HippoCampus A Free Educational Resource for Teachers

HippoCampusA Free Educational Resource

for Teachers

Branded Site—Complimentsof ACCESS

Three-Year Membership Agreement With the National Repository of Online Courses (NROC)

Site Developed by the Monterey Institute for Technology

Grant Funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

Allows Teachers to:

Browse Available Courses (Readings, Assignments, and Assessments)

Search for Multimedia Content Create Custom HippoCampus Site

Selected Topics Textbook Lists Bookmarks Announcements

Customize Version for Students

Uses/Implications

How can HippoCampus help teachers?

Provide Supplemental Resources Address Individual Learning Styles of Students Provide Tutorial Assistance Identify Location of Topics in Various Textbooks Assist Students Who Are Absent From Class or

Who Need Additional Work in an Area

ACCESS Branded Site http://www.hippocampus.org/myHippo/?user=myADE

What does it look like?Features

The Hippocampus interface (www.hippocampus.org) is laid out in blocks to accommodate customization and the easy addition of new features.

To get started, select an area of study and course in the Subjects menu. The course content is displayed in theBrowse block.

Browse Course or Textbook

The Browse block has two familiar tabs: Course and Textbooks. With the Course tab selected, you can either browse a list of the multimedia topics or the complete table of contents of the selected course.

Listing of Topics

The Multimedia Topics display allows for the viewing of topics sequentially or alphabetically. The complete course can be viewed by selecting Complete Course to view assignments, readings, activities, and assessments.

Browse/Review TopicsSequentially

Browse/Review TopicsAlphabetically

Course View

Textbook References

To look up content by Textbooks, click on the Textbook tab. The right panel displays the titles of the course topics preceded by the page range to which each topiccorresponds.

Quick Search Feature

Creating a Custom Teacher Page

Go to http://www.hippocampus.org/myHippo/?user=myADE and click.

At the login page, click Create Account and follow the directions to register. Enter your Login ID and Password for an account you have already created and click Go to myHippo Page.

Customizing Announcements

Type directly into the edit box to change the current announcement or

Create a new announcement. Click Update to save any changes you have made.

Individual Teacher Sites

Customize Subjects Menu

You can customize the Subjects menu by hiding any subject or courses that will not be used by your students.

Just click Delete next to the subject or course you want to hide.

You can restore any subject or course you have removed by clicking the corresponding Add button.

Customize Textbook ListYou can do the same thing withtextbooks. • To edit the textbook

list for a subject, select the subject and click the Textbooks tab.

• Click the Delete button nextto a textbook title to remove thattextbook from the list. Restoreany textbook you have removedby clicking the corresponding Add.

• You can review your changes by clicking Preview this page located in upper right corner of the window.

• To return to the edit mode, click the Edit this page link in the upper right corner of the window.

Bookmark Topics for Students

To highlight specific multimedia topics for your students, you can create bookmarks. To bookmark a topic, select a course and open the Course tab. Find the topic you want to bookmark and click thebookmark icon next to the topic title.

Bookmarks (Continued)

Bookmarked topics appear in a new block under the Subjects menu.

• You can manage bookmarks by editing the content in the Bookmarks block.

• You can edit the title of a bookmark by typing in the edit box provided. Click Update to save any changes you have made.

• Click on Delete to remove any bookmarks you no longer need.

• When you are done customizing your page, you can Logout.

Obtain Link for Students

Link to HippoCampusCopy and paste this HTML code into your web page:

<html><body><a href="http://www.hippocampus.org/myHippo/?user=hippodemo"><img border="0" src="http://www.montereyinstitute.org/images/hippo_logo.gif" width="118" height="88"/></a></body></html>

Share Page With Students

To share a customized page with students:

Send Link to Page, or Post Link on Web site Enter this URL (http://www.hippocampus.org/myHippo/?

user=username), and instead of “username” at the end, type in your own username. For our example, this would be http://www.hippocampus.org/myHippo/?user=hippodemo.

Teacher and Student Views

ACCESS HippoCampus Web Site

http://www.hippocampus.org/myHippo/?user=myADE