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Sabbatical Project: Wendy Greenstein, 2002

work in progress; last edited 5/13/02

Distance Education Resources: With An Emphasis on English(college courses taught online)

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Accessibility

DE Resources

MOOs

Publisher Sites

Assessment

E Texts

Web Authoring Courses

Retention

Bibliographies

Electronic Literacy

Teaching English Online

Conferences

Interactive Literature

Online Journals

Tutoring

Copyright

Important Sites

Organizations

Virtual Spaces

Course Management

Mailing Lists

OWLs

Discussions Online

Evaluating Online Sources

Plagiarism

Accessibility

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Assessment

  • CAA (Com puter Aided Assessment)
  • CNI(Coalition for Networked Information)
  • Dan Carnevale "What Makes an Online Course Succeed? Not Everyone Agrees, a Study Finds"
  • emtech: Over 15,000 resources organized by topics for teachers, students, parents, and others.
  • Flashlight
  • Information Technology Skills Assessment Tutorial
  • The Learning Record Online" integrates research, assessment, and teaching and learning practices for computer-enhanced literacy development. The Learning Record provides a format for documenting student progress and achievement, based on interviews, observations over time, samples of students'naturally-occurring work, and well-supportedinterpretations of learning across five dimensions. . . .The Learning Record provides a way of accounting for learning that is richer and more meaningful than standardized testing, yet provides much more consistency and comparability across student populations than conventional portfolio assessment.. . . classroom and large-scale assessment are seamlessly matched through the learning record system, allowing teachers and administrators to share best practices for improving teaching and learning.By PegSyverson, the Learning Record Online Director: University of Texas. For a virtual tour see http://lro.cwrl.utexas.edu/tour/teacher/"
  • Evaluation and Assessment: Articles and Related URLs, Flashlight,etc. By TLT Group
  • Webbed Assessment Techniques [WATs]for the Wired Classrooms, Judith Kirkpatrick, Associate Professor of English Kapi'olani Community College, Honolulu HI

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Course Management Systems

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Discussions Online

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Distance Education Resources

E-Texts

a new (and free) online-college-reader/Web site** started @ the University of Alabama last summer: www.readinglinks.com. Contact Myron Tuman <mtuman@bama.ua.edu>The site has no banners, no cookies, nor any commercial tie-ins. It's a personally funded project, started nearly a year ago to see if it was possible to re-define the traditional college reader by drawing together at one easy-to-use site some of the best, freely available, copyrighted texts on the Web. . . . The most exciting feature of the site is the TOPIC-OF-THE-DAY (5 new ones, Monday - Friday). Each topic has 3 areas for students (more than enough work to last most classes for a week or two):

  • Links to Web sites that have much more information about that topic
  • Suggestions for class assignments and links to related topics as well as additional readings

Two other features of www.readinglinks.com:

  • Column 1 contains an exhaustive list of links to Web sites that contain regularly updated featured writing -- all organized by subject
  • Column 3 contains an archive of all previous topics-of-the-day

An exciting new web text for online composition by Dawn Rodrigues: the Web site for Reading and Writing in an Online World.**

