Sites Used For Lake Tahoe Community College Courses
Below is a list of sites that instructors use or recommend that their students use:
Business Office Administration Instructional Technology
English Professional Development for Instructors
Foreign Language Sociology/ Anthropology
Health and Physical Education Workforce Preparation
API SpecificationDepartment: Business Office Administration
Class: Business Communications
Site: Purdue On-Line Writing Lab
Site Description: On-line writing lab that covers such topics as: grammar, spelling and punctuation; professional writing; and writing across the curriculum
Benefits to Students: Students can access job search resources; examples of resumes, cover letters, other application-related documents; general business writing issues; business letters; memos and reports
Department: Career Counseling
Class: Career Planning
Site: The Riley Guide
Site Description: Comprehensive site dealing with career exploration, job search, interviewing, resume writing, employer information, etc...etc...
Benefits to Students: Makes them aware of how much career information is on the web and leads them to many other useful links.
Department: Computer Science
Class: Introduction to computer programming
Site Description: Documents the java standard library
Benefits to Students: Allows them to employ large inheritance structure of library capabilities with the java programming language
Department: Culinary Arts
Class: Introduction to the Business of Culinary Arts
Site: Small Business Administration
Site Description: It is a very useful site produced by the Federal Government. It has a step-by-step guide for developing business plans, examples of business plans, references for finding out more information about business plans, how to seek and acquire funding for starting a new business, and much more.
Benefits to Students: The students use this as a help in developing their term project which is to develop a business concept of their own which includes the writing of a modified business plan.
Department: English
Class: "Writing Improvement" and "Critical Reading and Writing"
Site: Derek's Big Site of Wal-Mart Receipts
Site Description: It is a collection of one guy's (Derek) receipts from Wal-Mart over the last several years. Visitors to the site leave comments about Derek's purchases and create stories about who he is and what he is doing.
Benefits to Students: I've used it as both a story creation device and a critical reading exercise in having students choose a set number of his receipts and then attempt to "read" who he from those receipts. It is a bizarre site that students really get interested in and fascinated with.
Department: ESL
Class: All credit ESL areas
Site: ESL Sites
Site Description: It contains various self-study exercises at several skill areas
Benefits to Students: It's a good adjunct to helping them develop their reading/writing skills
Department: Foreign Language
Class: Spanish (all levels)
Site: Foreign Language Department, LTCC, Spanish Web Lessons
Site Description: Spanish cultural lessons
Benefits to Students: Access to cultural topics, history, literature, holidays, at appropriate levels of Spanish; topics for term paper research; sites to practice grammar covered in class, links to Spanish online materials; online dictionaries; course syllabi and descriptions, etc.
Department: Geology
Class: Geology (All courses)
Site: Geoscience resources on the web
Site Description: It is a collection of links to geology education sites and includes a searchable database. It serves as a clearinghouse for geologic sites, including many interactive exercises developed by faculty at other institutions.
Benefits to Students: I use it to find the individual sites to which I refer them for specific lab exercises (e.g. locating earthquakes or volcanoes, searching for fossils, finding environmental data...)
Department: Health and Physical Education
Class: Introduction to Exercise Science, Nutrition for Fitness and Sport, and Principles of Physical Conditioning
Site: Richard Kreider's home page
Site Description: It is a nutrition and exercise professor's home page.
Benefits to Students: The professor has many lectures and presentations available on the site. He also has many useful links.
Department: Instructional Technology
Class: Workshop on Online lessons
Site: TrackStar
Site Description: TrackStar is an on-line interface that helps instructors organize and annotate Web sites (URLs) into lessons. The list of resources acts like a table of contents and remains visible throughout the lesson allowing the user/student to easily browse
Benefits to Students: Allows instructors to provide another format for students to digest the content.
Department: Math
Class: Calculus
Site: Visual Calculus
Site Description: This site provides interactive lessons and quizzes for the first two quarters of calculus
Benefits to Students: Students can get information and reinforce their knowledge of calculus. They can practice for a calculus exam. The site allows the students to explore the calculus and provides information in a very different format from a book.
Department: Meteorology
Class: Meteorology
Site: Weather Channel - West US maps index
Site Description: Contains a series of weather maps and satellite images
Benefits to Students:I begin each day’s class by calling up our local weather station data and then a series of weather maps and images from this site. We discuss what is going on and then students make predictions of the next day’s weather.
Department: Physics
Class: General Physics (Calculus)
Site: Eric Weisstein's Treasure Troves of Science
Site Description: This sight contains brief definitions and descriptions of scientific terms, ideas, theories, etc. It also contains some information on scientific historical events.
Benefits to Students: I use this sight to get a different perspective on the course material, to bring in the historical perspective, and to bring in additional relevant information.
Department: Professional Development for Instructors
Class: Any class where a teacher is interested in becoming aware of their own thinking processes, teaching/learning styles and assessing those of their students.
Site: Learning to Learn
Site Description: There are two focuses in Learning to Learn: Thinking and Learning Skills 1) To raise self-awareness of thinking patterns and differences between learners, and 2), To provide the tools that will allow teachers to create a resource that can be used to teach or use these skills in a classroom. In most sections of the course there are interactive activities that help learners "feel" their thinking processes in action. The forums are used for discussing the strategies learners used to solve the problems and complete exercises, and to discuss specific topics within the course. The forums allow learners to see the different tactics others apply to various learning situations, and to learn from their experience.
The Thinking and Learning Skills course is designed to raise teachers', parents', and adult learners' awareness to their own thinking processes as a prerequisite to including learning skills as part of their teaching, or to improve their own learning skills. The Thinking and Learning skills course is unique in the realm of learning strategies courses. Learning to Learn is not a "study skills" or "strategies" course, but rather a course that teaches self-awareness and adaptive thinking skills.
Benefits to Students: helping students become aware of their thinking processes and learning styles is beneficial to their learning about themselves and hence others. Tolerance for diversity is a high priority in learning and working environments. Learning to Learn is not a "study skills" or "strategies" course, but rather a course that teaches self-awareness and adaptive thinking skills.
Department: Psychology
Class: General Psychology and Introduction to Social Research
Site: EBSCO
Site Description: Access to empirical/research articles
Benefits to Students: The site helps them to do their critique paper and research Project
Department: Sociology/ Anthropology
Class: Intro to Sociology and Cultural Anthropology
Site: Raelian Home Page
Site Description: The site is the home page for a religious movement. It contains information about the group, its beliefs, values and the like. There are also links to pages related to the organization's beliefs, such as those related to DNA and technology.
Benefits to Students: The site allows my students to view the purposes, beliefs and goals of a religious movement. Since the site is constantly being updated, I find that students can understand the development and changes of a new social movement. The other day we looked at some interesting real video on the site. This allowed my students to understand the group's creation story.
Department: Theater
Class: History of Film
Site: International Movie data base
Site Description: Basically a data base with information on 1000s of movies and links to other movie sites.
Benefits to Students: Provides a resource for supplemental information
Department: Workforce Preparation
Class: Cooperative Work Experience/Internship
Site: California Occupational Guides
Site Description: Complete labor market information about job duties, working conditions, employment outlook, wages, benefits, entrance requirements, and training.
Benefits to Students: Access to career information
