An Applet for Teacher

How often have you accessed teaching materials via a Web browser, merely to find a static page which offers nothing more than the printed page? Such disappointing experiences are due simply to the fact that incorporating dynamic aspects in a Web page can be very difficult. The Choices: For on-line learning materials linked to a lecture course with set mathematical or statistical software, there can be an easy way out-namely, to supply macros written for that software. While this should suffice in a University computing laboratory, for instance, this may not prove useful if students cannot access the software from their personal machines. In addition, the interactivity provided by the macros is separated from the learning materials, severing the link between theory and practice….