Resources

Workshop Handouts

• Introduction to Blackboard Academic Suite: Learning System I & II
• Introduction to Blackboard Academic Suite: Content System
• Introduction to PowerPoint
• PowerPoint Advanced Features
• PowerPoint: Best Practices
• Introduction to FrontPage I
• Introduction to FrontPage II
• Using Technology to Improve Feedback on Student Writing Projects
• Teaching with Wikis and Blogs
• Getting Started with Adobe IndesignCS6

Online Teaching Materials and Resources

• Open CourseWare (OCW)
  This MIT's Web site provides open and free access to MIT's teaching materials. Today, teaching materials from 70% of all 2,000 courses taught at MIT has been put on OCW. There are some courses on OCW that include video lectures.
• MERLOT
  MERLOT stands for Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching. It is a free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. Links to online learning materials are collected here along with annotations such as peer reviews and assignments.
• Global Campus
  The Global campus is a collaborative multimedia database containing a variety of outstanding educational materials such as images, sounds, text, and video for various disciplines (business, fine arts, engineering, liberal arts, library and science) to be used for educational purposes.
• World Lecture Hall
  It contains free online course materials created by faculty worldwide for various disciplines including engineering, sciences, mathematics, humanities, social sciences, business, etc.

Online Resources on Effective Teaching Strategies

• Research on Teaching and Learning
  This Penn State's Web site provides a quick reference for faculty on current research and experience in the development of instructional materials, technology-supported teaching and learning and interactive class activities.
• Creating Effective Quizzes for Learning
  This Penn State's Web site provides strategies to create effective quizzes to measure student achievement on different learning objectives. 
• Effective Discussion Strategies
  This Penn State's Web site provides strategies to effectively use and manage chat rooms and discussion boards. 
• Developing and Implementing Effective Team Projects
  This Penn State's Web site provides strategies on developing and implementing effective team projects based on your course objectives.