From Books to Bytes

• Table of Contents:
  • Why Add Electronic Materials to Existing Classes?
    • Instructor-oriented reasons
    • Student-oriented Reasons
  • How to Begin?
  • Advanced Stages...

Why add electronic materials (bytes) to your existing classes (books)?

• Instructor oriented:(Return to Index)
  • Save paper
  • Save work such as repetitive production (and storage!) of commonly used materials. http://mcel.pacificu.edu/mcel/barlow/Fall01/H450'01/interview.htm http://mcel.pacificu.edu/mcel/barlow/spring01/H213/writing/projects.html#Anchor-PREPARING-49575
  • Create interactive "how-to" sites: http://learnweb.pacificu.edu/GOLIVE/GOLIVE.htm
  • To compile lists of useful resources: http://mcel.pacificu.edu/MCEL/Barlow/Wiii99/WENCriteria/index.html
  • To make original sources available to students: http://mcel.pacificu.edu/mcel/barlow/Sp02/H316/ElectronicResources.HTML
  • Give yourself an interactive communications devise: BBS
    
  • To learn how to produce materials and to teach the skills.
    
    
• Student Oriented: (Return to Index)
  • Students should learn to effectively use the web: they will use it in any event..
    • Teach good search skills: http://mcel.pacificu.edu/mcel/barlow/Sp02/H214/sched214.html
    • Teach how to evaluate electronic materials:
      • http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/research/webeval.html
        
      • http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webevaluation/webeval.htm
  • Students should learn how to prepare electronic materials:
    • Makes them very employable
    • They often take the work quite seriously :
      • http://mcel.pacificu.edu/as/students/pacwar/intro.htm
      • http://mcel.pacificu.edu/as/students/hib/livingwitness.html
      • http://mcel.pacificu.edu/as/students/genji/HomePage.html
    • They can create useful resources for your field:
      • http://mcel.pacificu.edu/as/students/oic/index.html
      • http://mcel.pacificu.edu/as/students/koreavet/home.htm
      • http://mcel.pacificu.edu/history/dept/students/theses2000/gates/gates.html
    • Gives all types of students chances to excell:
      • Art and media: http://mcel.pacificu.edu/as/students/anime-page/index.html
      • Sports:
        • http://mcel.pacificu.edu/as/students/baseballjapan/bball.html
        • http://mcel.pacificu.edu/as/students/sumo/sumo_site/index.html
      • Traditional researchers and writers:
        • http://mcel.pacificu.edu/as/students/gaskill2/toplevel.html

How to Begin: (Return to Index)

• Make an electronic syllabus and post it on the WWW.
  • Examples of Course Pages
  • Tools?
    • Courseware: Blackboard, WebCT
    • Netscape Composer or Explorer equivalent
    • Microsoft Word ("dirty" html)
    • BBE (Bare Bones Edit)
    • GoLive (site management)***
    • Macromedia Dreamweaver (site management)***
    • FTP or server access (Divisional servers?)
• Assign electronic projects for students in lieu of conventional research papers.
  • Examples of Student Pages
    • Single-student assignments (Implies training)
      • Can have students do training, perhaps IT already does?
      • Add a one-credit course "Web lab."
      • Or make it an element in your major program: "Sociology and the Web"
    • Group assignments: (Perhaps training unnecessary?) http://mcel.pacificu.edu/MCEL/Barlow/Sp2K/H315/webwork1.html
• You Probably will want your own "home" page by this stage
  

Advanced Stages (Return to Index)

• Start a WWW site for student work: http://mcel.pacificu.edu/as/home/resources.html
  • Assign projects that will be of wider interest:
    • Interviews
    • Local materials
    • Archival stuff
    • Work you may find useful in courses
    • Good book reviews
  • Grants, employment
  • BUT: Get permissions, pay attention to copyright, quality control.
• Post your own work on the web
  • http://mcel.pacificu.edu/as/resources/zhuang/index.html
• Start an Electronic Journal
  • http://mcel.pacificu.edu/JAHC/jahcindex.htm
  • http://bcis.pacificu.edu/journal/index.php
  • http://mcel.pacificu.edu/easpac/
• Form faculty support group
  • Influence funding
  • Influence assessment and reward practices
• Go after external grants.