Academic Search Engines lists most (if not quite all) of the existing academic search engines on the Web

DISCIPLINE SPECIFIC WEB SITES

These are intended as starting points for general information about using the WWW in education. For specific examples of professor’s websites in your discipline visit your professional society and other universities for links.

GENERAL:

Teaching and Learning on the Internet. A collection of links and article archives on this topic. http://www.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/net_teach.html

Academic Search Engines lists most (if not quite all) of the existing academic search engines on the Web. http://www.searchenginecolossus.com/Academic.html

The World Lecture Hall is a growing collection of course Web sites in nearly every discipline. It’s a good place to get ideas from other teachers and to share innovations. http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture/index.html

Teaching and Learning on the Web helps you find over 854 examples of how the web is being used as a medium for learning. A site of the Maricopa Community Colleges, Arizona. http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tl/

How to Do Research on the Internet. A tutorial from Monash University

http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/vl/www/wwwcon.htm

Mission: Critical. Critical Thinking Web Pages at San Jose State University, a project of the Institute for Teaching and Learning. The goal of Mission: Critical is to create a "virtual lab," capable of familiarizing users with the basic concepts of critical thinking in a self-paced, interactive environment. http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/itl/

Internet Access, Usage, and Policies at Colleges and University. An article of how different institutions are managing the technology. http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue4_11/fleck/index.html

The December Page. One of my favorites for finding virtual communities and portals on academic and Internet related subjects. Especially good for rhetoric, writing, math, and computer science. http://www.december.com/

HISTORY & SOCIAL SCIENCES:

History in the Raw. The use of primary sources in teaching history. http://www.nara.gov/education/teaching/raw.html

The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography. An authoritative collection of WPA slave narratives, published by Greenwood Publishing Group. http://www.slavenarratives.com/

American Memory is part of the Library of Congress’ National Digital Library project; includes documents of the nation’s founding, photographs of the Civil War, original audio recordings of American folk music, and examples of the early cinema of Thomas Edison. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html

Psychology Virtual Library. http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/psi/

WCSU List: Sociology Internet Resources. http://www.wcsu.ctstateu.edu/socialsci/socres.html

MUSIC AND ARTS:

Performing Arts Data Service Guide to Good Practice Creating Digital Performance Resources

http://www.pads.ahds.ac.uk/padsGGPPerformance

The Cutting Edge of Music Created by Michael Droste, a participant in the Fermilab LInC program sponsored by Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Friends of Fermilab, and the Illinois State Board of Education http://edweb.fnal.gov/linc/spring96/projects_linc2/allmusic/technology/index.html

Compumedia: A Multimedia Approach to Music Education http://www.quadrant.net/compumedia/

SCIENCES:

The Tree of Life is a collaborative project that brings together on one Web site information about nearly all of the earth’s flora and fauna. http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/phylogeny.html

SciEd: Science and Mathematics Education Resources. http://www-hpcc.astro.washington.edu/scied/science.html

HUMANITIES:

CHUM 650: Computing and the Humanities. http://www.dsu.edu/~johnsone/chum.html

MATH:

Using the Web to Teach Mathematics. A service function in the Mathematics Department at the University of Colorado at Denver, aimed at helping to use the World Wide Web to support teaching. http://www-math.cudenver.edu/w4t/

The Math Forum Home Page at Swarthmore College http://forum.swarthmore.edu/

The Geometry Center at the University of Minnesota. http://www.geom.umn.edu/docs/education/

(Animated) Graphics for the Calculus Classroom. http://www.math.psu.edu/dna/graphics.html

For statistics see my links on “Business Research and Statistics” at http://www.mgmtguru.com

PHILOSOPHY:

Online computer learning at Oberlin College at Oregon State University, where Philosophy 201 is offered entirely on-line, using the Web and electronic mail. http://www.cs.orst.edu/department/instruction/phil201.S95/

For ethics, see my links “Business Ethics” at http://www.mgmtguru.com

ENGLISH:

Computer Writing and Research Lab, The University of Texas, Austin. http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/

Columbia University Guide to Online Style. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos/idx_basic.html

FOREIGN LANGUAGES:

Ecola. Links to major newspapers, magazines, and TV across the globe. http://www.ecola.com/

BUSINESS:

ManagementGuru, Dr. Makamson’s Web Site. http://www.mgmtguru.com. E-Mail me at bizprof@compuserve.com