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Developing your Own Online Resources

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Developing your Own Online Resources

• Bruce Landon, Ph.D.

• Douglas College

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AGENDA

• Background Issues

• Information Explosion Implications

• Basic Resources

• Finding Resources

• Making Resources Available

• Collaborating with students

• Near Future trends and implications

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BACKGROUND Usability Issues

• Reading Web Pages is different

• Usability by sleep deprived students

• Making images accessible

• Accessibility to students with disabilities

• First time use versus Reviewing (47 min vs 4 min)

• (student forgetting is a power function - fast then slow)

• Preventing "lost in cyberspace" feeling

• Design guidelines

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Background Copyright Issues

• The reality that the digital original and the digital copy are exactly the same presents unprecedented difficulties and benefits

• Millennium Copyright Act

• Notion of fare use for educational purpose not established

• The Xerox solution - prohibitive time to copy materials prevented excessive infringement of intellectual property rights

• The MIT OpenCourseWare solution

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Background technology issues

• Public Access and the digital divide

• Involving the shy students

• Involving the Back Row

• Personalizing feedback a low personal cost (cut and paste)

• The learning can be proceeding even when you are not teaching.

• Class notes and papers may well become permanent artifacts of the culture and accessible for lifetimes to come

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BASICS of Connectivity Resources

• email account (15% of Canadians use HotMail)

• Your Home page

• Server space for public course files

• File transfer program for uploading files to your home page location

• Alternatives at

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Slipstreaming other basic resources

• Free Web storage sites

• Free ICQ online chat

• Advertising versus subscription fees

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Course Level Resources

• Publisher resources with texts

• Links to web resources

• - example - VassarStats

• Links to restricted resources via library sites

• Local Copies for in-class use

• Shared course resources (ABT model)

• Making your own resources

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MAKING your own resources

• Saving word processed documents as html and then posting them to your site

• Inexpensive flatbed scanners make it easy to move your paper resources to the web.

• Webcams are inexpensive input devices for still pictures but expensive for video quality

• IntelPlay Microscope (10x, 60x, and 200x) make it child's play (windows 98 only

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General teaching resources

• Free tools

• Free demo tools

• Commercial image tools: imageready

• Commercial diagramming tools: inspiration

• Subscription tools

• College level tools

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Searching for more free tools and materials

• Search Engines -

• Freeware and shareware

• Java and Javascript resources

• Desktop tools: Bungo

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Web based tools

• Hands on demonstration makehtml

• Storage

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P2P (Peer to Peer) Collaborative tools

• P2P resource links

• ICQ

• Groove

• NetMeeting

• Colloquia

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Collaborating with students

• Developing students as scientists

• Developing students as problem solvers

• Evaluating new course resources

• Evaluating student usability

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Advanced collaborating

• Evaluating accessibility of materials with bobby

• Student web based projects

• Developing your collaborative skills

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TRENDS and Implications

• More and more resources plus

• Cheaper and cheaper storage = more stuff

• Need for Organizing Strategies

• - searching skills

• - organizing skills - by course, by topic

• - continually deciding what to leave in and what to leave out - decision tools vs memory

• - migrating your resources into new systems means keeping them portable (the IMS Project Meta-tag approach with xml)

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Maintaining your resources

Why bother

A personal example

Meaningfulness of a memory or a resource is in the linkages

The Google check

Science/Biology/Physiology

Involving your librarians

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THANKS for your Attention

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