Web Resources for Teaching

• A Berkeley Compendium of Suggestions for Teaching with Excellence provides 212 suggestions for improving one's teaching, covering 25 key areas. Most of the suggestions were authored by award-winning Berkeley faculty who had been rated highly in that area. Adding to the value of this site are the questionnaires--for student- and self-evaluation--that are keyed to the items in the Compendium.
• Academe Today: Internet Resources: Report on Term Paper Mills (C.O.H.E. password required)
• Biological Bases of Behavior. This site won a Teaching and Learning award, and it's easy to see why. . . (?)
• The Boyer Report. Reinventing Undergraduate Education: A Blueprint for America's Research Universities. 1998.
• Communication Media Center (Information Services) - Oregon State University. OSU's centralized instructional media service, providing faculty with instructional media resources for enhancing classroom and distance learning instructional processes.
• Cronin's On the importance of Teaching Excellence.is a revised version of his inaugural address, a Celebration of Excellence in Teaching, upon assuming the role of President of Whitman College.
• DeLiberations is a searchable online "magazine" from London Guildhall and Kingston Universities featuring well-written articles covering a wide range of pedagogical topics.
• Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard University, has excellent resources for faculty and teaching assistants. See, for instance, the forms for mid-semester evaluations.
• Developmental Psychology Resources
  • Basic Embryology Review Program. This award-winning web site provides an Overview of prenatal development that is open to the public.
• Designing Effective Visuals is "one in a series of on-line tutorials intended to aid the user in effective scientific communication." I highly recommend these tutorials--put together by Jeff Radel of KU Medicat Center--for anyone interested in developing effective presentations.
• Educause "Transforming Education through Information Technologies." This is an extensive, professionally produced site. It's own e-publications have with a defininte pro-IT (and distance learning) bias, and seem to be written by, and for, academic administrators rather than faculty. Interesting data are provided on the Consumer Guide to Evaluating Information Technology on Campus pages.
• EHR Home Page " The [N.S.F.] Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR) is responsible for the health and continued vitality of the Nation's science, mathematics, engineering, and technology education and for providing leadership in the effort to improve education in these areas.
• Encyclopedia of Educational Technology, edited by Bob Hoffman of San Diego State University.
• Inventio from George Mason University is an ejournal devoted to creative thinking about teaching and learning
• Linda Walsh's Homepage. Of particular interest are Walsh's Resources for TAs, and her collections of links to psychology syllabi and to demonstrations and tutorials.
• Megalists of Teaching Resource Centers. My own compendium of compendiums. I've removed non-functional links and added comments.
• OTRP Online - Internet Resources for Teachers of Psychology. This megasite is part of the TOPSS (Teachers of Psychology in Secondary Schools) home page. Its primary purpose is to provide resources to enhance the teaching of psychology at the secondary level.
• Preparing Future Faculty. " a national network of academic leaders reshaping graduate education to include preparation for the full range of faculty roles subsumed by the terms teaching, research, and service."
• A Publication on Information Technology at Emory University is an electronic version of a periodical published at Emory. [link not working Nov 03]
• Resources For Involving Scientists in Education. From the National Academy of Sciences.
• Russ Dewey's PsychWeb
• Society for the Teaching of Psychology. APA Division 2
• The Stanford University Center for Teaching and Learning has a great set of resources for Faculty and TAs. I highly recommend Teaching at Stanford the CTL's Introductory Handbook For Faculty, Academic Staff/Teaching, And Teaching Assistants, by Michele Marincovich. You can download it here.
• SyllabusWeb is a commercial site where you will find Syllabus Magazine and announcements of Syllabus Conferences. The focus is on useful information on technology used to enhance education.
• Teaching and Learning on the Web is a database of annotated links to web syllabi, courses, and resources, searchable by discipline.
• Teaching with Electronic Technology The focus of Michael Hall's vast collection of web resources is teaching in the humanities, but there is much here that will interest psychology faculty.
• Teaching Psychology From the Graduate School of the University of South Carolina, here are some two dozen essays, including excerpts from journal articles, on a variety of (non-IT) teaching topics such as lecturing, class discussion, cheating, exam creation, and the like.
• Technology Source is a peer-reviewed bimonthly journal on topics related to integrating information technology tools into teaching and into managing educational organizations.
• Teaching, Learning & Technology Center, Seton Hall University
• The Chronicle of Higher Education: Information Technology
• The UC Berkeley Instructional Technology Program
• The World Lecture Hall. The World Lecture Hall (WLH) contains links to web pages created by faculty in various academic disciplines who are using the Web to deliver class materials. Clicking here will take you to the Psychology section, but you might also want to visit other disciplines for examples of how to use the web in your teaching. (Warning: Some of the links appear to be primarily for advertising purposes.)

