The Humanities Focus Group

Instructional Technology Program
University of California, Berkeley

Catherine Yoes, Owen McGrath, Jeff Rusch & Steve Thorne

ITP's WWW Humanities resource pages

Foreign Language Resources on the WWW.

Literature and Writing Resources on the WWW

Reading and Composition Database

Information on Educational MUDs & MOOs

Humanities Focus Group Workshops

Educational uses of the internet

This is an introductory course which covers many of the educational possibilities available over the Internet - WWW, MOOs, readnews, gopher, & email.

Composition & Foreign language learning over networked computers
The focus of this workshop is the Daedalus Integrated Writing Environment. The Daedalus "suite" of applications includes modules for synchronous communication in writing, peer editing, and an invention heuristic which a ssists students in the production of expository essays.

Authoring in hypertext: StorySpace!

StorySpace is a hypertext writing environment -- a tool for creating and reading interlinked electronic documents, or *hypertexts*. StorySpace is the collaborative hypertext authoring environment of choice at numerous Universities across the country.

Educational uses of MUDs & MOOs

On-line, realtime virtual consensual experience. Wow!

Reading and Composition Database: a virtual kingdom of writing instructor's labors!

Really, just about the coolest thing invented since toe clips

Follow these links to resource pages for Humanities and Foreign Language WWW sites.

For further information about ITP, see our ITP Homepage

Send the Humanities Focus Group comments, suggestions or questions!

ITP's Humanities Focus Group is housed in beautiful Wheeler Hall (rm. 231). Glimpse Wheeler Hall through the lens of Ansel Adam's camera, (ca. 1966, Gelatin silver print). (Image resides in the Ansel Adams: Fiat Lux WWW exibit.)

This page created by Steve Thorne, thorne@garnet.berkeley.edu

The UC Berkeley Instructional Technology Program, a unit of IS&T