Topic A7: Identifying and Assessing Available Technologies - Additional Resources

WebCT offers online academic communities which enable you to register (even if you do not teach with WebCT) and ask questions of your colleagues in your discipline. WebCT's online community just for faculty focuses on such topics as:

1) I want to find materials for inclusion in my course.

2) I want to see other courses designed in WebCT.

3) How do I become a better online teacher?

4) I want to find help for my students.

Below are online resources which may help you in preparation. Take a moment to visit each. If you find a resource particularly helpful, remember to bookmark that page to make it easier to return to it at a later time.

1) WebCT Library. This is an online teaching and learning resource of educational web sites and teaching related articles. There is a section of particular interest to the topic at hand, Instructional Technology and Software. An example article is:

a.) Shall I Plan for Supplemental or Totally Web-based Teaching? In this article, Barb Solberg shares her experiences of how to bring technology into your course.

2) Blackboard Academic Resources. This online resource, managed by Blackboard.com, is grouped by academic category and discipline. Select a category, then a discipline, and search the Blackboard database of articles that focus on your interest in technology and its uses.

3) Evaluating Educational Software for Special Education. Go to Blackboard's online database and enter the title in the search field. This article by Kyle Higgins presents a software evaluation process that can be used to evaluate commercially developed educational software.

4) An Educator's Guide to Evaluating The Use of Technology in Schools and Classrooms (December 1998). According to its author, "The guide should be viewed as a tool for individuals who have little or no formal training in research or evaluation. Its intended informal style and accompanying worksheets provide the basic principles of evaluation and are designed to help district and school personnel gain an overview of and ideas for evaluating local technology initiatives."

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