Web Teaching Guide: A Practical Approach to Creating Course Web Sites
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Book Overview
Prompted by student enthusiasm and by the opportunity to enhance college courses, more and more faculty members in higher education are incorporating the Web into their teaching. This helpful book is designed to answer the questions an educator who lacks extensive technical experience asks about creating a Web site: Why should I use the Web? How can the Web enhance my teaching? How do I make a Web site? How can I make it effective? Multimedia specialist Sarah Horton draws on extensive experience as a faculty Web consultant to explain the entire process of creating a site, from initial planning through site assessment. She examines the strengths of the Web and its many possible uses. More than just a way to distribute course handouts, a Web site can provide richer content, multiple expressions of an idea, interactivity, opportunities for collaboration and customization, and flexibility for updates. Horton urges teachers to consider the ever-growing possibilities that information technology presents. Her focus is on practical matters related to creating Web-based instructional materials. With case studies throughout, she discusses the planning process, content creation, site development, and finally site implementation in the curriculum.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0300087276
ISBN13:9780300087277
Release Date:October 2000
Publisher:Yale University Press
Length:256 Pages
Weight:1.16 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 7.0" x 10.0"
Customer Reviews
4 ratings
Great for the newbie
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
I teach a workshop at the University of California that references this book liberally and I always recommend that my attendees purchase a copy of their own. The workshop focuses on how to build a course web site from the ground up on your own. I am a web developer, not an instructor, but have found the information contained in this book has been invaluable to the instructors that I train. It contains a lot of good common sense web design that is focused on instructional, not commercial, information distribution. For the pedagogical view of instructional technology there are several other texts (and electronic newsletters) that do expand on integration more than this single book does. But what this text does do well is take the technical elements that will make a course web site a success and explain them in plain, accessible language. Whether K-12 or a University Professor, I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in moving their materials to the web, but who isn't quite sure how to start. The tips and recommendations listed here will make your work effecient and, more importantly, usable.
Outstanding cover of digital-teaching tools
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
Horton's work has appeared between dozens of books covering Internet teaching. While the others focussed in three or four matters, Sarah's piece of state-of-the-art remains a valuable source for many of us looking for an integral approach as a whole. An it's amazingly written!!.
Concise, well focused guide for teachers
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
I really liked this book for its tight focus on the best design and technology methods for creating educational materials for the Web. Ironically, I like Horton's book for the same reason the previous reviewer didn't: it's tightly focused on Web teaching techniques.I've been teaching for years; I don't need the bloated, wandering discussions of teaching philosophy and academic computing policy issues that clot so many books on teaching and technology. Just give me a clear, concise, thoughtful overview of what's possible on the Web, and *I'll* decide what's best for me and my students. Horton does that--very well.
An essential resource for creating Web course sites.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
Horton provides thoughtful, real-world advice for educators who want to create useful and enriching online resources to support their classroom instruction or to create distance education courses. The book is full of detailed, practical advice for creating well-designed and media-rich sites, with a pragmatic eye on the limited resources and technical support available to most teachers. The book includes many examples of educators who created excellent sites without spending a fortune, without lavish amounts of technology, and without a supporting cast of Web design professionals. Best of all, Horton avoids the breathless "revolutionary" boosterism and pretentious rhetoric of most other references for creating online teaching sites. Horton assumes that her audience already knows *how* to teach, and provides a broad overview of the Web technology and techniques useful for K-12 teachers, college professors, and corporate trainers. If you teach on the Web, you need this book.
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