developing your own online resources bruce landon, ph.d. douglas college [email protected]
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Agenda
Why bother with online resources?Background IssuesBasic ResourcesFinding ResourcesBreakMaking your resourcesMaking Resources AvailableCollaborating with studentsNear Future trends and implications
Usability Issues
Usability by sleep deprived studentsAccessibility to students with disabilitiesFirst time use versus Reviewing(student forgetting loglog linear)Preventing cognitive overloadPreventing “lost in cyberspace” feelingDesign guidelines [interfacedesign.html]
Copyright Issues
The reality that the digital original and the digital copy are exactly the same presents unprecedented difficulties and benefits (Napster phenomenon 20 million users)Millennium Copyright ActNotion of fare use for educational purposeThe Xerox solution – prohibitive time to copy materials prevented excessive infringement of intellectual property rights
Preventing Academic Dishonesty
Statistical risks in your student population [whoswho.html]Technical solutions at an inconvenient priceTime limited assignments & multiple versionsPromoting the student’s understanding of the importance of their own intellectual propertyAutomated checking strategies (essay archives)– matching error analysis [http://www.douglas.bc.ca/~landon/xam_tool/index.html]
Side benefits of using technology
Involving the shy studentsInvolving the Back RowPersonalizing feedback a low personal costThe learning can be proceeding even when you are not teaching.Class notes and papers may well become permanent artifacts of the culture and accessible for lifetimes to come
Basic Connectivity Resources
email accountHome pageServer space for public course filesSearch Engine [http://www.google.com]File transfer program for uploading files to your home page location [http://www.ipswitch.com]Alternatives at [http://www.nonags.com]
Slipstreaming other basics
Free Web storage sites [Freeonlinefilestoragespace.htm]Free Virtual Office sites [http://www.visto.com]More office sites [http://www.zkey.com]Free ICQ online chat [http://www.icq.com]Advertising versus subscription fees issue
Course Level Resources
Publisher resources with texts [publisherstuff.html]Links to web resources - example - VassarStats [http://faculty.vassar.edu/~lowry/VassarStats.html]Links to restricted resourcesLocal Copies for in-class useShared course resourcesMaking your own resources
Making your own resources
Saving word processed documents as html and then posting them to your siteInexpensive flatbed scanners make it easy to move paper resources to the web.Webcams are inexpensive input devices for still pictures but expensive for video qualityIntelPlay Microscope (10x, 60x, and 200x) make it child’s play (windows 98 only but new version for the xmas market)
Break
General teaching resources
Free tools [makehtml.html]Free demo tools [http://www.nonags.com]Commercial image tool [imageready.exe]Subscription office tools [http://www.learningstation.com]College level tools [http://www.webct.com]
Searching for free tools and materials
Search Engines – [http://www.google.com]Freeware and shareware [http://wwwCnet.com]Java and Javascript resources [http://www.gamelan.com]Teaching Physiology and the World Wide Web: Electrochemistry and Electrophysiology on the internet (PDF format article) [http://advan.physiology.org/cgi/reprint/273/6/S2.pdf]The link to the above resource [http://phys-main.umsmed.edu]
Desktop tools
Hands on demonstrationDesktop MicroscopeDesktop WebcamWebOS [http://www.mywebos.com/]Bungo [http://ww2.bungo.com/bungo.com/start.taf]
Web based tools demonstration
Hands on demonstration [makehtml.html]Storage 100MB [http://www.driveway.com/]WebCT chat tool for collaboration [http://www.courses.umd.edu/]
P2P Collaborative tools
Hands on demonstration [http://colloquia.bangor.ac.uk/ll/]Colloquia Rules [colloquiarules.html]Wired guide to global file sharing [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.10/p2p_pages_pr.html]
Online Educational Delivery Applications
Landonline [http://www.ctt.bc.ca/landonline]Free Applications (some assembly required)Hosted Applications College supported Applications
Making Decisions about Expensive Tools
The big expense is always your timePsychology of decision-makingDecision aides Technology trends – near termIMS Project and Learning Objects
Collaborating with students
Developing students as scientistsDeveloping students as problem solversEvaluating new course resourcespretesting student usability
Advanced collaborating
Evaluating accessibility of materials with bobby [http://www.cast.org/bobby/]Student web based projectsDeveloping your collaborative skills
Trends and Implications
More and more resources plusCheaper and cheaper storage = more stuffNeed for Organizing Strategies- searching skills- organizing skills – by course, by topic- continually deciding what to leave in and what to leave out – decision tools vs memory- migrating your resources into new systems means keeping them portable (the [http://www.IMSProject.org] Meta-tag approach with xml)
Maintaining your resources
Why botherA personal exampleMeaningfulness of a memory or a resource is in the linkagesThe Google check [http://www.google.com]Science/Biology/Physiology [http://directory.google.com/Top/Science/Biology/Physiology/]AltaVista local site search serviceAnd Atomz [http://www.atomz.com/products/searchfree.htm]Involving your librarians