Abstract Finding appropriate uses of the World Wide Web continues to challenge the education community. Many Internet sites, including our own WebPhysics site, distribute media-rich curricular material.
Good sites provide indexing and content that is unavailable through other technologies.
The worst sites are merely transcriptions of a text book or faculty notepads. In fairness to the World Wide Web, it required heroic effort to move beyond text and images up until 1996. But 1997 has changed that. Java is a platform independent programming language that is very flexible and ideally suited for instructional purposes such as problems. Java applets can be embedded directly into HTML documents and can interact with the user by employing a scripting language such as JavaScript.