Thank you Peter for the Bloki

look into something called Bloki, it is a combination of a blog and a wiki and involves web pages as well. Check it out at www.bloki.com
Peter

On-line cat dissection

Excellent website with real pictures that walk the viewer through a cat dissection.
Kath

http://biology.kenyon.edu/heithausp/cat-tutorial/welcome.htm

"KENYON COLLEGE
Cat Anatomy Tutorial

This tutorial was designed to be used by college students studying cat anatomy. It should not be used to replace hands-on experience in the laboratory. It is intended to enhance the laboratory experience and provide an alternate frame of reference for learning. Before beginning each section of the tutorial students should have already examined the material in some detail in the laboratory."

Books on tape?

Name of Tool: ATutor
This is a site that I want to watch. When the text-to-speech server comes up, I'd like to incorporate it into a project.

URL: http://www.atutor.ca

Price: Free (My favorite word!!)

Brief Description of Tool: This is a learning management system. It has all of the usual bells and whistles that an online teacher needs. What is cool is that "Research is currently underway to integrate a text-to-speech server with ATutor that converts text content into audio form, and returns it to the user as a file that can be listened to in one of many common multimedia applications." This would be great for adult students who drive alot and those with learning disablities. They could have their text read to them in the car! ATutor allows for template choice and has an easy non-HTML way to change fonts and color, etc. Not having to go into the programming for every little change makes this a good choice for non-programers.

Ease of Use: Pretty easy. Downloads right onto your desktop.

Application: ATutor is a Canadian open-source Web-based Learning Content Management System (LCMS)

Case-based Science Websites (w/cases)

Good A&P case studies. Professionally set up w/questions and answers. Factual, often quantitative answers. Available only to qualified teachers = http://www.sciencecases.org

Social, legal, and ethical science issues. Probably better for Human Bio or Intro Bio. Answers to questions are opinion. Stimulates thought. = http://ehrweb.aaas.org

Please add to this list.

Surveys as a means of keeping in touch

I must remember to incorporate Survey monkey http://www.surveymonkey.com/home.asp into my project. It would be a great starting place to find out what others think is important that I include in my final project and why.
Kath

Virtual Classroom -- Free

This is a must for my final Ped II project!

Name of Tool: The Manhattan Virtual Classroom

URL: http://manhattan.sourceforge.net

Price: Free !!!!

Brief Description of Tool: a password protected, web-based virtual classroom system. Has discussion groups, live chat, areas to post the syllabus, handouts, notices, online assignments, a grades section, and a web-based email system open only to students in the class. It was developed at Western New England College.

Ease of Use: Very easy and very pretty. I like it better than Blackboard

Application: Virtual Classroom

Student Plagiarism

I know that student plagiarism is a huge problem, but I never realized that there are programs to test the papers. Below are several of the recommended sites. I'll be using these to test student papers at some point. Last term I had a distinguished member of the sheriff's department in my class. When I explained how I wanted the students to cite their posters, he had never heard of citing. His reasoning was that he was the one doing the work and researching the papers. I had to take him all the way back to the start by asking if he had made the original discovery. His amazement provided an awakening for me. Has anyone ever used any of the sites below? Which ones are the most user friendly and still highly functional?
K

• Nick Laudato, Instructional Technology Update: Technology to Combat Plagiarism, University of Pittsburgh, Teaching Times October 2003. http://www.pitt.edu/~ciddeweb/FACULTY-DEVELOPMENT/TEACHING-TIMES/OCT2003b/turnitin.htm
• Copycatch Gold. http://www.copycatch.freeserve.co.uk/vocalyse.htm
• EVE Plagiarism Detection System. http://www.canexus.com/eve/index.shtml
• Glatt Plagiarism Services. http://www.plagiarism.com/
• Integriguard. http://rfe.org/Teaching/IntegriGuard.html
• Turnitin research sources. http://www.turnitin.com/research_site/e_home.html
• WCopyfind. http://plagiarism.phys.virginia.edu/Wsoftware.html