Of Web Gods and other matters

[Robert Beard]

Next year all my courses will be Web-based.  Although the syllabuses are
not yet complete for all of them, all have been used once and they may be
accessed at:

http://www.bucknell.edu/departments/russian/ru125/fn046.html
http://www.bucknell.edu/departments/russian/ru201
http://www.bucknell.edu/departments/linguistics/ln105.html

The sister of the linguistics course is complete and was used this
semester.  Its URL is:

http://www.bucknell.edu/departments/linguistics/ln110.html

I base my courses on an on-line interactive syllabus which places all the
materials of the course on-line, linked to a single syllabus for simplicity
and convenience.  The syllabus contains several interactive teaching aids
which students may access 24 hourse a day, 7 days a week (at their
convenience). The same materials are then projected in the classroom so
that everyone is precisely on track at all times (whether the homework is
done or not).  There is virtually no writing on the blackboard and
note-taking is reduced to a minimum so that students do not have to choose
between taking notes or following the discussion.   I find myself adding
material to fill the additional time saved by not having to write on the
blackboard, or fidget with tape recorders, projectors, and the like.

--Bob


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Robert Beard, Director                           (office) 717-524-1336
Russian Studies Program                   (home) 717-524-9240
Bucknell University                                  Lewisburg, PA 17837
Russia          http://www.bucknell.edu/departments/russian/
Dictionaries     http://www.bucknell.edu/~rbeard/diction.html
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