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In creating your course web site, a number of questions may arise. As the web is ever dynamic and changing, so will your thinking about your course web site. This document is hardly exhaustive of the web resources that exist; however, it hopes to provide you with some places to explore the answers and to inspire new questions. Contents Copyright and Fair Use Digital materials makes copyright increasingly complex. The Digital Millennium Copyright Law has begun to clarify how electronic materials comply to copyright law. You need to become aware that linking to other sites and uploading images, sound, and/or video to your site may have copyright infringements. "Academic Permissions Service" "Copyright & Fair Use" Provides links organized into following categories:
"Guide to Copyright and Fair Use Issues" Provides a brief summary of the issue and links to other sites. "Fair Use Guidelines for Educational Multimedia" Cites the proposed guidelines from 1996. An interesting presentation of all of the issues relevant to educational use. The following sites are resources for helping you develop a course web site. Bruce's Technology Center Web Authoring FAQ Catalyst: Glossary "Anatomy of a Course Web site" "Usuable Web: Guide to Web Usability Resources" Web Style Guide As students become more accustomed to surfing the web rather than using the library, the problem of discerning what is good and bad on the web increasingly becomes an issue. How do you teach your students what is good or bad content on a web site? Are your students developing the skills to assess their sources? The following sites may be good places to learn those skills with regard to electronic resources. In other words, you may want to pass these sites to your students as a way for them to begin to learn how to use the Web as a meaningful research tool. "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" Links organized into following categories:
"Evaluating Web Resources" Contains PowerPoint presentations for teaching the subject to a group and checklists for different kinds of web pages. Uses actual pages as examples. Includes a bibliography.
"Guide to Critical Thinking about What You See on the Web" Well organized site with links to other sites. It also includes a very interesting homework assignment for students. If you use it, the authors ask that you forward the results from your students so they can add the data to that which they generate from their own classes. Example of a distracting background. Links to sites that instruct students in developing productive research/search strategies and skills for the evaluation of information on web sites. "Using the Internet to Prepare a Term Paper for a Geology Course" Journal of Geoscience Education, 47, 17-22. WAIT, DON'T BE HASTY! No matter the slant of this site, it could be very useful for you. The authors of this site and a related one explicitly give permission for you, the instructor, to download the text , to alter it to increase its relevance for your class, and to distribute it to your students. "Evaluating Web Sites: A Guide for Writers" and "Research on the Web: How Reliable is it?" Two short papers describing the "how to's" of evaluating and researching on the Web. Evaluating Internet Research Sources Another short paper on evaluting web sites "Citing Electronic Resources" "Electronic Style - the Final Frontier" A comprehensive treatment of the subject on a series of linked pages. You might want to read most of these related pages, but you would only recommend a few as most relevant to a student writing a paper. "Citing Internet Sources" Provides links to sites with formats and examples. Not only do our students need to learn how to do reseach on the Web, they also need to learn what is acceptable use of web materials. Part of the problem is education with regard to copyright, but another part of the problem may exist in the assignments we as teachers assign. The following sites provide strategies and tips regarding the creation of assignments that will help avoid violations in the academic. While you try to create assignments that will prevent academic code violations, nothing can be foolproof. An increasing number of resources created for students and educators alike can help you determine if a student's work is plagiarized from another web site. This is a short essay on the topic; more importantly, there is a short list of places where you and your student can get free papers and/or research assistance. This topic has recently been in the New York Times and The Chronicle of Higher Education. Some of the sites they mention may be found in this list. This site uses a database of papers and a series of mathematical formulas to determine the likelihood that a paper was plagiarized. "Detecting Plagiarized Papers" Short list of things to look for. IntegriGuard: Protecting Academic Integrity Essentially, the site will detect if a paper is plagiarized. Educators can try this service for free for 6 months. Thereafter, there is a fee. Try the "All the Words" search function with a unique phrase. If you have any other comments on any of these sites or have any to add, please feel free to send e-mail to Sheridan_Center@Brown.edu. Main: Pedagogy: Web Resources for Effective Teaching and Learning |
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