Cora Agatucci
Professional Improvement Plan
Cycle:  1 September 2000 - 31 August 2004
Proposal submitted for approval in Fall 2001.
NOTE: This is my fourth Professional Improvement Plan since joining the COCC faculty in 1988.

ABSTRACT

During my fourth PIP cycle, from 1 September 2000 to 31 August 2004, I will pursue the following major goals:

1. INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY: Continue to develop, share, and apply my skills, knowledge, and instructional resources in using computer and multi-media technology in traditional, web-based, and distance learning courses.  Goal #1 Projects will include (a) developing Open Campus courses, (b) creating new Humanities Dept. website, and (c) initiating Student Web Projects & web-publishing Student Writing.
2. WRITING, LITERATURE, WORLD LANGUAGE ARTS & CULTURAL STUDIES: Continue to conduct directed research and pursue special professional development opportunities relevant to my teaching areas, as well as applying new knowledge and methodologies, and developing instructional resources.  Goal #2 Projects will include preparing web and print publications.
3. OSU-CASCADES: Contribute to the success of COCC-OSU articulation efforts as opportunities arise, time allows, and my qualifications befit me to contribute.  Goal #3 Projects will include (a) committee service and (b) teaching upper division courses.
4. COMPETENCY-BASED INSTRUCTION & ASSESSMENT:  Continue to develop, implement, and promote competency-based instruction, benchmarks and assessment methods to measure and improve instructional effectiveness of courses and programs within my instructional areas.  Goal #4 Projects will include (a) compiling, webpublishing, and analyzing competency-based data from my own and others’ 2000-2004 Humanities Dept. courses and programs, and (b) defining and implementing program competencies, benchmarks, and assessment methods for the WIC Program.

  PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT GOALS,
CONTRIBUTIONS, ACTIVITIES & TIMELINES

Goal 1 Contribution to:

Institutional needs and objectives:  Board Ends #1, #2, #3, & #6;
COCC Academic Plan, 2000-2005:  III.B.2 Enhance Teaching & Learning: Technology Across the Curriculum, The Digital Learning Environment, Distance Education.

Program/Department needs & objectives:  Humanities Dept. Self-Study Goals #1, #2, #3, #4, & #7;  See Humanities Dept. Mission & Goals:
http://www.cocc.edu/humanities/mission.html

Goal 1 Activities & Timelines:

a.                   Open Campus Courses (Spring 2001 - Winter 2002)
Develop and offer Open Campus courses that combine televised, web-based, and FirstClass conference instructional delivery methods.

1.  Open Campus ENG 103 (Survey of British Literature) developed & offered Spring 2001, combining interactive telecourse, website, FirstClass delivery, E-Mail & discussion conference:

·         ENG 103 Home Page (root URL): http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/eng103/

·         ENG 103 FirstClass Discussion Conference - Pathway:
COCC Community Only/Courses/Literature & Humanities/Eng103-Agatucci

·         References:  Vickery Viles, Kathy Walsh, Eleanor Latham, Bill Buck, Margaret Triplett

2.  Open Campus HUM 211 MIC/WIC (Cultures & Literatures of Africa): 

Conducted research and began revising course materials, in Summer 2001, for HUM 211 to be offered by Open Campus as a combined telecourse, E-Mail and FirstClass Conference, and web-based course, in Winter 2002.

3.  In e-mail conversation (Summer 2001) with Frances-Anne Solomon, director of I Is a Long-Memoried Woman, regarding integrating an online student feedback assignment into Winter 2002 Open Campus offering of HUM 211, which features this film and poems by Grace Nichols on which the film is based.  We have also discussed the possibility of my contributing to an educational website “A People’s History of the Caribbean,” sponsored by “Caribbean Tales” and Leda Serene Films, Toronto, Ontario:

·         Website: http://www.ledaserene.com/

b.      New Humanities Dept. Website (Spring-Summer 2001 & ongoing)
1.  Plan and create a new Humanities Dept. website, making relevant up-to-date information and resources of general interest accessible to students, faculty and staff, the College and regional community, accreditation evaluators, and other interested members of the global cyber-community.  Completed: Spring-Summer 2001

·         Home Page (root URL):  http://www.cocc.edu/humanities/

·         Site Map:  http://www.cocc.edu/humanities/sitemap.htm

2.  Conduct research to locate resources, integrate and/or link existing and new Humanities Dept. instructional and content resources of general and discipline-specific interest, to department website.  Summer 2001 & ongoing.

