Teaching Online: A Practical Guide

By Susan Ko, Steve Rossen, Steve Rossen

Suitable for courses in online teaching, web-based instruction, teaching with the Internet, or the online classroom, this book answers the most common questions and concerns of instructors who want create electronic educational environments.

Topics covered include choosing software and technology tools, building an online classroom, creating an online syllabus, course conversion, online classroom management, integrating online and face-to-face activities, and student support issues. The text is supported by a web site that provides new strategies, tips, and information on emergent technologies.

Pedagogy includes “Important” points that highlight key topics; “Definition” boxes that feature key terms with brief definitions; and “Sidebars,” which focus student attention on important points. Call number LB2395.7 .K67 2001

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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Revised Ed: Democracy, the Internet, and the Overthrow of Everything

By Joe Trippi

When Joe Trippi signed on to manage Howard Dean’s 2004 presidential campaign, the long-shot candidate had 432 known supporters and $100,000 in the bank. Within a year the most obscure horse in the field was the front-runner, with $50 million in the campaign till, thanks to Trippi and his team. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised is the incredible story of how Joe Trippi’s revolutionary use of the Internet forever changed politics as we know it. Trippi’s memori cum manifesto offers a blueprint for engaging Americans in real dialogue-and is an instruction manual for how businesspeople, government leaders, and anyone else can make use of democracy. In a new afterword, Trippi reviews how these lessons have influenced the 2008 campaign, a race marked by higher voter interest than any other in recent history. Call number JK1764.T75 2008

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Valuing Children: Rethinking the Economics of the Family

By Nancy Folbre

Nancy Folbre challenges the conventional economist’s assumption that parents have children for the same reason that they acquire pets—primarily for the pleasure of their company. Children become the workers and taxpayers of the next generation, and “investments” in them offer a significant payback to other participants in the economy.

Yet parents, especially mothers, pay most of the costs. The high price of childrearing pushes many families into poverty, often with adverse consequences for children themselves.

Parents spend time as well as money on children. Yet most estimates of the “cost” of children ignore the value of this time. Folbre provides a startlingly high but entirely credible estimate of the value of parental time per child by asking what it would cost to purchase a comparable substitute for it.

She also emphasizes the need for better accounting of public expenditure on children over the life cycle and describes the need to rethink the very structure and logic of the welfare state. A new institutional structure could promote more cooperative, sustainable, and efficient commitments to the next generation. Call Number HQ536 .F65 2008

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The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System

By Siva Vaidhyanathan

The Anarchist in the Library is the first guide to one of the most important cultural and economic battlegrounds of our increasingly plugged-in world. Siva Vaidhyanathan draws the struggle for information that will determine much of the culture and politics of the twenty-first century: anarchy or oligarchy, total freedom vs. complete control. His acclaimed book explores topics from unauthorized fan edits of Star Wars to terrorist organizations’ reliance on “leaderless resistance,” from Napster to Total Information Awareness to flash mobs. Call Number T58.5 .V35 2004

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Super Review: English Language

by Research & Education Association

Call# PE1114 .E64 2000

Product Description
REA’s Super Reviews help students brush up on tough subjects. They are more thorough than ordinary subject reviews but less complex than voluminous study guides. Numerous solved problems accompany the review and bring it to life. The English Language Super Review includes an extensive review of grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure. A glossary of usage is also included. Exercises and quizzes enable students to check whether they have learned what they need to know, whether they understand the subject and have command of it.

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Plagiarism

by Heidi Williams

Call Number: PN167 .P532 2008

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What in the World Are Your Kids Doing Online?: How to Understand the Electronic World Your Children Live In

By Barbara Melton and Susan Shankle

Call Number: HQ784 .I58 M45 2007

Texting. Blogging. IMing. Technology that has become second nature to our children remains uncharted territory for many parents. What in the World Are Your Kids Doing Online? tells you everything you need to know to navigate the parenting issues technology raises, and arms you with the tools you need to protect your children.
This comprehensive, all-purpose guide shows you how to keep up with the latest in computer technology and the Internet—even if you’re a techno-illiterate.
You’ll also learn how to:

• protect your child from cyber-bullies and sexual predators

• monitor your child’s online activity

• recognize the danger signs in your child’s use of chat rooms and socializing sites such as MySpace

• decode the secret language of texting, instant messaging, e-mail, and chat rooms

• keep your “Cyber-kid” healthy and fit

• teach your child good on-line study skills

• help your child build healthy friendships and dating relationships, both on- and off-line

• gear your rules about the Internet to your child’s age and developmental stage

• know when to turn the computer off

Includes information on how the cyber world affects children with special needs, learning disorders, and emotional disorders.

