Useful WWW Addresses for Teaching

Here are a few examples of useful web pages. You can find many more by using key words of interest in a Web search engine.

University of Minnesota Digital Media Center's Learning Laboratory: http://www-dmc.tc.umn.edu/lab/lab.html
With examples of Course Web Pages Collection of Award Winning TA Web Pages at the UofM: http://www-dmc.tc.umn.edu/cafe/TAawards.html

Carnegie Mellon University Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence: http://www.cmu.edu/provost/teaching/center.html

University of Western Australia Teaching and Learning Centre, their web pages include electronic versions of the publication "Issuues of Teaching and Learning": http://www.acs.uwa.edu.au/csd/TeachLearn.html

Oxford Brookes University Preparing University Teachers Program: http://www.lgu.ac.uk/deliberations/teachers/index.html

Journal of Geographic Information and Decision Analysis (JGIDA) is a new electronic journal: http://sparky.sscl.uwo.ca/gimda/journal.htm

IBM Patent Server with access to 26 years of US Patents and Trademarks: http://patent.womplex.ibm.com/ibm.html

Smithsonian Institution's electronic Magazine "Increase & Diffusion" with stories about people and communities around the world: http://www.si.edu/i+d/

Article: "Achieving Gender Equity in Science Classrooms" http://www.brown.edu/Administration/Dean_of_the_College/homepginfo
/equity/Equity_handbook.html

AcademicNet is a resource for faculty and other academic leaders interested in technology-mediated instruction and learning: http://www.academic.com/

Here at the U. of M. - Disability & Computing Services

SNE Web Resources provides a good starting point for web-sites that describe the technology for the learning disabled, as well as for the physically and mentally challenged - Technology and Special Needs

Collections of Engineering Case Studies:
http://www.civeng.carleton.ca/ECL/
http://ethics.tamu.edu/

Clearinghouse for Decision Case Education: Agriculture, Food, Natural Resources and the Environment: http://www.decisioncase.edu/

Case method teaching http://www.abo.fi/hied/case.htm

Social Science Information Gateway http://sosig.esrc.bris.ac.uk/

And here locally, check out the U of M Council of Graduate Students Web Page with great links to job search tools for PhD students (Like the National Association on Graduate and Professional Students Job Bank): http://gapsa.stu.umn.edu/cogs/cogs.html

A good source of Web sites and e-mail discussion lists: Information Technology Section of The Chronicle of Higher Education. Each issue gives a list of several Internet resources with brief descriptions and addresses.