Method and apparatus for creating and executing internet based lectures using public domain web pages

A method comprising:

• facilitating, by a teacher-author station, a teacher-author in composing a lecture on-line at the teacher-author station by browsing web pages, altering copies of pages by one or more of masking content of the pages, annotating the pages, inserting text or graphics in the pages, and attaching audio or video files to the pages, and saving altered pages in a particular order as a lecture;
• and
• uploading, by the teacher-author station, the lecture, when completed, to a lecture server for playing, by the lecture server, the lecture on the Internet at an agreed-to time to a plurality of lecture clients at Internet-connected client workstations.

A method comprising:

• receiving, by a lecture server, an upload of a completed lecture from a teacher-author station, the teacher-author station having facilitated a teacher-author in composing the lecture on-line at the teacher-author station by browsing web pages, altering copies of pages found, and saving altered pages in a particular order as a lecture;
• and
• playing, by the lecture server, the lecture on the Internet at an agreed-to time to a plurality of lecture clients at Internet-connected client workstations.

An apparatus comprising:

• means for facilitating a teacher-author in composing a lecture on-line at the teacher-author station by browsing web pages, altering copies of pages by one or more of masking content of the pages, annotating the pages, inserting text or graphics in the pages, and attaching audio or video files to the pages, and saving altered pages in a particular order as a lecture;
• and
• means for uploading the lecture, when completed, to a lecture server for playing the lecture on the Internet at an agreed-to time to a plurality of lecture clients at Internet-connected client workstations.