ERIC Number: ED427649
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1996-Oct
Pages: 930
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WebNet 96 Conference Proceedings (San Francisco, California, October 15-19, 1996).
Maurer, Hermann, Ed.
This proceedings contains 80 full papers, 12 posters/demonstrations, 108 short papers, one panel, and one tutorial, all focusing on World Wide Web applications. Topics include: designing hypertext navigation tools; Web site design; distance education via the Web; instructional design; the world-wide market and censorship on the Web; customer support via the Web; VRML; tracking Web users; developing adaptive electronic textbooks on the Web; developing secure Web accessible databases; automating hypermedia course creation and maintenance; innovative resources for educational and public information; interactive justice trough the Web; 3D visualization of Web semantic content for browsing and query formation; Web authoring tools; the impact of the Web on education; multilingual font service; networked learning environments; Web conceptual space; the impact of Web publication on a child writer's development; concurrent manufacturing on the Web; browsing; virtual office hours; designing digital libraries for post-literate patrons; electronic commerce; a distance education how-to manual; media, multimedia, and language learning; managing the virtual classroom; a course in multimedia technology for non-computer science majors; full-text retrieval; collaborative learning/teaching on the Web: the web as a teaching tool; computer mediated communication; active messaging in Java; an electronic shopping agent; helping teachers use anti-virus Web sites; teaching personally sensitive material over the Internet; global distance learning and the transformation of knowledge construction; gender and the human computer user interface; school participation in the development of commercial, Web-based curriculum resources; a virtual campus on the Web; authentic activities and the Internet; a tool for creating and browsing in case libraries; providing real-time instruction on the Web; discursive networking; Web language teaching; and how to set up and maintain an image database on the Web. (DLS)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Authoring Aids (Programming), Computer Science, Computer Software, Courseware, Databases, Distance Education, Educational Media, Educational Strategies, Educational Technology, Electronic Libraries, Elementary Secondary Education, Hypermedia, Information Technology, Instructional Design, Multimedia Materials, Postsecondary Education, Web Based Instruction, World Wide Web
Web site: http://aace.virginia.edu/aace/conf/webnet/proc96.html; also archived on WebNet 98 CD-ROM (includes 1996, 1997, 1998) AACE Membership/CD orders, P.O. Box 2966, Charlottesville, VA 22902; Fax: 804-978-7449 ($35, AACE members, $40, nonmembers).
Publication Type: Collected Works - Proceedings
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, Charlottesville, VA.
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