Web-Enhanced Courses
A web-enhanced course was defined as a course that is taught in a classroom and is supplemented with course related information delivered on the internet. These include lectures/notes on the web, on-line gradebook and quizzes, chat rooms, discussion boards, web links, e-mail, etc.
Leveraging Technology for Learning from Campus Technology magazine
Implementing the Seven Principles: Technology as Lever by Arthur W. Chickering and Stephen C. Ehrmann
Interactive Tools
Moodle is housed on one of DCCC's servers. Moodle allows for password-protection of course content. No HTML skills are required for updating course sites. Course content can be updated from any computer with an Internet connection. Moodle provides the following capabilities: chat, messageboard (forums), creation of wiki pages, blogging (journals), online testing, creation of glossary entries, links to outside websites, etc.
- Access the Moodle site created for this in-service: Moodle, Wikis, Applets, and Blogs...Oh, My!
- Using a Web-Based Course Management Tool to Support Face-to-Face Instruction
- The Evolving Role of Course Management System Providers in the Transformation of Education: An Interview with Blackboard's Matthew Pittinsky
Message Board Resources
- Creative Use of On-line Discussion Areas
- Crafting Questions for Online Discussions
- Asynchronous Discussions: Importance, Design, Facilitation, and Evaluation
Free, Third-Party Message Boards
- QuickTopic
- Yahoo Groups
- Nicenet - a web-based classroom environment that can be used by post-secondary teachers with their students. The system was designed not as a replacement for the classroom, but rather as a supplement allowing greater communication and sharing of information among students and between teachers and their students.
Wiki Resources
Free, Third-Party Wiki
Blog Resources
- What is a blog
- Teacher Blogger & Educational Arts
- Blogging as a Course Management Tool
- Content Delivery in the 'Blogosphere'
Free, Third-Party Blog
General Sites
The sites in this category provide links to a number of discipline-specific websites.
- MERLOT - Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
- Wisonsin Online Resource Center
- Games and Simulations at NobelPrize.com
- Annenberg Exhibits
- Learning Commons Educational Object Repository
- EDUCYPEDIA: The educational encyclopedia
Applets/Simulations/Interactions
General
- Virtual Labs and Simulations
- Java Boutique
- Quia quiz/game creation service
- Hot Potatoes quiz/game creation shareware
Biology/Nursing
- BioInteractive
- Biology Applets
- Human Anatomy Online
- Teachers' Domain - requires registration
- Virtual Cell
- Brain Anatomy
Chemistry
- Chemistry Applets
- Chemistry Educational Applets
- General Chemistry Online
- Virtual Chemistry Lab
- World of Molecules
Engineering
English
- Online Interactive Grammar Review
- The Hero's Journey - This site creates an environment where anyone can explore the mythical hero structure described by Joseph Campbell and also create a story.
- Writing Effective Paraphrases
ESL
- English Listening Activities
- ESL Blues
- English Exercises Online
- Focus On English
- Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Labs
Geology/Astronomy
- GeoAstro Applet Collection
- Virtual Courseware for Earth and Environmental Sciences
- Plate Tectonic Animations
- Earth and Space Resources
Math
Physics
- Physics Java Applets
- Physics Web: Interactive Experiments
- Math and Physics Applets
- Teachers' Domain - requires registration
Reference/Supplemental Sites
English
History/Social Sciences
- American Rhetoric - online speech bank
- Eyewitness to History - Here you'll find first-person accounts of historical events, combined with lots of images, photos, and some sound recordings.
- Teachers' Domain - requires registration
- Digital History - online resources including articles, photos, activities, and music
- Psychology Experiments
- Social Psychology Teaching Resources
Physics
Virtual Field Trips
- BBC Virtual Tours - museums and historical locations
- Exploratorium - science experiments
- Field Guides - multidisciplinary
- Library of Congress - variety of historical and cultural materials
- Library of Congress - American Memory Collection
- Tech Treckers - multidisciplinary
- Virtual Field Trips - multidisciplinary field trips and general tips for use
- American Civil War
- National Parks Service - locations on the National Historic Register and tips for use
- Museums - multidisciplinary
- Smithsonian Institute
- E-Field Trips