Internet Workshop Related Resources

General

Internet Overview and Software Tools

Sites for Teachers

Language Learning On the Internet

Distance Education

  • American Studies Center Workshop on Distance Education- http://www.salsem.ac.at/csacl/progs/deindx.htm
  • Extending the Walls of the Classroom Electronically- http://www.users.csbsju.edu/~tcreed/techno3.html Adapted from New Paradigms for College Teaching, William Campbell and Karl Smith. We are bombarded daily with the hype about the coming technological revolution in higher education. Technology is touted as the most recent panacea; the cure for what ails us. Certainly, technology is transforming our lives, and will continue to do so. But will it impact our teaching? And if so, how? The question that we need to ask is, "What do we want to accomplish in our courses, and can technology advance our teaching goals?" rather than "What can we do with technology?"
  • Distance Education Organizations- http://ccism.pc.athabascau.ca/html/ccism/deresrce/institut.htm Distance education facilities around the world exhibit great variability in terms of shape and size, have different relationships with government, business, other organizations, and with the learners themselves. They utilize a great many intriguing methods to deliver educational materials. We let them describe themselves. Contents include, links included: Virtual Campuses, Open and Distance Learning Institutions, DE Departments within Conventional Institutions, Distance Learning Networks.
  • Distance Education Techniques- http://ddi.digital.net/~catsi/disted.html#purp Greetings and welcome to the web page dedicated to listing and demonstrating various techniques used to create and distribute distance education modules through the Internet. This page is intended to help those interested in learning how to create such modules and for those wanting to show off any modules they create.
  • The Open University in the UK- http://www.open.ac.uk
  • A Survey of the Distance Learning Industry- http://lonestar.texas.net/~gwoitena/distance_ed/ The findings of a distance education survey conducted by Parkes and Woitena in 1996. Includes various sections of the study including: "Overview of Distance Learning Technology, External Analysis of the Distance Learning Industry Using the Porter Model, Distance Learning Customers, and, finally, their Conclusions.
  • English 2000- http://www.britcoun.org/english/enge2000.htm English 2000 is an initiative led by the British Council which seeks to forecast future uses of English worldwide and to help develop new means of teaching and learning of English. The project team works to position British English language teaching goods and services to the mutual benefit of Britain and the countries with which it works.
  • The British Council-English Language Information- http://www.britcoun.org/english/enginfo.htm Find a listing of staff members of e2000 and other contact information.
  • Project ADEPT (Assessment of Distance Education Pedagogy and Technology)- http://www.users.csbsju.edu/~tcreed/adept/ An ongoing project by University of Wisconsin researchers that assesses what combination of technology/pedagogy/learner charcteristics best enhances student satisfaction with distance education courses. What factors contribute to student satisfaction? It attempts to look at the extent to which delivery format affects whether they will be more of less likely continue to pursue higher education and be life-long learners; and how they will likely go about learning in the future.
  • Thwing Education Projects- http://www.userhome.com/tep/TEP/

American Studies and Popular Culture

  • Electronic Archives for Teaching the American Literatures- http://www.georgetown.edu/tamlit/tamlit-home.html An archive containing essays, syllabi, bibliographies, and other resources for teaching literatures of the United States.
  • Guide to American Studies Programs - U.S. and Abroad- http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/programs/proglink.html Links to web sites of American Studies programs. United States programs are listed by state, and programs in other countries are listed by country.
  • American Studies Web-  http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/asw/ A comprehensive guide to American Studies resources on the Internet, categorized by subject.
  • Jim Zwick's Home Page-  http://www.rochester.ican.net/~fjzwick/ A university student's page of projects on the World Wide Web. His project topics cover U.S.-Filipino relations, Anti-Imperialism in the United States, and works of Mark Twain.
  • American Memory from the Library of Congress- http://rs6.loc.gov/ The Library of Congress collection of historical American manuscripts, photos & prints, maps, sound recordings, and motion pictures.
  • The English Server- http://english-server.hss.cmu.edu/ A cooperative of over 18,000 humanities texts published online and covering a wide range of topics.
  • Tools for Teaching and Research- http://www.princeton.edu/~place2/scholarly.html A guide to using the web specifically for teaching and research purposes, with links to directories in humanities, history and cultural studies, pedagogy and teaching resources, and professional development.
  • Welcome to Archiving Early America- http://earlyamerica.com/ An archive of historic American documents from the eighteenth century.
  • American Studies, Black History and Literature- http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/as/Literature/amlit.black.html A catalog of links to literature and history written by and about African Americans.
  • The American Studies Yellow Pages at UVA- http://xroads.virginia.edu/~YP/yp_home.html An index of American Studies-related resources, including Web pages, organized by discipline, American Studies programs in the United States, bulletin boards and newsgroups, and specialize search engines.

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