Site Structure

This website is divided into 3 tiers - the first tier is the Home page, which contains the in-class and outside-of-class topic listings. The second tier is the topic pages (e.g., for Presentation Software or Project Inspiration). Each topic page is maintained by moderators, who add or remove links from the topic page as a response to comments and/or emails. Our the third tier consists of the individual technology pages (e.g., for PowerPoint or Nifty Assignments). Each technology page contains a description, a link to the remote website, a rating, a discussion thread, cost, and other metadata.

How Do I Get Involved?

There are roughly two layers of involvement with this project.

• Members can contribute in many ways, and can leave comments on almost every page on this website. Your input will help this become a truly useful site from which all computing educators may benefit.
• If you have used a specific technology and have something useful to say about it, please leave a comment and rating on the technology page. These discussion are threaded, so feel free to respond to other posts.
• If you wish to comment on a comparison between several resources within one topic, leave a comment on the topic page.
  
• If you want to add a tag to a resource, feel free to do so. This will make searching more productive. E.g., if a particular resource was particularly useful in your undergraduate graphics class, you might want to tag it with graphics, so that other graphics educators could find it easily.
  
• If there are resources that need updating (e.g., features modified or root website changed), or should be added or omitted, please leave a comment on the relevant topic page or email the moderator of that topic page.
• If you wish to make a request for a new feature on the site, post a comment to the Feature Requests page.
• If you find a bug in this site (NOT an incorrect resource, something about the site itself), post a comment to the Known Bugs page.
• Moderators are in charge of a topic, and control all the technology pages within that topic. If you are particularly knowledgeable or passionate about a particular topic, consider joining us as a moderator.
• It's your job to keep them all up to date.
  
• If you've used any of the technology underneath your topic page, please seed the discussion thread with your experiences.  If a discussion thread comment says you should add/remove/update a resource, consider doing so and then delete the comment.
  
• Feel free to tag your technologies with appropriate words to help the search.
  
• It's your job to remove inappropriate comments from discussion threads. Note that deleting a comment removes all the comments under the thread.
• If moderators have a vested interest in any of the technologies, they must agree to be "vendor agnostic" and treat all resources equally.