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Interesting ideas and examples of how to use the WWW and other types of instructional technology as teaching tools, in and out of the classroom:

IU's Teaching and Learning Technology Lab site includes some great tips on using technology effectively, in and out of the classroom. Particularly useful is their "ideas" page:

• Ideas for Using Technology to Enhance Teaching and Learning, which includes links to example web pages from IU
• Quick RefernceTable of technology resources on campus for teaching

Other written materials:

• Implementing the Seven Principles: Technology as Lever, Arthur W. Chickering and Stephen Ehrmann
• New Technology, Old Trap S.C. Ehrmann 1995 (Educom Review). This is NOT just an article about teaching with technology, but discusses the consequence of teaching as pentimento -- painting a layer of superficial learning over pre-existing student beliefs.
• New conversations about learning. Insights from neuroscience and anthropology, cognitive science and workplace studies. 1997, Theodore J. Marchese
• New Tools for Teaching by J.J. O'Donnell, University of Pennsylvania
• Educom[http://educom.edu/]
• New Chalk: a biweekly publication featuring examples of instructional use of networked technologies
• Learner Online: Annenburg/CPB project reports on strategies for using technology in the classroom, evaluation, and distance education
• AAHE American Association for Higher Education

Some intriguing examples of WWW educational materials and online courses:

• Valley of the Shadow (U.S. history)
• IUB Weather and Climate course, including online lab activities
• Urban Planning (WWW as a required element), UNC, Chapel Hill
• Garbage in Gotham: the anthropology of trash
• Beyond Bio101 transforming biology education
• Edsitement (NEH/MCI collaboration)
• Nutrition course [http://ets.cac.psu.edu/projects/Nutrition/] online (uses frames for syllabus, includes some hyperlinked lectures with diagrams)
• Project Cape Town a fascinating set of teacher training case study exercises on the web, from the School of Education, University of Virginia
• Slavery in the Americas An example of an undergraduate history class WWW project
• Cyberschool Virginia Tech College of Arts and Sciences
• TLTL Projects Instructional technology projects developed here at IU in cooperation with the Teaching and Learning Technologies Lab.
• Florida Archaeology distance learning course from the University of West Florida
• Virtual Frog Dissection Ket an early example of an interactive graphics application on the web
• H-Net conference "Envisioning the Future" includes a number of excellent examples of using websites as instructional catalysts
  • Who Killed William Robinson?
  • Lizzie Bordon took an axe and gave her mother 40 wacks...
  • George Landow Homepage (Hypertext visionary)
• Annenberg/CPB Project site "Learner Online" [http://www.learner.org/content/ed/strat/] page with links to examples of / resources for Educational Strategies and Technologies
• Short, hyperlinked history of the eugenics movement, from Jonathan Marks, Yale Univ. (link to his recent course syllabi), and his critique of some current DNA hybridization researchUniversity of Michigan/ Museum of Zoology Animal Diversity Web [http://www.oit.itd.umich.edu/bio108/] collection of audio files, pictures and ecological information about animals in a taxonomic hierarchy, designed to allow students to research and compare traits of different species in different taxonomic groups)
• Penn State Introductory Oceanography course "The Sea Around Us" [http://www.essc.psu.edu/~arthur/index.html] with syllabus, lecture notes and images, hyperlinked with gusto!
• Intro to Archaeology [http://www.dla.utexas.edu/depts/anthro/courses/wilsonarch97/arch97.html] course, U. Texas, that focuses on WWW resources, and includes student WWW assignments
• Ohio State class on New Media Technologies, [http://www-best.uts.ohio-state.edu/communication/CO657/] including Listserv, electronic assignments (e.g. submitting traditional annotated bibliographies, submitting URLs, and creating student home pages and digital presentations)
• Ohio State "Living in the Information Age" [http://www-best.uts.ohio-state.edu/communication/CO140_spring97/] course syllabus, which includes syllabus, lectures, online (form-based) assignments posted to class page, Listserv, and WWW final group projects.
• Microbiology course, [http://www.bsi.vt.edu/facultyfiles/biol2604/] Virginia Tech (nice layout... example of lecture notes in PDF format)
• World Lecture Hall: [http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture/index.html] links to faculty course pages around the world
• Beyond BIO-101 The transformation of undergraduate biology education (report from Howard Hughes Medical Inst,)
• Perseus Project Digital Library for Classical Archaeology (Tufts Univ.)

Links to some of our own IU courses & resources online that you might find interesting:

• P200 (Pyburn - fall 1997)
• A105 (Sept - fall 1997)
• My Intensive Freshman Seminar Class: IFS summer 98, including instructions for students to create their own web pages at IU
• Prehistoric Puzzles (Sept... its rudimentary now, but watch it grow!)
• IU Center for Excellence in Education (CEE)
• Wonderlab website
• Biotech Workshop links
• IU's Teaching Resources Center

I'll include more examples as I find them! If you have any suggestions of URLs to add to this list, send me a message: sept@indiana.edu

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