SL-NET Roundtable Discussion: Teaching Online

Fri., Apr. 4

12:00 noon PDT

Floria’s Castle (IM Floria Beaumont for a TP.)

We can discuss different course management systems or how to adapt a traditional course to an online or blended format.

Links for 2008-03-29 (del.icio.us)

• Message Boards and Forum Directory
  Welcome to big-boards’ forum directory. We track and categorize in our directory the largest message boards and forums on the web, so you can be sure forums in this directory will be the most active on the web in their category.
  (tags: directory forum research)
• portaportal home
  Portaportal is a web based bookmarking utility that lets you store links to your favorite websites online.
  (tags: bookmarking free web2.0)
• Video Tutorials – Second Life Wiki
  (tags: video secondlife tutorials virtualworlds)
• AllPlus – Universal Meta Search and Discovery Engine
  The Universal Meta Search and Discovery Engine
  (tags: metacrawler research)
• Adobe Photoshop Express
  (tags: storage images graphics tools)
• Dr. Helen Barrett’s Electronic Portfolios
  (tags: eportfolio)

Twine

I got an invitation to join Twine.  According to the home page, “Twine is a new service that helps you organize, share and discover information about your interests, with networks of like-minded people. You can use Twine alone, with friends, groups and communities, or even in your company.”  I’m looking forward to exploring it.

ENGL 112 Research Journal (Blog)

My students have been using their blogs primarily to keep track of their research results and report on their field research.  This will continue for the next couple of weeks.

Links for 2008-03-25 (del.icio.us)

• htm2pdf | convert your html to pdfs
  This site is a service to convert your webpages to pdfs
  (tags: free HTML tools internet PDF conversion)

Links for 2008-03-23 (del.icio.us)

• Teach and Learn online. | LearnHub
  This is a social learning network where people teach & learn online.
  (tags: community web2.0 socialnetworking education elearning teaching)
• Creative Docs .NET – Get Creative!
  Creative Docs .NET is a vector-based graphic design tool with support for rich text, ideal to quickly write short documents, manuals, posters, illustrations, schemas, plans, flow charts, and much more.
  (tags: free graphics images tools documents)
• Empressr
  The First Online Application That Lets You Create, Manage and Share Rich Media Presentations Online
  (tags: free tools web2.0 presentations)
• National Archives Experience
  (tags: images resources video library history)
• openomy
  Openomy is an online file system. You can store files on Openomy and access them from any computer. Openomy organizes files and users via tags (as opposed to folders). You can choose to keep your files guarded by Openomy, or allow certain outside applicat
  (tags: tools free storage)

Links for 2008-03-21 (del.icio.us)

• Howstuffworks “How Web 3.0 Will Work”
  (tags: web3.0 future trends technology)

Presentation: “50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story”

Presentation: “Web Technology Trends for 2008 and Beyond”

Links for 2008-03-17 (del.icio.us)

• Novelinks Home Page
  Novelinks is maintained by the Education section of the English Department at Brigham Young University. Our goal is to provide educators with quality teaching materials that will enhance classroom instruction for a wide variety of commonly taught novels i
  (tags: literature education humanities novel)