Index of course materials Course designed by Gail Gruber, WNMU, Silver City, NM
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******************************************** ==== Arts ==== "Art
& Life in Africa Project, University of Iowa" describes
material that has been developed for a CD-ROM being produced at
the University of Iowa. Links to further resources on the web
have been added.
(NEH) http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/ "Building an Archives" describes the adventure of acquiring, researching, & displaying important documents of the nation housed by the National Archives. The site also has a discussion of how students can start archives of their own schools.
(NARA) http://www.nara.gov/education/teaching/archives/ ------------------- Library of Congress ------------------- "America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935 1945" contains links to thousands of the most famous documentary photographs ever produced. The Farm Security Administrations's photographs cover the Great Depression, while the Office of War Administration's photographs look at the mobilization effort for World War II.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html "America's First Look into the Camera: Daguerreotype Portraits & Views, 1839-1864" consists of 600 photographs dating from 1839 to 1864, concentrating on the daguerreotypes produced by the Matthew Brady studio.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/daghtml/daghome.html "An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals, ca. 1600-1920" presents a collection of 200 social dance manuals & related materials. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/dihtml/dihome.html "American Treasures of the Library of Congress" details a permanent exhibition of the Library's rarest, most interesting, or significant items relating to America's past.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/treasures/ "The American Variety Stage: Vaudeville & Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920" is a multimedia anthology illustrating the vibrant & diverse forms of popular entertainment, especially vaudeville, that thrived from 1870-1920.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vshtml/vshome.html "Architecture & Interior Design for 20th Century America: Photographs by Samuel Gottscho & William Schleisner, 1935-1955" is composed of 30,000 images primarily of architectural subjects, including interiors & exteriors of homes, stores, offices, factories, & historic buildings.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gschtml/gotthome.html "A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation, U.S. Congressional Documents & Debates, 1774-1873" currently offers the records of the Continental Congress, the Constitutional Convention & ratification debates, & the first 2 federal congresses, 1774-1793.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html "Creating French Culture: Treasures from the Bibliotheque nationale de France" was an exhibition at the Library of Congress of paintings, manuscripts, furniture, & other objects from Charlemagne to Charles de Gaulle. http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/bnf/bnf0001.html "Creative Americans: Portraits by Carl Van Vechten, 1932-1964" displays 1,395 photographs of Van Vechten, primarily studio portraits of people involved in the arts, including musicians, dancers, artists, literati, theatrical, film, & television actors & actresses.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vvhome.html "Dresden: Treasures from the Saxon State Library" is an exhibit of books, manuscripts, & paintings of Saxony, a region of Germany that played a pivotal role in the Renaissance & Reformation in Europe.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/dres/dresintr.html "Frank Lloyd Wright: Designs for an American Landscape, 1922-32" concentrates on 5 major projects of the great American architect.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/flw/flw.html" "The Northern Great Plains, 1880-1920: Photographs from the Fred Hultstrand & F.A. Pazandak Photograph Collections" shows 900 photographs of rural & small town life at the turn of the century. Highlights include images of sod houses & the people who built them, images of farms & machinery that made them prosper, & images of one-room schools & the children that were educated in them.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ndfahtml/ngphome.html "Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library & Renaissance Culture" is an exhibition of artifacts & scholarly descriptions thereof of the prototypical research library in Western culture. Its collections cover wide areas besides theology, including the exact sciences, East Asian languages & literatures, & music history.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/vatican/toc.html "Scrolls from the Dead Sea: The Ancient Library of Qumran & Modern Scholarship" is an exhibition of these famous scrolls, accompanied by discussion of their historical context & the Qumran community from whence they may have originated. The exhibit also relates the story of their discovery 2,000 years later.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/scrolls/toc.html "Taking the Long View: Panoramic Photographs, ca. 1851-1991" presents 4000 images of American cityscapes, landscapes, & group portraits.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/pnhtml/pnhome.html "Touring Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1880-1920" includes 25,000 glass negatives & transparencies as well as 300 color photographic prints, mostly of the eastern U.S.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/detroit/dethome.html "Washington As It Was: Photographs by Theodor Horydczak, 1923-1959" gathers 14,000 photographs of the architectural & social life of the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area in the 1920s, 1930s, & 1940s, including exteriors & interiors of commercial, residential, & government buildings, as well as street scenes & views of neighborhoods.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/thchtml/thhome.html "Women Come to the Front: Journalists, Photographers, & Broadcasters During WWII" concentrates on 8 out of over 100 American women who had secured official military accreditation as war correspondents, if not actual front-line assignments.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/wcf0001.html ======= Science ======= "Alaska Public Lands Information Center, Educational Adventures" features information on a variety of educational kits & field trips throughout Alaska.