  • The Alex Catalog of Electronic Texts is a collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy.
  • Amore: Readings Online: an online text for composition
  • Barnes and Noble e Books
  • Bibliomania: Free Online Literature with more than 2000 Classic Texts,Literature Book Notes, Author Biographies, Book Summaries and Reference Books,Read Classic Fiction, Drama, Poetry, Short Stories and Contemporary Articles and Interviews, Classic Non-fiction, Biographies and Religious Texts
  • ClassicReader.com . . . you can read, search, and annotate great works of literature by authors such as Dickens, Tolstoy, Shakespeare, and many others.The collection currently contains 646 books and 905 short stories by 195 authors. New works are added to the collection on a regular basis, many at the suggestion of readers. The works are split into seven categories which may be accessed via the links at the left of every page.
  • ebrary: "ebrary provides a cost-effective, efficient way for libraries and other organizations to give users online access to authoritative information and unique research capabilities, while providing new sales and marketing opportunities for publishers and content providers. "
  • Electronic Texts:Select Materials: Scholarly Electronic Text Series and Collections Published on the Internet | Electronic Versions of Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Century Texts, From the Internet | Related Medieval Electronic Texts, From the Internet | Related Classical Electronic Texts, From the Internet
  • Electronic Text Center: University of Virginia
  • Internet Public Library
  • Internet School Library Media Center (ISLMC)
  • netLibrary
  • Online Books Page
  • Online Texts: The IPL (Internet Public Library) Online Texts Collection contains over 19,000 titles that can be browsed by author, by title, or by Dewey Decimal Classification.
  • Oxford Text Archive (OTA) T
  • Perseus Digital Library (Tufts) Classics,·English Renaissance, Shakespeare,Marlowe ...
  • Project Gutenberg
  • Questia
  • Rovia Bookstore:"Rent an eTextbook today and save at least 30% off the list price of the printed version! Here's why -- Rovia-enabled Interactive Online Textbooks are identical to the hardcopy, 100% comply with your professor syllabus and provide: One-click access to Websites and other multimedia Ability to highlight key passages, write notes and bookmark pages online. A keyword or concept "quick-search" feature of the entire text. "
  • (Virtual Electronic Library) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign CIC VEL: the CICVEL - the Committee on Institutional Cooperation Virtual Electronic Library service links the catalogs of the Big 10 libraries and the University of Chicago, 12 catalogs in all with over 60 million titles in the collections.The CICVEL allows users to search all the combined libraries' holdings, select a record, and then make a request through the interlibrary loan service managed by the UIUC Library's IRRC Office. The CICVEL complements the requesting any affiliated user may do on their own on the Illinet Online System and offers the added benefit of allowing users to place an article photocopy request after the right serial record has been selected. Users who want to place an order using blank forms should refer to the IRRC Borrowing forms.The FirstSearch WorldCat catalog also offers the option to search a database and then make an order though only for loans.
  • VOICe TIP:Search Engine for Online Books SearcheBooks.com

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Electronic Literacy Links: University of Texas

