The purpose of this web site is to provide for the dissemination of information about the uses of technology to enhance teaching and learning and to stimulate discussion on these issues within our learning community. If you have suggestions for increasing the utility of this site, or have information which you believe would be useful to incorporate within this site, contact John Bohnert at Extension #6476 or by e-mail.

Elmhurst College Library

With special thanks to the Director of the Library, Susan Swords Steffen....
Using the Internet for Teaching and Learning

American Association of Higher Education

The AAHE supports a listserv moderated by Steven W. Gilbert. Steven also provides nation wide leadership for Teaching, Learning, Technology, Roundtable Workshops, know as TLTR. Since the listserv provides for on-going dialogue among participants, I am certain that you will have the feeling of walking into the middle of a conversation. I have initiated an effort to organize selected postings.

ACCESSIBILITY AND TECHNOLOGY

• Web Accessibility for Disabled
• Web Pages, Disabilities, EASI
• Distance Education, Access, Disabilities
• Policy on Student Workstation Use
• Managing (Appropriate) Computer Access and Use
• Public Access Computing Labs
• Universal Access via Notebook Computers
• Distance Education, Disabilities, Mentoring

ASSESSMENT

• Project Flashlight
• Flashlight/ACADEME TODAY

CLASSROOM DESIGN

• Lecture Classroom Design
• Tech-Rich Classroom Design

COPYRIGHT - FAIR USE

• Copyright - Fair Use - Multimedia

DISTANCE EDUCATION

• Distance Education & Learning By Doing
• Value Added Distance Education
• Distance Education - Response
• Technology and Personal Mentoring
• Report from Open Space

TECHNOLOGY SUPPORT SYSTEMS

• Technology Support Skills

USE OF EMAIL

• Email for Instruction
• Email and Newsgroups for Classes
• Technical Solution to Email Problem
• Technical Solution for Email Problem
• Handling Course Related Email
• Student Use of Email
• Email and Mentoring
• Email Too Intimate
• Email and (Commuter) Student Mentoring
• Email, Intimacy, Instruction
• Course Related Email Distribution Lists
• Managing Email for Teaching-Learning

EXAMPLES OF INSTRUCTIONAL USE OF TECHNOLOGY

• WOW! Specific Examples of EUIT
• WOW! Three Useful Lists
• Courseware Desiderata
• Groupware for Education
• Groupware Website
• Campus Computing Survey Summary
• Useful Articles re: Teaching and Technology
• Free Webzine "The Technology Source"

REFLECTIONS

• Three Years of Changes, Part 1
• Three Years of Changes, Part 2
• Safe Classroom
• Laziness and Change Agents

TEACHING, LEARNING, TECHNOLOGY AFFILIATE (AAHE)

• TLT Group Vision/Mission/Program
• TLT Group Press Release
• Laziness and Change Agents
  

Courseware Design and Use of Copyright Materials

• Copyright and Multimedia Law for Webbuilders and Multimedia Authors
  http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/proj/webbuilder/copyright.html
• Copyright Bay
  http://www.nmjc.cc.nm.us/copyrightbay

Discus

This popular WWW discussion board software package is available for your use. Discus provides a means to support classroom discussions, electronic conferences or discussion forums. The software is easy to administer and use, with image and table upload, public and/or private topic options, keyword and new message search capability and comprehensive on-line documentation. For information about Discus software view http://www.chem.hope.edu/discus/home/.

At the Hope College site there is a listing of a number of colleges and university departments using Discus which may be of interest to you as you consider possible applications in your courses.

You may review and monitor the use of Discus by Charles Ophardt (Elmhurst College Department of Chemistry) and Mark Harbold (Elmhurst College Department of Music) at http://elmhurst.edu/discus/.

Use of Intranet - Courses at Elmhurst College

Charles Ophardt (Department of Chemistry) created an on-line course in Chemistry. You may review the design of the course by visiting:

• http://elmhcx9.elmhurst.edu:80/~chm/onlcourse/chm110/chm110.html

Sally Webber and Siaw-Peng Wan (CBE), Amy Patterson (Department of Political Science) and Paul Arriola (Department of Biology) provide examples of multiple strategies for the use of the WEB to enhance the learning of their students. You may review their varied uses by visiting:

• http://elmhcx9.elmhurst.edu:80/~cbe/vcroom/index.html (Sally and Wan)
• http://elmhcx9.elmhurst.edu:80/~pol/home/homepgdev.html (Amy)
• http://elmhcx9.elmhurst.edu:80/~bio/pages.html (Paul)

Gene Losey (Department of Chemistry) uses an internet based discussion board which links students in his courses with students enrolled in chemistry courses at other colleges and universities around the United States. You are encouraged to speak with Gene about his rationale for this activity and the desired student learning outcomes.

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