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Readme First: About this website
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 | This website informs students and colleagues about my courses and scholarly projects. The format of the website is similar to academic dossiers used to organized materials for tenure and promotion. By putting this material on the web, in an outline format, I hope to help my students and attract potential collaborators.
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| The application used to produce this website is NoteBook by Circus Ponies which runs exclusively on Mac OS X. I selected NoteBook for its:
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| Easy website creation ability
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| Powerful information storage and retrieval abilities
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| It is particular well suited for instructors and students. For example, In this website I have made links between the course schedule and particular class outlines as well as with other websites. If a student feels that he needs to review some notes on a particular subject he can easily jump to the notes for another course. For example, I’ve linked my Piaget and Vygotsky notes in the lesson plan on early childhood cognitive development.
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| Another feature that is demonstrated in this notebook is the use of images. Most of the images used in this Notebook come from the Webmuseum and can be freely used for educational and non-profit use. Several of the images are taken from: http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/html/index.html.
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| License:
AICT certifies that the image copies provided hereunder, the originals being the copyrighted intellectual property of art historian and photographer Allan T. Kohl (unless otherwise credited), are licensed for non-profit use as set forth below, and that the art and architectural works documented are, to the best of its knowledge, within the public domain.
Permission is herein granted:
--- to academic institutions to use these images freely and without further authorization in conjunction with educational activities such as teaching, research, and scholarly publication;
--- to academic personnel for creative utilization of these images--including electronic enhancement, modification, manipulation, or combination with other free use images - in conjunction with teaching and learning activities.
--- and to libraries and archives to store, display, transmit, and disseminate these images through any appropriate means--including photomechanical and electronic--in support of such bona fide non-profit activities.
Authorization is specifically granted to educational institutions to make derivative copies available to their affiliated personnel, including students.
While identification of derivative copies with the source note “AICT/(name of copyright holder)” would be appreciated, omission of such credit does not invalidate the general permissions given above.
Any commercial rights pertaining to utilization, publication, or distribution of these
images for profit are reserved by the copyright holder(s).
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| You can highlight text to alert your students or to indicate to co-authors about possible changes. I use this sparingly but will probably use this more in syllabi.
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| Finally, you can attach pdf files to outlines. See, for example, About Me/Diplomas. This can very useful in presenting examples of good essays to students. After asking their permission, you can scan and post students’ excellent essays. I have not done this yet but intend to shortly.
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| Please note that some outlines for classes may appear incomplete. This is because I develop the outlines with my students in class. By “growing” or “co-constructing” the outline together I believe my students learn more effectively. It also helps to make class more interesting and active.
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| If you run Mac OS X, you can download a demo from www.circusponies.com. The same site also has an active user forum with a forum on NoteBook in Education.
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