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New Resource for Faculty
INTELECOM Online Resources Network
Digital content is now available for CSM faculty use through an
easy-to-use online service. The
INTELECOM Online Resources Network
is a fully searchable online database and digital content repository. The
INTELECOM Online
Resources Network
builds on best practices in content development, broadband delivery and
search functionality to offer a cost-effective and simple solution for
enhancing online courses with digital media.
The
INTELECOM repository includes collects of video lessons available in the
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I checked the INTELECOM site yesterday
afternoon and tried the clip link last night in class. I
saved s couple of clips to the My Clips folder and opened
them on the Smart Podium PC. I had to pre-load the clips to
my browser because the load time was significant (almost 5
minutes for a 1:45 clip). I opened a separate browser window
for each clip that I wanted to use. Each was ready and
played smoothly when opened during class. Content was also
very good.
Good resource - thanks to all!!!
Jim Anderson
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Adult Basic Education
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Health/Allied Health
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Anatomy
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Biology
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Earth Science
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Oceanography
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Economics
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Political Science
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Psychology
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Sociology
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U.S. History
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Environmental Science
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Philosophy (Available May 2009)
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The College of Southern
Maryland has purchased a 3-yr subscription to this service.
Contact the Innovative Teaching Center (ITC) for Login Information.
Students do NOT need a log-in, so there is no need to share this log-in
information with them. Login Information must be kept confidential, and
may only be used by CSM faculty and staff. Unauthorized use, distribution
or transfer by any means of the Login Information is prohibited and may
constitute a violation of INTELECOM’s copyrights.
Once logged in, faculty will be able to select clips specific to their
courses and store the links to these clips using an individual “My Clips”
account. Faculty can add links to the video presentations to their own
websites or to their WebCT courses in 3 short steps:
1. Click on
a clip title to display that clip's information in the lower half of the
Faculty Search Center. Beneath the clip's thumbnail, there is a button
called Copy to My Course.
2. Click on
Copy to My Course to launch a pop-up window that contains the URL for that
clip. Highlight and copy the URL and paste it directly into your course.
3. When
students click on the hyperlink, their default browser will open up a
Student Video Player and immediately being playing the clip in a
Flash-based video player.
Want/need help? Contact Sue (ssubocz@csmd.edu)
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Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE), July 1,
2008
FREE makes it easier to find teaching and
learning resources from the federal government. More than 1,500
federally supported teaching and learning resources are included
from dozens of federal agencies. New sites are added regularly.
See some examples
here, or visit their web site
http://free.ed.gov/ |
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Signs of Intelligent Life at YouTube
These enriching/educational videos come from media outlets,
cultural institutions, universities and non-profits. There are
about 70 collections in total, and the list will grow over time.
If we’re missing anything good, feel free to let us know, and
we’ll happily add them. You can find the complete list below:
http://www.oculture.com/2008/07/70_signs_of_intelligent_life_at_youtube.html
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Just-in-Time Teaching
Search and download from this collection of hundreds of teaching materials
and advice culled from Bedford/St. Martins print and online professional
resources.
http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/Adjunctcentral/player/index.aspx |
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WonderHowTo.com (June 4 from WTOP.com:
http://www.wtop.com/?nid=646&sid=1141579)
WonderHowTo.com claims it has
every how-to video that exists. Going in through the kitchen door, you'll find
where nearly 7,000 video recipes are available. WonderHowTo.com's menu
includes bread (203), salads (313), poultry (597), even utensils and equipment
(134). You'll find all-day projects as well as such shortcuts as "Making
Tandoori chicken the lazy American way." After your meal, browse the rest of
this site. There are "How-to" tutorials on car maintenance, pets -- even magic
tricks. |
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Educational software is exclusively available to qualified
Students, Teachers, Faculty, Staff, and Schools of Higher Education and K-12
institutions.
http://www.discount-educational-software.net/ |
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Adobe launches free web version of
Photoshop
Wed, Apr 09, 2008 From:
Adobe Systems Inc., maker of the popular photo-editing
software Photoshop, has launched a basic version of the program
available free of charge online. While Photoshop is designed for
trained professionals, Adobe says its Photoshop Express, which it
launched in a "beta" test version last month, is easier to learn.
