Dave's Web Portfolio
For EDT 6010

Virtual Tours:	Description:
Avalon Wine Tours http://www.avalon-tours.com/	France's premier wine regions - Bordeaux, Burgundy and Rhone.  Special tours to Italy, Chile and South Africa
Geology Field Trips  http://www.uh.edu/~jbutler/anon/alphatrips.html	Choice of over 100 different trips all over the world.
Scavenger Hunts:
Learn2.com http://www.Learn2.com	A directory of pay-for and free instruction for a variety of different vocations.
Center for Disease Control http://www.cdc.org	Site specifically set up to document diseases world wide.
Web Quest:
National Restaurant Association http://www.nra.org	Site set up for the National Restaurant Association. Has links to culinary/hospitality based educational informational sites.
Educational Web Sites used for Teaching:
Collaborative Learning:
Collaborative Learning Network http://www.collaborative-learning.org/	Learning Opportunities in Collaborative Tools, Processes & Knowledge
Collaborative Learning Enhances Critical Thinking http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JTE/jte-v7n1/gokhale.jte-v7n1.html	Good article on the positive aspects of collaborative Learning.
National Center on Postsecondary Teaching, Learning,  and Assessment http://www.ed.psu.edu/cshe/htdocs/research/nctla/nctla.htm	This is the website for the Learning through Collaborative Visualization (CoVis) Project. CoVis is a community of thousands of students, hundreds of teachers, and dozens of researchers all working together to find new ways to think about and practice science in the classroom.
International Centre for Distance Learning http://www-icdl.open.ac.uk/	ICDL Home Page The International Center for Distance Learning (ICDL) is an international center for research, teaching, consultancy, information and publishing activities based in the Institute of Educational Technology
The Museum Learning Collaborative http://mlc.lrdc.pitt.edu/mlc/	The Museum Learning Collaborative (MLC), funded by a consortium of public agencies under the direction of the Institute for Museum and Library Services, has been established to further theoretically driven research on learning in museums.
University of Delaware Problem Based Learning page. http://www.udel.edu/pbl/	Focuses on undergraduate and graduate educational settings
Introduction to Competency-Based Education http://www.enc.org/reform/fworks/001628/16283.htm	“Ohio's Model Competency-Based Science Program is designed to provide direction for school districts in developing local competency-based science education programs. This Model is designed to be used to guide the development of district curriculum. Teachers' instructional guides are developed from local curriculum and appropriate instructional resources.”
Competency-Based Education and Training. http://www.ericacve.org/docs/cbetmr.htm	Sandra Kerka “Competency-based education is perceived by some as the answer, by others as the wrong answer, to the improvement of education and training for the complex contemporary world (Harris et al. 1995). Popular in the United States in the 1970s in the performance-based vocational teacher education movement, competency approaches are riding a new wave in the 1990s”
Lesson Plans:
Lesson plans from Kodak for Special education http://www.kodak.com/global/en/consumer/education/lesson Plans/indices/specialEducation.shtml	Variety of standardized lesson plans for teaching special education children photography
National Education Association http://www.nea.org/	Home page for National Education Association. Excellant source.
New York Times Lesson Plans for teachers http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/	Asssorted lesson plans from the New York Times on numerous subjects
Teaching about Thanksgiving from the  Native American perspective http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr040.shtml	Thanksgiving from a different point of view
Medevil cookbookA Boke of Gode Cookery http://www.godecookery.com/godeboke/godeboke.htm	Collection of medieval recipes will have them begging for more at the next Renaissance Faire! Each historically accurate recipe is written in both Middle English and contemporary English, and each includes modifications for the modern kitchen. The only hard part will be deciding between Dragontail and Lardy Jacks & Johnny Boys. Delicious learning!
Simulations:
A Sustainable Fishing Simulation http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds4-1/fish.html	A sustainable fishing simulation system accessible over the WWW. Intended to help ecology students learn about issues involved in environmentally sustainable fishing.
Simulations Section  http://www.coe.uh.edu/insite/elec_pub/html1996/12simula.htm	The projects described in this section employ a variety of hardware and authoring tools in addressing how simulations can be used to facilitate the training of teachers.
Culinary Learning Sites:
The Food Timeline http://www.gti.net/mocolib1/kid/food.html	The times and places that common foods have been introduced to society.
Seeds of Change Garden http://www.nmnh.si.edu/garden/	The evolution of agriculture and cuisine throughout the world.
Tufts University Nutrition Navigator http://navigator.tufts.edu/	This online guide is designed to "help you sort through the large volume of nutrition information on the Internet and find accurate, useful nutrition information you can trust. "

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