Huge amount of resource material - quite varied - for students and teachers. UK based.
Type of Material:
Collection contains a variety of resources aimed at both students and teachers, consisting of:
Notes covering a range of Specification areas. These are available in a variety of formats, from simple notes, through complete previously-published textbook chapters to structured notes based around a relatively simple teaching and learning format.
PowerPoints: Most of these are aimed at classroom use - particularly the simple slides and revision flashcards. There are, however, more-complex PowerPoint packages that can be used either individually, for revision purposes, or collectively as classroom-based revision exercises.
Lesson Plans are aimed at teachers and consist of complete lessons, lesson fragments (relatively simple ideas that can be incorporated into a wider lesson) and lesson outlines - a range of ideas and information that can adapted and shaped into different lessons.
Worksheets: For those teachers and students who like a bit of independent study.
Simulations: For teachers looking to spice-up their classes, a range of simulations designed to get students thinking.
Recommended Uses:
Resource for instructors for lesson plans, powerpoint, videos, activities, worksheets. May need slight modification depending on the learning objective. These materials would be good for teachers to prepare courses, or for students to have extra material to help with their studies.
Technical Requirements:
This site links to other sites that may have particular technology requirements.
Identify Major Learning Goals:
This is a broad resource of sociological material -- lesson plans, activities/exercises, videos. This is great starting point for new instructors to get ideas for their own courses.
Target Student Population:
College General Ed.
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
Some sociology knowledge.
Content Quality
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Strengths:
The variety of the resources and the topics covered should allow any sociologist to find relevant activities/powerpoint/worksheets for almost any course. This would be a great place to start.
Concerns:
Instructors should review linked resources for content quality.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
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Strengths:
Any motivated person could fashion an entire curriculum from this website, including the open textbook. Specific links include Deviance, Identity, Education, Family, Health, Media, Methods, Politics, Revision, Inequality, Theory, Religion, Welfare, Global and more. There are many interesting activities and worksheets. For example, the worksheets on the theories of deviance are excellent. These provide explanations and offer students opportunity to apply the theories.
Concerns:
Some resources may have broken links or issues on the linked website. For example, in the Criminology Interactive the audio was not working.
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
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Strengths:
The menu buttons allow for easy navigation. The site is actively maintained.
Concerns:
Uncertain about external websites.
Other Issues and Comments:
This is a very useful resource; it is just brimming with information.
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