How to Incorporate Technology in Instruction

CIT Infobits is an electronic service of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Academic & Technology Networks' Center for Instructional Technology. Monthly journal articles include such topics as examination of the role and potential of Instructional technology in learning, business technologies in the classroom, e-books, and Enhancing Science and Mathematics Education with Technology.

Teaching with Technology TodayThe Learning Technology Development Council (LTDC) of the UW [University of Wisconsin] System initially conceived of Teaching with Technology Today as a means of more effectively examining and conveying how learning technologies affect and enhance teaching, learning, and research. Many articles across a wide range of disciplines.

Hybrid Course Website [University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee] Hybrid refers to courses that combine face-to-face classroom instruction with computer-based learning. Deals with issues of advantages and challenges of hybrid courses, student preparedness, requirements of instructors, resources and samples.

EDUCAUSE ELI [EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative] site for learner-centered practices.

University of Minnesota digital media center Includes onine resources "teach with technology" and "develop learning materials."

Accessible Electronic Content Provides access to guidelines and tools for evaluation of electronic content. Examples: tests and correction for colorblindness, web accessibility verifier, screen-readers, etc. [University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]

General Resources and Examples

Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction Lots of resources. see especiall "teaching and learning on the web.

MERLOT [Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching] is a free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. Links to online learning materials are collected there along with annotations such as peer reviews and assignments. Contains Web sites, collections, reference material, drill and practice, case studies simulations, animations, etc.

Syllabus Finder Course Materials for more than 100,000 courses from college web sites. Also include access to several tools including a "poll builder" and a "survey builder," a variety of history related projectsand history resources.

CAREO A project with the goal of the creation of a searchable, Web-based, collection of multidisciplinary teaching materials in Canada and beyond.

Learning Objects collections and related information from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Center for International Education

TLT Group list of resources. ttis is where we find Flashlight Online"   .

MIT OpenCourseWare"The idea behind MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is to make MIT course materials that are used in the teaching of almost all undergraduate and graduate subjects available on the Web, free of charge, to any user anywhere in the world. MIT OCW will advance technology-enhanced education at MIT, and will serve as a model for university dissemination of knowledge in the Internet age." Worth examining for good ideas and resources. Here are the first few lines of the list of courses (as of 28 Feb 2003).

The World Lecture Hall: University of Texas

The WWW Virtual Library Broad but varies in quality across discipline.

Perry-Castanada Library Map Collection Maps of current and historical interest. Great place to visit.

Disciplinary Areas
Humanities

GENERAL
Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (CETH)
Humanist Computers in the Humanities
Subject research guide at Colgate University

ART
Museum of Modern Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art(NYC)
Philadelphia Museum of Art

HISTORY
US Census data - 1790-1860 Harvard
The West
Eurodocs: Primary historical documents form western Europe. Medieval to Present.
The Galileo Project at Rice University includes Galileo's Villa, Maps of Galileo's World, Timelines of Galileo's Life & Era, and Galileo Project Resources.
The Valley of the Shadow Details life in one northern and one southern town from the time of John Brown's raid through reconstruction. (cited in EDUCAUSE Review article E-Content, January/February 2004)
Interpreting ancient manuscripts

LITERATURE
Great Books Online
Online Medieval and Classical Library
Medieval Links
The Atlantic Online: Poetry Pages Includes readings of poetry, essays about poems and poets.
Perseus
The American Verse Projectis a collaborative project between the University of Michigan Press and the Humanities Text Initiative
Great Books

MUSIC
J. S. Bach Homepage
The Mozart Project
Gilbert and Sullivan

PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION
Aesthetics On-Line
Links to Resources in Philosophy Johns Hopkins University
Virtual Religion Index [Rutgers]

WRITING
Online Writing Lab Purdue University

Sciences

GENERAL
National Science Digital Library
Science for the Millenium NCSA; multimedia
Science & Technology Links
Microscopy
Computational Science Education Project [CSEP]: Older material but interesting in the way that it is presented. Courses, mostly presented in electronic book format. Includes survey of CS tools (e.g. networks), selected methods (e.g. ODE, Random number generation), case studies (e.g. ocean models, chaos from non-linear mappings). chapters are rated elementary, intermediate, and advanced.
Science, Mathematics, Technology, Environmental Education

ASTRONOMY
Planetary Sciencesnational space Science Data Center
Photographs of the surface of Pluto
NASA

BIOLOGY
The MIT Biology Hypertextbook Home Page

Botanic Gardens: University of Delaware
Neuroscience-Net published by Scientific Design and Information, Inc.

CHEMISTRY
Resources for Chemistry Educators

FORESTRY
Trees of the Pacific Northwest: Tree Identification Page (Oregon State)

GEOLOGY
US Geological Survey
Nevada Seismological Labratory
Caltech Seismological Laboratory

MATHEMATICS
Mathematica Demos
Graph Theory Tutorials: Nicely done. Includes quizzes at the end of each lesson with feedback to the student.
The Mathematice Archives UT Knoxville
The Math Forum Drexel
The Geometry Center Interactive Web Applications
History of Mathematics St. Andrews University, Scotland
Virtual Library (Statistics) List On-line educational resources a looong way down the page.

OCEANOGRAPHY
Seafloor

PHYSICS
Best of Physics web

Social Sciences


Native American Technology
Stonehenge
USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service: Agricultural statistics 1994, includes times series.
The Information Economy: Documents about the economics of the Internet
Egypt
Intercollegiate Consortium for Political and Social Research
Population Index
US Code of Federal Regulations
Office of Population Research, Princeton University
Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
National Center for Education Statistics

Professional

FAOSTAT database Agricultural data from many countries (UN)
Wide collection of on-line and free engineering and scientific tools and calculation aids intended for teaching
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
FindLaw: US Supreme Court decisions
Supreme court multimedia Database
History and Politics Out Loud