Model Sites

Solving the Font Problem Appropriate Software Blogs, Podcasts, PPT Model Sites			Model Sites are those that provide most of us with a vision of how we would like to also represent ourselves and our teaching through the medium of cyberspace. When considering building our own websites, it is a good idea to view those of others who teach in our disciplines -- not only for the models they provide, but also for the resources from which we can draw.



Fr. Jim McIlhone of Mundalein Seminary has created a fairly comprehensive Scripture Links page designed to introduce scholars to the resources they have available to them and their students in both their research projects and their teaching and learning activities. What is of great use on this site is the idea Fr. McIlhone advances for an images database to which all scholars may contribute and from which all scholars may draw. By maintaining our own images of the Mediterranean area (Greece, Palestine, Turkey, Italy, the islands, etc.), we are able to ensure free use of them in the formation of PowerPoints or websites. The more people contribute their own photos to the database, the more useful the database will become for everyone.			Fr. John Paul Heil and Dr. Anne Marie Kitz of Kenrick-Glennon Seminary created a detailed site for expressing their educational technology program at the Catholic Biblical Association conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in August of 2004. What is of great use on this site is the model of how to do web-based exegetical research projects within a face-to-face classroom environment. By engaging students in the development of their own web pages, Fr. Heil and Dr. Kitz broadened the student's sense of audience and strengthened the potential of ongoing peer and faculty review. The Select Methods link provides access to short articles and tutorials by Dr. Mahfood that explain the theory and mechanics on which the site was built.

These are just a couple of the model sites that I like. Likely, though, each visitor to this site knows of at least one other model site that might be of use to your fellow workshop participants -- either your own or that of one of your colleagues. Please post the link here, and a thumbnail for it will be created below.