Reviews

Advance Praise

"The communication revolution associated with the Internet and world-wide web has important implications for learning. The Wired Professor is a blend of history of the web, mechanics of searching online and posting web sites, but most importantly it offers clear-headed suggestions on how to best exploit this new power for education--not merely novelty or amusement. The next few years will be a time of experimentation in educational uses of the web, and teachers and students alike will profit from the ideas presented in this book."
--David G. Stork, Stanford University

"The Wired Professor combines the best of Internet history and hands-on experiences to guide educators through the maze that is the Net. The book is thoughtful, pointed, and engaging. It will develop one's technical skills and critical faculties, and will be of interest and use to educators in most any discipline, in most any setting. A major contribution to our body of knowledge about the Internet."
--Steve Jones, University of Illinois, Chicago

"No revolution was ever brought about by visions and visionaries. Rather, change comes from the day to day efforts of real people in their real jobs. In The Wired Professor, Keating and Hargitai get down to the nitty gritty of turning visions into reality by providing real-world, tangible solutions to educators trying to make sense of the information revolution."
--Selena Sol, creator of the Selena Sol Script Archive and current President of Extropia.com

The Chronicle of Higher Education

"Cater[s] to readers who may not know much about the uses of a computer beyond word processing and e-mail. The first 100 pages explain information highways, the geography of the Internet, and on-line research, but the next 100 pages explain how to create a range of Web pages, from simple efforts that announce only office hours to elaborate sites incorporating sound and video clips... Accompanying the book is a well-organized Web site that contains both on-line instructions and links to the Web sites of faculty members--sites engaging enough to make almost anybody want to learn whatever it takes to create one."
--The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 19, 1999