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Distance and eLearning > Web Tools
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Web Tools
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This archive holds a listing of tools that are readily available to the faculty member at low or no cost that can enhance the e-learning environment.
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MyDropbox Suite integrates a renowned plagiarism prevention technology with a versatile digital learning environment that enables instructors to manage online assignments, organize electronic submissions and mark papers on the Web. | http://www.mydropbox.com/ | Blackwell, Kevin | | Course Management |
RubiStar is a tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics but does not have the time to develop them from scratch.
While many teachers want to use rubrics or are experimenting with writing rubrics, they can be quite time-consuming to develop. RubiStar is a tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics but does not have the time to develop them from scratch. RubiStar provides generic rubrics that can simply be printed and used for many typical projects and research assignments. The unique thing about RubiStar, however, is that it provides these generic rubrics in a format that can be customized. The teacher can change almost all suggested text in the rubric to make it fit their own project.
For example, if RubiStar suggests for a multimedia presentation that "The student includes at least three slides" for the highest rating, the teacher could change that to read "The student includes at least 5 slides" or "The student includes a title slide with the authors' names; a table of contents with links to all slides that follow, ..."
RubiStar also does away with the tedious typing of similar content across all the various quality rating. When you choose a category to evaluate, all the quality ratings are filled in and are ready to customize.
| http://rubistar.4teachers.org | Meredith, Ben | | Simulations |
Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its Residents. Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively and today is inhabited by a total of 9,315,897 Residents from around the globe. | http://www.secondlife.com | Meredith, Ben | | Research Tools |
Plagiarism Prevention - Recognized worldwide as the standard in online plagiarism prevention, Turnitin helps educators and students take full advantage of the internet's educational potential. | Digital Assessment Suite | Blackwell, Kevin | | Course Design |
WebXACT is a free online service that lets you test single pages of web content for quality, accessibility, and privacy issues. | http://webxact.watchfire.com/ | Meredith, Ben | | Course Design |
A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all the information that learners work with comes from the web. The model was developed by Bernie Dodge at San Diego State University in February, 1995 with early input from SDSU/Pacific Bell Fellow Tom March, the Educational Technology staff at San Diego Unified School District, and waves of participants each summer at the Teach the Teachers Consortium. | http://webquest.org/ | Meredith, Ben | | Research Tools |
Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources
- Automatic capture of citation information from web pages
- Storage of PDFs, files, images, links, and whole web pages
- Flexible notetaking with autosave
- Fast, as-you-type search through your materials
- Playlist-like library organization, including saved searches (smart collections) and tags
- Platform for new forms of digital research that can be extended with other web tools and services
- Formatted citation export (style list to grow rapidly)
- Integration with Microsoft Word and OpenOffice.org
Works with:  Firefox: 2.0 – 2.0.0.* | https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3504 | Meredith, Ben |
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