Introduction
This site is a collection of resources from our colleagues of CTL 1609 Fall 2001.Sharing of resources from colleagues at this level has provided us with a unique opportunity to professionally develop with quality focused resources thus saving enormous amounts of precious time.

Lesson Plans
shared resources compliments of Mansureh Kebritchi

Title: Lesson Planz.com
URL: http://lessonplanz.com/
Summary:This site is a useful directory that help teachers to find online lessons in different topics such as Science, Art , computer and… It also include a collection of articles related to teaching profession. The site has a search tool that allows visitors find the material easily.

Title: Teachers created Online Lessons
URL:http://www.forsyth.k12.ga.us/sbeck/teachercreate.htm
Summary: In this site, a group of teachers provide online lessons and activities for K-12 level in different areas including Math, Social study, Health and safety and…

Title: Online Lesson Plan
URL:http://oak.acemail.net/cornerstones/lessonplan.html
Summary: This is a directory from Canada's Schoolnet that includes different sites related to online lessons.

One Stop Shopping
shared resources compliments of Gary Pieters

Title: PDOnline
URL: http://www2.tvo.org/pdonline/
Summary: One stop shoppong tools for teachers

shared resources compliments of Lorie Fioze
Title:www for Teachers
URL: http://www.4teachers.org/
Summary: This site educates teachers on technology as well as offering them tools for education.

shared resources compliments of Paula Burns
Title:Online Educational Resources
URL: http://illinois.online.uillinois.edu/onlineResources/index.html
Summary: The resources in the ION Online Resources section represent a selected list of resources dealing with various aspects of online education and the online environment in general. It also has the capability to search.

shared resources compliments of J Rowe

Title: Designing Test Questions
URL:http://www.utc.edu/Teaching-Resource-Center/test-questions.html
Summary: This site offers descriptions and follows with uses, advantages, disadvantages, and tips for writing test questions in all formats.

shared resources compliments of J Rowe

Title: Questioning Toolkit
URL:http://emifyes.iserver.net/fromnow/nov97/toolkit.html
Summary: Several dozen kinds of questions and questioning tools.

shared resources compliments of J Rowe

Title: Guidelines for Behavioural Objectives
URL:http://www.edu.uleth.ca/courses/ed3604/asess/behav.html
Summary: A 1 page guideline for objectives.

Title: How to write Behavioural Objectives
URL: http://www.adprima.com/objectives.htm
Summary: This article teaches how to write objectives.

shared resources compliments of J Rowe

Title:Annotated List of Search Tools
URL:http://www.webliminal.com/search/appendix_a1.htm
Summary: Here is a annotated bibliography of all search engines (explanation of each and what they are best used for.

Title: Boolean Searching on the Internet
URL:http://www.albany.edu/library/internet/boolean.html
Summary: Of all the readings I found this URL to be the simplist the Boolean search method . It stated the fact, gave an example and then showed a Venn diagram demonstrating the meaning.

Title:Virtual Search Engines on the Internet
URL:http://www.virtualfreesites.com/search.html
Summary: I found this URL to be convenient for a large assortment search engines. It has them all on 1 page and describes each one.

Title:Things to Know Before you Start Surfing
URL:http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/ThingsToKnow.html
Summary:This is basic info on"How to"

Title:Recommended Search Strategy
URL:http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Strategies.html
Summary: And yet another "how to"

Title:Mondo Search
URL:http://www.mondosoft.com/
Summary: Site search engine for corporate Web sites, intranets, extranets and portals.

Title:Guidelines of Critique for Research Report
URL:http://www.uwm.edu/~brodg/Handout/critique.htm
Summary:A very simple 1 page description of how to critique a research report.

shared resources compliments of Greg Weiler

Title:Canadian Education on the Web
URL:http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/~mpress/eduweb/eduweb.html
Summary:The purpose of Canadian Education on the Web is to bring together everything relating to Canada and education that has a presence on the World Wide Web. The page is developed and maintained by Marian Press in the Education Commons of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto.

