"Online Tools for Teaching" is a one week course development workshop especially designed to help faculty members put their courses "online." It's a real workshop -- and we make real progress real fast! Our next edition runs right after finals, just before graduation. May 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 9:00 am - Noon Waterman 113-T Drop me (Steve.Cavrak@Uvm.Edu) a note for more information.
E-mail is sometimes nice for a discussion group; but it might get lost in with other student mail.
A newsgroup is nicer, since the news is always "in the same place", doesn't get eaten by pets, and is otherwise hard to lose.
This page at the University of Texas contains links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver class materials. For example, you will find course syllabi, assignments, lecture notes, exams, class calendars, multimedia textbooks, etc.
The URL for this course is
href=http://www.uvm.edu/~sjc/online/.