Evaluating Online Sources

Important Sites

  • @ONE "Our mission is to assist California Community College faculty and staff in their efforts to enhance student learning and success through expanded uses of effective technology, by providing training, resources, and support."
  • @ONE RESOURCE DATABASE "of online courses and tutorials, workshops and informational websites to help you build your technology skills. Links to valuable resources are organized under "Technology Tools" (software & hardware training) or "Teaching Strategies" (effective practice in the instructional use of technology). Categories, such as Web Design & Development, Classroom Techniques/Lesson Plans and Evaluation/Assessment, have been added to the database to accommodate about 320 resources now available. "
  • About Distance Learning
  • California Virtual Campus (CVC) : Online Course Directory for CCC
  • CVC: English
  • CVC: ESL
  • Center for Instructional Technology : is part of the Distributed Support unit of the UNC-Chapel Hill Academic Technology and Networks.
  • California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office Distance Education
  • Center for the Virtual University and the Center for Teaching and Learning at UMUC.
  • Chronicle of Higher Education
  • CRLA: College Reading and Learning Association Resources
  • E-Learning Glossary, Compiled by Eva Kaplan-Leiserson © ASTD. All rights reserved:a collection of terms and their definitions to help you "speak" e-learning.
  • Edutech: This web site, supported by the Federal Office of Education and Science, the Swiss University Conference, and the University of Fribourg, registers applications of New Information and Communication Technologies (NICT) in teaching at Swiss universities and other institutions of higher education. It also serves as a meeting point for all persons and groups working in this field. Includes Comparison of Web Based Course Environments.
  • Encyclopedia of Educational Teachnology, General Editor:Bob Hoffman, Copyright © 1994-2001, San Diego State University
  • emTech: Over 15,000 resources organized by topics for teachers, students, parents, and others.
  • ITC :"An affiliated council of the American Association of Community Colleges established in 1977, ITC represents nearly 600 institutions in the United States and Canada, and is leader in advancing distance education. ITC is constantly working to raise awareness about the benefits of distance learning, instructional telecommunications, and future needs and possibilities. ITC tracks federal legislation that will affect distance learning, conducts annual professional development meetings, supports research, and provides a forum for members to share expertise and materials."
  • International Reading Association
  • MERLOT: MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) is a free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and studentsin higher education. With a continually growing collection of online learning materials, peer reviews and assignments, MERLOT helps faculty enhance instruction.MERLOT is also a community of people who strive to enrich teaching and learning experiences.
  • Virginia Montecino GMU, Distance Education Resources--This one is GREAT!
  • Netoric: "The goal of the Netoric Project is to bring together geographically distant colleagues to discuss issues related to computer-assisted writing instruction. Using a MOO to provide real-time communication, we come together as teachers and scholars to talk about a wide range of topics in our field of Computers and Writing."
  • NCTE: National Council of Teachers of English
  • Online Course Directory
  • Position Statements from the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC)
  • Online Teaching: Tools & Projects Stuart D. Lee, Susan Armitage, Paul Groves, and Chris Stephens Report commissioned by the JISC Technology Applications Programme, © 1999Email Lists: Virtual Lite, Computer Mediated Communication (CMC),The World-Wide Web: Its Uses as a Teaching Tool,MUDs, MOOs, WOOs and IRC,Instructional Management Systems (IMS),Computer-Aided Assessment (CAA),Select Bibliograph
  • TLC: University of California Teaching and Learning Center
  • The TLT Group "can help you understand realistic options and develop effective strategies to help you direct and shape technology's impact. The TLT Group facilitates the exchange of information among and within institutions to help develop more realistic goals, measurable against more realistic benchmarks."
  • United States Distance Learning Association
  • Webquest: "this site is designed to serve as a resource to those who are using the WebQuest model to teach with the web. By pointing to excellent examples and collecting materials developed to communicate the idea, all of us experimenting with WebQuests will be able to learn from each other. A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information used by learners is drawn from the Web. WebQuests are designed to use learners' time well, to focus on using information rather than looking for it, and to support learners' thinking at the levels of analysis, synthesis and evaluation. The model was developed in early 1995 at San Diego State University by Bernie Dodge with Tom March . . . ."
  • The Wellspring: "In conjunction with Teachers College,Columbia University, ISI sponsors a Web site called The Wellspring: An Online Community for Distance Educators. The Wellspring has an extensive online library containing nearly 100 papers, threaded discussion forums where you can discuss a variety of issues with colleagues around the world, and a very fancy chat area where we hold special online events."
  • Why Teach Writing With Computers? A Collection of On-line and Print Resources by Cindy Wambeam

Interactive Literature: Dene Grigar's Bibliography of Interactive Literature

Journals (see Online Journals)

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Mailing Lists(Listservs)

MOO Have you been thinking you'd like to know enough about MOO to attend academic events held on MOOs? No charge; pre-registration required.NewMOOerShop is a MOOShop workshop aimed at brand new MOO users who want to learn enough MOO skills to participate in the various academic MOO events available around the net.Interested? The MOOShop project also offers workshops on teaching with MOO and on MOO programming, and will soon offer a workshop on creating objects and rooms.The main MOOShop page is located at http://www.nwe.ufl.edu/~tari/mooshop/.