Title:Education Journals
URL:http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/~mpress/eduweb/journals.html
Summary:Marian Press's website listing URLs of online full text educational journals

Title:Journal of Educational Leadership
URL:http://www.ascd.org/frameedlead.html
Summary:Journal for teachers and administrators provides selected articles from each issue. Learn how to subscribe or how to submit articles.

Title:Journal of Technology & Teacher Education
URL:http://www.aace.org/pubs/jtate/
Summary:Take a look at this academic journal that specializes in the implementation of technology in teacher education. Subscription instructions provided. The cost is $45.00/journal.

Title: Learning Style Questionnaire
URL:http://www2.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/ILSdir/ilsweb.html
Summary: Take this learning style questionairre to see where you fit.

Title: Learning Style Counseling
URL:http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed341890.html
Summary: What is learning styles

Title: Know your learning styles
URL: http://www.womensmedia.com/seminar-learningstyle.html
Summary: People learn in different ways. Just as we prefer different hair styles, clothing styles, managerial styles, and music styles, we also feel much more natural and comfortable acquiring information in ways that fit our preferred "styles" of learning.

Title: Learning Styles - Great Minds Don't Think Alike
URL:http://cleo.murdoch.edu.au/asu/pubs/tlf/tlf95/whit271.html
Summary: This workshop deals with the work of Dr Rita Dunn from St John's University in New York and Dr Ken Dunn of Queen's College in New York. They are leading American educators in the area of learning styles. (Whitefield, 1993)

Title:Learning Styles and the Onlime Environment
URL:http://illinois.online.uillinois.edu/IONresources/instructionaldesign/learningstyles.html
Summary: Online learnong environment and learnong styles.

Title:CTL Learning Style Site
URL:http://www-isu.indstate.edu/ctl/styles/learning.html
Summary:Using Learning Styles to Adapt Technology for Higher Education

Title: Adult Learning Principles
URL:http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/adults-2.htm
Summary: Part of being an effective instructor involves understanding how adults learn best. Compared to children and teens, adults have special needs and requirements as learners. Despite the apparent truth, adult learning is a relatively new area of study. The field of adult learning was pioneered by Malcom Knowles. He identified the following characteristics of adult learners:

Title:A learning Style Survey for College
URL:http://www.metamath.com//multiple/multiple_choice_questions.cgi
Summary: A learning style questionairre.

shared resources compliments of Laila Moosabhoy, a Ph.D. candidate, in CTL 1000 last year shared these resouces with the class. Of all her research they were the top 8.

Title: Critical Thinking: Basic questions and answers
URL: http://www.criticalthinking.org/K12/k12library/questions.nclk
Summary: Aquick overview of critical thinking and the issues surrounding it: defining it, common mistakes in assessing it, its relation to communication skills, self-esteem, collaborative learning, motivation, curiosity, job skills for the future, national standards, and assessment strategies.

Title: Fundamentals of Critical Thinking
URL:http://www.criticalthinking.org/K12/k12library/library.nclk
Summary:

Title: 3 Definitions of Critical Thinking
URL:http://www.criticalthinking.org/K12/k12library/definect.nclk
Summary:1) Disciplined, self-directed thinking which exemplifies the perfections of thinking appropriate to a particular mode or domain of thinking. 2) Thinking that displays mastery of intellectual skills and abilities. 3) The art of thinking about your thinking while you are thinking in order to make your thinking better: more clear, more accurate, or more defensible. Critical thinking can be distinguished into two forms: "selfish" or "sophistic", on the one hand, and "fairminded", on the other. In thinking critically we use our command of the elements of thinking to adjust our thinking successfully to the logical demands of a type or mode of thinking.

Title: Content is Thinking: Thinking is Content
URL:http://www.criticalthinking.org/K12/k12library/content.nclk
Summary: Critical thinking approaches all content explicitly as thinking. It takes thinking apart. It weaves new thinking into old. It assesses thinking. It applies thinking. It is thinking about thinking while thinking in order to make thinking better: more clear, more accurate, more relevant, more deep, more broad, and more effective.

Title: Critical Thinking Resources
URL:http://www.indiana.edu/~eric_rec/bks/ct.html
Summary: A site made up of critical thinking resources.

