References: - CourseShare



Web Exploration Activity:

“Exploring Online Tools and Resources for Student Motivation, Interaction, Collaboration, and Assessment”

Curt Bonk, Indiana University and CourseShare

cjbonk@indiana.edu;

August, 2007

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I. Online Courses and Course Materials:

1. Expert Videos: Harvard Business School (December 16, 2002). Moving Beyond the Classroom With Executive Education: Distance Learning: What the Experts Think (view 2-3 of the videos) (also see Harvard Business Online: )

2. : (peer rated teaching resources)

3. Connexions (Rice University):

4. Jorum:

5. Careo: (searchable Web-based multidisciplinary teaching materials for educators across Alberta, Canada and beyond)

6. MIT Open Knowledge Initiative:

7. Xanedu (article coursepacks):

8. The National Engineering Education Delivery System is a digital library of learning resources for engineering education:

9. Florida Virtual School: (K-12)

10. Digital Books:

II. K-12 Web Resources:

1. Eduscapes: from Annette Lamb

2. Virtual School Report

a.

b.

3. Technology Integration Resources:

4. Best Practices of Technology Integration:

a. Ideas:

5. Technology and Instruction Interwoven:

6. Technology Integration, Unit Planning:

7. Technology Integration Projects:

III. Student Readiness Resources:

Oklahoma Community College: Online General Orientation

a.

Illinois Online Network: Self-Evaluation for Potential Online Students

a.

b. (what makes for a successful online student)

WebCT: Student Orientation Center

a.

b. (Self Evaluation)

How to be an E-Learner, Learning Circuits

a.

World Wide Learn: How to Choose an Online Course

a.

b.

6. What Every Student Should Know About Online Learning



7. What Makes a Successful Online Student?



8. Self-Assessment for Distance Learning

9. Distance Learning Quiz – Personal Use:

10. Distance Learning Readiness Survey, Indiana University East

11. A Profile of Participation in Distance Education: 1999-2000

12. 12 Learning Interventions that Combat Technophobia

13. Getting Ready for Distance Education

III. Teaching and Instruction Websites (mainly from Illinois Online Network)

1. An Online Course in a Nutshell



2. Assessing Learning Objectives Bloom's Taxonomy



3. Instructional Design Resources



4. Instructional Strategies for Online Courses



5. Faculty Summer Institute



6. Faculty Trainer’s Institute



7. Key Elements of an Online Program



8. Learning Styles and the Online Environment



9. Online Education Overview



10. Pointers & Clickers – ION’s Technology Tip of the Month



11. Self Evaluation for Potential Online Students



12. Strengths and Weaknesses of Online Learning



13. Strengths of Online Learning



14. Tips for Online Success



15. Weaknesses of Online Learning



16. What Every Student Should Know About Online Learning



17. What Makes A Successful Online Facilitator?



18. What Makes a Successful Online Student?



IV. Constructivistic Web Resources:

1. Funderstanding:

2. George Lucas Educational Foundation and Edutopia:

a. Subscribe to newsletter and/or magazine:

3. Southwest Educational Development Lab (SWED); Tapping into Learning:

b. Constructivism and Tech: On the road to Student-Centered Learning:

c. Knowledge Under Construction (double issue):

d. Learning is an Active and Reflective Process:

4. Mathematics Education: Constructivism in the Classroom:

5. Constructivism (Martin Ryder, Univ of Colorado at Denver:

6. Foxfire Schools:

7. Jacqueline Grennon Brooks, jbrooks@.sunysb.edu, In Search of Understanding: The Case for Constructivist Classrooms

by Jacqueline Grennon Brooks, Martin G. Brooks

8. Integrating Constructivism with Online Learning Components

9. Constructivism and Online Education

10. Online Learning Environments, Teaching and Learning Online

11. Disney Learning Partnership () Workshops Constructivism as a Paradigm for Teaching and Learning (with partner 13 Ed line Online—Public TV) )

a. Concept to classroom:

b. Creative Gallery:

c. Creative Classroom Series:

If you would like to receive a copy of "Creativity in the Classroom: an Exploration," "The Power of the Creative Classroom" and/or "Teaching in the Creative Classroom" for your school, please send a letter on school letterhead, briefly explaining how you would use the materials for professional development, to:

The Creative Classroom Series

c/o Disney Learning Partnership

500 South Buena Vista Street

Burbank, CA 91521

If you would prefer, you can also e-mail your request to us at Learning@.

V. Blogging Web Resources:

1. Stephen Downes, More Than Personal: The Impact of Weblogs

2. Blogger, FREE:

3. EduBlogs:

4. Weblogs Tools:

5. Pitas:

6. Intro to Weblogs:

7. Moveable Type:

8. Radio Userland:

9. Live Journal (free and open source):

10. Free-Conversant ()

11. H2O: (communities around ideas at Harvard)

VI. Interesting E-Learning Web Resources:

1. Explorers Web:

2. Online Higher Education Notebook:

3. Human Intelligence:

4. Virtual Archaeology:

a.

b.