(NPS) http://www.nps.gov/aplic/fieldtrip/index.html "ARS Science 4 Kids!" is a series of stories about what scientists do at the Agricultural Research Service. It is geared to kids 8 to 13 years old. (USDA) http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/kids/ "Aviation Education" is a general resource guide to careers & curricula in aviation. (FAA) http://www.faa.gov/education/ "Bayer/NSF Award for Community Innovation" gives directions for school participation in science projects that apply science to community problems.
(NSF) http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/events/awards.htm "Cabrillo National Monument: Cabrillo as Classroom" describes several classroom resources about the monument near San Diego, CA. Featured is the "Cabrillo Tidepool Study," a 4-week on-line unit designed for students at the 5th grade level. It covers many life science topics including ecosystems, adaptation, life cycle, food web, & conservation, and it integrates language arts & math activities.
(NPS) http://www.nps.gov/cabr/clasroom.html "Discover Olympic National Park" features 6 animations about the park in Washington State. It also details summer activities & resources for teachers.
(NPS) http://www.nps.gov/olym/students.htm "Energy Country Analysis Briefs" contain briefs for every country in the world of interest to energy policy makers. Each brief has a narrative section, a map showing the country's location, & a section listing pertinent economic & energy data.
(DOE) http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/contents.html "FoilSim: Basic Aerodynamics Software" is interactive simulation software that determines the airflow around various shapes of airfoils. (NASA) http://www.lerc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/aerosim/ "Glacier Project" is a web site of Rice University about Antarctica. The site contains several pages & numerous links to related sites.
(NSF) http://www.glacier.rice.edu "Historical Pictures of the Smithsonian Institution" is a visual tour of the Smithsonian Institution from its founding to today, from the museums on the Mall in Washington, D.C., to museums in New York City, astrophysical observatories in Massachusetts & Arizona, a tropical biology station in Panama, a marine biology station in Florida, to an environmental research center on the Chesapeake Bay. These images will give you a look "behind the scenes" at the Institution & a look back at its past.
(SI) http://www.si.edu/archives/historic/index.htm "Indiana Dunes Environmental Learning Center" describes the facilities & educational & research programs of what has often been heralded as the birthplace of ecology. Indiana Dunes, located in the northwest corner of the state, is the nation's first national park in an urban setting.
(NPS) http://www.nps.gov/indu/learning/index.htm/
"Infrared Astronomy" is the detection & study of
the infrared radiation (heat energy) emitted
from celestial objects. This site is sponsored by the Infrared
Processing & Analysis Center, which is operated by the California
Institute of
Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
(NASA) http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/Outreach/Edu/ "The Joseph Henry Papers Project" documents the life of Joseph Henry (1797-1878), the most revered American scientist of his times & the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Henry's pioneering work in electricity & magnetism helped bring about the invention of the telegraph, the electric motor, & the telephone.
(SI) http://www.si.edu/archives/ihd/jhp/ "Kinetic City Cyber Club" is the home of the Kinetic City Super Crew, a bunch of cool kids & their talkative supercomputer, ALEC. On board their super train, the Kinetic City Express, the Crew travel the world in a tireless quest for truth, justice, & the perfect deep-dish pizza.
