Web Links
National Institute for Staff & Organizational Development - NISOD is proud to introduce a new membership benefit - the ability to search and download three years' worth of Innovation Abstracts online! Innovation Abstracts contain informative articles to help us improve teaching in the classroom, support services for students, and professional development. If you are interested and need more information, please send an e-mail request to spciic@accd.edu.
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence -
(FREE) makes hundreds of Internet-based education resources supported by agencies across the U.S. Federal government easier to find. Search the resources or see them listed by subject. This website was developed by more than 40 federal agencies to make hundreds of teaching & learning resources from across the federal government available -- & searchable—in one place.
St. Philip's College-Library -
The St. Philip's College Learning Resource Center (library) is a rich source of information for services and resources. Active links include: LASSO, Online Databases, Library Guides, Search Tools, Links by Subject, Fast Facts, as well as Location & Hours.
Technology Tools for Today's Campuses, James L. Morrison, Editor -
In July 1997, James Morrison, a professor at North Carolina at Chapel Hill, compiled a collection of articles from professors who have integrated various forms of educational technology into their instruction. Morrison arranged the articles by subject area and by the type of information technology tool used.
Association of Small Computer Users in Education -
ASCUE, the Association of Small Computer Users in Education, is a group of people interested in small college computing issues. It is a blend of people from all over the country who use computers in their teaching, academic support, and administrative support functions. ASCUE proudly affirms this tradition in its motto "Our Second Quarter Century of Resource Sharing".
Microsoft Higher Education -
The Technology Colloquium for Faculty, Administrators, and Students
Internet Dial-Up for Educational Access (IDEA) -
IDEA is a utility that allows students, faculty, and staff to access educational resources via dial-up facilities to the Internet from home. It includes a Netscape browser, Eudora Lite E-mail application, and FTP access. IDEA's goal is to provide a quality service at an economical rate to meet the primary Internet needs of students, faculty and staff.
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Consortia, Agencies, Associations
Texas Distance Learning Association -
The Texas Distance Learning Association (TxDLA) is a private, non-profit affiliate of the United States Distance Learning Association ( USDLA ). TxDLA membership is open to all individuals, statewide, nationwide, and around the world, who are interested in promoting the implementation of effective distance learning.
National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD) -
A non-profit, tax-exempt consortium of colleges and universities who share a philosophical commitment to support excellence in teaching and learning.
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board -
Governing body of Texas Colleges and Universities.
Texas State Leadership Consortium for Professional Development - Through the collaboration of all publicly supported Texas community and technical colleges the Consortium seeks to identify, develop and disseminate strategies for excellence in state-wide professional development. The promotion of professional development as a system includes current teaching practices, technology and delivery systems for meeting the needs of faculty and staff in order to provide students with technical skills and relevant occupational skills for entry into the Texas workforce.
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Online Colleges
Texas Distance Education -
This page has a search tool that assists in finding courses offered by Texas institutions of higher education via the Internet.
Virtual College of Texas
"The mission of the Virtual College of Texas is to provide all Texans access via instructional technologies to quality instruction and support wherever they may live, regardless of geographic, distance, or time constraints."
UC Berkeley Extension Online
University of California Extension Center for Media and Independent Learning. Includes a list of online courses with links to more detailed course descriptions.
World Lecture Hall
This site contains links to pages created by faculty all over the world to deliver curricula over the Internet.
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Tools, Tutorials, & Other Resources
WebTeacher
A self-paced Internet Tutorial that puts both basic and in-depth information about the World Wide Web at your fingertips - just a mouse click away!
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Online Course Management Systems
WebCT
"WebCT is a tool that facilitates the creation of sophisticated World Wide Web-based educational environments by non-technical users. It can be used to create entire on-line courses, or to simply publish materials that supplement existing courses."
BlackBoard
"At Blackboard.com SM , you can teach online for free, take distance-learning courses, utilize 253 discipline-specific resource centers and customize them to match your own classes, share tips and information with other teachers and students, and much more."
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Discipline-Specific Resources
Math
http://www.webct.com/math/
http://www.mathforum.com/
Interactive Periodic Table
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chemlab/info/resources
/p_table/Periodic.html
Dartmouth Gen Labs
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chemlab/
ChemTutor
http://www.webct.com/service/ViewContent?contentID=10138
Physics
http://www.webct.com/service/ViewContent?contentID=2590649
http://www.webct.com/physics/viewpage?name=physics_feature_custom
http://www.webct.com/physics/
http://www.webct.com/astronomy/
Biology
http://www.webct.com/biology
http://www.webct.com/service/ViewContent?contentID=900000
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Copyright & Fair Use Websites
U.S. Copyright Office Home Page
http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/
CCC Online Copyright Information
http://www.copyright.com/
Copyright: Coalition for Networked Information
http://arl.cni.org/scomm/copyright/uses.html
Multimedia Law Handbook: A Practical Guide for Developers and Publishers http://www.eff.org/pub/CAF/law/multimedia-handbook
CETUS
http://www.cetus.org/
"Fair Use of Copyrighted Works: A Crucial Element in Educating America" is a document at this site from the Consortium for Educational Technology for University Systems, a university group.
http://www.cetus.org/fairindex.html
Cornell University 's site outlines fair use under U.S. copyright law.
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html
This Stanford University site lists resources and Web sites covering fair use.
http://fairuse.stanford.edu/
The U.S. Copyright Office site provides copyright basics and information about fair use.
http://www.loc.gov/copyright/
Public Domain Criteria
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DATE OF WORK |
PROTECTED FROM |
TERM |
| Created 1-1-78 or after |
When work is fixed in tangible medium of expression |
Life + 70 years 1 (or if work of corporate authorship, the shorter of 95 years from publication, or 120 years from creation 2 |
| Published before 1923 |
In public domain |
None |
| Published from 1923 - 63 |
When published with notice 3 |
28 years + could be renewed for 47 years, now extended by 20 years for a total renewal of 67 years. If not so renewed, now in public domain |
| Published from 1964 - 77 |
When published with notice |
28 years for first term; now automatic extension of 67 years for second term |
| Created before 1-1-78 but not published |
1-1-78, the effective date of the 1976 Act which eliminated common law copyright |
Life + 70 years or 12-31-2002, whichever is greater |
Created before
1-1-78 but published between then and 12-31-2002 |
1-1-78, the effective date of the 1976 Act which eliminated common law copyright |
Life + 70 years or 12-31-2047 whichever is greater |