Finding Resources to Use for Activities

Ginger Holmes Rowell, Ph. D.Middle Tennessee State University

CAUSEway WorkshopJuly 11, 2006

Workshop on Teaching Introductory Statistics

Finding Resources to Use for Activities

Ginger Holmes Rowell, Middle Tennessee State University Roger Woodard, North Carolina State University

Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee

July 10th, 2006

Overview Brief background on CAUSEweb Searching & finding resources in CAUSEweb Large collections of resources Sharing your “finds”

Teacher’s viewpoint

Overview

Brief background on CAUSEweb Searching & finding resources in CAUSEweb Large collections of resources Sharing your “finds”

www.CAUSEweb.org

CAUSE: Professional Development

CAUSEway Workshops US Conference On Teaching

Statistics Webinars Future opportunities (keep checking

this website)

CAUSE: Research

Research Resourcesfor Teaching Statistics

CAUSE: Resources

Digital Library for Undergraduate Statistics Education

www.CAUSEweb.org

Digital Library: Two Facets

“On-the-Web”

and

Peer Reviewed

CAUSEweb.org

Overview

Brief background on CAUSEweb Searching & finding resources in

CAUSEweb Large collections of resources Sharing your “finds”

Searching & Finding Resources

Searching overview Different ways to search

Regular search Advanced search Browse Categories Statistical Topic

Example Teacher Viewpoint

Scavenger hunt

Searching: Using CAUSEweb Search Tools

CAUSEweb Search Tools

CAUSEweb Browse Categories

Keywords

Searching: Browse Categories

Lecture Examples Laboratories Out-of-class Teaching Tips Datasets Analysis Tools Curriculum Humor Building Blocks Multimedia

Searching: Advanced Search

Searching by Topic

http://www.causeweb.org/resources/alt.php

Content Searching: Central Limit Theorem

Central Limit Theorem Example

http://kitchen.stat.vt.edu/~sundar/java/applets/CLT.html

Statistical Statistical

JavaJava

Teacher’s Viewpoint

Demonstration during a lecture Use “as is” in a computer lab Assign some corresponding reading

in addition to the applet Make supplementary worksheet

Searching:Application Areas

Agriculture Art and Music Astronomy Biology Business Chemistry Computer Science Engineering

Geology Health Science Humanities Mathematics Physics Political Science Psychology Sociology Sports and Games

Searching: Applications

Some applications have more entries than others.

Searching: Object Formats

A Subset Audio Flash Java

Applet Javascript PDF Video

Teacher’s Viewpoint: “I think I want a Video today. Let’s see what is

suggested in CAUSEweb.”

Searching: Resource Types

Animation Case Study Collection Drill and

Practice Lecture/

Presentation

Quiz/Test Reference

Materials Simulation Sound Tutorial Webpage

Case Study Example

Case Study + Case Teaching Notes

= a “ready-to-go” classroom lesson= a “ready-to-go” classroom lesson

Teacher’s Viewpoint:Teacher’s Viewpoint:

Searching for “Related” Items

Related (or companion) items are identified

Searching: Resource Types

Animation Case Study Collection Drill and Practice Lecture/

Presentation

Quiz/Test Reference

Materials Simulation Sound Tutorial Webpage

Overview

Brief background on CAUSEweb Searching & finding resources in CAUSEweb Large collections of resources Sharing your “finds”

Collections

Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics

http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~lane/rvls.html

http://kitchen.stat.vt.edu/~sundar/java/applets/

http://illuminations.nctm.org/index2.html

http://www.math.uah.edu/stat/

Virtual Laboratories in Probability and Statistics

Collection Example: Star Library

http://www.causeweb.org/repository/StarLibrary/activities/

“Collection” but not “Collections”

Collection + Applet + Tutorial Example

Teacher’s Viewpoint: Example

“It’s all right here.”

Another Collection: TI Education

http://education.ti.com

Finding Is Better than Searching*

Woo-hoo! This is it!

*When you are hurrying to get ready for class.

Scavenger Hunt ???

Not Your College Student’s Scavenger Hunt

You will be hunting for Internet resources related to your topic

Use the following handout as a guidehttp://www.mtsu.edu/~rowell/scavhunt.doc

Sharing Your Best “Finds”

We will collect your best three “finds” and compile them to share with the class.

Send the following for each to rowell@mtsu.edu Website name, author(s), URL A descriptive title if needed to make the

name clear Type of site

Overview

Brief background on CAUSEweb Searching & finding resources in

CAUSEweb Large collections of resources Sharing your “finds”

Looking Ahead

Lunch

Session 5 Finding and Using Real Data