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Resources

Land Acknowledgement
Click here for a Word document of resources for online teaching.
RESOURCES FOR ONLINE TEACHING
   

Contents:
1. MAIN MN RESOURCES
2. VIDEO SYSTEMS
3. MORE RESOURCES FOR MOVING ONLINE
4. FREE OPEN TEXTBOOKS
5. FREE E-NEWSLETTERS

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1. MAIN RESOURCES MINNESOTA CAMPUSES NOW ARE USING:
MinnState–Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (54 campuses):
  • https://asanewsletter.org/academic-continuity/ (Most are open and w/Creative Commons licensing)
  • MnState Keep Teaching site (MinnState only)
University of Minnesota (5 campuses):
  • ”Online Instruction” and ”Support for Remote Teaching” (UMN CEI. Multiple resources, many open to all)
  • UMN Keep Teaching site (some resources open to all)
  • Academic Technology Support Services & 5-campus Unit Technologists & Instructional Designers  (UMN only)
  • Disability Resource Center (some resources open to all)
Minnesota Private Colleges (17 colleges):
  • ”Campuses’ COVID-19 Responses” (some with online teaching resources)
 

2. VIDEO TEACHING & TUTORING, VIDEO OFFICE HOURS:
Most schools provide an app. However, if you need your own, here are some starting places:
  • Instructions for Zoom, Facebook Messenger, or Skype:
  • www.startribune.com/alexander-how-to-make-video-calls-on-a-pc-or-a-mac/569555182/
  • Above plus Google Duo & Facetime (iPhone/Mac): http://tinyurl.com/wmz82sg
  • Google Hangout: www.cnet.com/news/google-hangouts-vs-zoom-which-video-chat-app-is-better-during-quarantine
  • Seven more apps for Windows: http://tinyrul.com/qs9p3hz  
  • WhatsApp for Android cell phones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WhatsApp


3. MORE RESOURCES FOR MOVING TO ONLINE TEACHING
  • Chronicle of Higher Ed: Google “track i: chronicle faculty resilience”
  • MLA–Modern Language Association: “Bringing Your Course Online”–MLA Resources (College)
  • NCTE–National Council of Teachers of English: ”Online Learning” (K-16)
  • OLC–Online Learning Consortium: ”Resources for Educators and Administrators Moving Online” (Coll. & K-12)
  • National List of Colleges: ”Alphabetized growing list of remote-teaching plans, recommendations”  
  • NED–Network for Educational Development: NED Resource Site (College)
  • MinnState: ”What-Works-Well-In-Online-Teaching” (pdf)
  • MinnState: Student Resources
  • Academic writers’ bonus link from “Tomorrow’s Professor” newsletter, a 567-word essay of encouragement: “Writing in the Time of COVID-19” by Dr. Helen Sword, Humanities, U. of Auckland, Australia
     
      
4. OPEN-TEXTBOOK (FREE) SOURCE LISTS
  • OER Commons, Composition Textbooks: www.oercommons.org/search?f.search=composition
    OER Commons (Open Educational Resources), Literature Textbooks: www.oercommons.org/search?f.search=literature
      
  • Project Gutenberg, Composition Textbooks: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/2977
    Project Gutenberg, 1000+ Free Works of Literature: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Literature

  • MERLOT, Composition Textbooks: www.merlot.org/merlot/materials.htm?keywords=composition&sort.property=relevance
    MERLOT, Teaching Literature (Use top “Search” box to narrow): www.merlot.org/merlot/materials.htm?keywords=Teaching+Literature&sort.property=relevance
      
  • UMN Open Textbook Resource List: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/subjects/literature-rhetoric-and-poetry

  • MinnState Opendora by PALS, Teaching Composition: https://opendora.minnstate.edu/islandora/search?type=dismax&islandora_solr_search_navigation=0&f[0]=mods_subject_authority_mnstate_genre_ms%3A%22English%5C%20Language%5C%20Arts%22
      
  • Oklahoma City Univ., List of Composition Textbooks: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/2977


5. LIST OF FREE TEACHING/LEARNING E-NEWSLETTERS (repeated in each “MnWE News”)

Feeling out of touch with your colleagues? Connect with them by subscribing to these free email newsletters. You may start or stop a subscription at any time.
 
“NEA HigherEd,” National Education Association, monthly: Digest of higher-ed political news
Subscribe         Other NEA Inside Higher Ed e-letters

“The Source: Updates,”
MLA Style Center, weekly: Very short news items on pedagogy and readings
Subscribe (scroll to bottom).        Sample e-letter        Other free MLA Style Center e-letters

“Teaching,”
Chronicle of Higher Education, weekly: Very short news items on general teaching methods
 Subscribe         Sample e-letter        Other free Chronicle e-letters

“Tomorrow’s Professor,”
Stanford University, twice-weekly: Each issue is a reprint of a scholarly article on active-learning pedagogy
Subscribe         Sample e-letter and online version

“The Campus View,”
Minnesota Private Colleges (17 colleges), monthly: news and updates for all
Subscribe         Past issues

LEARNING ECOLOGIES: BUILDING, IMPROVING, AND REFINING PEDAGOGY / MARCH 31-APRIL 1, 2023

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