How Can I Use the Internet?

• Provide students with course home pages with links (examples: Bob Reese's Principles of Marketing, Mike Phillips' Links to Courses, Tina Nink's Holistic Nursing IV, Sue Caley Opsal's Human Anatomy & Physiology I, and Randy Rambo's English Composition I).

  • Keep students informed about assignments.

  • Post announcements or updates to students.

  • Provide online versions of course outlines.

  • Support lectures with online class notes.

  • Offer students relevant information through links on your pages.

  • Distribute handouts to students.

  • Distribute printable or online quizzes and exercises.

  • Provide online PowerPoint Presentations (examples: Tim Horger's NGS Project in Venezuela and Mike Phillips' PowerPoint Presentations for BIO 1000).

  • Provide copies of in-class SmartBoard presentations (example: Mike Phillips' SmartBoard notes for BIO 1000) (Smart Technologies offers a free download of the software to create these kinds of files.)

• Include a link to e-Follet to help students purchase textbooks online.

• Include audio or video files (examples: Bob Resse's audio Welcome Letter for online BUS 1010 and Randy Rambo's The Hamlet Files).

• Create an online gallery.

• Increase opportunities for interaction with WebBoard.

• Prepare an online Tech Prep module. 

• Utilize material that publishers provide to accompany their textbooks (examples: McGraw-Hill's Managerial Accounting, Prentice-Hall's Literature and the Writing Process and McGraw-Hill's Hole's Essentials of Human Anatomy and Physiology).

• Provide online student guides (example: Using Norton Connect.Net)

• Post student grades to the Internet with ThinkWave grade book software.

• Contribute your own educational resources to World Wide Web (example: Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado")

• Put an entire course online (examples: Alice Steljes' Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting, and Cost Accounting; Randy Rambo's English Composition I and English Composition II; Kirk Lockwood's Written Communication Skills for Business, Industry, and Technology; Dawn Lockwood's and Lori Biagini's Test-Taking Preparation and Strategies).

But What if I Need Help?

Help is available from 

• Illinois Online Network

• IVCC's F-Team Home Page

• 555@ivcc.edu or extension 555

• Those who have done it--just ask!