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UMUC-Bell Atlantic Virtual Resource Site for Teaching with Technology

Welcome to the UMUC-Bell Atlantic Virtual Resource Site for Teaching with Technology.

Module 1 provides resources for use in the selection of appropriate media to accomplish specific learning objectives.

Module 2 provides resources for faculty using technology in research assignments, small group projects, and discussions to encourage activity.

Degree.net Central

Welcome to Degree.net: the web’s number one resource for information on distance learning, provided by John Bear, Ph.D., author of the long-time best-selling Bears’ Guide to Earning Degrees Nontraditionally.

Distance learning is a booming field: More and more schools are making it possible for people to get the degree they want or need without ever setting foot on a college campus. It can also be a baffling field, fraught with misinformation, false expectations, complexities such as accreditation, and outright dangers such as diploma mills.
Degree.net is here to help make distance learning less baffling and more booming. We’re here to demystify accreditation, identify diploma mills, report on the latest developments in the industry, and, most importantly, help distance learners and good distance learning schools to find each other.

DLRN — For Educators
“Designing Instruction for Web-Based Distance Learning”

Would you like to know more about online teaching and learning?
Are you interested in teaching a class via the Web or turning your existing class into an online course? If you answered yes to these questions, the Distance Learning Resource Network’s “Designing Instruction for Web-Based Distance Learning” is for you. This guide will help you design a course or materials for the Web or convert an existing course into an online course.

These scenarios raise many issues and questions that we hope this guide and its activities will address. One of the main issues distance education instructors face is how the impact of teaching a course on the Internet changes the interaction between student and teacher, as well as between student and student. We hope that completion of this course will lead to satisfying, new teaching experiences for you and success in creating a dynamic, interactive Web-based learning experience.

SmartNet 2000 Programme
Theme : Making It Happen in the Knowledge Economy.

Judith Anderson
While on the subject of art, I was intrigued by the images here…

Artchive
I would have a huge screen on the wall and a net connection just to see this site all day!

Web.Studies, first chapter, by David Gauntlett

“PART II: WEB LIFE, ARTS AND CULTURE
4. A Home on the Web: Presentations of Self on Personal Homepages
Charles Cheung
5. I-love-Xena.com: Creating On-line Fan Communities
Kirsten Pullen
6. Artists’ Websites: Declarations of Identity and Presentations of Self
Eva Pariser
7. Webcam Women: Life on Your Screen
Donald Snyder
8. Queer ‘n’ Asian on – and off – the Net: The Role of Cyberspace in Queer Taiwan and Korea
Chris Berry and Fran Martin
9. The Web goes to the pictures
David Gauntlett
10. The Teacher Review debate
-Teacher Review: Just what the internet was made for
Ryan Lathouwers and Amy Happ
-Teacher Review: The Dark Side of the Internet
Daniel Curzon-Brown”

The first chapter and probably the whole book broad overview saying what we already know. Yet these basic things do need to be said and said well, this book may do that. The section & headings quoted above may be useful to generate some playful surfing. What is the *Dark Side of the Internet*, porn? this is the obvious answer but that to me is the dark side on the Internet, what is the dark side *of* it? I’ll see what there is on Daniel Curzon-Brown.

AdSubtract.com   We Subtract the Ads!

“Internet Ads:

• Slow down web surfing
• Distract you with screen clutter
• Endanger your online Privacy”

And they are ugly. Is this a sacred place? At least it needs to be aesthetic! Several years ago I bought this program after having it on a month free trial. I’ve used it ever since. I am often shocked when I look at other people as they surf. It is so distracting and ugly. A one off fee fixes it. OK it might sound like an ad as I write, but it is a plea for aesthetics and I have no financial interest in the product at all. There may be others as good, but this one has workrd without a glitch.