1. Using the WWW in Teaching and Learning Barbara Watson Andrew Stansfield IT Service

2. Plan Presentation –web authoring –explanation of HTML Demo of Dreamweaver Create your own WWW page Publish your WWW page

3. Why author on the Web? l Support teaching and research l Increasing use of WWW for teaching, research and e-commerce l almost 40% of users connected in past year l more than 1/5 of adult population using the Internet l Global audience as widely accessible and platform independent l Attractive and can include images, sound, video l No paper, no distribution, immediate updates l It’s easy!

4. Terms Internet - network of computers WWW (World Wide Web) –part of the Internet HTML (Hypertext Mark-up Language) –standard language of the WWW HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) –rules for communication

5. Web Architecture Web is based on a client/server architecture using HTTP: Hypertext Transfer Protocol Set of rules for communication between Web clients and servers Give me file x Here it is Computer on the Internet holding information - remote “server” Desktop computer - “client” Unix, Macintosh, PC...

6. Web authoring tools easy to use with toolbars, buttons create files in one package and edit in another Dreamweaver - http://www.macromedia.com/ Frontpage Netscape Communicator Word

7. Further information http://www.dur.ac.uk/ITS/WWW/ http://www.dur.ac.uk/ITS/T_and_L/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/webwise/ http://www.cti.ac.uk/publ/primers/

8. Summary create WWW pages using Dreamweaver publish your page have fun!