  • Achieve: Project Achieve, U of Toronto, Canada-- "Achieve is the source of some special refinements and corrections to enCore, perhaps the most public of which is VASE, file management utilities, multilanguage facilities by Dr. Jason Nolan, Matthew Beerman, and EmmaJane Hogbin. Other features involve projects in experimental poetics objects by Katherine Parrish. Achieve is presently involved in unicode support, designing blogging tools, and an enCore-based ability to move between MOOs. We've got some unique differences from other enCore and GUI MOOs, one of which is the ability of our guests to build just like any other character. Achieve has historically been project-based, but is pushing beyond that and into becoming a tools development site for the next generation MOOs."
  • AlaMOO: Educational MOO for the Alamo Community College District
  • Athena University: General MOO Information and Bibliography
  • Connections
  • DaMoo
  • Daedalus
  • Diversity University
  • Encore
  • Lingua MOO: Lingua MOO was created in 1995 by Cynthia Haynes (UT-Dallas) and Jan Rune Holmevik (University of Bergen, Norway) to serve primarily the University of Texas at Dallas Rhetoric and Writing program and their School of Arts & Humanities and the University of Bergen's Department of Humanistic Informatics. Lingua MOO functions as both a learning environment for our students and a broader community for research and collaboration on projects situated at the intersection of Arts & Humanities and electronic media
  • MOOring: "This ring was created in the hopes of bringing together information about MOOs, how to use MOOs, MOOs in education, and actual MOO web interfaces. What is a MOO, do you ask? A MOO is a Multi User Dimension, Object Oriented. Basically, it is a text-based virtual environment where can interact with each other, including expressing emotions, performing actions, etc.(not simply speak, as with IRC or other chat devices). Users may also create sophisticated objects which can act and function on their own, or in response to other players, with the powerful object oriented programming language which characterizes MOOs. . . .Because of the power and flexibility of the MOO environment, it has been recognized as a powerful resource for education. Teachers of all subjects can find MOOs useful tools in their pedagogies. For example, rather than the history teacher simply describing the great pyramids of Giza, he or she can bring students into a MOO environment, and they can actually build the pyramids and explore them. Or, if the composition teacher wants to explain descriptive language, he or she can avoid a dry lecture and bring students to a MOO, where descriptive language is a necessity in order for players to be adequately understood. Implications for international and distance education are vast with the MOO environment, as well. "
  • MOOs and MUDs, Virginia Montecino, GMU
  • Netoric
  • Nouspace, an Encore MOO
  • Readings on MOOs. Sharon Cogdill,Tari Lin Fanderclai, Judith Kilborn, and JohnWalter-- StCloud State
  • trAce: online writing community started by Sue Thomas of Nottingham Trent University in Britain. trAce aims to connect writers and readers around the world in real and virtual space. We promote an accessible and inclusive approach to the internet with the focus on creativity, collaboration and training. This is where writers meet to experiment, create new work, and expand the potential of the global literary community.
  • What you can do with your writing class on a MOO: Activities to consider and spread to your colleagues by Michael Day

Multimedia and Web Authoring Courses by Cindy Wambeam

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Online Journals

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Organizations

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OWLs(Online Writing Labs)

Plagiarism

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Publisher Sites

Requests for texts

Bedford St. Martins
  • TechNotes, by Nick Carbone. An email-delivered newsletter and Web site for writing instructors that offers both news coverage and a series of regular features on the teaching of writing online.
  • Lore, edited at the University of Illinois, Chicago.A peer-reviewed e-journal for and by adjuncts and teaching assistants. "Lore" uses the interactive potential of the Internet to invite reader participation, as it reaches out to the adjunct and teaching assistant populations with useful advice and insights on teaching and the profession.
  • Voices from the Field, by Dawn Skorczewski (Emerson College).An online conversation about the teaching of writing. Each month we post a new interview with a composition instructor on a topic of current interest-from using MOOs in the classroom to teaching writing as a social process.
  • After September 11: An Online Reader for Writers, by Eric Crump This free collection of more than 100 annotated links provides social, political, economic, and cultural commentary based on the September 11 terrorist attacks, and includes thoughtful discussion questions and ideas for research and writing projects.
  • LitLinks--annotations and links to over 500 literature sites
  • LitQuiz--online database of quizzes that assess students' comprehension of fiction, poetry, and drama, LitQuiz helps students evaluate their understanding of individual selections and allows instructors to use class time more productively.
  • Mike Markel's Web Design Tutorial
  • Model Documents Gallery
  • VirtuaLit Interactive Poetry Tutorial.VirtuaLit Interactive Poetry Tutorial helps students explore and analyze poetry through a series of online multimedia activities and writing prompts that emphasize not only the literary elements of poems but also their critical and cultural contexts.
  • TopLinks database guides students to links available on the most commonly chosen writing topics. Critical annotations help students make reasoned choices about Web sources.
  • The English Research Room by Mike Palmquist (Colorado State University)Extensive information on finding, evaluating, and using online sources. The "Interactive Tutorials" guide students step-by-step through practice sessions with electronic searches of databases, online catalogs, and the Web. Reference Units cover the research process, electronic searches, the Web and other online resources, and evaluating and citing sources. Interactive Tutorials offer hands-on practice with common electronic search techniques in a live environment. Research Links gives quick and easy access to hundreds of useful sites, including search engines, online writing centers, dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses, and our own links collections.
  • Research and Documentation Online The online version of the booklet Research and Documentation in the Electronic Age, by Diana Hacker. It also includes links to Internet research sources and documentation advice in every discipline.
  • Exercise Central: housands of editing exercises&emdash;conveniently arranged by topic&emdash;that test a wide variety of skills and provide immediate feedback on students' progress
  • RESOURCES FOR INSTRUCTORS
  • The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Writing