3.  Coordinate webwork of willing Humanities Dept. members (e.g. Stacey Donohue, Karen Huck, Eleanor Latham, Maggie Triplett) with Barbara Klett, to share maintenance and future development of Humanities Dept. webpages:  Fall 2001 & ongoing

c.       Student Web Projects & Student Writing (Spring 2001 and ongoing)

Devise and direct website projects to enable our COCC and OSU-Cascades campus students to engage in web research & publishing projects on topics relevant to Humanities and related disciplines.  (Funding will be sought to support work study and/or student research assistantships.)  Continue webpublishing good examples of student writing completed in my courses with student permission on my websites.

1.  Student Websites created in Spring 2000 and Spring 2001 for my HUM 299 courses (Student Perspectives on World and Multicultural Writers – Writing for the World Wide Web):  HUM 299 Home Page (root URL):  http://www.cocc.edu/hum299/
Student Team Websites Table of Contents:  http://www.cocc.edu/hum299/TeamTOC.html
Student WebPractices Table of Contents:

·         Spring 2000:  http://www.cocc.edu/hum299/WPTOC.html

·         Spring 2001:  http://www.cocc.edu/hum299/WPTOC2.html

·         Advised & participated in capstone presentation by COCC-EOU student Karen Kitt, on Multicultural Resources for Middle School Teachers, based on the website Karen developed in my course HUM 299, Spring 2001.

·         References:  Kathy Walsh, Stacey Donohue

2.      New examples of Student Writing from my 2000-2004 courses added to relevant course websites, with student permission:  Fall 2000 and ongoing.

·         Student Writing Table of Contents:  http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/studwrtg.htm

·         “The Past to Future Keita” [Fall 1998 Hum 211 Discussion Paper], webpublication of my student Dawn Hendrix [now Smith],  has been linked on “Internet Sites for the History of Africa,” Dr. Kenneth Wilburn, Dept. of History, East Carolina Univ., Greenville, NC:  URL:  http://www.personal.ecu.edu/wilburnk.netah.htm [accessed Feb. 2001].

3.  WR 316 (Advanced Prose Writing) – EOU/OSU-Cascades – offered in Spring 2002,
will be revised as an advanced prose web-writing course, using FrontPage software & applying my instructional experience with HUM 299;  student web projects will be published on my WR 316 course website in Spring 2002.
4.  “Collaborative Shared Resource”* website  -
I plan to designate or inaugurate, and direct (or help co-direct), a COCC (or COCC/OSU-Cascades) website that enables qualified COCC/OSU-Cascades students, as well as interested faculty, to contribute to a “significant, ongoing, and cumulative [web] resource”* on one or more viable Humanities/Literature/Interdisciplinary Topics.  *From Examples of Constructive Student Projects, Technology and Learning, (Crossroads: American Studies Association & Georgetown Univ.): http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/constructive.html
I will explore these possibilities for supporting student webwork – 2001-2004:

as assignments for regular coursework of participating faculty,

as voluntary freelance work for a Humanities Dept. E-Zine (a proposal initiated by Stacey Donohue and that could become part of the new Humanities Dept. website), and/or

as paid research assistantships and/or work study (an idea explored with Kathy Walsh, who has begun seeking funding possibilities).

d.      Technology Training (Summer 2000 and ongoing)

Continue training and research to develop or upgrade my skills in using relevant software and distance-delivery techniques related to telecourse, web- and modem-based instruction.

1.  (Self-)training using updated software (e.g. FrontPage 2000, PowerPoint 2000, Image Composer 98), CD & video capabilities of new home computer (purchased with partial support of approved PIP Funding Request), as well as upgrades to my COCC office computer: Summer 2000 and ongoing.

2.  Open Campus Training: FrontPage 2000 with Barbara Klett, Digital Imaging I & II (using Microsoft Image Composer & COCC Scanners) with George Jolokai, and Interactive TV with Jim Obert, June 14-15, 2000; and follow-up training with Eleanor Latham and Vickery Viles, Winter 2001. 

3.  Directed work of two research assistants (paid with personal funds) to update my webpages, and consulted with Peter Casey on improving the design of my websites. Spring 2001

e.      Presentations, Publications, Projects (2000-2004)

Seek relevant opportunities to present and publish my work, and participate in mutually beneficial projects and exchanges with local, regional, national, and international communities.

