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Consulting

• Free consulting service for College faculty in the incorporation of e-Portfolio and/or student Web publishing into course or program of study. Contact Glenn Johnson.

Publications

• Belshazzar--An Electronic Writing Tablet (Article)
• Engaging Students Online: Tools, Tricks, and Bribes in EGEE 101 (Powerpoint Presentation)
• Web-Based Classes at University Park (Report)
• Bibliography of Selected Works from the John A. Dutton e-Education Community
• Evaluating e-Learning: Don't Throw the Baby Out with the Bath Water!
  (Using the Seven Principles of Effective Practice in Undergraduate Education as a framework for evaluating distance education courses)

Dutton Institute Resources

• Collaboration Tools
  An overview of useful resources for remote collaboration, including audio, video, and Web conferencing tools.
  Related pages:
  • Breeze Meeting (a Web-based collaboration tool)
• iVisit desktop video conferencing (about)
• e-Portfolio Web site
  Using your Penn State personal Web space account to plan, reflect upon, and publish what you've learned at Penn State (includes a section for faculty and advisors)
• Useful URLs for e-Education at Penn State
  An annotated list of links to resources related to e-education, from general reference materials and instructional design tools to related readings.
• ANGEL Directions for Instructors and TAs
• ANGEL Course Set-up and Delivery Guide
  A checklist for EMS faculty and teaching assistants who teach online courses that are delivered through the University's course manangement system, ANGEL.
• Ensuring Compliance with Accessibility Standards
  An overview of the steps taken to ensure that our online course materials maximize accessibility.
• Qarbon's ViewletBuilder versus Macromedia's Captivate
  A comparison of two popular viewlet building tools.
• Sample Copyright Permissions Letter
  Need to obtain permission to use an image, document, or other resource in your course? This sample letter is provided as a starting point. Yellow highlighting is used to indicate components of the letter that should be modified for your use.
• Viewlets
  (Flash movies that may be incorporated in a course)
  • A Student Orientation to ANGEL
  • How to Access Reserve Readings in ANGEL
  • Inserting Comments in MS Word
  • Tracking Changes in MS Word

Additional Penn State Resources

• ANGEL Seminar Videos
  Videos of ANGEL seminars can now be viewed at any time over the Web. Penn State's Course Management System, ANGEL, allows instructors to use the Web to enhance their courses without the need to know HTML. The free Apple QuickTime multimedia player is required to view the videos, which are made available for those unable to attend the face-to-face seminars offered by Information Technology Services (ITS) Training Services. Also available are videos of additional seminars of interest to instructors, including "Copyright in the Digital Age" and "Cyber-Plagiarism: Temptations for Students and Tactics for Teachers."
• TEACH Act and Copyright
  As of November, 2002 the TEACH Act revised and expanded parts of the U.S. Copyright Law governing the conditions under which faculty may use copyrighted materials without permission from the copyright owner. Understanding the implications as they apply to on-line learning is imperative. The Information Technolody Services site (above) as well as Useful URLs - Copyright and Intellectual Property provide a host of resources on the issues related to copyright, 'fair use', and intellectual property in educational contexts.
• TurnItIn.com
  From the ITS site, "Turnitin.com ( http://turnitin.com ) is a Web-based plagiarism detection and prevention system owned by Turnitin.com, Inc., to which Penn State has a subscription.   Turnitin.com can be used as a means to teach students how to work with sources and to raise awareness of paraphrasing and quoting skills in order to avoid plagiarism."
• Google Tips (movie)
  A four minute long movie full of valuable tips for how to search the Web using Google.