5. The Museum of Unworkable Devices:

6. Einstein Archives Online:

7. Just-in-Time-Teaching: (Sampler: ; Another sampler:

8. Curt Bonk Stuff:

a. Course on Online Pedagogy and Evaluation:

b. The Bobweb (Best of Bonk on the Web): (creative thinking, critical thinking, cooperative learning, and motivation resources)

c. LibraryShare (digital libraries):

VII. Web Tools for E-Learning (Most Free):

1. Concept Mapping Tool—SmartDraw (free trial):

2. IMHC Cmapping

3. VideoPaper Builder 3

4. 4D-Elearning by Thiagi

5. Concept Mapping tool--Inspiration (90 days free): Inspiration is a fairly inexpensive and popular piece of software that allows for mental mapping, project planning, and visual thinking through a set of easy-to-use drawing and diagramming tools.

6. Hot Potatoes (Half-Baked Software-Free):

7. Virtual Tour of Oxford:

8. CyberFashion Show:

9. (chat tool with visuals from Stanford):

10. Moodle (a free replacement for WebCT): (from martin Dougiamas, Western Australia)

VIII. Interactive News:

1. Web Log of Interactive Narratives:

2. One world Expeditions:

3. Narrative: Enron Example:

4. Instructives: How Tornados Form:

5. Instructive: Train Accident:

6. Explorative: Building Bodies (Becoming Human):

7. Simulative: Printing Process:

8. Simulative: Introduction to Sailing:

9. Mount Everest (by climbers):

10. E-Learning Post, Interactive Visual Explainers

IX. Simulations and Labs:

1. ExploreCornell Beetle Science:

2. Voltage Simulation

3. Cells Alive (Biology):

4. Engineering Lab:

5. Virtual Chemistry:

6. Frog Dissection

7. Internet Psychology Lab: (Ed Psych: )

8. Business Scenarios: WisdomTools:

9. NCEE National Budget Simulation (EconEdLink )

10. SimuLearn

X. Fun, Games, and Sounds:

1. Games2Train (Marc Prensky) (games and simulations)

2. Thiagi: (interactive resources)

3. Quia: (it has a lot of different features, so teachers can easily create web pages, hangman games, puzzles, quizzes, surveys.... and so on. Free for 30 days.

4. (The web site is a wonderful tool for designing puzzles. Puzzlemaker has ten different types of puzzles you can use. The directions for using puzzlemaker are simple and easy to follow. It takes me about fifteen minutes to set one up.

" When I allow students to create their own puzzles they are self-directed learners because they are in control." TICKIT teacher 2000-2001

5. EclipseCrossword lets you create crossword puzzles easily, in a few minutes. Just add water,

6. Sound Files:

7. Sound Files, Musicloops:

XI. Learning Styles:

1. Index of Learning Styles:

2. Learning Style Indicator

3. Exploring Your Own Learning Style:

4. Learning Style information:

5. More Learning Style information:

XII. Online Communities and Virtual Teams:

1. Tapped-IN: . TAPPED IN™ is the online workplace of an international community of education professionals. K-12 teachers and librarians, professional development staff, teacher education faculty and students, and researchers engage in professional development programs and informal collaboration with colleagues.

2. StartWright (virtual teams):

3. Virtual Edge for Teams:

4. LearnScope:

5. : (world of conversations, fashion shows, parties, etc.)

XIII. Electronic Mentoring

1. Electronic Mentoring Web site

 

2. Ideas on Educational Telecomputing and Telecollaboration (from Judy Harris, now professor and Pavey Chair in Educational Technology at The College of William and Mary)



3. The Intercultural Pen Pal (must register for IECC)



4.



5. Global Network Academy

 

6. E-MATH 

pubs/emath

E-Math provides a listing of email-based mentor programs that promote interaction between community members and classroom students in order to improve students' mastery of math, science, and technology. 

7. Math and Science Education Resource Center

ee.udel.edu/InfoAccess/Scientopia/index.html

Scientopia encourages discussions related to science, math, and engineering among students with disabilities. Community members, students, and enthusiasts on broad topics participate in discussions intended to generate critical thinking and communication skills. Each discussion is led by a student mentor who also trains a successor to take over the discussion at the end of a two week term. 

