Active Essays on the Web

Authors:
Takashi Yamamiya;Alessandro Warth;Ted Kaehler
Affiliations:
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Venue:
C5 '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Seventh International Conference on Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing
Year:
2009

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Abstract

This paper describes "Active Essays" and their implementation with Internet technology. An Active Essay combines a written essay, program fragments, and the resulting live simulations into a single cohesive narrative. We believe the integration of programming and natural language makes a superior teaching medium for expressing mathematical, scientific, and even literary ideas. It is especially effective when it can be read, run, and authored in a web browser. We review our previous implementations of Active Essays on the Web. Chalkboard is our latest Active Essay framework. We discuss Chalkboard's features, examples, design decisions, and unresolved issues.