1.  CCHA-NEH Grant Completed, with Kathy Walsh & Bart Queary: 2000-2001.
Project: “Cyber Rhetoric: Creating an Online Learning Community in the Humanities,” awarded by “Advancing The Humanities Through Technology At Community Colleges,” a National Education Project of the Community College Humanities Association (CCHA), supported by the National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH).  The core element of the grant was creating and delivering the special studies course Hum 299 in Spring 2000 & Spring 2001: Student Perspectives on World and Multicultural Writers – Writing for the World Wide Web.

·         CCHA Project Information: http://www.cocc.edu/hum299/ccha/ccha.html
Our team’s Final Reports (May-June 2001): http://www.cocc.edu/hum299/ccha/finalrpt.html

In-House Workshop:  Coordinated in-house discussion meeting of future interdisciplinary applications of Hum 299 course materials and evaluation with Hum 299 Reviewers Jon Bouknight, Cat Finney, Barbara Klett, Jack McCown, and Patricia O’Neill; 13 October 2000.

Instructional Technology videotape, developed by Barbara Klett and Kathy Walsh, features a brief interview with me discussing Hum 299 – 2001.

Publication:  Report on “Cyber Rhetoric: Creating an Online Learning Community in the Humanities” published in CCHA Newsletter, Spring 2001.

Presentation:  I am to participate in a panel discussion on our CCHA-NEH Grant Project for NEH Advancing the Humanities through Technology – Best Practices Workshop, CCHA National Conference, Portland, OR, 25 October 2001.

2.  With Kathy Walsh, “Going Online to Develop and Communicate Student Perspectives on World and Multicultural Writers,” online presentation accepted for the panel “Making It Public: Putting Multicultural Research Online,” national Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, Washington D.C., 8-11 November 2001.  Proposal available for review upon request; Our online presentation webpages are being developed Summer-Fall 2001.

Goal 2 Contribution to:

Institutional needs and objectives:  Board Ends #1, #2, #3, & #6;
COCC Academic Plan, 2000-2005:  III.B.1 Enhance Teaching & Learning: Standards which promote instructional excellence (all bulleted items); III.D Create a Diverse Academic Community and Reflect Diversity in the Curriculum.

Program/Department needs & objectives:  Humanities Dept. Self-Study Goals #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, & #8;  See Humanities Dept. Mission & Goals:
http://www.cocc.edu/humanities/mission.html

Goal 2 Activities & Timelines:

a. Print Publications – 2000 - 2003

1.  Received honorarium for publication of my African Timelines [Parts 1 & 2]--“concept” and text-- in a study guide for Jubilee Legacy Bible, Townsend Press, Sunday School Publishing Board, National Baptist Convention, USA; from Dr. Charles H. Smith (Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology, Virginia Union Univ., & former Deputy Director of NAACP); Spring 2001.

2.  Received update from Rhonda Austin (June 2001) re: my article on “Gish Jen”(submitted in August 2000): editing nears completion and my article will appear in forthcoming Contemporary Women Fiction Writers (Greenwood Press).

3.  Submitted three short articles (about 2000 words) on Chinua Achebe’s works in Summer 2001, for Chinua Achebe Encyclopedia (to be published by Greenwood), by invitation of M. Keith Booker, Prof. of English, Univ. of Arkansas (E-Mail correspondence, March 2001).

b.  Web Publications – 2000 – 2004

1. Websources on the  Humanities Dept. Website – 2001 - 2004

The new departmental website offers a centralized, accessible forum for webpublishing program-, discipline- and course-specific resources for students, faculty, and other interested members of the College and wider cyber-community.  Website maintenance and development responsibilities shared out among Humanities Dept. faculty (and eventually, I hope, also qualified students) can produce a “Shared Collaborative Resource” of online Humanities resources (e.g. links, online handouts, syllabi, etc.) greatly enhanced in currency, efficiency and value to both Humanities Dept. and interdisciplinary web-users and web-creators.  (See also Goal #1.b and c above.) 

·         Coordinate planning, development and responsibility for maintenance of Humanities Dept. website resources among interested Humanities Dept. faculty, with the assistance of Barbara Klett, IT Coordinator:  Fall 2001

·         Example webpage topics of common interest:  correcting common grammatical errors, avoiding plagiarism, documenting sources is accepted academic styles across disciplines, evaluating sources, writing about literature and film, writing a technical report, writing a lab report, conducting research on multicultural and world writers, proposing a WIC or MIC course, defining course competencies, list of Humanities Dept. videotape holdings (hyperlinked to more info on individual films), etc.

