the Transfer of Teacher Online Collaborative Planning To the Classroom Setting
Martha Beasley, Lees-McRae College, United States
This paper is a study of a year-long project for classroom teachers, which focused on the transfer of technologically-based, collaborative planning to implementation in the classroom environment.... More
pp. 644-645
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INTEGRATING COMPUTER ETHICS ACROSS THE CURRICULUM
Marion Ben-Jacob, Mercy College, United States
Students will be more responsible than ever for their own learning in this millennium. It is our pedagogical obligation to insure that the integration of technology will enhance the learning... More
pp. 646-647
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Virtual Teacher: Extension of Teacher Presence in a CLASS™ Independent Study High School Course
Cynthia Blodgett-McDeavitt & Lisa Bourlier, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, United States
The Virtual Teacher study, implemented in four phases over two years, was a positive influence on the students in terms of hope and success expectation. Students were generally hopeful about... More
pp. 648-649
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Developing and Delivering Internet Based International Sections of a Common Course Some Faculty/Student Considerations
Roy Boggs, Florida Gulf Course University, United States
What are some of the implications for course developers and faculty members when sections of a course are offered internationally in a virtual classroom over the Internet at different... More
pp. 650-651
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Development of a portal web site that integrates a collaborative learning environment and an e-commerce facility for small companies
Helen Brown, University of Central England
This case study describes the evolution of a collaborative community of learners. It then illustrates how the ambitions and goals of the community developed and grew to embrace collaborative... More
pp. 652-654
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Web-based and Traditional Instruction: A Systematic Study of student and Instructor Perceptions from a Graduate MLIS Program
Elizabeth Buchanan, Iris Xie, Dietmar Wolfram & Malore Brown, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, United States
The authors compared traditional classroom instruction with web-based equivalent courses in a graduate program in library and information science. The study investigated differences in overall... More
pp. 655-656
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Applying Technology to Science and Technology Literacy in the Classroom
John Budenske, Jordan Bonney, Jim Newhouse & Jason Judt, Architecture Technology Corporation, United States
The combined technologies of the Wold Wide Web ("the Web"), the Internet, and corporate/government/public intranets present the possibility of a new instructional paradigm. An approach for a... More
pp. 657-658
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Advantages and Disadvantages of the Electronic Portfolio: Issues for College Administrators
Margaret Burk, Muskingum College, United States; Rosemary Carlson & Bridgett Davis, Morehead State University, United States
Assessment reform is a cutting-edge education policy issue. College administrators must address technical quality, credibility with constituencies, and feasibility in use of new assessment tools ... More
pp. 659-660
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Application for An Architecture to Coordinate Multi-Agent Systems
Angela Carrillo, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
Coordination is the process that manages the interdependencies in to the activities. Communications are based in the detection and response to coordination relations between tasks sets that are... More
pp. 661-662
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PROSPECTUS FOR AN ON-LINE “INTRODUCTION TO ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY” COURSE
Terence Cavanaugh, University of North Florida, United States
This paper describes the development a course that would present the basic concepts and applications of assistive technology (AT). The AT course is designed as an introductory course in the... More
pp. 663-664
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SHARING IT STAFF DEVELOPMENT THROUGH A STATEWIDE WEB RESOURCE
Cathy Cavanaugh, University of North Florida, United States
In the state of Florida, a web database has been developed to keep school districts and other agencies updated about available resources for staff development in instructional technology. This... More
pp. 665-666
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ONLINE DISCUSSION FORUM FOR PRESERVICE EDUCATOR ARTICULATION
Terence Cavanaugh & Cathy Cavanaugh, University of North Florida, United States
This paper presents an overview of the online forum component of two on campus undergraduate education methods courses. The following description outlines the benefits students received because... More
pp. 667-668
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Designing an Asynchronous/Synchronous Combination Distance Learning Environment based on Web-BBS
Jyh-Cheng Chang, Maiga Chang & Jia-Sheng Heh, Chung-Yuan Christian University, Taiwan
This paper proposes a new distance education architecture to integrate both BBS and WWW features, is so-called IVC (Internet Virtual Classroom). This architecture has not only the traditional... More
pp. 669-670
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Web Database and Its Applications in Teaching Database
Li Chao, University of Houston-Victoria, United States
The paper considers the issues of Web database technology and its application in teaching database classes. It discusses the usefulness of Web databases in business and in teaching. The... More
pp. 671-672
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MOVING TOWARD A WEB-BASED INSTRUCTIONAL DELIVERY MODEL FOR GRADUATE EDUCATION: A CASE STUDY
Ronald B. Childress, Rudy D. Pauley, Michael L. Cunningham & Sandra S. Bailey, Marshall University, United States
This paper provides a description of the change model/process used by the Marshall University Graduate School of Education and Professional Development to transition to a web-based instructional ... More
pp. 673-674
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An Intelligent User Interface oriented to non-expert users
Fulvio Corno, Laura Farinetti & Giovanni Squillero, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
This paper presents the design criteria for an Intelligent User Interface to a search engine of an on-line document data base. The Interface is aimed at users that have little or no knowledge of ... More
pp. 675-676
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ERAU’s eTeaching Zone: A Virtual User’s Community for Web Instructors
David Pedersen, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, United States
With 130 teaching sites around the world, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University faces unique challenges in supporting faculty who want to use the web for instruction. While faculty members have... More
pp. 677-678
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Introducing Internet and Intranet Technologies to a Port Authority
Gregory Derekenaris, John Garofalakis, Jim Prentzas, Dimitris Sofotassios & Athanassios Tsakalidis, University of Patras, Greece
In this paper, we present a system based on the integration of Internet, Intranet and database technologies and implemented for Patras' Port Authority in Greece. The system intends to modernize... More
pp. 679-680
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The Role of the Center for Excellence in Mentoring Web Site in Preparing Teacher Candidates to Develop and Delivery Technology-Rich Lesson Plans
Trudy L. Driskell, Larry Kajs & Anne Coppenhaver, University of Houston-Clear Lake, United States
This paper describes the role of the Center for Excellence in Mentoring (CEM) Web site in the context of a one-year capacity building grant funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Preparing... More
pp. 681-684
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Website Evaluation System: Collaboratively Discovering what makes a Website Good
Jon Dron, Phil Siviter, Chris Boyne & Richard Mitchell, University of Brighton, United Kingdom
This short paper examines a method for the collaborative discovery of metadata, one of several uses of CoFIND (Collaborative Filter in n dimensions) first presented at WebNet 99 (Dron et al 1999). ... More
pp. 685-686