THE DRAGONFLYS WEB - COURSEWARE FOR CHILDREN CREATED BY COLLEGE-STUDENTS ON THE WORLD-WIDE-WEB

We describe a successful approach to teaching first-year undergraduate s to produce World-Wide Web courseware. Students were responsible for coding, writing, graphics, research, and theory. We taught that course ware should elicit higher order cognitive processes such as problem so lving, application, synthesis, and critical thinking in children. It a ppears that the exercise facilitated experiential learning, the applic ation of theories of learning, and courseware and hypertext design, as well as promoting critical thinking in our undergraduates. We argue t hat psychology students can and should develop useful. Web pages as a learning experience and service to the field.