Distance Education Guide for Faculty

Distance Education Guide for Faculty

Policies/Procedures

Interesting Sites

Below is a list of some interesting web sites that relate to online teaching and learning. Please let us know if you have any sites that you think should be shared with you colleagues.

Annotate for Word
http://11trees.com

Add-in for Microsoft Word 2003 and 2007 that improves and unifies Word's basic commenting features as well as adding custom buttons for frequent comments. Annotate for Word is free.

The Ten Best Practices for Teaching Online
http://www.designingforlearning.info/services/writing/ecoach/tenbest.html

Avoiding the 5 Most Common Mistakes in Using Blogs with Students
http://campustechnology.com/articles/68089

Plagiarized.com
http://www.plagiarized.com

Definitive Guide to Internet Plagiarism

The Power of Wikis in Higher Ed

Linda L Briggs, "The Power of Wikis in Higher Ed," Campus Technology, 8/20/2008
http://www.campustechnology.com/article.aspx?aid=66505

FireFox Campus Edition
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/add-ons/campus

Special Academic FireFox web browser edition with add-ons Foxytunes, Zotero, and StumpbleUpon. If you have the latest version of FireFox already installed, you can just install these add-ons to it.

FoxyTunes ( http://www.foxytunes.com) Do you listen to Music while surfing the Web? FoxyTunes lets you control almost any media player and find lyrics, covers, videos, bios and much more with a click right from your browser.

Zotero ( http://www.zotero.org ) [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work — in the web browser itself.

StumbleUpon (http://www.stumbleupon.com) Channel surf the internet with the StumbleUpon toolbar to find great websites, videos, photos and more based on your interests. StumbleUpon learns what you like and makes better recommendations.

The New York Times Knowledge Network
http://www.nytimes.whsites.net/knowledgenetwork/index.html

A new learning and networking platform that combines the unmatched resources of The New York Times with the best educators from leading institutions.

Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies
http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/index.html

Making Sense of E-Learning Trends, Technologies and Tools

Second Life
http://secondlife.com

Second Life is a 3D online digital world imagined and created by its residents.

MIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm

OCW is a free publication of course materials used at MIT.

Google Video: Educational
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=genre:educational

Some interesting videos that you might like to use as a supplement to your teaching.