URLs & Resources for Interactive Learning
The following list of interactive learning projects is adapted from ìBeyond the Electronic Reserve Shelf Pedagogical Possibilities and Resources in Web-Enhanced Coursesî by Robert E. Wood, Syllabus, November/December 1999. For each topic, additional resources have been added.
Problem-solving activities are designed to answer a fundamental question. They can be short term or long term. Web resources may be collected together in a single, self-contained site, or else provided in hotlist form. Often called WebQuests.
For further details see The WebQuest Page, WebQuests for Learning, and The Student Web Quest.
A few examples:
Subject-based examples of WebQuests
Ewe 2: The Bioethics of Cloning
Understanding the Kosovo Conflict:
A Lesson in Media Literacy
Collapse: Why do civilizations
fall?
Who Killed William
Robinson?
The Underground
Railroad
DNA For Dinner?
What is Sustainable
Development?
2) Computational
Skills Colloquium
Problem-Solving Across the Curriculum
Moderator John
P. Ertel x36657
http://www.nadn.navy.mil/LangStudy/computation/problem_solving.html
3)
PROBLARC - Problem Based Learning Assessment and Research Centre
http://www.newcastle.edu.au/services/iesd/learndevelop/problarc/issuesser.htm
Robert E. Wood,
Syllabus, November/December 1999.
http://camden-www.rutgers.edu/~wood/pedagogy.html
Online tutorials to learn technical skills or master a subject area. A few examples:
Pacific Bell's
Blue Web'n site
lists a broad array of tutorials by subject matter
WebTeacher tutorials
teach a wide range of internet-related skills
2) A great site at Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction (MCLI)
Maricopa
Community Colleges lists web & computer "AUTHORING" tools.Ý
"AUTHORING" refers to "programming by non-programmers."
This site is a resource collection of pointers to Internet sites for those that
develop or "author" multimedia.
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/authoring/
3) Web design Help
Site ñ html help site
Web Design Group (WDG)
http://www.htmlhelp.com/
4) MediaBuilder
Tutorials Library
ÝThis site contains tutorials on audio, graphics, video, VRML, and Web design.
5) Software Resources: Authoring
Programs
Anne Arundel Community College Center for the Advancement of Learning and Teaching
(CALT)
Ýhttp://www.aacc.cc.md.us/calt/authoring.htm
6) Animation Express: Animation TutorialsÝ This site contains several links to articles and tutorials on creating animations for the Web.
7) URLs that link to teaching & learning centers
Center for the Advancement of Learning and Teaching (CALT)-Anne Arundel Community
College
http://www.aacc.cc.md.us/calt/
Center
for the Advancement of Teaching & Learning at
Valdosta State University
http://chiron.valdosta.edu/CATL/
III. Virtual Touring
1)Ý ìBeyond the Electronic Reserve Shelf Pedagogical Possibilities and Resources in Web-Enhanced Coursesî
Robert E. Wood,
Syllabus, November/December 1999.
http://camden-www.rutgers.edu/~wood/pedagogy.html
Students collect specified information as they move about on the web. Can be structured or open-ended. Interactive sites maximize the effectiveness of the experience. Treasure hunts, scavenger hunts or virtual/electronic field trips.
2) www.scrtec.org/rack/tracks/s07102.html
3) www.donnaleelave.com/pix/ipixintro.htm.Ý (touring with images)
IV. Locating Information
1)Ý ìBeyond the Electronic Reserve Shelf Pedagogical Possibilities and Resources in Web-Enhanced Coursesî
Robert E. Wood,
Syllabus, November/December 1999.
http://camden-www.rutgers.edu/~wood/pedagogy.html
Students use their own Web-searching skills to complete task-oriented activities to locate specific information on the World Wide Web.Ý Builds both searching and evaluation skills.
2) www.information.orgÝÝ This is an open access institute for information gathering.
3) www.fic.info.gov.ÝÝÝ Federal information gathering
4) www.oit.umd.edu/units/adsÝÝ Office of Information Technology
V. Analyzing data
1)Ý ìBeyond the Electronic Reserve Shelf Pedagogical Possibilities and Resources in Web-Enhanced Coursesî
Robert E. Wood,
Syllabus, November/December 1999.
http://camden-www.rutgers.edu/~wood/pedagogy.html
Students access online interactive databases to run experiments, simulations, and to test hypotheses online.Ý Such activities may stand alone or be part of a larger project.
2) Examples of
use of interactive learning in science courses can be found at: ìDesigning Web
Based Instruction for Active Learningî
http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/cs/Staff/Homes/Stephen/wbi.html
3) This site allows you to browse and view hundreds of courses using interactive learning, in all disciplines: http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tl/
VI. Researching
1)Ý ìBeyond the Electronic Reserve Shelf Pedagogical Possibilities and Resources in Web-Enhanced Coursesî
Robert E. Wood,
Syllabus, November/December 1999.
http://camden-www.rutgers.edu/~wood/pedagogy.html
Research can include multi-dimensional use of the Internet for major projects over a period of time. In most instances, Internet-based research will supplement library, lab or field research.
2) The Maryland Digital Library provides information resources in a range of disciplines and includes periodical databases:Ý http://md-diglib.org/