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<strong>in</strong> the collection to give the learner extra <strong>in</strong><strong>format</strong>ion about the resource and the collection. The learner may,<br />

at the teacher's discretion, view Web pages that are not part of the MicroWeb collection. Clearly identified<br />

non-MicroWeb pages conta<strong>in</strong> the standard MicroWeb header <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g a hyperl<strong>in</strong>k back to the most recently<br />

viewed collection page. The learner may read through any resources <strong>in</strong> the collection, view pictures and<br />

animation sequences, and listen to sound record<strong>in</strong>gs, all at an <strong>in</strong>dividual pace. The learner may make notes<br />

(annotations) about any of the resources and such annotations are stored for future reference. Annotations<br />

added to resources with<strong>in</strong> the collection can assist the learner to navigate through the material. For learners<br />

who wish to f<strong>in</strong>d specific material, a table of contents is available for the collection <strong>in</strong> the form of a<br />

hierarchical concept map. The concept map allows the learner to see how sub-topics are related to one another<br />

as well as provid<strong>in</strong>g the learner with an overview of the entire concept. The learner gradually constructs his or<br />

her own understand<strong>in</strong>g of the collection topic by read<strong>in</strong>g, view<strong>in</strong>g, and listen<strong>in</strong>g to the material.<br />

3.1 Creat<strong>in</strong>g a MicroWeb Collection<br />

The components of the MicroWeb Toolkit are grouped <strong>in</strong>to three modules. Two of the modules, the Resource<br />

Collection Proxy and the Collection View<strong>in</strong>g Proxy function as proxy HTTP servers implemented us<strong>in</strong>g the<br />

STRAND toolkit [Brooks et al., 1995]. The third module, the MicroWeb Control Environment allows the<br />

developer to organize and modify the collection. Educators who wish to create MicroWeb collections can<br />

benefit from a variety of components, <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g: a Resource Collector, a Compiler/Interpreter, an Annotator,<br />

a Concept Mapper, a Learner Monitor, an Access Controller, and a Collection Manager [Figure 1]. Each<br />

component communicates with the MicroWeb database, which stores the MicroWeb representation of the<br />

resource collection. The <strong>in</strong><strong>format</strong>ion <strong>in</strong> the database <strong>in</strong>cludes meta-<strong>in</strong><strong>format</strong>ion about each WWW resource <strong>in</strong><br />

the collection, l<strong>in</strong>ks between collection resources, a representation of each of the concepts for the collection,<br />

and <strong>in</strong><strong>format</strong>ion about users of the collection.<br />

Figure 1: The MicroWeb Toolkit

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