SUNY Online Teaching Community Resources

Different from a screen reader, the WeMedia Talking Browser becomes the actual browser through which anyone can surf the Net. Complete with large buttons and keystroke commands for easy navigation, the browser 'speaks' the text you select within the browser.

Retrieves HTML pages including all links to graphics, sound, video etc. Retrieved sites look just as they would on the web. Scripts still run correctly. Links are converted to point to the files on your own disk. (Links to files you selected not to download are left pointing to the internet so you can go back online to follow links to other pages and sites.)

MiniCAD. VectorWorks is the easiest, most cost-effective way to design. It has everything you need for precision 2D drafting, powerful 3D modeling and sophisticated client presentations. Plus, it has a built-in Database and Spreadsheet to track costs and materials, and flexible scripting language to automate routine drafting tasks. Best of all VectorWorks is priced within the means of even the smallest design firm.

Swiss PDB Viewer is a free program to display, analyze and manipulate PDB protein structures. Next to features such as protein superimposition, H-bond detection, amino acid mutation etc., the protein is tightly linked to Swiss- Model, an automated homology modeling server running at the Geneva Biomedical Research Center. This allows for threading a protein primary sequence to a 3D template and analyzing homology. The displaying options of the program include spacefill, ball & stick, stick and ribbon representations, all of which can be applied simultaneously within one structure model.

This spell checker is free to evaluate & features a 75,000 word English dictionary, comprised of both American and British variants. It includes a customizable user dictionary that can contain up to 32,000 user-defined words.

Sniffy the Virtual Rat, is a fun, interactive software program that gives undergraduate students a virtual laboratory experience . . . without all the drawbacks of using a real laboratory rat. Using Sniffy, students can explore operant and classical by performing experiments that demonstrate most of the major conditioning phenomena discussed in textbooks on the psychology of learning.

Quia is pronounced key-uh and is short for Quintessential Instructional Archive. Quia provides a variety of educational services, including: * A directory of thousands of online games and quizzes in more than 40 subject areas * Templates for creating twelve different types of online games, including flashcards, matching, concentration (memory), word search, hangman, challenge board, and rags to riches (a quiz-show style trivia game) * Tools for creating online quizzes * Quiz administration and reporting tools * Free teacher home pages

complete solution for creating and distributing surveys and collecting, analyzing and reporting results. Common survey applications include customer and employee satisfaction surveys, course evaluations and opinion polls. Other common applications include lead-generation forms, technical-support inquiry forms, web-feedback questionnaires and product-order forms. SurveySolutions also includes the ability to produce instant "live" survey results, making it ideal for publishing entertaining and informative polls on your web site.

offers a great variety of video resources in several disciplines which SUNY faculty may excerpt to use in their online courses. A list of programming resources, including Annenberg/CPB (see their video catalog http://www.learner.org/catalog/catalog.html ) can be found at the following address: http://www.nyn.suny.edu/cable/programming.htm\ . If you would like to adapt any of these materials to your online course, please send your request to: geotucker@nyn.suny.edu See their online video catalog for a partial list of program providers and their web links. Their web sites are full of print and other materials designed to enhance your experience of these programs.

MathType is the Professional Version of Equation Editor. If you are familiar with our Equation Editor included in Microsoft Office and other products, then you will really appreciate MathType's extra features. It will let you create a wider range of equations for a wider range of documents, and help you work much more efficiently. We've added an enormous amount of functionality that effectively transforms Microsoft Word into a state-of-the-art math word processor and Web page editor.

From simple calculator operations to large-scale programming and interactive document preparation, Mathematica is the tool of choice at the frontiers of scientific research, in engineering analysis and modeling, in technical education from high school to graduate school, and wherever quantitative methods are used. Whether you need a sophisticated calculator or an integrated technical programming environment, Mathematica provides you with a complete solution. You can perform a single task - like analyzing data or solving a tricky differential equation - or develop an entire solution, prototype, or application.

Mathcad offers you an integrated environment for performing and communicating your math-related work. It provides hundreds of operators and built-in functions for solving technical problems. Use Mathcad to perform numeric calculations or to find symbolic solutions. It automatically tracks and converts units and operates on scalars, vectors, and matrices. Integrated images, text, graphs, and mathematics means your whole solution is contained and documented in one place. Formatting options and style sheets let you prepare documents to exact specifications. Distribute your work in Mathcad, the Mathcad Client, print, or as MathML for the web.

Students submit their work as email attachments or word-processor documents, and teachers need to be able to mark and return these documents as quickly and easily as they can mark work submitted on paper. Markin is the latest in marking and annotation software for on-line and electronic teaching environments. It can import text material from the clipboard, or from an RTF or text file, and provides all the tools you need to mark and annotate this text. When you have finished, you can export the marked text as an RTF file for loading into a word-processor, or as a web page so that your students can view the marked text in a web browser - and you can email this file directly back to the student, all without leaving the Markin program.

Maple provides the single mathematical analysis environment for solving technical problems in the workplace, the research lab and in the classroom, including: The world's most respected symbolic solver; Stunning graphics generation and visualization tools; High-speed numeric solvers from The Numerical Algorithms Group; High-level, interactive programming language; Connectivity with the Web through TCP/IP sockets, MathML 2.0, and XML; Connectivity with other software tools.

Teachers can make live, interactive web pages with LiveMath inside for their students. Students may interact with these web pages using the FREE LiveMath Plug-In. Teachers may also develop exams that are typeset beautiful and LIVE! LiveMath also works with Course Management Systems or use our LiveMath Board to easily create communication forums for your students. If you need a little web space to help you get going, LiveMath Storage is available for you to upload your LiveMath notebooks for web page usage.

Create your own classroom or self-directed gameshow style games, quizzes, tests and surveys using LearningWare's software templates, described below. All are Y3K compliant. Our mission is to make learning fun. For example, Quiz Rocket is a unique, easy-to-use quiz and survey program. Unlike other web-based tools, Quiz Rocket creates an interactive, media-rich environment for Web users. Using Quiz Rocket's fill-in-the-blanks, template approach, you can customize quizzes and surveys around any content and publish them on the Web for access anywhere, anytime. All six Flash Learning Interactions are included: multiple choice, matching, T/F, branching, short answer, and sequencing questions.

Gradeworks is a free, web-based tool for teachers that promotes communication between parents, teachers and students by giving the families easy access to grades, assignments, schedules and class activities in a secure environment that's available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.