How Much is Too Much?

1. Your choice of three versions of the textbook:
   
   
   • Introduction to Physical Anthropology, Eighth Edition, (2000), Robert Jurmain, Harry Nelson, Lynn Kilgore, and Wenda Trevathan (ISBN: 0534514634)
     
     
   • Essentials of Physical Anthropology, Fourth Edition, (2001), Robert Jurmain, Harry Nelson, Lynn Kilgore, and Wenda Trevathan (ISBN: 0-534-57816-0)
     
     • This is, well, one version of "the essentials"
     • 444 -- 8 X 10 " pages, vs. 532 -- 8 1/2 X 11" pages
       
     • One might, for e.g., use this version along with a book of readings, such as Annual Editions: Physical Anthropology 01/02 (2001, McGraw-Hill, 0-07-243330-2)
       [This is about the only element not currently available from Wadsworth Thompson.]
       
       
   • Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, Seventh Edition, (1999), William A. Turnbaugh, Robert Jurmain, Harry Nelson, and Lynn Kilgore (ISBN/ISSN: 0-534-53451-1)
     • This is the same basic book with the addition of chapters on "Domestication and Agriculture," "The Rise of Ancient Civilizations," and "New World Civilizations"
       
       
2. On-line Web Text Resources:
   
   
   • Text Chapter Resources
     • Hypercontents
     • Flashcards
     • Quizzes
     • Internet Projects
     • Study Guide
     • Thompson Learning Web Tutor
       • Available on WebCT or Blackboard A great study tool, a great course management tool! This Web-based learning tool helps professors take the physical anthropology course beyond classroom boundaries to an anywhere, anytime environment. Students have access to study tools that correspond chapter by chapter and topic by topic with the book, including flashcards (with audio), practice quizzes, and online tutorials. Professors can use Web Tutor to provide virtual office hours, post syllabi, set up threaded discussions, and track student progress on the practice quizzes. Web Tutor is easily customizable to specific course needs.
         
         
   • ANTHROPOLOGYonline the Wadsworth Anthropology Resource Center
     • Extra! Extra!: In the News
       • button to the American Anthropological Association
       • the Texas A & M site "Anthropology in the News" is usually of more interest to students
     • Text Resources
     • Anthropology Surfing
     • Surfing Lessons
     • Search Engines
       • but we generally use the Soc - Anth Search Information
     • Career Center
     • Forum
       
       
   • Forum
• For UMD Prehistoric Cultures we use the forum boards developed by Tom Bacig: PCforum instead of the one provided by Wadsworth
  
  
• Author! Author! -- introduction to the author in his own words
  
  
• Infotrac® College Edition
  
  • Infotrac® College Edition is an online library that is available at no extra cost with each new copy of a Wadsworth anthropology text. This virtual library gives you access to thousands of searchable full-length articles -- not abstracts -- from more than 900 scholarly and popular periodicals.
  • Infotrac at UMD
  • UMD has a related service: JSTORE
    
    
3. CD-ROM: Virtual Laboratories for Physical Anthropology, Second Edition, (2000), John Kappelman (ISBN/ISSN: 0-534-53376-0 )
   
   
4. On-line Web Resources CD-ROM Virtual Lab:
• Table of Contents
• Lab Chapter Quizzes
• Plus the other resources listed above
  
  
5. Other Supplementary Materials:
   
   
   • Anthropology: Exploring the Internet
     
     • A full-colored brochure containing 75 URLs for anthropology sites
       
       
   • Let's Go Anthropology: Researching Anthropology on the Internet, (1998) Joan Ferrante (ISBN: 053453113X)
     
     
   • Instructor's Manual with Test Items for Introduction to Physical Anthropology, Eighth Edition, (2000), Robert Jurmain, Harry Nelson, Lynn Kilgore, and Wenda Trevathan (ISBN/ISSN: 0-534-51446-4)
     
     
   • Lab Manual for Physical Anthropology, Fourth Edition, (2001), Diane L. France (ISBN: 0-534-51462-6)
     
     
   • Study Guide for Introduction to Physical Anthropology, Eighth Edition (ISBN/ISSN: 0-534-51445-6)
     
     
6. CNN Today Videos: Physical Anthropology
   • Two Videotapes containing thirty-six 2:00 - 4:39 news segments from CNN
   • These are intended to be used to "launch your lectures with riveting footage from CNN"
   • These videos "allow you to integrate the news gathering and programming power of CNN into the classroom to show students the relevance of physical anthropology topics to their everyday lives
     
     
7. Wadsworth Anthropology Video Library
   • Two free selections from 23 full-length anthropology videos
     
     
8. Transparency Acetates
   • Over 70 overhead transparencies of artwork from the text
     
     
9. 35 mm Slides
   • Color slides of art found in the text
     
     
10. ExamView
    • Cross-platform CD-ROM allows you to create, deliver, and customize tests and study guides (both print and online)
      
      
11. AnthroLink 2001
    • CD-ROM in PowerPoint
    • plus 350 + images, art, figures, and tables from the texts and video clips
      
      

B. Locally Available Traditional AV Materials:

1. Over 3000 35-mm slides developed for the course over the last 30 years
   • These are now available to students as Power Point presentations accessible on the web. For an examples see "Class Slides Sets" for Week 01: Introduction / Orientation
     
     
2. Nineteen 16-mm and Video programs specially selected to supplement traditional course lectures.
   
   

C. Locally Produced WebBased Materials:

1. At the top of this page items are alphabetized by subject, A - Z , offering hundreds of pages tailor-made for the course
   
   
   • Each items and topic convered in the course has a separate web page. For e.g., Darwin, Goodall, Chimpanzees, Neandertals, Cro-Magnon, Piltdown . . . each have a separate course web page
     
     
2. At the top of this page pop-down menus offer access to main topics / areas of the course
   
   
3. Hot-buttoned in-class PowerPoint presentations available on the web.
   
   For e.g., Selected Major Prehistoric Discoveries / Events ca. 1850 - Present
   • Class Slides Set #09 -- Selected Major Discoveries . . .
     (These are suitable for cable modum or on-campus download only)
     
   
   
4. Prehistoric Cultures Class Site Map
   
   

C. Picking from the Smörgåsbord

In the end, picking from available alternatives falls back to low-tech / no-tech principles that have endured the ages.

Selections should be driven by considerations of:

Audience . . .

• Who are you addressing ?
  
  
  • Analyzing the Audience -- Rice OWL
  • Choosing and Writing for an Audience -- Dr. Steven Hale
  • Online Technical Writing: Audience Analysis -- David A. McMurrey
    

Purpose . . .

• What do you want to do ?
  
  

• Why do you want to do it ?
  
  

  • Determining the Goal of Your Presentation -- Rice OWL
    
    

Personal Style . . .

• How do you want to do it ?
  
  
• What works best for you ?
  
  
  • Choosing an Appropriate Style -- Rice OWL