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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!