Transcript Developing your Own Online Resources

Developing your Own Online
Resources
Bruce Landon, Ph.D.
Douglas College
[email protected]
Agenda
Why bother with online resources?
Background Issues
Basic Resources
Finding Resources
Break
Making your resources
Making Resources Available
Collaborating with students
Near Future trends and implications
Usability Issues
Usability by sleep deprived students
Accessibility to students with disabilities
First time use versus Reviewing
(student forgetting loglog linear)
Preventing cognitive overload
Preventing “lost in cyberspace” feeling
Design guidelines [interfacedesign.html]
Copyright Issues
The reality that the digital original and the
digital copy are exactly the same presents
unprecedented difficulties and benefits
(Napster phenomenon 20 million users)
Millennium Copyright Act
Notion of fare use for educational purpose
The Xerox solution – prohibitive time to copy
materials prevented excessive infringement of
intellectual property rights
Preventing Academic Dishonesty
Statistical risks in your student population
[whoswho.html]
Technical solutions at an inconvenient price
Time limited assignments & multiple versions
Promoting the student’s understanding of the
importance of their own intellectual property
Automated checking strategies (essay
archives)
– matching error analysis
[http://www.douglas.bc.ca/~landon/xam_tool
/index.html]
Side benefits of using
technology
Involving the shy students
Involving the Back Row
Personalizing feedback a low personal cost
The learning can be proceeding even when
you are not teaching.
Class notes and papers may well become
permanent artifacts of the culture and
accessible for lifetimes to come
Basic Connectivity Resources
email account
Home page
Server space for public course files
Search Engine [http://www.google.com]
File transfer program for uploading files to
your home page location
[http://www.ipswitch.com]
Alternatives at [http://www.nonags.com]
Slipstreaming other basics
Free Web storage sites
[Freeonlinefilestoragespace.htm]
Free Virtual Office sites
[http://www.visto.com]
More office sites [http://www.zkey.com]
Free ICQ online chat [http://www.icq.com]
Advertising versus subscription fees issue
Course Level Resources
Publisher resources with texts
[publisherstuff.html]
Links to web resources
- example - VassarStats
[http://faculty.vassar.edu/~lowry/VassarStats.
html]
Links to restricted resources
Local Copies for in-class use
Shared course resources
Making your own resources
Making your own resources
Saving word processed documents as html
and then posting them to your site
Inexpensive flatbed scanners make it easy to
move paper resources to the web.
Webcams are inexpensive input devices for
still pictures but expensive for video quality
IntelPlay Microscope (10x, 60x, and 200x)
make it child’s play (windows 98 only but new
version for the xmas market)
Break
General teaching resources
Free tools [makehtml.html]
Free demo tools [http://www.nonags.com]
Commercial image tool [imageready.exe]
Subscription office tools
[http://www.learningstation.com]
College level tools [http://www.webct.com]
Searching for free tools and
materials
Search Engines – [http://www.google.com]
Freeware and shareware
[http://wwwCnet.com]
Java and Javascript resources
[http://www.gamelan.com]
Teaching Physiology and the World Wide
Web: Electrochemistry and Electrophysiology
on the internet (PDF format article)
[http://advan.physiology.org/cgi/reprint/273/
6/S2.pdf]
The link to the above resource [http://physmain.umsmed.edu]
Desktop tools
Hands on demonstration
Desktop Microscope
Desktop Webcam
WebOS [http://www.mywebos.com/]
Bungo
[http://ww2.bungo.com/bungo.com/sta
rt.taf]
Web based tools demonstration
Hands on demonstration
[makehtml.html]
Storage 100MB
[http://www.driveway.com/]
WebCT chat tool for collaboration
[http://www.courses.umd.edu/]
P2P Collaborative tools
Hands on demonstration
[http://colloquia.bangor.ac.uk/ll/]
Colloquia Rules [colloquiarules.html]
Wired guide to global file sharing
[http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8
.10/p2p_pages_pr.html]
Online Educational Delivery
Applications
Landonline
[http://www.ctt.bc.ca/landonline]
Free Applications (some assembly
required)
Hosted Applications
College supported Applications
Making Decisions about
Expensive Tools
The big expense is always your time
Psychology of decision-making
Decision aides
Technology trends – near term
IMS Project and Learning Objects
Collaborating with students
Developing students as scientists
Developing students as problem solvers
Evaluating new course resources
pretesting student usability
Advanced collaborating
Evaluating accessibility of materials with
bobby [http://www.cast.org/bobby/]
Student web based projects
Developing your collaborative skills
Trends and Implications
More and more resources plus
Cheaper and cheaper storage = more stuff
Need for Organizing Strategies
- searching skills
- organizing skills – by course, by topic
- continually deciding what to leave in and
what to leave out – decision tools vs memory
- migrating your resources into new systems
means keeping them portable (the
[http://www.IMSProject.org] Meta-tag
approach with xml)
Maintaining your resources
Why bother
A personal example
Meaningfulness of a memory or a resource is
in the linkages
The Google check [http://www.google.com]
Science/Biology/Physiology
[http://directory.google.com/Top/Science/Biol
ogy/Physiology/]
AltaVista local site search service
And Atomz
[http://www.atomz.com/products/searchfree.