Enhancing subject-area expertise via the Internet: Afternoon Session

Deborah Healey

15 min Evaluate search techniques and tools
40 min Evaluate communication tools : professional mailing lists, group email list, class chat, MOO, online discussion, commercial courseware, weblog
5 min Break
45 min Evaluate and create web-based exercises : Netscape Composer, Hot Potatoes, FAST, OpinionPower, Response-o-matic, Tripod, webquests
10 min Break
45 min Try sites presented in the earlier session
15 min Discuss current efforts/brainstorm possibilities

Online discussion – www.nicenet.org - join the UPC class
Professional mailing lists – search CataList or search for a newsgroup with Google
Group email lists – eGroups.com or yahoogroups.com to create your own
Chat – L.E.C.S. at http://home.kanto-gakuin.ac.jp/~taoka/lecs - designed for class chats
MOO

TappedIn - www.tappedin.org - designed for class use; lots of helpful resources
MundoHispano - www.umsl.edu/~moosproj/mundo.html - uses Telnet, so more awkward
SchMOOze - schmooze.hunter.cuny.edu:8888/ - designed for English language learners; many helpful resources

Create multiple choice, matching, short essay exercises easily to use online or from a disk using this software program that is free for academic use

Tools that let you view results online: www.getfast.ca (20-question limit for each survey, but many options); www.opinionpower.com (stored for 30 days)
www.response-o-matic.com (create forms that send you the results by email)

Free site for your content - comes with various tools to make your site more interesting. Free means you will have banner ads on your site. Pay an annual fee to get a site with no ads.

Journal articles online - Chemical Engineering , psychology and social science journals (searchable database with some ejournals and some free articles), mathematics journals (links with some free articles), computer science journals at WorldSciNet and DBLP (links with some free articles), Nature , Science Direct (a few free articles; most require a subscription), environmental science journals (a long list of journals, some free articles), earth science journals (some free articles), bizjournals for business- with a daily email update, business newspapers from around the US
Engineering links via a technical search engine, tenlinks.com ; IEEE website
Electronics information - articles, webcasts, and more
MIT courseware - Look at the listing by course.

For an extensive course, look at the Urban Operations Research course at http://web.mit.edu/urban_or_book/www/ - it includes a book, lecture notes, and animations.
Another course with animations as well as lecture notes is Electricity and Magnetism at http://ocw.mit.edu/8/8.02/f02/index.html
Management - Systems Optimization: Models and Computation has extensive lecture notes and associated readings at http://ocw.mit.edu/15/15.094/s02/index.html

World Lecture Hall
Physics – sample exam questions , demo of a virtual lab
Biology - mouse genome viewer and database , zebrafish examples
Math - modeling with Java applets ( ray tracing - use with IE; molecular modeling )
Electronic Geometry models
Business portal in Spain ; BRINT portal (business, technology, research links)

Survey form at FAST

http://www.onid.orst.edu/~healeyd/upc/upcworkshop2.html

Last updated 6 April 2003 by Deborah Healey, deborah.healey@orst.edu