Photoshop Express is completely web-based, so consumers can use it
with any type of computer, operating system, and browser. And, once
they register, users can get to their accounts from different
computers. After signing up for the free service, users can upload
their photos and then edit them with Adobe’s simplified set of
point-and-click controls for removing “red eye,” cropping, adjusting
the brightness and color saturation, and other functions. Users can
group photos into online albums and can post them to popular
social-networking sites, all from within the web-based program. http://www.photoshop.com/express
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A quick look at Microsoft Powerpoint 2008
http://tinyurl.com/256nzh |
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Mission to Learn Web Blog
More than 100 Free Places to Learn Online - and Counting |
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Faculty Network is a faculty-to-faculty network
promoting the effective use of learning technologies to enrich your teaching
experience!
Click here for a video introduction to the Wiley Faculty Network. The service connects teachers with technologies, facilitates the exchange of
best practices, and helps to enhance instructional efficiency and
effectiveness. Faculty Network activities include technology training and
tutorials, virtual seminars, peer-to-peer exchanges of experiences and ideas,
and sharing of resources.
Visit Faculty Network. |
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http://teacherline.pbs.org/teacherline
 PBS
TeacherLine provides teachers across the country with the high-quality,
standards- and research-based professional development that teachers like you
need to improve your skills to enhance your students' achievement. And with
PBS TeacherLine, trained, certified facilitators ensure that you'll get the
most out of your online learning experience.
Fall 2007 Catalog (PDF - 1120
KB)
This 27-page catalog contains information about most PBS TeacherLine courses,
including upcoming ones not offered this term. See the online catalog for
course schedule and availability this term, or to enroll. |
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SketchCast
SketchCast is a web-site that allows you to create sketches with recorded
voice. After you sign up to the service for free, you can start drawing your
sketches and, when done, you can record your own voice to explain what you are
doing. When
you are finished, you can embed a video player on any web- site to display
your sketch. Free to use. Perfect for Math instructors. |
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Federal Resource
for Educational Excellence
More than 1,500 federally supported teaching and learning
resources are included from dozens of federal agencies. New sites are added
regularly. |
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Innovate
Innovate is an open access, bimonthly, peer-reviewed online periodical
published by the Fischler School of Education and Human Services at Nova
Southeastern University. The journal focuses on the creative use of
information technology (IT) to enhance educational processes in
academicsettings. |
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John Gugerty of the University of Wisconsin-Madison presented
on PDF
accessibility at AHEAD 2006. He has developed many excellent on-line
tutorials in the public domain. The one on PDF is here:
http://www.cew.wisc.edu/accessibility/tutorials/accessiblePdfs.htm |
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Edutopia @Spiral Notebook
Visit this online community for original, creative, practical advice to get
you started in your classroom. Bloghttp://edutopia.org/community/spiralnotebook/ |
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Guidelines for describing visual teaching material
This web site provides examples and guidelines for describing visual teaching
material. These guidelines are for Open University staff who are providing
descriptions to accompany accessible course material, either audiotape,
screen-readable files, web pages and so on. Although the guidelines and
examples are based on Open University courses and reflect the way distance
learning students are supported, they may be of interest to others in Higher
Education.
http://kn.open.ac.uk/public/index.cfm?wpid=2709 |
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MIT Open CourseWare (OCW)
Through the MIT OpenCourseWare initiative, MIT makes its faculty's core
teaching materials openly available for anyone, anywhere in the world with
access to the Internet. We have found that,
with 1400 of MIT's
classes available, the
project is helping those it was designed to help -
educators, enrolled students, and self-learners around the world
- by providing a high-quality publication of MIT's core teaching materials.
To find courses available, go to the Course Listing
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/all-courses.htm
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TEACH Act Resources
Due to the growing interest in providing digital media in distance learning
courses, we have compiled some resources related to copyright issues, the
TEACH Act and it’s use in the classroom (particularly the online classroom).
Follow link here. |
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ADA Links
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Workforce Education Webcasts
The Workforce Education Webcasts are designed to create an interactive
learning environment to be used to enrich the professional development
experiences of secondary and postsecondary career and technical educators
across the country as well as internationally. The Workforce Education
Webcasts are available at:
http://www.nccte.org/webcasts/index.asp |
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Free Podcasts from National Geographic
Download the latest nature and science news, eye-opening photography, audio
travel guides, classic video clips, world music coverage, and wild animal
adventures with National Geographic's free podcasts.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/podcasts/ |
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List of New
FREE Resources Available in Arts, Foreign Languages, History, Language Arts
and Science from the Instructional
Technology Council: THE Community College Distance Learning Organization
http://www.itcnetwork.org.
