Welcome to the brave new world of the World Wide Web. The Web allows people to present information, link it to related materials, and share it with a world-wide audience by computer. It has the potential to change the way that people communicate and collaborate, rendering physical proximity inconsequential. On the UW campus, faculty are just beginning to tap the Web's potential in their undergraduate courses. Dozens of professors have created basic Web sites for their courses, enabling students to easily access the course syllabus and class assignments online.
Some faculty also provide links to related sites, encouraging motivated students to explore further.
An ambitious few have made the Web a more integral part of their courses. Studying Rhetoric Through Provocative Examples Teaching assistant Maggie McDowell was determined to integrate the Web into all aspects of her English composition course last quarter. The challenge was to create assignments that took full advantage of the Web while encouraging students to write regularly. Maggie McDowell in the English Department's computer-integrated classroom. Photo by Mary Levin.