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Introduction to EdPsy 387: Harnessing Educational Psychology through Technology

Welcome to EdPsy 387, a project-oriented course led by Jim Levin from the Department of Educational Psychology. Throughout the semester, we'll engage in mini-projects and a major project, exploring educational uses of the web. Our class will include tutorials, lab sessions, and discussions on topics like hypertext, web surfing, and effective web resource evaluation. Office hours are Monday from 10-11 am for additional support. Prepare to expand your knowledge of educational psychology and technology!

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Introduction to EdPsy 387: Harnessing Educational Psychology through Technology

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  1. Welcome!

  2. Who am I? Jim Levin Department of Educational Psychology College of Education My background

  3. Who are you? • Send me an email <j-levin@uiuc.edu> • Your name • Your department • Your goals for this class

  4. Introduction • Course web site: http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/courses/edpsy387/fa99/ • Plan for the course

  5. Plan for EdPsy 387 • First part of class meeting a tutorial/presentation/conversation • Short break at about 10:00: 5 minutes • Lab part of class: a time for you to do what we just talked about, with support from me and the rest of the class

  6. Project-oriented course • Mini projects • Major project

  7. Office hours • Monday, 10-11am, Room 188N Ed Bldg • Electronic office hours: anytime

  8. Educational uses of the web:“From surfing to serving” • Initially people see the Internet as a vast source of information • The web as a distributed hypermedia

  9. Hypertext & Hypermedia • Our class web page as a hypertext • What is hypertext? • Text that can be read in multiple ways • Print hypertexts? • Hypermedia: hypertext+graphics+sound+video+animation+etc.= hypertextual multimedia

  10. The World-Wide Web • A distributed hypermedia • Different parts can be on different computers all around the world, with hypertextual links via the Internet

  11. Web surfing • Web “surfing” • Advantages • Disadvantages

  12. Surfing to Serving • Web Serving: • Advantages • Disadvantages

  13. Education and the web • The Global Schoolnet web site • Harnessing the Power of the Web

  14. Search Engines • Databases of web resources • Two kinds • Directories (human classified) - Ex: Yahoo • Web crawler-based (not human classified) - Ex: Excite • Which to use? • Use whichever ones you find useful • When you don’t find one useful, switch to another

  15. Understanding URLs • A unique address for each web resource • Structure: what + which computer + which file • Example:http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/courses/edpsy387/fa99/index.html • What kind of resource: http:// -> Web file • Which computer: www.ed.uiuc.edu • Which file: courses/edpsy387/fa99/index.html

  16. Understanding Computer Names • Domain names: used both for computer names in URLs and in email addresses (whatever is the to the right of the @ sign) • Like a postal address, but with “.” instead of new line as separator • Most general to most specific, right to left

  17. Example:www.ed.uiuc.edu • From the right: edu -> US higher education institution • com --> US commercial institution • gov --> US federal government • org --> US non-profit • us --> US • mx -> Mexico • au -> Australia • Country code list: http://externic.net/iso.htm

  18. Example:www.ed.uiuc.edu • Next to the left: uiuc • University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign • Email example: l-gomez@nwu.edu • Northwestern University

  19. Example: www.ed.uiuc.edu • computers in the Education Building at UIUC

  20. Example: www.ed.uiuc.edu • www --> a particular computer in Room 10 of the Education Building

  21. Sending/saving URLs • Have to get the URL exactly right (sometimes case mAtTeRs; no spaces ever) • Copy & paste is best • Emailing from your web browser • Advantages: can do anywhere • Disadvantages: need to set & then unset email preferences • Emailing yourself

  22. Using URLs to evaluate web sites • Largest level domain: .edu vs. .com vs. … • Subdomain elements: .ed.uiuc vs. .cs.uiuc • Directory elements: /students/joe/ vs. /facstaff/chip/ • Institutional vs. personal pages: /~jlevin/ vs. /deans/

  23. For next week • Email me information about yourself • Skim through the Global Schoolnet website • Search for an exemplary educational website • Email me a message with the URL and a short description of an exemplary educational website • read the Bruce & Levin paper at http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/facstaff/chip/taxonomy/

  24. Lab time • Room 10/16 • Sign in • No food or drinks

  25. Digital Photo • Sign your name when you get your picture taken • To be used (if you choose to do so) on your personal web page

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