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One of our philosophies is that it is not possible, much less reasonable, for one person to have a grasp of all of the web resources in a subject area. So why try to keep those list of "hot links" going?

When we started gathering web sites related to learning, we decided to set up a system that the entire web community could help us build-- a searchable collection of specific examples of how teachers are using the web, be it full web courses, general materials, or web-activities, as long as they are connected to a particular class being taught anywhere.

Our "Teaching and Learning on the WWW" contains over 700 different examples, that you can browse by subject area or search by keyword:

http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tl/

But we are not just talking about this site to slap ourselves on the back; in this workshop you have likely come across several excellent examples that have not been listed in our collection. So our last activity is for you to go to our site, and follow the link for Submit a Site where you will find a web form to be completed. We ask for the title of the site, a URL, a subject category, and a brief description.

What happens when you fill out the web form? For example, let's say I teach Mathematics. While looking for examples of web activities, I came across a site developed by Professor Bonnie Ferguson at ABC University, where she has her students use some real time data (stock prices) to perform mathematical calculations on a fictitious portfolio and write reports as an e-mail letter to the client. I like Ferguson's use of real-world data combined with writing skills. When I fill out the web form at the "Teaching and Learning Site", it enters our administrative system, where we can easily edit the entry, verify the web address, and automatically add it to the database, plus generating an e-mail message of thanks to the person that filled out the web form. See a screen shot [32k GIF image] of the entry.

So pick one or more of the sites that you thought were excellent uses of the web for your subject area, and share them with the many other people that frequent our Teaching and Learning on the WWW site.

You've just about reached the end of this workshop. The last thing we will do is give you ideas for how to take some of this home with you.