Meeting Eight--Where is all this taking us?

Objectives:

  • Discuss the future of computers in the humanities
  • Construct a brief list of ideas to be tackled when we meet again in the fall
  • Sorry this page isn't better organized. Lots of information here with not much time to present it

    Meeting Eight--Links

    James J. O'Donnell's HomePage

    . . . O'Donnell, who teaches Classics at UPenn, has been at the forefront of web-based instruction.

    The Individual and Religious Experience

    . . . a course using the Internet, taught by Gene R. Thursby at the University of Florida.

    Microsoft's Learning with Laptops


    Our colleagues in the sciences, particularly, are doing incredible things with the web and with presentation software. Here are a few examples:

    UConn Fish Biology
    UConn Cell Biology
    UConn Fundamentals of Microbiology
    UConn Organic Chemistry


    But our colleagues in the humanities are catching up. . .

    UConn Graphic Design
    UConn German 132
    UConn Philosophy 101

    The Voice of the Shuttle again comes to the rescue. You will find over one hundred virtual classroom sites and other educational materials at this link. Here are a few samples:

    Virtual Poetry--An Introduction, Gerard Donnelly-Smith, Clark College
    British Literature Survey, Bret Benjamin, U. Texas, Austin
    From Epic to Hypertext, Jack Lynch, UPenn
    British and Medieval Drama, John F. Tinkler. Towson State U., Maryland
    Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf, Larry Mitchell, Texas A & M U.
    Literature and Culture of the American 1950s, Al Filreis, U. Penn
    American Renaissance: 1830-1865, John Getz. Xavier U
    Century's End: Race and Gender at the Turn of the Century, Shelley Fisher Fiskin, U. Texas Austin
    African-American Autobiography, William Andrews, U. Kansas


    Our students might be one step ahead of us, so beware. . .
    Cheater.com
    Term Papers On File

    The good new is that Bruce Leland, English professor and director of writing at Western Illinois University, reports that many online papers are so bad that no one is likely to benefit from them (The New York Times 8 June 1997).


    We all hope this technology is taking us . . . we'll have to see.

    Research Links

    Research Tools
    Homer Babbidge Library Spirit Page
    UConn Resources By Title
    JSTOR: Electronic Journals
    UConn InterLibrary Loan
    Richard Bleiler's English Links Page
    MLA Bibliography--UConn Only
    A Literary Index--impressive
    Project Bartleby
    Famous English Majors?
    Carl UnCover
    The British Library
    Introduction to E-text
    Library of Congress
    National Endowment for the Humanities
    Literary Resources on the Internet, Jack Lynch
    Scholarly Societies, Literature
    The Web Concordance
    Calls For Papers--E-Mail List Archive
    Chronicle of Higher Education
    Directory of International Universities
    Yahoo Directory of American Universities

    Electronic Texts--A Sampling


    Bibliomania--The Network Library
    British Poetry 1780-1910, A Hypertext Archive
    The Electronic Labyrinth
    Electronic Texts, Jack Lynch--Great Links
    Hypertext Classics
    Poetry Online
    Master Works of Western Civilization
    Online Book Initiative (OBI)
    Online Books Page
    Project Gutenberg Index
    The Western Canon

    Alternate Publication Possibilites

    Primary Source Media
    The Great American Publishing Society (GRAMPS)

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