William Hofmann Teacher Education Students and Searching the Web: Prior Knowledge and Instructional Implications From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on December 10, 2005 at 11:30 a.m..
SOCR Modeler The SOCR Modeler allows the user to compare data with typical statistical models such as the beta distribution, exponential, gamma, Poisson, etc. The user can adjust the bin ranges for the data comparison. From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on December 9, 2005 at 11:30 p.m..
Reading Shakespeare Lesson Library This is a new site introduced at the 2005 NCTE Conference. "Our primary goal is to publish lessons tested in a variety of classroom settings urban, suburban, and rural, remedial and advanced— that apply valid research on adolescent literacy to the teaching of Shakespeare, that include explicit reading strategy instruction, and that address the interdependent literacy strands of reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing. Our secondary goal is to publish lessons that assimilate the ideas of Shakespearean scholars, incorporate the methods and materials of both fine and performing artist From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on December 9, 2005 at 11:30 p.m..
Short Story Classics: The Best from the Masters of the Genre This "Large Online Library of Short Stories" has many of the commonly know masters, such as Hawthorne, Poe, Mansfeild, and Bierce, but it also has many lesser known, or obscure titles, that can revitalize any standard curriculum with some variety. The site is easy to navigate and organized by date. This database is a one stop clearing house for classic short stories. From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on December 9, 2005 at 11:30 p.m..
Out of the Past: Investigating Film Noir "Out of the Past: Investigating Film Noir" is a serialized academic text that studies and analyzes the great films of the film noir canon. While most of the films are from noir's classic period (1941-1957), the series also analyzes more contemporary neo-noir films. This podcast series can be used as course material to supplement film history textbooks, to help students develop their skills in film analysis, and as a compendium to class screenings. Co-hosted by two Saint Mary's of California professors, Shannon Clute (Dept of Modern Languages) and Richard Edwards (Dept of Communicatio From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on December 9, 2005 at 11:30 p.m..
Stata Class Notes This online lecture is designed for people who are just getting started using Stata. The viewer will have a hands-on experience using Stata for statistics, graphics, and data management. From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on December 9, 2005 at 11:30 p.m..
SAS Class Notes This is an online lecture designed for people just getting started using SAS. The user will have a hands-on experience using SAS for statistics, graphics, and data management. From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on December 9, 2005 at 11:30 p.m..
SPSS Class Notes This online lecture is designed for people just starting to use SPSS. The user will have a hands-on experience using SPSS for doing statistics, graphics, and data management. From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on December 9, 2005 at 11:30 p.m..
Virtual Experiments and Demonstrations This applet provides the user with a variety of statistical distributional and probability experiments. The user can change parameters and data respectively within the applet and view a representation of these affects on the given distribution. From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on December 9, 2005 at 11:30 p.m..
Techniques for Statistical Analysis This applet includes methods for ANOVA (one and two factor), regression and correlation, confidence and prediction intervals, hypothesis tests, and nonparametric statistics among others. The user can enter data, for which the software produces simple graphical representations for the ANOVA and regression settings. From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on December 9, 2005 at 11:30 p.m..
Interactive Games & Demonstrations This interactive applet provides a variety of statistical demonstrations including an interactive scatterplot and histogram, wavelet and fourier games, Monty Hall and Galton board games From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on December 9, 2005 at 11:30 p.m..
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