http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Fri, 24 May 2013 22:52:53 PDT Fri, 24 May 2013 22:52:53 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=89767 This site consists of a collection of plotting and solving applets featuring a uniform user interface. This site was selected as the 2005 MERLOT Classics Award winner for the Mathematics discipline due to its value and effectiveness as a set of teaching/learning tools. Visualizing mathematical concepts, especially in three-dimensional space, can be quite difficult for students. These tools and applications enable students to see the concepts in action and to come a deeper understanding of the underlying mathematics. In addition, the collaboration between the faculty, students and Sun Microsystems staff who together designed and constructed these tools was quite unusual and impressive. The collaboration itself is an inspiring model. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=80992 LanguageGuide.org is a collaborative project that aims to make available extensive free resources for learning languages. Texts and audio in Chinese,English, French, German,Spanish, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, Polish and Portuguese. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=88860 Designed to help educators develop powerful learning experiences for students through the effective integration of new technologies. Especially useful is the ENT Backpack, your own personal space where you can gain quick access to an instructional design area using the "Collaborative Curriculum Design Tool" (CCDT). You need to register to access this tool.Through this ENT website, you will have access to thoughtful colleagues, interactive tools, detailed examples of technology-enhanced education, and a valuable collection of on-line resources. The site will help you navigate the expanding territory of new educational technologies with guidance from established principles for teaching and learning (e.g. Teaching for Understanding) through processes for integrating new technologies. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=75428 This site contains foundation concepts, research-based techniques, and extensive resources on collaborative learning and group dynamics for large and small classes. The information and "how to" tips are designed to assist instructors in establishing collaborative learning groups. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=78437 BioMedia Associates is a group of biologists, teachers, educational designers and film-makers who collaborate to make learning programs for biology. For schools and higher education, they have eight series currently in distribution, totaling 51 video programs and three CD-ROMS. Topics cover the biology curriculum with particular emphasis on cell biology, evolution, micro-organisms, the early history of life, and the major groups of living things. This URL represents their work on evolution, but the other programs are also described on this web site. The link to Online resources for teaching about vision (Mirror Site) is outstanding. Animation of difficult to understand concepts is another BioMedia Associates specialty. See Eye of the Cyclops in their product section. See the stock footage from a collection of over 500 hours of live-action digital images of microlife, invertebrate animals, parasites and environmental scenes, along with thousands of still images. Educators, educational web site designers, and anyone else is welcome to link to this web site. You may link to any html page within the www.ebiomedia.com web site, but the authors request that you link to the parent page for the image files. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=78429 The Multicultural Pavilion provides resources for educators, students, and activists to explore and discuss multicultural education; facilitates opportunities for educators to work toward self-awareness and development; and provides forums for educators to interact and collaborate toward a critical, transformative approach to multicultural education. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=80748 ALPS is a tool and tutorial designed to help faculty understand what meaningful teaching and learning look like. Harvard Project Zero resources are provided to help teachers reflect on their teaching practice. A Collaborative Curriculum Design Tool is available to help teachers brainstorm ideas and design curriculum - to take each curriculum unit to the next level with features to organize the work, interact with a design team, and share a final draft with others. Courses are available for K-12 school teachers and administrators. Each session, participants log on to the course Web site for the current lecture, assignments and supplementary materials. Participants then work to integrate these ideas into their practice, working with them in their classroom or other educational environment. In addition, learners participate in small discussion groups in which ideas, projects and feedback are shared with other course participants. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=519410 Glogster EDU is the leading global education platform for the creative expression of knowledge and skills in the classroom and beyond. We empower educators and students with the technology to create GLOGS - online multimedia posters - with text, photos, videos, graphics, sounds, drawings, data attachments and more. A Glog is created using a very easy to understand, drag and drop interface that is relevant, enjoyable, and scalable for students of all ages and learning styles. A Glog is an interactive visual platform in which users create a “poster or web page” containing multimedia elements including: text, audio, video, images, graphics, drawings, and data. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=75372 The Harvey Project is a worldwide collaboration to build and distribute free, Web-based rich content for teaching physiology. Project members include physiologists, medical professionals, educators, students, programmers, instructional designers, illustrators and web designers dedicated to using the Internet to advance the teaching of physiology. All donate their time and effort to contribute to the Project. The course materials being developed include simulations, animations and 3-D models, as well as online testing and evaluation. They are also peer-reviewed and based on accepted educational and technical standards. All content and tools developed are open and non-proprietary. Building rich content requires a wide range of skills and an extravagance of time and effort. If faculty are to play a major role in constructing such learning objects, they must collaborate and share their skills and efforts. The Harvey Project is such a collaboration. Interest in rich content and online learning is spreading quickly in higher education and this "open course" model represents a new and promising paradigm for online content development.The Harvey Project aims to build rich, educational content for physiology, not to create a complete online course nor compete with existing course offerings. The Project is also creating standards and guidelines to direct the creation of effective rich content, as well as a variety of software tools to facilitate building lectures, modules, courses and quizzes. The Project also includes a database of physiology teaching materials on the Web, similar to MERLOT but specific to physiology. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=671189 The Michigan Education through Learning Objects (MELO) project is a cross-disciplinary collaborative effort that has worked over the past three years to facilitate the integration of curriculum-based sequences of online learning objects (LOs) that complement classroom pedagogy in large enrollment gateway courses. MELO's goal is to enhance student learning, engagement, and persistence in college through the use of these learning objects. The materials represented in this collection are from the third year (MELO 3D) of the project. This award-winning project takes a unique approach to overcoming barriers to technology-enriched instruction by involving students (undergraduate and graduate) in addition to select faculty and staff from across different disciplines as key collaborators. By training select students and faculty to find, evaluate, adapt, create, and integrate LOs, the project facilitates the incorporation of high quality interdisciplinary and discipline-specific LOs into the curricula.The Open.Michigan collection serves as a central repository for materials created in association with the Michigan Education through Learning Objects project. The Materials tab contains training materials from the start of the projects, learning objects, survey instruments and conference abstracts from the project.