CAI Sources Elsewhere

Presented by Andy Jones
Coordinator, Computer-Aided Instruction
The English Department
The University Writing Program
U.C. Davis

Tools and Resources Off Campus

Every major academic discipline has a "portal" somewhere, that is, a collection or directory of resources specific to that discipline that interested parties visit to begin any investigation of web-based resources.

One of my favorites for the topics we are covering today is Michael L. Hall’s "Teaching with Electronic Technology" page at the University of Maryland. I prefer this site because it is comprehensive and updated (with new articles and links) often.

http://www.wam.umd.edu/~mlhall/teaching.html

Another is "Instructional Technology Connections" at the University of Colorado at Denver:

http://www.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itcon.html

The best way to find the major portals in your discipline is to enter the most relevant keywords in the Google search engine, paying special attention to which sites appear first. In the Humanities, we usually start with Alan Liu’s famous and monstrous site, The Voice of the Shuttle:

http://vos.ucsb.edu/

You might also want to investigate Camera Obscura's meta-index of academic and scholarly resources. It takes a while to load:

http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/etext.html

To see how other professors in your discipline have presented materials via course web pages, visit The World Lecture Hall at

http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture/

One of the Best Tip Sheets on Teaching Writing with Computers can be found here.

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