This file has the overheads presented at a talk at the 
2000 Annual Meeting of the American Statistical Association
in Indianapolis, Indiania in August 2000.

The file asa.talk.rtf is a MSWord 98 file stored in Rich Text Format



Interactive Web Pages -
Applets for the Teacher,
Perls of Wisdom, or a
Cup of Java?

Carl James Schwarz
Statistics and Actuarial Science
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, BC, Canada  V5A 1S6

ABSTRACT: Web pages can easily present static information. 
However, many effective teaching tools require the use of dynamic
displays or interaction with the student. In this presentation,
 I will review the various methods of creating 'interactive' web
pages and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of these methods.