VCCS Litonline Introduction to Literature
English 112 (English Composition II)
For Teachers
Greetings Colleagues,
An Invitation
Our Website is your Website. That is,
- You may have your students use the webs at this site, including the forums, without additional permission if you are doing so for academic reasons. (Beyond that, such as for any profit-making motive or to copy and alter any of the work on these sites, you need to obtain written permission from the Virginia Community College System. Requests should be sent via the Project Director, Eric Hibbison.)
- You may contribute to this site by offering your own sites on specific works for inclusion as links.
- You may develop webs using the Style Guide. Webs can be linked to, if they are housed on your college's or ISP's server, or published to the Litonline server via Front Page.
- You may help with requests or ideas that can impact the long-range planning for this site. Send ideas or requests to the project director.
- Use the page, Exploring Litonline, as well as this page, to orient yourself to the structure of the site and some of its resources.
Teaching Ideas for Using Online Resources
- Student Webfolios and Reflective Hypertext Essays (Donna Reiss). See also Electronic Communication Across the Curriculum, workshop materials which led to her book with Dickie Selfe and Art Young.
- Tips for Success in Web Course Design PowerPoint (Cathy Simpson, NVCC TAC).
- Students contribute resources in extra-credit assignments [link updated 10/03] that lead to course web resources. (Eric Hibbison, with students Dawn Cantelmo, Clyde Davenport, and Shelly Johnson.)
- Litonline embodies the VCCS 10 Best Practices for (Online) Content Development.
- Ron Carter contrasts an on-campus unit on drama vs. an online unit on drama. See also an online article from Commentary: The Technology Source, 10 Ways Online Education Can Match or Surpass On-Campus Education.
Software Ideas
- WebBoard: Writing Workshop Discussion Board (Donna Reiss)
- Animations (Ron Carter)
- Front Page vs. Top Class vs. Toolbook Instructor/Assistant vs. template software, e.g. Web Course in a Box vs. Netscape Communicator's page composer (Eric Hibbison)--not technical support, just why we chose Front Page and stuck with it (PowerPoint)
- Collaborating to make CD-ROMs (Rosalind Blunt)
Insider Information
- Editing Front Page forums
- 1998 Interim Report for VCCS Courseware Grant that established Litonline
- 1999 Final Report
- An Annotated Site Map showing design of Litonline
- 2002 LearningWare grant final report
