Welcome to Internet - the world's "information superhighway." In this exercise you will learn about some of the ways that the Internet -- more specifically the world wide web (WWW) can be used to enhance education. You will use Netscape Navigator (or another appropriate web browser) to examine a number of web sites that have been created specifically to place courses online.
1. Begin this exercise by visiting the Instructional Technology Services Projects website. At this website you will find a large number of ISU "courses" that have been put online. Additionally, visit the Psychology 455 website that is not directly accessible from the ITS home page. Finally, examine the ISU Physics Website to examine information about courses that currently are online.
2. Spend time browsing through each of these websites looking for unique and interesting educational elements (syllabi, quizzes, exams, tutorials, overheads, lecture notes, guidelines, instructor feedback, surveys, sound clips, movies, interesting hyperlinks, student projects, online submissions, discussion groups, audio feeds for off-campus course registrants, etc.) -- anything that shows the power of using the Internet for educational purposes. You should spend not less than one hour examining and documenting the websites where you find each of your interesting elements.
3. Prepare a review article dealing with your findings. The review article should contain a listing of interesting educational elements, a brief summary of each element, and a complete website address noting the location of each element found. Indicate how you as a high school teacher might be able to utilize these elements in a hypothetical home page for your physics course.
A review article containing eight substantive elements that are fully documented and a thorough explanation about how these elements might be incorporated in your physics course home page will receive full credit.