The following websites are all recommended as in some way useful for online instructors.

WebCT Suggestion Box - http://www.webct.com/service/ViewContent?contentID=3371954. Here's the place to send messages direct to the folks at WebCT letting them know any problems, frustrations, Great Ideas, etc.

Mabee Distance Ed Resources Page - http://www.washburn.edu/mabee/defaculty.html. Our friendly Mabee librarian, Judy Druse, has agreed to create and keep updating this page of links to web resources of particular value to online instructors.

"Digital World History Teaching Methods & Resources: What I Use, How It Works & Where I Get It" by Sara Tucker - http://www.washburn.edu/cas/history/AHA2001paper.html. Online version of recent Tucker conference presentation tracing the variety of ways she uses computer resources in teaching, and how these resources in return allow her to modify her instructional style, especially in online classes.

"Gaining Faculty Acceptance for Online Courses at a Traditional College": by Carol Botsch and Robert Botsch - http://horizon.unc.edu/TS/cases/2000-07.asp . The authors describe the process by which they created a do-able first time online course deliberately designed not to depart too much at first from their established traditional-style version of the course, thereby making the time committment less burdensome and being more likely to win approval fromtraditionally-oriented colleagues.

Dealing With Plagiarism:

Maureen Roszkowski's Identify and Search for Plagiarized Papers: http://www.siue.edu/ENGLISH/websites/plagiarism.htm. This is an excellent starting point for all those interested in tackling the growing problem of plagiarism and its cousins. It is a rich list of links, many to very useful specific sites.
Bedford/St. Martin's TechNotes - Thinking & Talking About Plagiarism: http://bedfordstmartins.com/technotes/techtiparchive/ttip102401.htm. Contains both an annotated list of recommended links and the author's own philosophy and teaching strategies.
Robert Harris's Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers: http://www.virtualsalt.com/antiplag.htm. Site offers instructors advice awareness (including recognizing the difference between deliberate and inadvertant), prevention & detection of plagiarism.
Sherman Dorn's Plagiarism: http://www.coedu.usf.edu/%7Edorn/tutorials/plagiarism/plagiarism.htm. What Dorn calls a "Lemonade Tutorial," referring both to making a virtue/teaching moment (lemonade) out of a problem (lemon) and his own rather ascerbic wit. The following list of his subpage headings gives a sense of what's covered and his style: "Who cares?," " What I did wasn't plagiarism," "It's too hard", and "Resources."
J. B. Owens' Plagiarism: http://www.isu.edu/~owenjack/plag.html. This page is particularly useful for its excellent examples, in which specific source excerpts are given, examples of plagiarized uses of them are given accompanied by explanations of why, and then examples of correct use and citation provided.

The Web of Asynchronous Learning Networks- http://www.aln.org/index.htm.   Website has links to sponsoring ALN Center, its newletter, discussions, recommended links, etc.

Maryland Faculty Online - http://www.mdfaconline.org/. An Online Resource page specifically developed for faculty in Maryland institutions, but useful to outside faculty too. Some subpages as of September 2001 are still "under development."

"Poster Children" - Examples of Well-Developed Online Courses

World Civilizations: An Internet Classroom and Anthology - http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/
American History 102: Civil War - Present - http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/

 
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