http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:20:16 PDT Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:20:16 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=90821 This site provides a simplified description of the strengths and weaknesses of a variety of research methods. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=90820 This site supports the scholarship of teaching by providing research-based resources designed to help faculty use active learning successfully in college and university classrooms. VARK is a short, simple inventory that has helped students to learn more effectively and faculty to become more sensitive to the diversity of teaching strategies necessary to reach all students. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=88609 The IHMC Concept Mapping Software empowers users to construct, navigate, share, and criticize knowledge models represented as Concept Maps. The recently released Version 3 of CmapTools takes concept mapping to a new level, providing a powerful means for collaboratively creating, organizing, evaluating, and sharing knowledge models distributed on a growing collection of servers throughout the world, or on your private server.Among a large set of new features, a redesigned, simple user interface enables users to share their knowledge and link their concept maps to those of others with simple drag-and-drop operations. The synchronous collaboration tool allows geographically dispersed participants to concurrently work on the same Cmap, and see the others' changes in real time.The act of storing a Cmap on a CmapTools server actually stores a copy as a Web page, making it fast and automatic to share your Cmap(s) in an easily viewable, read-only form to the world at large. Styles make it easy to give a common look to a set of concept maps, including background images. In addition to English, this new version brings a user interface in Italian and Portuguese (other languages are in the works).The ability to search throughout all concept maps in servers across the world and resources (images, web pages, etc.) on the Web provides the power to change how users retrieve information: the tool leverages the topology and semantics of the concept map to retrieve from the Web and concept map index servers only resources that are relevant to the content of the user?s map.IHMCs CmapTools is being used by thousands of users from corporations, government entities, universities and schools since the early 1990s. Users include NASA, the US Navy, the Electric Power Research Institute, the Department of Defense, and thousands of teachers and students from universities and schools from over 150 countries. It has been shown to be an effective mechanism to capture and share the tacit knowledge of experts, as well as a powerful assessment and collaboration tool in schools. The CmapTools software continues to be free for non-for-profit, educational use. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=90881 This interactive quiz is designed to test your knowledge of "Netiquette" or network ettiquette. Netiquette covers common courtesy online and the common "rules of the road" of cyberspace. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=79418 This site provides students with the quizzes that guide students to grammar and writing.The site contains a variety of quizzes that improve students' writing and grammar skills. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=90909 PALS is an on-line, standards-based, continually updated resource bank of science performance assessment tasks indexed via the National Science Education Standards (NSES) and various other standards frameworks. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=76562 Self-paced web-based training. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=86085 These concept cartoons were developed by Dianne Anderson and Kathleen Fisher (2002) as prompts for eliciting discussion about ideas in evolution. They can also be used as assessment tools. The cartoons are best suited for college non-majors and pre-college classes. The incorrect statements in the cartoons are derived from common naive conceptions. They are useful to encourage classroom discussions about common misconceptions. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=86604 One of the best ESL practice sites that I have ever seen. I use it in my adult school ESL Level 4 class. It is highly interactive and very effective! http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=91285 The Classroom Assessment Techniques -- CATs (Angelo and Cross, 1993) within the FLAG are succinct, self-contained,self-instructional, web-based modules that introduce a broadly applicable technique for use in college or universitySMET courses. Each CAT has been written by a college or university instructor who currently uses the technique, and has beenreviewed by the FLAG Editorial Board for accuracy and consistency with current professional standards of assessment.In most cases, the technique has an extensive history of research to support claims of reliability and validity. The CATsare linked to a set of discipline-specific "tools" that can be downloaded for immediate use. The new Tool search function at the mirror site is outstanding! Assessment techniques are linked to the relevant research literature as well as to web sites showing exemplary use of each assessment technique.