(NSF) http://www.kineticcity.com/ "Park Geology Tour -- Geologic Features" offers geologic field notes, maps, & photographs of the national parks. The site is organized around 14 thematic areas, such as fossils, plate tectonics, & volcanoes. (NPS) http://www.nature.nps.gov/grd/tour/ ========================
The Editors of The IMEJ of Computer-Enhanced Learning (http://imej.wfu.edu), in partnership
with AACE (http://www.aace.org),
are pleased to announce their selection of 12 best works in educational
technology from among the ED-MEDIA 99 (http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia)
presentations.
Authors of these papers have been invited to publish their work
in a special issue of IMEJ, updating their findings and augmenting
their presentations with interactive multimedia elements.
IMEJ is an interactive multimedia electronic journal dedicated to publishing ideas and innovations in educational technology.
Please visit our Web site at http://imej.wfu.edu to see the kinds of articles that can be presented in this dynamic format.
Below is a list of the selected papers.
ED-MEDIA 99 Selections
(in alphabetical order)
Papers:
1. Jeffrey Bell, " World Wide Web Based Simulations for Teaching Biology," Dept. of Biology, Calif. State University, Chico
2. Stephen W. Crown, "The Development of Multimedia Instructional CD-ROM/WebPage for Engineering Graphics," Dept. of Engineering, University of Texas - Pan American
3. Peter W. Foltz, Darrell Laham, and Thomas K. Landauer, "Automated Essay Scoring: Applications to Educational Technology," Dept. of Psych., New Mexico State; Knowledge Analysis Technologies, Boulder, CO; and Dept. of Psych., U. of Colorado
4. Sissel Guttormsen Schär, Sam Schluep, Christoph Schierz, and Helmut Krueger, "Interaction for Simulation Based Learning," Inst. Of Hygiene and Work Physiology, Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technology, Switzerland
5. Steven Hansen, Daniel Schrimpsher, and N. Hari Narayanan, "From Algorithm Animations to Animation-Embedded Hypermedia Visualizations," Visual Information, Intelligence & Interaction Research Group, Dept. of Computer Sci. and Eng. Auburn U.
6. Tricia Jones and Gail Baxter, "Influence of Design Decisions on Student Explanations: An Example from 'Seeing through Chemistry'," School of Education, University of Michigan; Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ
7. Amy S.C. Leh, "Computer-Mediated Communication and Foreign Language Learning via Telecommunication Technology," Dept. of Science, Math., and Technology Education, College of Education, Calif. State U. at San Bernardino
8. Laurie Luckenbill, Kirsten Hintze, B. L. Ramakrishna, Vicent Pizziconi, "Nano-Visualization on the Web," Arizona State University, Center for Solid State Science and Chemical, Bio and Materials Engineering Dept.
9. Som Naidu, Mary Oliver, and Andy Koronios, "Clinical Decision Making In Nursing Practice with Case-Based Reasoning," Multimedia Education Unit, U. of Melbourne; Dept. of Nursing, U. of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia; Dept. of Information Systems, U. of Southern Queensland
10. Sue Stoney and Ron Oliver, "Exploring the Nature of Self-Regulated Learning with Multimedia," Faculty of Business, Edith Cowan U., Churchlands, Western Australia
Poster presentations:
11. John A. Boeglin, Katy Campbell, and Janice Picard, "Alternative Teaching and Learning Strategies for a First-Year Psychology Course," Faculté Saint-Jean and Faculty of Extension, University of Alberta, Canada
12. Gilberte Furstenberg and Shoggy Thierry Waryn, "Cultura:
A Dynamic, Interactive Web-Based Cross-Cultural Project to Develop
Understanding of Another Culture" Massachusetts Institute
of Technology
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Index of course materials Course designed by Gail Gruber, WNMU, Silver City, NM
Introduction to the Course and Instructor | Syllabus | Competencies | Software Evaluation | Education Resources | APA Sample | Ethics | Funding Ideas | Hardware tutorial | Index | Web Resources for Educators | Multimedia | Networks/Internet | Personal Portfolio | PowerPoint Tutorial | Presentation Requirement | Problem Based Learning | Problem Selection | Research on the Web | Web Quest | Syllabus | Internet Use by Teachers | Math teaching on the web