This is the main tools' page. A short description of each of these PROCESS tools, meta and other, follows. Links to the tools are directly off this page. Note that you must have a 4.0 or later browser in order to utilize these tools. Also, you can't use these tools with an America Online (AOL) browser because of AOL's bugginess and its lack of javascript support.

• Meta-monitoring & comprehension tool
  
  Students surfing through course web pages are often distracted from outside influences, e.g., siblings, television, etc. This tool is probably best utilized to help scaffold students' understanding of course content by querying them at specified times during their browsing. Essentially, after a course page loads, you can insert a timer that will open the tool, i.e., a new browser window that poses questions to students in order to get them to make their understanding overt. Great, but how do you insert a timer into a page of course content so that it can load the tool?
  
  
  • Sequence of questions [prescribed meta-comprehension tool]--This tool can be used to ask students a specified sequence of questions to help students monitor what problem or exercise they are attempting to solve. View the HTML source for this tool and insert your questions in place of mine. Be sure to insert only the questions and leave the double quote " marks alone.
    
    
  • Random sequence of questions [random meta-comprehension tool]--This tool can be used to ask students a random sequence of questions to help students monitor what problem or exercise they are attempting to solve. View the HTML source for this tool and insert your questions in place of mine. Be sure to insert only the questions and leave the double quote " marks alone.
    
    
• Web Journal
  
  
  • The webjournal is a simple web tool that allows students to keep a written journal of their activities that they can email to themselves. The webjournal can be opened either by a link or button on a web page, or by a timed javascript. [Internet Explorer (IE) or Netscape version]
    
    
• Timeline Template
  • This is a Timeline template (in MS Word doc) form with mini-instructions. The timeline template can be used to help students compare or contrast events that occur over time.

• Schema Organizer--(in the works....) This tool allows learners to organize information using a series of pop-up layers. The students can print out the layers and draw lines indicating the relationships between the concepts.
• Database management tool--(in the works....)This self-running database, i.e., doesn't require database software, can be used to help students organize their schematic knowledge of a particular subject.

 

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