    Houghton Mifflin

  • American Literature
  • Reading and Writing From Literature

    Longman (Allyn Bacon)

  • The English Pages Web Site: This site contains original resources for users, both students and instructors, and interested browsers for all our English texts in the fields of composition, literature, developmental skills, and technical writing.
  • Allyn & Bacon's CompSite:tools and advice for researchers, writers and instructors, guides,pointers and activity areas to help students with their writing projects, materials for writing instructors, including Internet information, teaching tips, and collections of resources thatcan be adapted for a number of projects and assignments.Daniel Anderson ,Teacher's Tools
  • Allyn & Bacon's TechCommunity, resource website for teachers, students, and practitioners of technical communication. At this site, you can find information about current events in the worlds of science, technology, and health. You can find information to help you study, teach or practice technical communication.
  • Technology Solutions
  • Companion Online Web Sites with Online Practice Tests: Trimbur,Call to Write and George, Reading Culture:Contexts for Critical Reading and Writing,4/e
  • Web Sources and Resources

    McGraw-Hill

  • Direct Links to Internet Research Resources
  • Writer's Community

    Norton

  • W.W. Norton resources for composition, CompWeb
  • Norton Topics Online
  • Litweb

    Prentice Hall

  • An exciting new web text for online composition by Dawn Rodrigues: the Web site for Reading and Writing in an Online World.**

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Retention and Online Success

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Teaching English Online

An exciting new web text for online composition by Dawn Rodrigues: the Web site for Reading and Writing in an Online World.**

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Tutoring

  • ABLongman: "The English Composition Tutor Center is a service of Allyn & Bacon / Longman Publishers, a division of Pearson Education. The Center provides one-to-one tutoring for students enrolled in basic English Composition courses who purchase a new copy of our texts listed below, provided that the registration card was ordered when the text was adopted. If not pre-ordered, students may also purchase the service separately (see the Student Information page for purchasing directions). Qualified college English Composition instructors tutor students who are registered for this service.Tutoring is provided on all material covered in the texts, including art and questions at the end of each chapter. Tutoring content is restricted to text material only, and tutors will only explain concepts and questions that are provided in the textbook. The Tutor Center provides tutoring assistance by four methods: phone, fax, e-mail, and the Internet . . . ."

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Virtual Space, Avatars

  • The CyberForum@ArtCenter is a production of the Virtual Worlds Team at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, under the direction of Michael Heim
  • chat-avatar
  • VLearn3D is a Special Interest Group of the Contact Consortium: Collaborations in 3D educational environments.Visit VLearn3D's library to access the growing body of literature that documents critical issues surrounding 3D environments and online collaboration.We already have a special selection of current writings on theory, case-studies, evaluation models, guidelines, tutorials and more.To develop 3D worlds find online 3D tutorials, tools and master sites in the Tools section. Find out about innovations in the field, upcoming conferences and more in the Innovation section.
  • "Virtual Reality on a Desktop Hailed as New Tool in Distance Education"By Jeffrey R. Young
  • The Virtual UC Santa Cruz "A Collaborative Place In Cyberspace" In the summer of 1998, University of California, Santa Cruz students engaged in a virtual collaboration with professional designers across the planet to build a 3D world representing UC Santa Cruz. This campus in cyberspace, the Virtual-UC Santa Cruz (The V-UCSC) is now more than a hundred other educational institutions in the AWedu Education Universe. The V-UCSC Cluster consists of 14 different worlds including a special hub world with information on each world at McHenry Library in V-UCSC00, an orientation center in V-UCSC01, eight different residential colleges including an environmental center in ECollegE and five Science Hill worlds.

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