XIV. Synchronous and Asynchronous Conferencing Tools:

1. Centra:

2. Wimba:

3. Livemeeting (Placeware)

4. WebEx:

5. Nicenet: (free asynchronous conferencing tool)

6. Raindance

7. Discuss: (free discussion board)

8. Ultimate Bulletin Boards

9. GroupSystems: (Brainstorming and decision making)

10. (Groove Networks, Inc. provides desktop collaboration software that accelerates business activity both within and across company boundaries by providing a 10X improvement over email alone for getting work done. ) Version: Groove Workspace v2.5g

Build Number: 2.5.7.1777 Platform: Microsoft Windows 98/NT/2000/ME/XP

XV. Lists of Conferencing Tools:

1. A List pf conferencing tools :(this link to a list of 85 or so bulletin board message systems)

2. A List: David Wooley's massive Web site of conferencing software for the Web. Description: Conferencing Software for the Web: A comprehensive guide to software that powers discussions on the Web Forum Software - BBS Software - Internet & Intranet Groupware Software for Virtual Communities - Virtual Teams - Message Boards - Collaborative Workgroups

3. (A link from Wooley's site. Description: Conferencing Software for the Web Related Resources)

XVI. Electronic Survey Tools:

1. SurveyKey:

Produce customized professional looking online surveys, polls, tests, questionnaires and feedback forms in just minutes

2. SurveyShare:

Survey share combines the power of the Web and e-mail to help you collect and organize your information needs.

3. SurveyMonkey:

A powerful tool for serious primates of all species. SurveyMonkey has a single purpose: to enable anyone to create professional online surveys quickly and easily. Find out what everyone is talking about...

4. Zoomerang:

(create free Internet surveys)

5. InfoPoll:

6. :

7. Vovici, Web survey tool:

8. :

9. :

XVII. College and University ePortfolio Web sites:

1. E-Portfolio Resources:

2. Alverno College:

3. IUPUI Institutional ePortfolio: iport.iupui.edu

4. Johns Hopkins University:

5. Kalamazoo College: kzoo.edu/pfolio

6. Portland State University:

7. University of Minnesota;

8. The Connecticut College e-Portfolio Development Consortium

9. ePortfolio LaGuardia Community College

10. Maricopa, Chandler-Gilbert ePortfolio

11. Rhodes State College E-Portfolio FAQs

12. Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning

13. Using E-Portfolios to Enhance Classroom Learning

14. Penn State

a. It’s All About Evidence, Penn State’s e-Portfolio Initiative

XVIII. Portfolio and Assessment Organizations:

1. E-Portfolio Clearinghouse:

2. efolio Minnesota:

3. ePortConsortium:

4. Helen Barrett, internationally known expert on ePortfolios:

5. Knowledge Media Lab: KML

6. Open Source Portfolio Initiative:

7. Ready2Net Broadcast “Teaching, Learning and Assessment with ePortfolios”:

8. Urban Universities Portfolio Project: imir.iupui.edu/portfolio

9. Academic Integrity; (assoc.)

10. Educause Learning Initiative, HISTORIC site for e-portfolios (not current)

XIX. Plagiarism and Fake Degrees:

1. (software, $100, free 30 day demo/trial) (also see resource )

2. (Eve2 software; essay verification engine, $19.95)

3. (resource)

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

11.

12.

13.

14. cl/qual.asp

XX. Portfolio and Testing Tool Vendors:

1. Avenet Web Solutions;

2. Chalk and Wire:

3. ePortaro:

4. McGraw-Hill’s Folio Live:

5. NuVentive:

6. rSmart Group:

7. Taskstream:

8. Questionmark:

9. Principia:

10. Survey Systems, Inc:

Note: Above Electronic Portfolio References were from:

Lorenzo Associates, Inc. Educational Pathways: info@, Lorenzo Associates, Inc., P.O. Box 74, Clarence Center, NY 14032. Copyright 2002-03. (Reprinted with permission.)

XXI. E-Magazines, Journals, Newsletters (most free!):

1. Australian Journal of Educational Technology:

2. Campus Technology:

3. CLO:

4. Educause Quarterly:

5. Educause Review:

6. e-learning and education (eleed) journal:

7. First Monday:

8. Innovate: Journal of Online Education:

9. International Journal: Emerging Technologies in Education: (need to sign in).

10. Int’l Journal of Instructional Technology & Distance Learning:

11. The International Review of Open and Distance Learning:

12. Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks:

13. J. of Computer Assisted Lrng:

14. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication:

15. Journal of Educators Online (JEO):

16. Journal of Interactive Online Learning:

17. Journal of Online Learning and Teaching (JOLT):

18. Language Learning and Technology (LLT):

19. Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration:

THE Journal:

XXII. Generic Commercial Search Engines

Google! (Google Image Search images.)

1. AltaVista:

2. Yahoo:

3. Lycos:

4. Snap:

(formally known as Infoseek) :

Excite:

Kartoo:

HotBot:

Northern Lights:

5. All the Web:

XXIII. Metasearch and Graphics Engines:

1. MetaCrawler ()

2. Mamma ()

3. Dogpile ()

4. OneSeek ()

5. SavvySearch ()

6. FindIt! (find-it)

7. Search Engine Watch ()

8. Ask Jeeves () answers questions asked in plain English, without requiring keywords or complicated search strings

9. Graphics Search Engine:

XXIV. Student Internet Interests:

1. Facebook:

2. Myspace:

3. YouTube:

4. JibJab:

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