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MERLOT is a searchable collection of peer-reviewed online learning materials created by its users. As stated at their Web site, MERLOT's vision is to be a premiere online community where faculty, staff, and students from around the world share their learning materials and pedagogy. Anyone can search the site for materials; however, those people who become members have the ability to contact the creators of materials directly as well as upload materials to the site. The MERLOT site is a good place to collaborate with people from other institutions. We encourage you to take a look at the site and search for materials in your discipline and, if you have the time, look over other disciplines and/or areas of personal interest.

Begin your exploration of Merlot, by focusing on the following areas:

1. Browse the Collection
2. Visit a Discipline Community
3. Exploring Merlot

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MIT OCW is a free Web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. An introductory video about this resource can be found here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=tbQ-FeoEvTI .

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Digital Content or e-Packs consist of publisher-created digital content that is ready to use in your Webcourses@UCF account. An e-Pack may include learning materials, multimedia elements, and assessments. The quality and the features of e-Packs varies tremendously.

Please e-mail your instructional designer if you find an e-Pack you would like to view. We can upload the e-Pack to a Webcourses@UCF practice account for your review. There is no cost for a faculty member to view an e-Pack. If you decide to use one, your students may be charged an access fee. The fee charged to students varies and is generally part of a bundled textbook product.

Search the ePacks area for possible ePacks in your discipline.

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Flat World Knowledge, a free, open source textbook publisher, has announced plans to add support for direct integration of its books into campus learning management systems (LMS) like Blackboard and ANGEL. With Flat World's LMS-supported textbooks, professors and publishers will be able to include supplementary material content in its entirety available directly on the platform and split up chapters into various folders according to their syllabus.

Click on the link to go to "Flat World Knowledge" Website and select "Find My Class" on the top to browse all ebooks available. The contents are expanding, but the majority of the ebooks focus on business right now.

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DiRT is a wiki that collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars conduct research more efficiently or creatively. It provides a directory of tools organized by research activity, as well as reviews of select tools in which they not only describe the tool's features, but also explore how it might be employed most effectively by researchers. Check out the links on the left of the page as well as the links listed on the right side of the screen.

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YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips

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Wikipedia is an online, dynamic encyclopedia, which anyone can add or edit content. One of the exciting things about this site is that history is documented within minutes of an event occurring. Additionally at UCF, faculty members have made assignments asking students to rewrite poorly or sparsely written entries.

Questions have arisen about Wikipedia's accuracy; Henry Jenkins from MIT discussed its uses and validity at the 2008 Annual Meeting for Educause Learning Initiative. To view his lengthy presentation, go to http://tinyurl.com/2cjxrf/ and select the "What Wikipedia Can Teach Us About the New Media Literacies" topic.

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"The Medpedia Project is an extraordinary global effort to collect, organize and make understandable, the world's best information about health, medicine and the body and make it freely available on the Web site Medpedia.com. Physicians, health organizations, medical schools, hospitals, health professionals, and dedicated individuals are coming together to build the most comprehensive medical resource in the world that will benefit millions of people every year."

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Google Scholar is a Web site used to search for scholarly literature. If you are on the UCF network, Google Scholar will automatically search for UCF Resources for Full Text SFX@UCF. We encourage you to check out the preferences area of Google Scholar as well as search from some topics of interest to you.

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A demo of a course instant messaging tool

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Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro web conferencing makes you more productive. With Connect Pro, you can collaborate more effectively with'students, faculty, staff, guests, and others by sharing documents, notes, applications, and much more. You can also use Connect Pro to present ideas and information by augmenting your audio conference with PowerPoint slides, moderated discussion, or application sharing. Adobe Connect is supported by the Office of Information Resources at UCF.

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There are many instant messaging tools on the market such as AOL's AIM, MSN Instant Messenger, and Yahoo's Instant Messenger. It is sometimes difficult to keep track of all the screennames and passwords we have created in each one. To assist with this, aggregators, such as Trillian and Meebo, have...

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These are Web tools that allow the creation of groups, video and picture sharing, and personal and professional networking. Some instructors are using Facebook successfully as a means of course communication. Others use sites such as Linkedin to network with other professionals. You may want to re...

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Social Bookmarking tools allow individuals to save and share their bookmarks with colleagues, friends, and family. Four examples of social bookmarking sites are: Delicious, Diigo, Connotea, and iBreadCrumbs.

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Course Development & Web Services (CDWS) is a learning organization within the division of Information Technologies and Resources at the University of Central Florida (UCF).

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The Instructional Technology Group (ITG) provides immediate and personal support for faculty and staff who offer online Webcourses@UCF. Supporting a wide range of online faculty needs, ITG offers phone, e-mail, and scheduled face-to-face support sessions, as well as group workshops throughout the academic year.

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Welcome to myUCF! myUCF provides UCF staff, faculty, and students with a personalized gateway to information and applications from one secure, centralized location. Each user has access to various Web systems and tools based upon their roles within the university community. Users are able to personalize their pages to suit their particular needs.
Additional help is available for personalizing your portal page by clicking on "Help" located near the upper right side of myUCF. You can also search for answers in Ask UCF's knowledge base or submit a question. If you need further assistance signing on, please contact the Service Desk at (407) 823-5117.

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UCF Teaching Online Website is the one-stop shop for all resources that you need to know about teaching an online course at UCF. It provides information on pedagogy, professional develoment, resources, forms, and system status.

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UCF Learning Online Website has information for students who are taking an online class. The topics cover: "Is online for me"; "I've registered," "Now what;" and "Are there resources to assist me."

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Ask UCF is a database where faculty members and students may pose a question and search for answers regarding various aspects of UCF. If you ask a question, you will receive a response via email and the topic and response may be added to the question database. One of the benefits of the site is that its information is available 24/7.

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