• Columbia University Home Page
• Internet Search Engines (I would Google to this list)
• Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning.
• How to Create Web Pages at Columbia
• Teaching at Columbia, a comprehensive manual for Columbia TAs
• Department of Psychology Homepage
  • TA Manual for psychology graduate students
  • Psych Links
• From Lois Putnam's courses
  • Links for Developmental Psychology (w2280)
  • Links for Children at Risk (w3615)
  • Links for Seminar in Emotion (w3410)

• BuildingTheWeb.com is one of many (not-for-academics) web design sites, but I keep it on m list because it's such a pleasure to view.
• Creating Killer Web Sites includes a gallery of Example Sites that take novel approaches to web site design.
• Creating Web Pages with Netscape Composer

  • Simple Web Authoring tutorials from the CIT of UNC.
  • Web 201: Creating your course web page, from UPenn., provides separate instructions for PC and Mac users.
  • Linda Walsh's instructions
  • My own How to Make a Web Page using Netscape Composer
  • Surfette's Pages for Teachers is a well-designed site with Composer training, tutorials, and sample web pages, plus graphics and other resources for developing educational web pages (primarily K-12). [link not working Nov 03]
• Evaluating Web Resources provides faculty and students with criteria and checklists to use in evaluating different kinds of web pages. This is just one of eight self-contained modules for Teaching/Learning the World-Wide Web.
• Interactive Exercise Makers provides a variety of sophisticated tools for building online exercises. Dan Beeby, one of the principal developers, is now at the CCNMTL.
• QuizCenter is one of the features of DiscoverySchool.com, a commercial site providing a variety of internet services and tools for educators and students. Although the focus is on K-12, the online quiz-posting and -grading service is potentially useful to college faculty as well.
• Richie and Hoffman, Using Instructional Design Principles To Amplify Learning On The World Wide Web. This article won a Best Paper Award for "Use of the World Wide Web."
• Sink or Swim: Internet Search Tools and Techniques
• Virtual Education--Web-based teaching and learning. Here is a detailed outline, with accompanying PowerPoint presentation and links to supporting web sites. Although the page hasn't been updated since 1997, the outline is still worth reading.

These teaching-related links are from the APA Preparing Future Faculty Scholars program at Miami University. Non-working links, and duplicates of those in my own bookmarks, have been removed.

• American Psychological Association
  
• American Psychological Society
  
• Chronicle of Higher Education
  
• National Teaching & Learning Forum
  
• Office of Teaching Resources in Psychology
  
• Society for Teaching of Psychology
  
• Council of Teachers of Undergraduate Psychology
  
• PsychSite Launchpad to Psychology Resources on the Net
  
• Diversity issues in psychology courses
  
• Psi Chi website, focused on needs of undergrads
  
• Preparing future faculty
• National Association of Graduate-Professional Students
  
• Project NEXT: New Experiences in Teaching--for new PhDs in mathematics, so most relevant to teaching statistics, but some advice that is generally useful, like "keeping your research alive" and "questions to ask on the job interview"
  
• The Boyer Commission on Educating Undergraduates in the Research University: Section VIII. Educate Graduate Students as Apprentice Teachers
  
•   New Carnegie book features psychology case study of the scholarship of teaching and tearning. also see Carnegie site.
  Also from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, see this annotated biblography on the scholarship of teaching and learning in higher education.
  

• Alistair B. Fraser: The Web: a classrooom sans walls
  Jan. 2001: I was unable to locate this article on Fraser's relocated site. However, the Apple web site has a description of Fraser's use of the web in teaching meteorology, and COHE (Aug. 1999) has published his opninion piece "Colleges Should Tap the Pedagogical Potential of the World-Wide Web"
• California Virtual University
• EdTech WebRing
• A Gutenberg Juncture. How can the new instructional technology be used to improve learning? [Note: The IAT at UNC was closed in 1998; I have not been able to locate this ms on the CIT pages or anywhere wlse on the WWW.
• plaguescape: CONTENTS
• Annotated Links to Internet Resources for Learning and Teaching (from Penn State) {missing}
• Distance & Continuing Education, Oregon State University {missing}
• Children's Figure Drawings. An archive of drawings of "someone you know" by 6, 8, 9, and 10-year olds. {missing}
• Developmental video archives . From the Loughborough teaching resources on Human Development, some very useful samples from a large (but inaccessible) database. {missing}
• New Chalk Featuring Instructors' Use of Networked Technologies {missing}
• Practicum in Teaching Psychology is the web site for the teaching practicum at Virginia Commonwealth University. {missing}
• PsychREF. Resources in psychology on the internet. A particularly well-designed and comprehensive site, edited by Vincent Hevern of LeMoyne College. The site is organized around four main topics, {this website has been removed}
  • General Resources
  • Teaching & Scholarly Activities by Faculty
  • Resources for Students & Academic Advisors
  • Topics and Subfields in Psychology

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