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            <title>Creating, Discovering and Sustaining Your Own Member Group</title>
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            <description>Instructions on  how to create a way for you and your colleagues to identify and discover the members of formal or informal groups.  By adding a common key term in your&#1524;Associations&#1524;field in your MERLOT Member Profile (e.g. Noyce Scholars), you can create directory for your group.</description>
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            <title>Developing learning assignments for online teaching resources</title>
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            <description>The handout reviews the principles of designing learning assignments using online materials and provides samples and worksheets for designing good assignments. The features of good assignments include: background information, directions on how to use the technology, the learning questions, and assessment rubrics. Distributed November 2000</description>
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            <title>Editors Handbook</title>
            <link>http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=623235</link>
            <description>This is a downloadable and interactive handbook that outlines all the responsibilities of an Editor.  In addition, there are links to specific documents that Editors need to use.  This will be updated on an annual basis.</description>
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            <title>Getting Started with Peer Review</title>
            <link>http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=623229</link>
            <description>This is a guideline to help someone understand the Peer Review Process.  It is used in the MERLOT 101 course.</description>
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            <title>MERLOT - Continuous Looping Presentation</title>
            <link>http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=623243</link>
            <description>This is a MERLOT presentation that was prepared by Nancy Kerner at University of Michigan.  It is a PowerPoint presentation that is set up for continuous play, i.e. looping.  This can be used at a booth or other location when no one is there to present it.  All you need to do is change some of the information or update the numbers.</description>
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            <title>MERLOT 101 &amp; Beyond</title>
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            <description>This is a guide or lesson plan for an online MERLOT training program jointly sponsored by MERLOT and the TLT Group. This plan has links to the three archived video sessions as well as links to assignments.Featured sessions are:1.  MERLOT 101 - Laura Franklin2.  Introduction to Peer Review - Cathy Swift3.  Faculty Development Resources - Ray PurdomEach of the three sessions is one hour long.</description>
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            <title>MERLOT 101 Syllabus</title>
            <link>http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=623231</link>
            <description>This is the syllabus for the MERLOT 101 course created by Laura Franklin and administered by Laura and other members of the VCCS Team.</description>
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            <title>Portal Editor Handbook</title>
            <link>http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=623233</link>
            <description>This is a handbook that was created to help the discipline Portal Editor understand and manage the position.  There are specific guidelines for what is to be included in each area of the portal, detailed instructions for getting on Contribute, and some hints for using Contribute.</description>
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            <title>Project Director Handbook</title>
            <link>http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=623239</link>
            <description>The Project Director Handbook serves as a reference material for Project Directors.  The first part of the Handbook contains a discussion of the responsibilities of the Project Director.  The Handbook also includes relevant MERLOT Policies and Procedures, a Guide to MERLOT and Workspace, and MERLOTSpeak, our glossary of terms used in MERLOT.  This Handbook will be updated every July, at the beginning of the academic year.</description>
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            <title>Spring09 MERLOT 101- Peer Review and Beyond</title>
            <link>http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=623245</link>
            <description>This is a lesson plan that incorporates the three spring sessions of the joint program between MERLOT and the TLT Group.  There are links to the actual presentations as well as links to assignments.  The webinars were presented for one hour in three consecutive weeks.  This could be used as a stand-alone training, as a training session in which the facilitator provides the assignments, or a training session in which the video can be paused for live discussion.</description>
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