Professor
Barbara Lynn Mori's World
Cultures: Japan course website is a nice example of how graphics and clear
organization alone can enhance the presentation of course materials.
Professor Paul Brians' World Civilizations course website
includes a wide variety of online course resources, including nicely-illustrated lecture
notes with relevant hypertext links.
Professor James Denbow's Introduction to
Archeology course website adds sample quizzes to his richly-illustrated supporting
lecture materials.
Professor Jeanne Sept's Human Origins and Prehistory course
website includes lecture notes with scanned images, hypertext links, and video clips
(which require Quicktime to play).
Professor David Cleeton's International Business course website
makes colorful use of scanned images and logos of major journals and institutions to link
to a wide variety of resources. His online lecture notes require Adobe Acrobat to run as
slide presentations.
Professor Marita McComiskey's Women and Violence course website
includes assignments that require weekly postings about the readings to the class
listserv. It is organized in a way that allows students to access the information they
want in several different ways. Includes interesting supporting materials and links.
Professor William Zachry's Honors General Psychology
course website includes internet-based tutorials that require postings to the class
online bulletin board.
Professor Mark Rush's Introduction to Microeconomics
course website contains some lecture notes including video clips (requiring RealPlayer
plugin) and online practice exams that give students instant and detailed feedback about
their answers.
Professor Frank Ellwell's Sociological
Theory course website is crisply organized and includes nice supporting materials on
the major sociological theorists as well as online exemplary student essays.
Professor Steve Hackett's Economics of a Sustainable Society course
website includes easy-to-use lecture slides, downloadable simulations to use with
Excel, and online sample quizes that are immediately and automatically graded.
Professor Tom Creed's Principles of Learning and
Behavior course website seeks to embody principles of learning in its organization and
content and makes the web a "required text." See the syllabus for an extended
pedagogical discussion of the ideas behind the course, which includes online assignments
and a class bulletin board.
Professor Nouriel Roubini's Understanding the World Macroeconomy
course website makes extensive use of internet resources and capabilities, including
hypertext links to explore lecture topics, online quizzes and forms to submit work
electronically, a bulletin board in which the professor participates actively, and even
(optional) virtual office-hours using NetMeeting, with both audio and video capabilities.
Professor Cecil Greek's Using New Media in Criminal
Justice Research and Education course website both contains a wealth of information
about instructional technology and integrates much of it into the course. Techies could
easily spend a day perusing this site.
Although not a social science course, Penn State Professor
Alistair Fraser's Introductory Meteorology
course has the most elaborate website I know of, creatively and extensively employing
the instructional capabilities of the internet. It requires Netscape Communicator,
Shockwave, Quicktime, and MathView plugins, and some configuring, but the site illustrates
nicely some of the great pedagogical potential of the internet.
Finally, visitors to this site are welcome to check out my own website, with links to several of
my courses, with a variety of online internet assignments, as well as to an online guide I
created for a course on Southeast Asia and a webpage looking more broadly at pedagogical
uses of the internet.
