Hi Michael, Hey, the page looks a bit chaotic. But that doesn't hurt. You've certainly got me thinking. That tiki-toki tool is interesting. I keep thinking about how to displays parrallel evolutions.
I'd tend to ask students to do "their" version, after assembling a few more interesting perspectives. This one might be useful. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_Internet_registry It tends to break down the belief that the internet is some cohesive thing. The "evolution of html" is obviously still too close to the top. Tim berners lee's proposal for the www being in 1990. http://www.w3.org/Proposal.html As he said ""I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the Transmission Control Protocol and domain name system ideas and—ta- da!—the World Wide Web." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee So maybe some background on the history of hypertext may be an idea. This one's not real good. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext You might also want to bring "the internet" down to a local level and ask students, "so which network do we use to connect to the Internet in this classroom?". That should get a few brain cells twitching. (Just so you're a chapter ahead. It's http://www.karen.net.nz/ at your end) Do us a favour. I'm not based anywhere. Been travelling for the past 18 months. Europe last year. Asia this. Thailand today. Please don't "consider a separate part for other countries". I spend most of my time trying to get NRENs to collaborate. They don't. They compare. That's why OERers end up having to cobble together tools like this google group, with a wiki (in our case). AsiaPac doesn't have an (active) association for NRENs. But the euo based one is not bad. http://www.terena.org/activities/media/ Government and education are the only two industries which can't adapt to a globalized world. They just can't get past their national borders. I won't rave on here as I want to start at wayne's critical point - ".. a ludicrous situation where taxpayers are frequently required to pay twice for their learning materials." -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
