Active Essays on the Web

Author

Yamamiya, Takashi ; Warth, Alessandro ; Kaehler, Ted

Author_Institution

Viewpoints Res. Inst., Glendale, CA, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

19-22 Jan. 2009

Firstpage

3

Lastpage

10

Abstract

This paper describes "active essays" and their implementation with Internet technology. An active essay combines a written essay, program fragments, and the resulting live simulations into a single cohesive narrative. We believe the integration of programming and natural language makes a superior teaching medium for expressing mathematical, scientific, and even literary ideas. It is especially effective when it can be read, run, and authored in a Web browser. We review our previous implementations of active essays on the Web. Chalkboard is our latest active essay framework. We discuss Chalkboard\´s features, examples, design decisions, and unresolved issues.

Keywords

Internet; computer aided instruction; literature; natural languages; online front-ends; programming languages; Chalkboard; Internet technology; Web browser; active essays; live simulations; natural language; program fragments; programming language; teaching medium; written essay; Animation; Computational modeling; Computer languages; Humans; International collaboration; Internet; Joining processes; Mathematical programming; Natural languages; Web sites;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing, 2009. C5 '09. Seventh International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kyoto

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3620-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/C5.2009.10

Filename

5350160