Transcript Project Overview - New River Community College

MERLOT Overview
Multimedia Educational Resource for
Learning and Online Teaching
Carlotta Eaton, IST
Bruce Brown, Business
MERLOT Web Site www.merlot.org
MERLOT Tasting Room
History of MERLOT
Since 1997 by the California State
University Center for Distributed
Learning (CSU-CDL at www.cdl.edu )
 1998 – 4 college systems
 2000 – 48 faculty Biology, Physics,
Business and Teacher Education
 2001 – 23 Institutional Partners
 See Tasting Room…About MERLOT
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MERLOT and VCCS
VCCS became member in 2000
 Project Directors – Tim Tirrell and
Carol Schultz
 2000 – 8 Faculty (Carlotta Eaton)
5 designers sponsored
 2001 – 10 Faculty (added Bruce
Brown), 5 designers
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MERLOT & Carlotta
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Oct 2000 (2 days Fall Break) – attended MERLOT training in
Nashville
Jan 2001 – VCCS MERLOT meeting in Richmond
Feb/Mar 2001 – VCCS Video conference calls
April 2001 – Presentation at New Horizons
August 2001 – (3 days) MERLOT conference in Tampa
October 2001 – Presentation at IST Peer Group
January 2002 – Presentation at NRCC
January 2002 – VCCS MERLOT meeting in Richmond
Bi-weekly – Conference calls with IST discipline group
Monthly – submit URLs and complete peer reviews
MERLOT Grapevine Newsletter
MERLOT Visit Discipline Community
MERLOT IT Discipline
Login as a Member
Member Welcome
Summary
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Become a Member on the web site
 Submit your favorite web sites that you
use in your classes
 Thanks for your help