Title: Helping Students assess their thinking
URL:http://www.criticalthinking.org/K12/k12library/helps.nclk
Summary: There are two essential dimensions of thinking that students need to master in order to learn how to upgrade their thinking. They need to be able to identify the "parts" of their thinking, and they need to be able to assess their use of these parts of thinking. This article explains this concept.

Title: Universal Intellectual Standards
URL:http://www.criticalthinking.org/K12/k12library/unistan.nclk
Summary: Universal intellectual standards are standards which must be applied to thinking whenever one is interested in checking the quality of reasoning about a problem, issue, or situation. To think critically entails having command of these standards. To help students learn them, teachers should pose questions which probe student thinking, questions which hold students accountable for their thinking, questions which, through consistent use by the teacher in the classroom, become internalized by students as questions they need to ask themselves.

Title: Free-ed.net
URL: http://www.free-ed.net/
Summary: Complete courses and tutorials for more than 120 different vocational and academic disciplines.

CITING SOURCES

Title: The Elements of Citing
URL: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos/idx_basic.html
Summary: All about citing

Assessment

Suggested Readings and Resources on Assessment and Evaluation in CMC

Assessing Learners Online
http://ericacve.org/docs/pfile03.htm

Student Assessment in Online Courses - Explores Basics, Tools & Problems http://illinois.online.uillinois.edu/IONresources/assessment/index.html

Evaluating Learning in Virtual Environments http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~syverson/olr/caeti.html

Online Evaluation Resource Library
http://oerl.sri.com/

Eric Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation
http://www.ericae.net/

The Case for Authentic Assessment – Grant Wiggins http://ericae.net/pare/getvn.asp?v=2&n=2

Testing on Computers: A Follow Up Study Comparing Performance on Computer and On Paper [48 pages]
http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v7n20/

Creating Powerful Online Courses Using Multiple Instructional Strategies http://leahi.kcc.hawaii.edu/org/tcc_conf97/pres/pitt.html

Principles for Fair Student Assessment Practices in Canada
http://www.2learn.ca/Projects/

Together/fair.html Item Bias Review
http://ericae.net/pare/getvn.asp?v=4&n=6

Fogging
shared resources compliments of Lorie Fioze

Title: Writing Tips - The Fog Index
URL: http://www.fpd.finop.umn.edu/groups/ppd/documents/information/writing_tips.cfm
Summary: The Fog Index is a proven method of analyzing written material to see how easy it is to read and understand. This tool measures it.

Title: Clear Language and Design
URL: http://www.eastendliteracy.on.ca/ClearLanguageAndDesign/start.htm
Summary: Run your report or document through and it will highlight(fog) words that are not at a grade 6 level.

Title: Clear Simple Writing
URL: http://www.fog-free.com/clearwrite.html
Summary: The Plain English Report

Title: Making the Links
URL:http://www.pls.cpha.ca/main.htm
Summary: This has a directory of plain language health information.

Title: Clear Writing-10 Principles of clear writing.
URL: http://muextension.missouri.edu/xplor/comm/cm0201.htm
Summary: 10 Principles are provided.

Title: Principles of Clear Writing
URL:http://www.blm.gov/nhp/main/regtest/Princpls.html
Summary: How to write in an active voice.

Title: Seven Most Common Business Writing Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
URL: http://www.tsbj.com/editorial/03030711.htm
Summary: Guidelines on how to write business letters.

Title: Writer's Handbook
URL: http://www.wisc.edu/writetest/Handbook/ClearConciseSentences.html
Summary: How to write grammar & style.

Title: Back- Introducing Plain Language
URL: http://www.web.net/~plain/PlainTrain/Digest.html
Summary: Plain Train online Training- How to write in plain language.

Title: Think Clearly. Write it Right
URL: http://www.insitetraining.com/training_articles/write_it_right.htm
Summary: Writing clear for critical thinking

Title: Plain Language Action Network
URL: http://www.plainlanguage.gov/
Summary: About plain language.

Title: The Word Centre Success Through Plain Language
URL: http://www.wordcentre.co.uk/page8.htm
Summary: What & how to write in plain english.

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