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The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company

By David A. Price

Call Number: NC1766 .U52 P75 2008

The roller-coaster rags-to-riches story behind the phenomenal success of Pixar Animation Studios: the first in-depth look at the company that forever changed the film industry and the “fraternity of geeks” who shaped it.

The Pixar Touch is a story of technical innovation that revolutionized animation, transforming hand-drawn cel animation to computer-generated 3-D graphics. It’s a triumphant business story of a company that began with a dream, remained true to the ideals of its founders—antibureaucratic and artist driven—and ended up a multibillion-dollar success.

We meet Pixar’s technical genius and founding CEO, Ed Catmull, who dreamed of becoming an animator, inspired by Disney’s Peter Pan and Pinocchio, realized he would never be good enough, and instead enrolled in the then new field of computer science at the University of Utah. It was Catmull who founded the computer graphics lab at the New York Institute of Technology and who wound up at Lucasfilm during the first Star Wars trilogy, running the computer graphics department, and found a patron in Steve Jobs, just ousted from Apple Computer, who bought Pixar for five million dollars. Catmull went on to win four Academy Awards for his technical feats and helped to create some of the key computer-generated imagery software that animators rely on today.

Price also writes about John Lasseter, who catapulted himself from unemployed animator to one of the most powerful figures in American filmmaking; animation was the only thing he ever wanted to do (he was inspired by Disney’s The Sword in the Stone), and Price’s book shows how Lasseter transformed computer animation from a novelty into an art form. The author writes as well about Steve Jobs, as volatile a figure as a Shakespearean monarch . . .

Based on interviews with dozens of insiders, The Pixar Touch examines the early wildcat years when computer animation was thought of as the lunatic fringe of the medium.

We see the studio at work today; how its writers, directors, and animators make their astonishing, and astonishingly popular, films.

The book also delves into Pixar’s corporate feuds: between Lasseter and his former champion, Jeffrey Katzenberg (A Bug’s Life vs. Antz), and between Jobs and Michael Eisner. And finally it explores Pixar’s complex relationship with the Walt Disney Company as it transformed itself from a Disney satellite into the $7.4 billion jewel in the Disney crown.

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MacBoock for Dummies

By Mark L. Chambers

Call Number: QA76.8 .M3 C469 2006

Tired of being tethered to your desktop computer? If you’re ready to break free with a laptop,  the new MacBook could be just what you’re looking for. In addition to the freedom to work wherever you happen to be, a MacBook offers you:

• A portable darkroom with iPhoto

• Mobile music, podcasts, and Internet radio

• GarageBand software that lets you make your own music

• The ability to create and share original movies and DVDs

• Safari, a safer and ultra-cool Web browser, and all the other OS X advantages

Whether you already have your new MacBook or are still weighing the pros and cons of various models,  MacBook For Dummies is a valuable resource.  For newcomers to laptop land, it’s packed with basic information about using and caring for Mac laptops. It also walks you through Mac OS X, the revolutionary Macintosh operating system that makes your laptop tick. Then it’s on to all the fun stuff you can do with your MacBook, like making music, editing photos and turning them into a book, creating DVDs on the road, or adding a wireless keyboard.  MacBook For Dummies will help you:

• Set up your MacBook and get acquainted with all the features of the Mac OS X Tiger operating system

• Use the Safari Web browser and Apple’s .Mac Internet subscriber service, connect your MacBook to a printer, and communicate with your cell phone or PDA

• Connect to a wired or wireless network

• Make the most of the iLife applications that come with your MacBook—iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie HD, iDVD, and GarageBand

• Keep your MacBook and your data safe, troubleshoot any problems, and maintain your system
Popular For Dummies author Mark Chambers has loaded this fun book with tips, ideas, and his famous “Mark’s Maxims”—power user advice that will guide you around the pitfalls and make you a Macxpert in no time.  From latptop basics all the way to upgrading and adding memory, MacBook For Dummies will be your MacBook’s best friend.

Macs for Dummies

By Edward C. Baig

Call Number: QA76.8 .M3 P617 2006

Updated to cover the new Intel–based Macs, Mac OS X Tiger, and the latest Mac tools and trends, this bestseller includes:

• • • • • Mac basics,
  • • • • customizing a workspace,
  • • • • getting acquainted with Mac OS X, going online,
  • • • • working with iLife applications,
        • setting up e–mail,
        • connecting an iPod to a Mac,
        • turning a Mac into a fax machine,
  • • • • troubleshooting,
        • security,
        • and more.

USA Today Personal Technology columnist Edward Baig, a longtime technology writer who appears regularly on TV, radio, and at major industry trade shows, has rewritten this edition from scratch ensuring you get the up–to–date information you need.

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