MERLOT+2011

=MERLOT 2011 Highlights=

// This conference is brought to you by The Sloan Consortium in partnership with MERLOT //

MERLOT Elixr won the Faculty Development Discipline Community Classics Award. MERLOT Elixr contains excellent case stories that include student engagement and faculty development topics that pertain to student success. Read more about [|MERLOT Elixr]and see the Case Stories.


 * MERLOT Classics Award Winners 2011**- **Use These Engaging Materials in Your Classes!!**

Biology [|**Biological Animations and Tutorials**] - **Sumanas, Inc** This site has numerous animations covering the common topics of an introductory Biology course. The most complete animations have a step-through mode with text descriptions of each step in the animation, a narrated version of the animation, and two to four multiple choice quiz questions at the end. Business [|Processing Integrity Challenge] - Susan Moncada -//Indiana State University// and Michael Seda - //Shaw University// The Processing Integrity Challenge makes use of game theory to help students learn how to determine relevant application controls for accounting systems to ensure processing integrity is achieved. It specifically addresses source data, data entry, processing, and output controls. [|**The Blake Archive**] - **Morris Eaves - //University of Rochester//** This archive provides a comprehensive collection of digitized primary documents representing the work of William Blake as well as scholarly articles about Blake and his work. The archive supports use in the literature classroom as well as academic research, and it allows teachers and researchers to examine Blake's poems in the visual context within which he published them.
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Faculty Development
[|**MERLOT ELIXR: Sharing Faculty Stories of Exemplary Teaching**]- **Tom Carey - //University of Waterloo//, Lou Zweier - //CSU Center for Distribute Learning//, and Season Eckadrt - //CSU Office of the Chancellor//** The MERLOT ELIXR project is intended to develop and test new collaborations amongst faculty development centers and online resource repositories. The goal is to create innovative models for the development, sharing and use of discipline-oriented resources which illustrate exemplary teaching practices and which also support faculty with exemplary learning objects to help implement those practices with their students. History ` [|Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga] - Arctic Studies Center - //Smithsonian Institute// This website has been produced by the Smithsonian Institution to highlight a major new exhibit on Viking exploration of the North Atlantic prepared for the millenary commemoration of Lief Eriksson’s Vinland landing. But it provides a broad overview of the Vikings and their great expansion across northen Europe and the Atlantic during the 9th and 10th centuries with an eye toward revising the common perception of Vikings as barbarian despoilers.

Information Technology [|Linux Survival] - Calydon Tech, Inc. This is an interactive tutorial to learn the basics of Linux operating system. The tutorial is composed of four modules, which need to be downloaded separately. These modules are intended as a quick way to get started using Linux in a simulated environment where the learner has particular goals to meet. Library and Information Services [|VAIL (Virtual Academic Integrity Laboratory) Tutorial] - Kimberly Bonner - //University of Maryland University College,// Olga Francois - //UMUC//, and Kimberly Kelly //University of Wisconsin - Parkside//. The VAIL Tutor (Virtual Academic Integrity Laboratory)is a four module tutorial that provides an overview of academic integrity and plagiarism. It introduces the learner to documentation styles, provides tips on avoiding plagiarism and discusses plagiarism policies. A printable certificate of completion is available.

Mathematics
[|Exploring Multivariable Calculus] - Paul Seeburger - //Monroe Community College// Exploring Multivariable Calculus is an excellent tool which a student can use to visualize surfaces in 3D. A student can enter up to four equations where some of them can be in another coordinate system such as cylindrical or spherical or even implicit.

Physics [|**The Pendulum Lab**] - **Franz-Josef Elmer - //University of Basel// ** This is a virtual laboratory where you can do hands-on experiments at rigid pendula. Together with the material presented in the lecture room, you can learn basic issues like harmonic oscillator and resonance but also advanced topics like parametric resonance, nonlinear dynamics, and chaos. Statistics [|**Rossman/Chance Applet Collection**] - **Allan Rossman** and **Beth Chance - //Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo//** This is an extensive collection of java applets that focus on topics related to probability and statistics. There are currently 28 applets in the collection, and the applets are designed to illustrate topics such as data analysis, sampling distributions, probability and inference, randomization distribution simulations, and mathematical models.

Teacher Education
[|Cool Tools for Schools]- Lenva Shearing - //Bucklands Beach Intermediate School// This site is a wiki that is designed as a Web 2.0 Tools database with direct links to provide quick access for students and teachers. There are currently 18 different categories that hold several hundred different Web 2.0 tools. Technical Allied Health [|**Thyroid and Parathyroid Glands**]- **Richard Bowen - //Colorado State University//** This is part of a much larger site on the pathophysiology of the endocrine system, again part of Biomedical Hypertexts. It is organized on multi levels from core to advanced to supplemental topics.

World Languages
[|Visualizing Japanese Grammar] - Shoko Hamano and Wakana Kikuchi - //George Washington University// This site offers 66 units of various grammatical structures ranging from basics such as “counters”, to advanced units such as “adversity passive” in flash files with audio explanation in English and 12 Powerpoint downloadable appendices. Each unit consists of 5-10 minutes of presentations depending on the topic.