Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0002469, Wed, 15 Oct 1997 09:26:24 -0700

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The Web as a teaching resource (fwd)
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EDITOR's NOTE. Jeff Edmunds is the founding father of the Nabokov Web
page. If you do teach any of the Nabokov books, please respond. ZEMBLA is
an excellent research resource -- one I frequently resort to. If there are
ways in which it can be made more useful to teachers, please let
Jeff know.
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JEFF EDMUNDS <JHE@psulias.psu.edu>

It is with some hesitation at the prospect of an indifferent silence that I
toss this subject into the ring:

The Web is being used by an ever greater number of professors in teaching
their courses. Whether as a means of providing ready access to course
syllabi and class notes, or as a platform for electronic interaction
between teachers and students, the Web has the potential to change the way
college courses are taught.

Rather more a technophobe than technophile, and skeptical of technology as
a means of teaching people to think, let alone appreciate high art, I would
be interested nonetheless in hearing from NABOKV-L subscribers who are also
teachers of Nabokov. Are there ways in which ZEMBLA, the Nabokov Web site,
could assist you in teaching your courses? How?

Jeff Edmunds