Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, COLRS - Online@Illinois Springfield

Online Learning Update - a blog published daily since 2001 by Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Springfield

Sunday, February 17, 2002

http://www.syllabus.com/syllabusmagazine/article.asp?id=6077

Weaving Semantics Into the Web
Phillip D. Long

What a tangled web we weave, when success our first hyperlinks achieved. (My apologies to Sir Walter Scott.) The ubiquity of the World Wide Web is changing the way we live, learn, and teach. For example, the other day, in what has become a household ritual before going out to the movies, my son logged on to a movie ticket Web site to order tickets for the show we planned to see that evening. Why? Besides a congenital intolerance for queuing up at theaters, it simply made life easier. That alone speaks volumes for the Web's penetration in our daily lives....

 



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