Print-based correspondence study courses were the primary distance delivery system for many years. In the 1970s, the state experimented with delivering audio and data transmission to a limited number of communities. In 1976, the legislature appropriated funds for a rural television demonstration project, offering a mix of educational programs in the daytime, and network television in the evening. The early uses of E-Mail and computer conferencing were pioneered by the Educational Technology program at the University of Alaska Southeast. Once you feel comfortable finding and evaluating information on the web, it's time to start thinking about creating your own web pages.
Teachers sometimes use web pages for classroom management purposes.
They create a page with links they want their students to visit, save the page to their hard drive, and set their browser to open to that page. That way they are helping students focus on the task at hand rather than allowing them to roam freely. Teachers also have students create web pages to publish their work. As you learned in previous readings, technology is effective when students construct their own learning and share it with others. There are many programs that help you create web pages.