Bringing the Web to the K12 Community
Amy Low, Department of Education, Ballina University, Lighthouse Road,
Ballina, NSW 2482, Australia. Phone +61 66 21 0000 Fax: +61 66 20 0000
Email: alow@bu.edu.au
Home Page: Amy Low [HREF 1]
John Gow, Ballina Beach State School, Lighthouse Road,
Ballina, NSW 2482, Australia. Phone +61 66 22 0000 Fax: +61 66 23 0000
Email: jgow@bu.edu.au
Keywords: WorldWideWeb, K12, Secondary Education, Primary Education
Introduction
This article describes the introduction of the WorldWideWeb to the students of
Ballina Lighthouse State School.
Background
Ballina Lighthouse State School is a K6 school which primarily services the
children of the Ballina lighthouse keepers and staff at the Ballina Beach
Resort. The school was first connected to the Internet in 1992 with access
arranged through Ballina University. In 1994 it was decided to install a
WorldWideWeb server.
The Ballina Beach State School WWW Server "LightSource"
The LightSource [HREF 2]
was commissioned on the Ballina University server in January 1994 in time for
the 1994 school year. The students used a regular personal computer and high
speed modem to upload html images to the Ballina University computers. The
designated computer had appropriate facilities to display graphical and
sound images.
Conclusion
The production of multimedia is a difficult but challenging environment to work
in (Makedon et al 1994), not the least with students in the K6 environment. We
found that the greatest challenge was, however, not with the students but in the
technical sense.
References
F Makedon, SA Rebelsky, M Cheyney, C Owen and P Gloor (1994) "Issues and
obstacles with Multimedia Authoring" in T Ottman and I Tomek (1994) "Educational
Multimedia and Hyermedia, 1994" Charlottesville, VA, Association for the
Advancement of Computing in Education, pp. 38-45.
Hypertext References
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- http://www.bu.edu.au/people/alow/index.html - Dr Amy Low's Home Page.
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- http://www.bu.edu.au/bbss/index.html - The home page for the Lightsource WWW
pages.
Copyright
Amy Low, John Gow ©, 1996. The authors assigns to Southern Cross University
and other educational and non-profit institutions a non-exclusive licence to use
this document for personal use and in courses of instruction provided that the article
is used in full and this copyright statement is reproduced. The authors also
grant a non-exclusive licence to Southern Cross University to publish this document
in full on the World Wide Web and on CD-ROM and in printed form with the conference
papers, and for the document to be published on mirrors on the World Wide Web.
Any other usage is prohibited without the express permission of the author.
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