Useful Links

FacultyFocus.com - Through its free e-newsletter and dedicated website, Faculty Focus publishes articles on effective teaching strategies for the college classroom — both face-to-face and online.

Hot Potatoes SCORM - The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is freeware, and you may use it for any purpose or project you like. It is not open-source.

MERLOT.org - Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning & Online Teaching. Find peer reviewed online teaching and learning materials. Share advice and expertise about education with expert colleagues. Be recognized for your contributions to quality education. MERLOT is a program of the California State University.

OWL Purdue - The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material, all of which are provided as a free service of the Writing Lab at Purdue. Students, members of the community, and users worldwide will find information to assist with many writing projects, including guidelines for APA & MLA. Teachers and trainers may use this material for in-class and out-of-class instruction.

Rubistar.4Teachers.org - Want to make exemplary rubrics in a short amount of time? Try RubiStar out! Registered users can save and edit rubrics online. You can access them from home, school, or on the road. Registration and use of this tool is free.

TechnologySource.org - Published from 1997 to 2003, The Technology Source (ISSN 1532-0030) was a peer-reviewed bimonthly periodical whose purpose was to provide thoughtful, illuminating articles that would assist educators as they face the challenge of integrating information technology tools into teaching and into managing educational organizations.

TinyURL.com - Turn those annoyingly long YouTube links into a shorter more manageable link. You can even choose the wording yourself. It's simple to use and free of charge.