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Day One:
Beyond the Syllabus: Using the Web to Advance Your Course Goals

Required:

  1. Horton, Sarah. Web Teaching Guide. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000.43-108. Available on e-reserve

Other Readings:

  1. Maddux, Cleborne and Cummings, R. “Developing Web Pages as Supplements to Traditional Courses” Instructional and Cognitive Impacts of Web-based Education. ed. Beverly Abbey. Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing, 2000. 147-155. Available on e-reserve
  2. Nielsen, Jakob. Designing Web Usability. Indianapolis, IN: New Riders Publishing, 2000. 98-161 Available on regular reserve.

Day Two:
Using Technology to Enhance Presentations, Lectures and Discussions

Required:

  1. Parker, Ian. “Absolute PowerPoint” The New Yorker, May 28 2001. Available on regular reserve or on-line here.

Other Readings:

  1. Anderson, Winifred and Sommer, Barbara. “Computer-Based Lectures using PowerPoint”
  2. Norvig, Peter. “The PowerPoint Gettysburg Address”
  3. www.presentations.com

Day Three:
Technology and Writing: Using Technology to Improve Student Writing from Hum 110 to the Thesis (and in Between)

Required:

  1. Slatin, John M. “Hypertext and the Teaching of Writing” Text, ConText and HyperText. Edward Barrett, Ed.. Cambridge, MA: 1988. 111-129. Available on e-reserve

Other Readings:

  1. Bolter, Jay David. Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1991

Resources

Electronic Discussions

  1. "Teaching Critical Thinking with Electronic Discussion" - Pedagogy explanation by Stephen B. DeLoach and Steven A. Greenlaw
  2. "Do electronic discussions create critical-thinking spillovers?"- Study by Stephen B. DeLoach and Steven A. Greenlaw
  3. Mailman Lists - Mailing list management system provided by Computer User Services
  4. Discus Forums - Online discussion boards. Contact Fred Lifton for more info.


How-To and Tips for Web Authors:

  1. Basic HTML primer: http://htmlgoodies.earthweb.com/primers/basics.html
  2. Links from the basics to advanced CGI scripting: http://www.pageresource.com/
  3. All kinds of tools, references and other resources: http://developer.netscape.com/index.html
  4. Check your pages for conformity to the recommended HTML standard: http://validator.w3.org/
  5. Dreamweaver tutorials and references: http://www.macromedia.com/support/dreamweaver/tutorial_index.html
  6. HTML: An Interactive Tutorial for Beginners: http://www.davesite.com/webstation/html/

Using Word:

  1. CIS' Getting Started: Microsoft Word 5.1 and 98 -- http://web.reed.edu/cis/getting_started/wordprocess/index.html
  2. Microsoft Word 2000 Tutorials: http://www.fgcu.edu/support/office2000/word/

Using PowerPoint:

  1. Using PowerPoint Presentations in Writing Classes - Explains types of presentations and advice for the creation of presentations.
  2. QuickStart to Powerpoint - The barebone basics.
  3. PowerPoint 2000 Tutorial
  4. The program's Help menu is an excellent tool for learning as well.

Other Items of Interest:

  1. Tompkins, Jane. “Pedagogy of the Distressed” College English 52 (1990): 653-60.
  2. Bass, Randy. Engines of Inquiry


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