Useful resources for academic and education writers

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Links Last Updated on August 29, 2009

AudioBook Resources:
Blackstone: http://www.blackstoneaudio.com
Books on Tape: http://www.booksontape.com
Recorded Books: http://www.recordedbooks.com
Audio Books for Free on MP3 or DVD: http://www.dvdaudiobooks.com
Audible.Com: http://www.audible.com

Audiobook Production podcast: http://authoraccess.com/archives/102

Author Guidelines (Examples):
Author Guidelines: http://www.wiley.com/legacy/authors/guidelines/stmguides/6frames.htm
Guidelines for Camera-Ready Copy: http://www.ablongman.com/html/author/cameraready.html
Publisher Style Guidelines: http://www.mhhe.com/catalogs/work/supplements.mhtml
Author Guidelines for Test Banks: http://www.ablongman.com/html/author/supplemental.html

Authoring Software:
For Mathematicians: http://www.ams.org
Excel and PowerPoint: http://www.microsoft.com/office/previous/xp/columns/column09.asp
Tamarack Information on QuizMaster, TestGen, and StudyWizard: http://www.tamarack-software.com/
Snag It: http://www.techsmith.com/screen-capture.asp
FrameMaker: http://www.adobe.com/products/framemaker/main.html
Microsoft’s Office OneNote 2003 (Notetaking System): http://www.microsoft.com/office/onenote/trial/che
Macromedia (XML, Flash, Dreamweaver, Coursebuilder, Authorware): http://www.macromedia.com/resources/elearning/objects/
RSS feeds for news and data: http://www.webreference.com/authoring/languages/xml/rss/intro/
Postscript Guide: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/docproject/programming/postscript/postscript.html

ToolBook (Asymetrix, Click2Learn, Docent, Sum Total Systems): http://www.sumtotalsystems.com/products/content-creation/tb_index.html

Many Eyes Data Visualization tool: http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes

Hot Potatoes (test creation): http://hotpot.uvic.ca, http://www.halfbakedsoftware.com/hot_pot.php

LaTex, document preparation system: http://www.latex-project.org/

Content Providers:
Social sciences content providers: http://www.socsciresearch.com/r3.html
MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching): http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm

ANDROID: http://www.android.com

OER (Open Educatonal Resources): http://www.oercommons.org/oer/providers

Hoovers Article: http://www.hoovers.com/internet-content-providers/--HICID__1457--/free-ind-factsheet.xhtml

Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration: http://www.cilc.org/c/education/content_provider_programs.aspx

Copyright and Copyright Clearance:
Copyright Clearance Center: http://www.copyright.com
Proquest Copyright Clearance: http://xanedu.proquest.com/products/copyright.shtml
Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 Summary: http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/iclp/dmca1.htm
U.S. Copyright Office: http://www.copyright.gov
Links to the patent, trademark, and copyright policies of colleges and universities: http://www.nethics.umd.edu/copyown/policies/index.html

Inside Higher Ed Article on Copyright Issues

Publishing Executive Article on Content Aggregation

Creative Commons: http://creativecommon.org

Course Authoring and Management Systems:
Blackboard, WebCT, and Angel: http://www.blackboard.com/
Pearson’s eCollege: http://www.ecollege.com

Desire2Learn: http://www.desire2learn.com

Sakai CLE: http://sakaiproject.org/portal

Epsilen: http://www.epsilen.com

Moddle: http://moodle.orgDrupal: http://drupal.org

Creating E-Texts:
Electronic Textbook Design Guidelines: http://ebooks.strath.ac.uk/eboni/guidelines/contents.html

Inside Higher Ed Article on E-Textbooks and Kindle

Education for a Digital World, Parts 1-5: http://www.col.org/resources/crsMaterials/Pages/edDigitalWorld.aspx

Creating Puzzles and Games:
Ed Helper: http://www.edhelper.com/crossword.htm
Variety Games: http://www.varietygames.com/CW/
Puzzlemaker: http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/

Digital Multimedia:
File Extensions: http://www.ace.net.nz/tech/TechFileFormat.html
University of Texas Interactive Multimedia Development: http://www.edb.utexas.edu/multimedia/PDFfolder/PDF.html
Apple Education: Digital Content Creation: http://www.apple.com/education/teachers-professors/digital-content-creation.html

Electronic Slides:
PowerPoint in the Classroom: http://www.actden.com/pp/
Articles on implementing the Seven Principles of Good Practice in Undergraduate Education: http://www.tltgroup.org/programs/seven.html

Slide Rocket (web and browser based): http://www.sliderocket.com

Impress: http://www.openoffice.org/product/impress.html

Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net

Power Point Does Rocket Science: http://www.edwardtufte/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?_id=0001yB&topic_id=1

Information Databases:
Factiva: http://www.factiva.com/
Lexis-Nexis (business): http://www.lexisnexis.com
Dialog (reference): http://www.dialog.com
Scirus (science): http://www.scirus.com
FirstGov.gov (government): http://www.firstgov.gov/
EbscoHost: http://ejournals.ebsco.com
ProQuest: http://www.proquest.com/

Information Literacy and Design:
Edward Tufte, Information Design: http://www.edwardtufte/tufte/mymag.com
Instructional design: http://www.fgcu.edu/onlinedesign/designDev.html; http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/idmodels.html
Links to instructional design for online courses: http://www.ibritt.com/resources/dc_instructionaldesign.htm
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Center for Academic Transformation: http://www.center.rpi.edu)

