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Educational Technology Sites Cognition: How People Learn Best Practices in Teaching Subject-Specific Sites Copywrite, Plagiarism and Fair Use

Educational Technology Sites
	The Teaching, Learning, and Technology Group http://www.tltgroup.org/ University of Wisconsin: Distance Education Clearinghouse http://www.uwex.edu/disted/home.html The Seven Principles of Good Practice: Using Technology to Improve Learning Outcomes http://www.tltgroup.org/Seven/Home.htm Learning Objects Explained http://www.reusability.org/read/ Merlot: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching http://www.merlot.org/Home.po Accessible Education through Assistive Technology http://www.thejournal.com/magazine/vault/A4321A.cfm The International Higher Education Teaching and Learning Association http://hetl.org/

Cognition: How People Learn
	Teaching Tips-How PeopleLearn http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/teachtip.htm#learn Twelve Theories on How People Learn http://www.funderstanding.com/about_learning.cfm How People Learn: Bridging Research and Practice (Online Book) by M. Suzanne Donovan, John D. Bransford, and James W. Pellegrino, editor http://books.nap.edu/html/howpeople2/ Brain Based Research: How People Learn http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/glefli/exhibits/1000804/ How People Learn (and What Technology Might Have To Do with It). ERIC Digest. http://www.ericdigests.org/2003-3/learn.htm

Best Practices in Teaching
	Teaching Writing in Large Classes http://www.ohiou.edu/writing/teaching_writing_in_large_classes.htm How to Improve my Lectures http://www.nyu.edu/cte/lecturing.html Collaborative Learning: Group Work and Study Teams http://teaching.berkeley.edu/bgd/collaborative.html Big 6 Skills toward Information Literacy http://www.big6.com/showarticle.php?id=16 The First Day—Teaching Tips http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/teachtip.htm#firstday Learning Styles Explained http://www.ldpride.net/learningstyles.MI.htm#Learning Styles Explained Using Concept Maps in Teaching http://classes.aces.uiuc.edu/ACES100/Mind/CMap.html Using El Barrio as a Teaching Tool http://bcc-cuny.digication.com/jasonramirez/Teaching_El_Barrio

Subject-Specific Sites
	Chemistry simulations http://www.shsu.edu/~chm_tgc/sounds/sound.html Basic math tutorials and examples http://www.math.com/index.aspx Neuroscience for Kids http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/introb.html#bb Article citing excellent math websites http://www.techlearning.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=165701686 CUNY Write Site http://writesite.cuny.edu/

Copywrite, Plagiarism and Fair Use
	Copywrite Tutorial http://www.lib.utsystem.edu/copyright/ What plagiarism is and how to avoid it http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/plagiarism.shtml American Library Association: Distance Education and the Teach Act http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=distanceed&Template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=25939 Crash Course in Copywrite and the Teach Act http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/cprtindx.htm#top Citing Sources for Students Papers http://www.lib.duke.edu/libguide/cite/works_cited.htm