The Web is also an essential tool for scholarship. Search engines find previous results and important discipline specific sites are all over the Web. In teaching, email has changed the way faculty interact with students. Unlike office hours, which are rarely used by students, email access to faculty opens up dialogs between students and faculty that did not exist previously. Email with students is a very rewarding way to extend teaching beyond the classroom.
Web sites change the nature of available academic material.
Unlike books, web pages need not be static. This site is addictive - it demonstrates how the web can be used to access live resources, not just static hunks of text. This site uses on-line interactive lessons to allow students to solve problems in electrostatics, DC circuits, magnetism, and light. Opened in the fall of 1994, this facility of five classrooms and 150 computers has hosted over 7,800 students and this fall another 2,600 students will receive their writing instruction in on-line classrooms. Many of our students have their first course at UF taught in one of these rooms.