Monday, January 28, 2008

Primary Sources For Week One (what you should read):


Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age: Universal Design for Learning. By Rose and Meyer, Chapters 1- 4. Book available in the Coop, Library, and fully on-line (see next entry).

OR, Read the same book on the Web: http://www.cast.org/teachingeverystudent/ideas/tes/ (this is available free online.)

Or, even better, try reading a little in print and a little on the web, just for comparison.


Primary Sources: Week Two.

Web: http://www.csszengarden.com/

More later.


Supplemental Sources (Things to look at that are supplements to the Primary Sources):

A very nice first look at the structure of the nervous system in a tutorial
http://www.stanford.edu/group/hopes/basics/braintut/ab0.html
A second introduction with lots of accessible articles from New Scientist:
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/brain
A nice tutorial that works your way through the brain's structures from the middle out:
http://web.psych.ualberta.ca/~iwinship/studyguide/brain_study.htm
A navigable atlas of the nervous system: a nice feel for the brain as neurologists see it:http://www.msu.edu/~brains/humanatlas/Videos:Great introductory videos online for many aspects of brain and its functions:
http://www.learner.org/resources/series142.html#
A virtual spin around the human brain:
http://www.brainmuseum.org/Specimens/primates/human/qtvrbrains.htm


Web 2.0 Stuff

http://secondlife.com/showcase/