Nick Campbell

Introduction

Welcome! Today we are going to be talking about Educational Technology Resources. There are many resources we can use throughout the Internet but we are only going to be talking about three today.JOLT- Journal of Online Learning and Teaching

JSTOR- The Scholarly Journal Archive

ERIC- Electronic Resource Information Center

Presentation Conclusion

Journal of Online Learning and Teaching

The objectives of JOLT are: Using a group of researchers and

scholars to help faculty members use technology effectively in online teaching and learning.

Facilitate academic programs to design and organize academic technology to optimize online teaching and learning.

Using the research and scholarly use of multimedia educational resources for online teaching and learning to build communities.

(2005 – 2009) Welcome to JOLT.

Retrieved from

http://jolt.merlot.org/index.html

http://jolt.merlot.org/index.html

Description: A website designed to help faculty and students of higher education by offering them with a peer-reviewed, open access, online publication addressing the scholarly use of multimedia resources in online education.

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Journal of Online Learning and Teaching Cont’d

This website welcomes papers on all aspects of online learning and teaching. Some of the topics that might be included are learning theory and the use of multimedia to improve online learning; instructional design theory and application; online learning and teaching initiatives; use of technology in online education; innovative online learning and teaching practices. (http://jolt.merlot.org/index.html, second paragraph)

The website also provides authors wanting to submit their work with guidelines, which gives specific information on what is needed for them to submit their transcripts.

Personal Reflection of JOLT

My Personal Reflection of JOLT This website is a great way for teachers and

undergraduate education students to get advise from top researchers and scholars.

I like the layout and the access to other manuscripts that might help with the process of your own manuscript.

Lastly, I like the fact that it is free to subscribe to JOLT and that they send you notifications when new issues are added to the website.

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JSTOR – The Scholarly Journal Archive

JSTOR was founded in 1995 to build trusted digital archives for scholarship. Today, we work with the scholarly community to preserve their work and the materials they rely upon, and to build a common research platform that promotes the discovery and use of these resources.

In 2009, JSTOR merged with and became a service of ITHAKA, a not-for-profit organization helping the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance scholarship and teaching in sustainable ways.

(2000 – 2009) The Organization. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/organization/index.jsp

Description: This website is a free service that provides scholars, researchers, and students with a digital archive of over one thousand academic journals and other scholarly content that they may use and build upon.

http://www.jstor.org/?cookieSet=1

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JSTOR – The Scholarly Journal Archive Cont’d

The archive used by JSTOR is used to support scholarship and teaching. It includes anything from humanities, social sciences, and sciences to select monographs and other valuable materials for academic work.

The archive is unique in terms of scale, content, and the significant use it receives. It is recognized specifically for: Offering a unique, interlinked aggregation of scholarly works Facilitating interdisciplinary and historical research Exemplary standards for digitization and completeness Interfaces and functionality that support academic use Highly reliable access Long-term preservation

(2000-2009) The Archives. Retrieved fromhttp://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/archives/index.jsp

Personal Reflection of JSTOR

My Personal Reflection of JSTOR This website has endless possibilities when it comes to

academic journals. When you sign up with them you have access not only to institutions in the United States but also 15 other countries.

The format of the website is very helpful. You can browse by discipline, title, or publisher and you can also search by citation.

The website also provides the reader with different languages to make it more convenient for people that use English as a second language.

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Education Resource Information Center

ERIC provides unlimited access to more than 1.3 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials, with hundreds of new records added four times weekly. If available, links to full text are included.

Within the ERIC Collection, you will find records for: journal articles books research syntheses conference papers technical reports policy papers other education-related materials

About the ERIC Collection. Retrieved from http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/resources/html/collection/about_collection.html

http://www.eric.ed.gov/

Description: This website is an online digital library of education research and information.

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Education Resource Information Center Cont’d

The ERIC Web site allows you to search education-related bibliographic records any time at no charge. A growing number of full-text materials are becoming available in the ERIC Collection as PDF documents in ERIC or via links to library holdings and publishers' Web sites. Use the ERIC Web site's Basic Search or Advanced Search tools to search

the ERIC Collection. Use the Thesaurus to identify appropriate words and phrases from ERIC's

controlled vocabulary for precision searching. Use My ERIC to manage your search criteria and search results, save

searches, and track your online submissions.

Getting started with ERIC. Retrieved from http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/resources/html/collection/about_collection.html

Personal Reflection of ERIC

My Personal Reflection of ERIC ERIC is a very complex website that gives you resources to just about

anything you may be looking for. It gives help to researchers, teachers, librarians, administrators,

education policymakers, instructors, and students in teacher-preparation programs, parents, the media and business communities, and the general public. (Who Uses ERIC, http://www.eric.ed.gov/

ERICWebPortal/ resources/html/collection/about_collection.html) Like the other sites, it is easy to sign up for ERIC but I feel that it is

more beneficial to join a website like this one than the other two because this website has more depth and does not just focus on journals.

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Conclusion Those are just three of the many educational resources that

are available to students and faculty that are involved in the education field.

All three sources are excellent when looking for information but as I have said before, I feel that ERIC is the best website for people to use because it goes beyond journals and it has an easy search engine where you can break down your searches.

To conclude, when it comes to resources I do not think that many students realize how much we have at our fingertips. There are a plethora of extraordinary sites whose information is nearly endless; and people often wonder if they can find enough information on a given subject.

REFERENCES

References

http://jolt.merlot.org/index.html

http://www.jstor.org/

http://www.eric.ed.gov/

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