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Melissa's

General Teaching Guides

Center for Academic Excellence from Tufts

New Faculty Member Tour from Kilian College

The Teaching Exchange from Brown University

University of Massachusetts Center for Teaching

Stanford Center for Teaching and Learning

Marquette University English Graduate Student Shared Resources

Searle Center for Teaching Excellence and Advancing University Learning at Northwestern

Center for Teaching Excellence and Advancing University Learning at New York University

Guides to Teaching Science Fiction

The J. Wayne and Elsie M. Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas

Science Fiction Studies on Teaching Science Fiction (1978)

Science Fiction Studies on Science Fiction in the Academy (1996)

Sarah's

From VOS:

Blue Web'n Learning Applications (essentially an educator's interface to the Internet: searchable links to many online projects, reference sites, etc. of use to teachers) (Pacific Bell Education First Initiative) http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/

EDSITEment (links to 20 "best" humanities sites selected by a NEH merit review process; site also includes "learning guides" and an excellent search engine) (National Endowment for the Humanities / Council of the Great City Schools / MCI Co http://edsitement.neh.gov/

Education Central (Richard Lamb) http://www.ehhs.cmich.edu/

The English Pages (resources and material for users of Addison Wesley Longman English texts "in the fields of composition, literature, developmental skills, and technical writing") http://www.ablongman.com/englishpages/

EText: The Electronic & Custom Textbook Publisher (produces custom electronic books or course-packets to order) http://www.etext.net/index.php

IMPACT II--The Teachers Network (non-profit organization page with info on grants and "500 of the best teacher-designed, student-centered award-winning classroom projects that work and are available to all teachers to use immediately in their classrooms") http://www.teachnet.org/

New:

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/syllabi.html#twentieth Literature Course Syllubi (contains sample syllubi and teaching resources for almost any type of literature course I could think of).

http://www.tengrrl.com/tens/002.shtml Playing with Literature (provocative essay and discussion prompts which can be applied to virtually any literary text)

http://www.sou.edu/English/IDTC/Terms/terms.htm Swirl.com (a list of terms and definitions of terms commonly used in literary criticism. These terms are great for starting a class discussion because they provide teachers with the ability to explain exigent critical concerns in a concise and understandable manner to students).

http://www.theory.org.uk/ Theory.uk (Where else can you find a Judith Butler flashcard? Besides flashcards and theorist action figures (!) this website contains valuable and concise definitions of key works by salient theorists.)

http://newark.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/20th.html Literary Resources: Modern Irish and British Literature (contains a catalogue of syllubi, course plans, and other strategies designed to assist in the teaching of courses centered on Irish and British literary modernism)

Zia's

The Kankedort Page University of Alaska, Anchorage
http://hosting.uaa.alaska.edu/afdtk/

Georgetown University Electronic Archives for the Teaching of American Literature
http://www.georgetown.edu/tamlit/tamlit-home.html

Arthuriana Pedagogy, Southern Methodist University, Dallas
http://www.smu.edu/arthuriana/teaching/

SFSU Plagarism Resources Page
http://www.sfsu.edu/~collhum/plagiarism.html

Manhattan College Writing Across the Curriculum Pedagogy Pages
http://www.manhattan.edu/services/wac/index.html

From Paddy http://www.english.ucsb.edu/faculty/pfumer/courses/english165VA/index.html
Mike's Jack Lynch's guide to grammar and style .

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/

MLA citation guide.

http://webster.commnet.edu/mla/index.shtml

Glossary of rhetorical terms.

http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/rhetoric.html

Introductory Lit resources (at UCSC's instructional computing)

http://www.ic.ucsc.edu/~lit1/

UCLA English dept teaching resources

http://www.english.ucla.edu/resources.html

UCB English dept teaching resources

http://english.berkeley.edu/resources/index.html

UCB campuswide teaching resources

http://www.berkeley.edu/teaching/

   

 

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