Date: July 11, 2006 |
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Virtual Labs Research
Research on "virtual labs" for science classes or "lab
kits" that can be used with web-based science courses.
Information on virtual
labs
• Virtual labs: a substitute for traditional labs?
http://www.ijdb.ehu.es/ijdb20034723/ft231.pdf
Publisher Virtual Labs
• Online Learning Center: McGraw-Hill
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0073031208/student_view0/virtual_labs.html
• Biology Labs Online: Pearson
http://www.biologylab.awlonline.com/
• Biology Virtual Labs: HHMI Publications
http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/vlabs/index.html
Commercial/Organizations
• Geology Online Labs – NSF
http://www.sciencecourseware.org
• Cells Alive
http://www.cellsalive.com
• The Interactive Plasma Physics Education Experience
http://ippex.pppl.gov/
Collections
• The Environmental Literacy Council – Environmental
Science Labs and Activities
http://www.enviroliteracy.org/subcategory.php/243.html
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Epson sponsors a Web site,
Presenters
Online Basics, that offers lots of excellent tips and
advice on content, visuals, and delivery. |
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 The
Innovation Stream (iStream) provided by the League for
Innovation in the Community College is now available to
our institution. This tool is an online resource bank and
learning community. As a subscriber, you can use iStream
as a
professional development tool, listen to League Radio,
dialogue with colleagues, or access publications and
presentations.
If you would like access to this site, please go to
www.league.org and follow the following instructions:
- click on istream (noted in the top
black menu bar)
- click to login (located under
Welcome, Guest User in red)
- key in your email address
- click on new user (an email with a
link will be sent to you)
- now close this website and wait for
your email to be validated.
Once you receive the email confirmation
from The League, follow the instructions, which will give
you access to iStream. |
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THE CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND
INTERNATIONAL STUDIES (CSIS) is offering a free new
objective, online resource, globalization101.org, to teach
college students about policy aspects of globalization
related to civics, economics, geography and history.
Globalization101.org provides unbiased, easily
understandable information and related lesson plans to
teach about cross-disciplinary subjects such as
international trade, world-wide health and environmental
issues and global technological changes. The site includes
issue briefs, news analyses, teachers' resource section,
video interviews with experts in the field and useful
links. This Web site is the perfect tool for teachers
looking to internationalize their classroom. Please visit
www.globalization101.org. The CSIS staff is available
for presentations to demonstrate this resource. For more
information contact Rebecca Weiner, market associate, CSIS
at 202/741-3936 or g101@csis.org. |
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New York Public Library's (NYPL) recently
opened Digital Gallery. Containing more than
275,000 images of historical digitized images and
documents. It porvides for a free and open access to its
Digital Gallery and images may be freely downloaded for
personal, research and study purposes. Included digital
scans of documents.
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm |
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Technology in the Classroom Web Resources. A listing
of 50 different links to web resources for faculty. |
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CSM is a member of the
Instructional Technology Council (ITC).
We encourage you to access the member’s only section of
the ITC Web site at
http://www.itcnetwork.org. You will find:
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 Past
issues of the ITC News and Featured Essays
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Free access to “Quality
Enhancing Practices in Distance Education: Volume 2,
Student Services.”
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Legislative
Advocacy/Updates - ITC serves as a legislative
liaison to inform you about distance learning
legislation. An advocate for distance learning with the
American Association of Community Colleges, ITC informs
legislators about the concerns of distance educators.
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Grants Information
- ITC regularly informs you about grant opportunities
that could provide the funding to build or expand your
distance learning program.
The institutional password
for CSM is available by request; email
Theresab@csmd.edu,
phone ext.7136, or drop by the ITC, La Plata campus,
LR202. |
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Federal
Resources for Excellence in Education (FREE)
has added 17 new resources in health, science and social studies to
its Web site. See our listing by discipline. |
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Higher Education Resources on the Web
The League for Innovation in the Community College web page
includes links to information resources for community college students, faculty, and staff. |
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