scholarly journals Plant Propagation Methods Course Developed for Delivery on the World Wide Web

HortScience ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 553B-553a
Author(s):  
Ellen B. Peffley ◽  
Kevin Lombard ◽  
Cynthia McKenney ◽  
Richard Durham

A plant propagation course was developed for delivery on the World Wide Web. Plant Propagation Methods is one of two foundation courses required of students with either a major or minor in horticulture. The course is accessed via the Texas Tech Univ. Horticulture website, www.pssc.ttu.edu. The delivery software is Web-CT Tutorial and access is password protected. The course has been offered two semesters, Fall 1999 and Spring 2000. Overall, student evaluations have been very favorable. The ratings for the first time offering were a 100% excellent rating was given for stimulating student interest and concepts pointed out; 67% excellent rating for effectiveness of the course, presents challenging ideas, stresses important points, uses visual materials, defines new terms, and provides an overview/objective. Students gave an overall rating of good for the organization of the course. The only negative response by the students was that they said the class was very hard because it was not in a structured classroom setting.

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristine Donate ◽  
Ravi Shankar ◽  
Diana Mitsova ◽  
Francis McAfee

1996 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 45-48
Author(s):  
Steven H. Schimmrich

The Explosive growth of the World Wide Web, a vast network of interconnected computers, has resulted in the availability of large amounts of information useful to K-16 teachers. The Web allows you to seamlessly access multimedia information (text, images, and binary files) from servers anywhere in the world. The problem is finding this information and being sure it's correct (almost anyone can create a Web page). This paper is an attempt to bring some order to the chaos. It refers to a listing of many paleontology resources on the Web which may be of interest to K-16 students and instructors; and provides some tips on how these resources may be used in a classroom setting.


HortScience ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 467B-467
Author(s):  
Kimberly A.M. Philp ◽  
Mark H. Brand

The growth of the ornamental plant industry has rapidly increased over the past several years, creating a strong demand for well-trained graduates and industry workers. It is vital for a person entering this industry to have a solid and broad plant material background. The best ways to learn, sell, and teach plants are through visual materials. Currently, there are few cost-effective resources that provide a person with all the visual information needed to learn plants. To better serve the students and industry workers, the Univ. of Connecticut has developed a free multimedia ornamental plant database on the World Wide Web. The plant database focuses on plants for the New England area (USDA zone 6 and lower). This website brings detailed textual information, thousands of pictures, and audio pronunciations together in one complete package. Plant characteristic information (textual and pictorial) consists of habitat, habit and form, summer foliage, autumn foliage, flowers, fruit, bark, culture, landscape uses, liabilities, ID features, propagation, and cultivar/variety. The major factors and decision processes involved in developing an educational Web site, with emphasis on usability and accessibility are considered. The target audience for this Web site is students as well as the nursery and landscape industry workers, agricultural consultants, extension personnel, landscape architects, and the gardening public.


2010 ◽  
pp. 502-507
Author(s):  
Melissa B. Holler

Perhaps for the first time since the computer made its debut, the teacher is in the position to command the technology-based instructional resources used in the classroom. Gone are the days when teachers must rely solely on the expertise of computer professionals to create computer-assistedinstruction. With the advent of the World Wide Web, creating student-centered, ageappropriate material rests in the hands of the classroom teacher. The Virtual Tour is the newest link to literally millions of content specific sites that supply images, sounds, and video media.


2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Blair Williams Cronin ◽  
Ty Tedmon-Jones ◽  
Lora Wilson Mau

2019 ◽  
pp. 3-6
Author(s):  
D. A. Bogdanova

The article provides an overview of the activities of the European Union Forum on kids' safety in Internet — Safer Internet Forum (SIF) 2019, which was held in Brussels, Belgium, in November 2019. The current Internet risks addressed by the World Wide Web users, especially children, are described.


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