Chapter 7: External Resources

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Chapter 7 External Resources

• Lynne Harrison
• clharrison_at_nsu.edu

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Online Educational Resources

• Virtual Experiments
• Online Expeditions
• Online Museums
• Online Periodicals
• Textbook Supplements
• Misc. Liberal Arts Learning resources

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Virtual Experiments

• Access to the lab any time, any place.
• Allows experiments which would usually be too
  dangerous.
• Avoids the prohibitive cost of some equipment
  needed for the experiments.
• Open College e-Learning Content Library

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Online Expeditions

• Allows students to follow the activities of an
  expedition. These often include lesson plans and
  learning activities.
• NASA Quest
• Nova PBS Online Adventures
• Surviving Denali

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Online Museums

• Museums
• The British Museum
• The Vatican Museums
• Louvre
• Smithsonian Institution Museums
• Digital Archives
• VMI Archives
• Digital Scriptorium Projects at Duke University
• Photographs of African Americans from the Cook
  Collection at VCU

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Online Periodicals

• Free
• The Technology Source
• Educause
• Online Journal of Distance Learning
  Administration
• Limited free access
• New York Times
• Washington Post
• Subscription
• The Wall Street Journal
• The Chronicle of Higher Education

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Textbook Supplements

• Additional instructional materials,
  presentations, quizzes provided by the text book
  publisher.
• McGraw-Hill
• Pearson (the publisher of our text)

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Liberal Arts Resources

• Sites which allow students to interact with a
  variety of e-learning resources. Sites are
  available for a variety of subjects.
• Hotmath help with math homework
• The Valley of the Shadow looks at life in a
  Northern and a Southern community during the
  American Civil War

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Digital Library Resources

• General purpose digital libraries
• Specialized Digital Libraries
• Online periodical collections
• Free (Directory of Open Access Journals DOAJ)
• Subscription (EbscoHost, Jstor)
• Ebook collections (Ebrary, NetLibrary)

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General Purpose Digital Libraries

• Holdings include books, journals, databases, and
  other collections in a digital format.
• Electronic Text Center at UVA
  http//etext.lib.uva.edu

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Specialized Digital Libraries

• Art ARTstor
• Maps National Geographic Map Machine
• Anatomy Visible Human Project
• Fiction Bartleby.com

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Online Periodicals

• Free or Open Access
• Directory of Open Access Journals
• Subscription Services
• EbscoHost
• Project Muse
• Oxford Journals Online
• ACM Digital Library
• Jstor

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E-Book Collections

• Open Access
• Project Gutenberg
• Subscription
• Questia (individual subscribers)
• Net Library (NPL VBPL)
• Ebrary (NSU)
• ENGnetBase (VIVA)

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Web Research

• Consult a librarian
• Know your librarys resources print and
  electronic
• Make research assignments relevant to the course
  content.
• Training for students and faculty.
• Other library services (e-reserves, interlibrary
  loan)

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Search Engines

• Keyword
• AltaVista, Google, HotBot, Google Scholar
• Subject
• Yahoo!, Education Planet
• Metasearch
• Dogpile, Excite, Metacrawler
• Specialized
• Infomine, Internet Public Library, Librarians
  Index to the Internet (LII.org)

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Research on the Web

• Web site evaluation
• Reputation of author
• Currency (creation date, most current update)
• Who else links to the site?
• Resources for web site evaluation
• Internet Detective tutorial to develop critical
  thinking skills when using the WWW for research
• Ten C's For Evaluating Internet Sources

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Online Tutorials

• HyperStat Online online statistics text and
  tutorial
• Visual Statistics with Multimedia