However, each time I have used these tools, I have printed material out and presented it in class using either an overhead projector or presenter. I assume I can learn many different ways to develop and present material. I am open to all possibilities. Global Issues Students have to do a research paper and I would like them to explore more library sources including CD-ROM and the Internet. My immediate interest is in assessing information technology as a means to enrich classroom discussion.
Students think more carefully when they have to put it in writing, even if it's in cyberspace.
The experiment was only partially successful, largely because I did not require anyone to use the web. About half the students participated in the on-line discussion, but most were more interested in setting forth their own point of view than in responding to others. I also expect the workshop to give me ideas that I have not yet thought of. I have come back to teaching this course after a six year absence, and have taught it in the spring of 1996 and will do so again in 1997. I expect that I will again offer History 21 during the 1997-1998 academic year.