Finding Activity: Worksheet 2

Use the starting points below to locate web sites that provide materials for a course in your subject area. Print this page and use the format below to record the sites, how you found them, and what was noteworthy about each site. For some of these sites, you may have to explore a few levels until you can locate the course materials.

S T A R T I N G P O I N T S
(these sites will open in a new web browser window)
Syllabus Finder http://chnm.gmu.edu/tools/syllabi/
College and University Home Pages http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/cdemello/univ.html
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign http://www.uiuc.edu/webclasses.html
Dynamic syllabi for American Studies http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/webcourses.html
Free Worksheets http://www.freeworksheets.com/
Teach-nology http://www.teach-nology.com/
Free-Ed Net http://www.free-ed.net/

Pre-Wired Search engines
We have rigged up a tool that will allow you to do some web searches with pre-configured keywords. In this case, you can select any of the search sites below to look for "course materials" or "course syllabus". If you enter any key words separated by spaces, it will focus the search for online courses in those subjects.

Search Google AltaVista HotBot
for "course materials" "course syllabus"
in the subject area:

S I T E S F O U N D
The first is an example of how you might complete this worksheet
title: Human Origins and Cultures, Anthropology 102, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

URL: http://wsi-www1.cso.uiuc.edu/courses/ANTH102/

how found: Started from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign web courses, and browsed to courses listed for Anthropology.

notes: The University provides a system for faculty to use, The Virtual Classroom Interface (VCI), which provides a standard suite of tools to support classes including a detailed Syllabus, Lecture note,, Assignments, Announcements, a chat room, a "hot list" of web sites, a set of review files (to study by), and general helpful web resources.

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The third web flavor that we will find sites for includes activities that use resources on the web.

`title:`	Human Origins and Cultures, Anthropology 102, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
`URL:`	http://wsi-www1.cso.uiuc.edu/courses/ANTH102/
`how found:`	Started from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign web courses, and browsed to courses listed for Anthropology.
`notes:`	The University provides a system for faculty to use, The Virtual Classroom Interface (VCI), which provides a standard suite of tools to support classes including a detailed Syllabus, Lecture note,, Assignments, Announcements, a chat room, a "hot list" of web sites, a set of review files (to study by), and general helpful web resources.