Discipline-Specific Teaching Resources

Most (all?) academic disciplines support resources for teaching in that discipline. These resources take all sorts of forms-- listservs, journals, newsletters, and others. Your task for this assignment is to identify at least two valuable teaching resources in your discipline and review them.

The Center for Teaching has just opened a site called the Teaching Resource Exchange. You can contribute to this growing index of resources while you fulfill this assignment.

For this assignment, you should identify resources that are specifically relevant to the discipline in which you plan to teach. In other words, even though there are lots of resources that would be useful to people in all disciplines, for this assignment focus on resources that are particular to your discipline.

Feel free to take a look at the contributions of previous years' classes and others. Try not to duplicate.If you positively can not find a new resource that is not already listed in the Teaching Resource Exchange, you can review one that islisted and add a "user review."

How to find these resources? Here are some suggestions:

• Ask faculty members in your discipline.
• Try a directory of mailing lists, such as Liszt, or any of the others in the Library's Gateway to the Internet
• Check the Library's catalog (InfoHawk)
• Take a look at Brigham Young's excellent list of journals.
• Use the various web search engines, perhaps starting at the Library's Gateway to the Internet.

Once you have found two resources and taken a good look at them, you can submit descriptions to fulfill this assignment. You have two choices:

1. You can submit your findings electronically. If you do this, your findings will be part of a publically available, searchable archive.
2. You can submit the same information the electronic form requests to me on paper. In this case, I will not include your findings in the archive.

Just to make sure this is clear: you own the copyright to your own intellectual property. If you want to share what you have found out in this assignment, you should submit the electronic form. If you do not want to share, you should submit your work on paper to me.