Web Standards in the Classroom:

Many educators are impacted by economic down turn with no end in sight. If your institution is unable to support expensive online teaching tools you might be interested in Coursesites.com from Blackboard. You will arrange to get your own students into your virtual class but the tools offered in Coursesites are state of the art and FREE from Blackboard. Coursesites is great for practice tests, online grades and discussion forum's. There are many more tools in Coursesites that I have not mentioned. I also recommend going back to using some basic web tools like HTML, CSS and maybe a little javascript to add some new activities to your class environment. Combining virtual teaching tools with on campus classes is the future, and offers students the best of both worlds. Want to learn more try out Lynda.com for online training or Educator.com. These are self teaching aids that instructors can fit into a busy schedule.