Learning Objects
The Instructional Use of Learning Objects: http://www.reusability.org/read/
Defining learning objects: http://coe.sdsu.edu/eet/Articles/learnobject/index.htm;
New Media Consortium’s Guidelines: http://www.nmc.org/guidelines

Initiatives (Learning Objects): http://www.nmc.org/initiatives
Links for developing e-learning and distance learning objects: http://www.ibritt.com/resources/dc_objects.htm

Online Courses
Sloan Consortium report: http://www.sloan-c.org/pubications/survey/pdf/staying_the_course.pdf
North American Council for Online Learning: http://www.nacol.org
E-CLASS: Creating a Guide to Online Course Development For Distance Learning Faculty: http://www.westga.edu/~distance/ojdla/winter34/gerson34.html
Example: Duke University’s statement about web services: http://www.duke.edu/websrv/depts.html

Flat World Knowledge: http://www.flatworldknowledge.com

Utilium: http://www.utilium.com

Research on Online Education (Reported in Inside Higher Ed)

Open Source Resources:
Project Gutenberg: http://gutenberg.net
Scripps Library at the University of Virginia: http://www.millercenter.virginia.edu/scripps
PubMed Central (National Library of Medicine): http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov
Words without Borders (Oxford University): http://www.wordswithoutborders.org
Dspace (MIT): http://libraries.mit.edu/dspace-mit
Moodle Course Management Software: http://www.edutools.info/course/index.jsp
MIT’s OpenCourseWare program at http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html

Open Courseware Consortium: http://www.ocwconsortium.org/members/consortium-members.html

Publisher Directories:
American Association of Publishers (AAP): http://www.publishers.org
Association of American University Presses (AAUP): http://aaupnet.org
Library of Congress (LOC): http://www.loc.gov
BookWire: http://www.bookwire.com

Bacon's Media Directories: http://us.cision.com/products_services/bacons_media_directories_2009.asp

Textbook Issues:

Congress's Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance: http://www.ed.gob/about/bdscomm/list/acsfa/edlite-index.html

Wiki Textbooks: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki

CourseSmart: http://www.coursesmart.com

Edutopia: E-Books in Higher Education

Richard Baraniuk 2006 TED Video on Open Source Learning: http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_baraniuk_on_open_source_learning.html

Inside Higher Education: http://www.insidehighered.com

The Muddle Machine Confessions of a Textbook Editor

NY Times Article on Textbook Pirating

NY Times Article on Textbook Rentals

Video Sources
Documentary Educational Resources: http://www.der.org
PBS Shop: http://www.shoppbs.org/home/index.jsp
Films for the Humanities & Sciences: http://ffh.films.com/Films_Home/index.cfm
Library of Congress Video Web Casts: http://www.connectlive.com/events/libraryofcongress
NASA Video: http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlnasa/videos/
Guide to public domain film footage: http://www.videouniversity.com/shop/guide-to-public-domain-footage
C-Span video: http://www.c-span.org
National Archives video: http://www.archives.gov/research/index.html

Web Authoring
Platforms: http://www.bellevuelinux.org/platform.html
HTML (hypertext markup language): http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/alist.html

HTML Intro and Tutorial: http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_intro.asp
Uploading: http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~mudws/webhints.html
Browsers: http://www.learnthenet.com/english/html/12browser.htm
Block formatting: http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/tagpages/block.htm
W3 Consortium specifications for universal HTML 3.2 or 4.0: http://www.w3.org
Web Design Group Guide to HTML 3.2: http://www.htmlhelp.com
HTML 4.0: http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/html40
Cascading Style Sheets: http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/css

ASAE Primer on Web 2.0 Tools

Writers and Editors:
Editorial Freelancers Association: http://www.the-efa.org
Authorlink: http://authorlink.com
American Medical Writers Association: http://www.amwa.org
National Association of Science Writers: http://nasw.org/
National Education Writers Association: http://www.ewa.org

Text and Academic Authors Association: http://www.taaonline.net
Writers Net: http://www.writers.net/writers.html

Writing Cases
Example of Approaches to Case-Based Assessment: http://www.bioquest.org/eval.html
Quick tutorial on developing case-based instructional materials: http://www.edtech.vt.edu/edtech/id/models/powerpoint/casebased.pdf
Links site on case-based learning in higher education: http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/awceauth.htm#casebased

Writing Learning Objectives
Writing learning objectives: http://www.park.edu/cetl/quicktips/writinglearningobj.html
Teaching Goals Inventory: http://www.uiowa.edu/~centeach/tgi
Bloom’s Taxonomy: http://chiron.valdosta.edu/whuitt/col/cogsys/bloom.html

Learning Objectives Tutorial: https://tlt.stonybrook.edu/FacultyServices/CDD/Pages/WritingLearningObjectives.aspx

Writing Study Guides
Learning Styles Online home page: http://www.learning-styles-online.com
Study Guides and Strategies: http://www.studygs.net
Designing Secondary-Level Study Guides: http://coe.sdsu.edu/people/jmora/Pages/ContentStudyGds.htm
Concept Mapping: http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/mapping/mapping.htm

Writing Test Items
Michigan State University’s Comprehensive Guidelines for Writing Test Items: http://www.msu.edu/dept/soweb/writitem.html
Park University Guidelines and Links Page on Writing Test Items: http://captain.park.edu/facultydevelopment/writing_test_items.htm
Annotated Links Page on Writing Tests from the Center for Teaching Excellence: http://cte.umdnj.edu/student_evaluation/evaluation_constructing.cfm
Alabama Professional Development Module on Constructing Essay Tests: http://web.utk.edu/~mccay/apdm/essay/essay_b.htm