Online Tools for Teaching: Course Resources
January 6 - January 10, 1997
Designing the Web Site
- Design for the reader
- Invite feedback (questions, suggestions, contributions)
- Redesign
Course Resources: How to think like a student of X
Many courses generate a notebook of handouts; if you put these on
the web, students won't lose them and your department won't burn out
it's xerox budget. What are the special resources that are available
to students in this course. Items here could include:
- alternative text books
- assignments and reading questions
- book review list
- current issues in research
- current news items
- discussion questions
- event matrix
- final exams and answers; good answers and bad answers are useful
- frequently asked questions and answers (FAQ's)
- mid-term exams and answers; good answers and bad answers are useful
- problem sets and answers
- review questions for exams
- sample lab reports
- student book reviews
- student portfolio
- student research journal
- study questions
- time lines
- topics for term papers; successful ideas and unsuccessful ideas
Knowledge Resources : How to think like an X-ologist
What are the resources that are most useful in your
course. Librarians call these lists "subject guides" or "path finders"
or "finding aids." The classical library organization would go
something like.
- articles: magazines, journals
- books here or wherever
- country information
- dictionaries
- directories
- encyclopedias
- facts and quotations
- government documents
- indexes
- maps, atlases
- newspapers
- statistics
Finding Resources
Be creative in the way you use "search engines" like Altavista,
Excite, Infoseek, Lycos, ... Yahoo. It often helps to pretend that
the "engine" is a person; if you use a complete sentence, you might
have better luck rather than if you limit yourself to a "keyword."
Sample Course Resources
1997.01.08, Steve.Cavrak@Uvm.Edu