Useful Resources
Here are some resources that might be valuable in developing your online courses. Content sites have been included, but always check with your textbook publisher as some excellent Bb cartridges and other digital resources are now being developed.
Free Content Sites
- Connextions: http://cnx.org/
- Library of Congress: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/
- HyperTextbook (EWorld): http://hypertextbook.com/eworld/
- Video Interactive Learning Objects: http://fw-vilos.ivytech.edu/ivy/
- BBC Online Learning Support: http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/
- Maps (UofTexas): http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/index.html
- U.S. Census Bureau: http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/index.html
Commercial Sites
XanEdu : http://www.xanedu.com/- University Readers: http://www.universityreaders.com/
- Brain Pop (narrated animations): http://www.brainpop.com/
- Newspaper Archive: http://www.newspaperarchive.com/
Productivity Software
- OpenOffice - free office software: http://www.openoffice.org/
- ExamBuilder - create online exams: http://www.exambuilder.com/
- Quia Web - create games, puzzles, surveys: http://www.quia.com/
- Recipes4Success - create guides, projects: http://www.myt4l.com/
- WebAssign - alternative to Bb: http://www.webassign.net/
Conferencing Solutions
- ConferNow - http://www.confernow.org/
- CCC Confer - http://cccconfer.org/
voicethread - sharing: http://voicethread.com/
Basic Web Tech
Other Search Engines
- Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com/
- Newspaper Listings: http://newslink.org/
- Magazine Listings: http://newslink.org/mag.html
- Online Book Search: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
- Google Book Search: http://books.google.com/
- Google Newspaper Search: http://news.google.com/
- SurfWax: http://www.surfwax.com/
- Biography Search: http://www.biography.com/search/
- Biography Search: http://www.s9.com/
- Microsoft Live Search: http://www.live.com/
Blog Creation
Wiki Creation
- Wiki Wiki Web
- Wiki Site
- You can also use Canvas Pages or Google Docs with students - just give students permission to edit
Polls and surveys
Online Teaching Books
- "The Tools for Successful Online Teaching" Lisa Dawley
Information Science Publishing, 2007 - "Teaching and Learning at a Distance"
Simsonson , M., Smaldino, S., Albright, M., and Zvacek, S. Pearson, 2009 - "Teaching Online: A Practical Guide" Susan Ko and Steve Rossen
Routledge, 2008 - "147 Practical Tips for Teaching Online Groups"
Hanna, D., Glowacki-Dudka, M., and Conceiciao-Runlee"
Atwood Publishing, 2000 - "Essential Elements: Prepare, Design, and Teach Your Online Course"
Elbaum, B., McIntyre, C. and Smith, A. Atwood Publishing, 2002 - "Facilitating Online Learning"
George Collison, Bonnie Elbaum, Sarah Haavind, Robert Tinker
Atwook Publishing, 2000 - "Advanced Teaching Online"
William A. Draves
LERN Books, 2007 - "Engaging the Online Learner"
Rita-Marie Conrad and J. Ana Donaldson
Jossey-Bass, 2004 - "The Online Learning Idea Book"
Patti Shank (editor)
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2007 - "E-Learning Games"
Kathleen M. Iverson
Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2005 - Teaching History Online
John F. Lyons
Routledge, 2009
Last Updated: 05/21/2020