• Posted updated WIC and MIC Program guidelines and proposal forms to the new Humanities Dept. website (Summer 2001), and conducted webresearch to correct broken links, to identify new webresources for WIC Links webpage, and to recommend websites on instructional topics across the curriculum via postings to Humanities Conference and e-mails to interested colleagues (ongoing as time allows);

2. Website Awards, Recognition, & Development:  2000-2004

Website awards and recognition (listed in Documentation & Evaluation below) given my COCC webpages have committed me to the rigorous maintenance and development of the following webpages & websites:

·         African Authors: Chinua Achebe
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/achebe.htm

·         African Authors: Tsitsi Dangarembga
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/dangarembga.htm

·         African Film & Film Contexts
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/afrfilms.htm
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/afrfilmcontexts.htm

·         African Timelines
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/timelines/htimelinetoc.htm

·         Asian Timelines (HUM 210: Cultures & Literatures of Asia)
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum210/tml/asianTML.htm

·         HUM 211: Cultures & Literatures of Africa
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/index.htm

·         WS 102 (Intro to Studies in Women & Gender: Humanities)
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/ws102/index.htm

·         Women’s Studies Timeline: WS 101 (Intro to Studies in Women & Gender)
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/ws101/wstml/wstmlTOC.htm
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/ws101/index.htm

The continuing attention that these sites have attracted (especially African and Asian literary & culture studies) suggests that they are filling important informational gaps on the WWW, and would make good topics for sustained student webwork on a “Collaborative Shared Resource” (see PIP Goal #1.c.4 above).

c.  Other Professional Development Projects: 2000 - 2004

1. Agreed to serve as Adjudicator for doctoral thesis “Women Portraits in the Novels of African and African-American Women Writers,” at the request of Prof. Sundari, Research Advisor for Ph.D. candidates, Bharathidasan University, Tamilnadu, India [correspondence, April & July 2001]; Projected adjudication period:  Winter 2002.
2. Conducted research and prepared public presentation for film showing of Oscar and Lucinda (dir. Gillian Armstrong, Australia) for Greg Lyons’ COCC “Offbeat Cinema” Film Series (free & open to the public), 3 November 2000, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m., BEC 155. 

3. Revised and made guest presentation on “To Be a Woman and a Writer” in Stacey Donohue’s Winter 2001 Women’s Studies 101 course.  Ref:  Stacey Donohue.
4. Conducted research, revised course materials, and created a new course pack for ENG 104, offered in Fall 2001; received LMT grant funds in support (June 2001).
5. Engaged in exchange and review of instructional materials (English-language Basic Writing & English-American Literature) with Assoc. Professor Ernst Aage Johnsen, Sogn og Fjordane College, Sogndal Norway (email correspondence), Summer 2001.
6. Consulted and recommended texts for African literary studies with Ladi Toulgui, Lecturer in African literature and culture, Logements du Nouveau Technicum, Heliopolis, W. Guelma, Algeria (email correspondence), Summer 2001.
7. Textbook Reviewer:

·         Bedford-St. Martin: Reviewed Anne Charters’ The Story and Its Writer, Compact 5^th ed., by invitation of Emily Goodall, Editorial Assistant [phone: (800) 779-7440, x. 4074; email: egoodall@bedfordstmartins.com], March-April 2001.

·         Longman:  (1) Reviewed new CD-ROM Project Proposal, intended to augment Kennedy and Gioia’s Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama, 8^th ed., Feb. 2001.  (2) Reviewed new research writing textbook proposal entitled “Building a Mystery: Inquiry and Writing Across Genres, Media, Genders, Disciplines, and Cultures,” at the request of Rebecca Gilpin, Longman publishers; July 2001.

8. Memberships, Subscriptions, & Materials Acquisitions:

Maintained memberships in the National Council of Teachers of English, Oregon Council of Teachers of English, Conference on College Composition and Communication, Modern Language Association, African Literature Association, American Studies Association, Oregon Public Broadcasting, Library of Congress, Amnesty International; subscriptions to College English, CCC, PMLA, Harper’s, Atlantic Monthly, New Yorker, as well as electronic subscriptions to Scout Report (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison) and PBS Ed-Previews.

Continued to purchase, with personal funds, books, journals, and CD’s to keep me abreast of currents in my teaching subjects, to develop new course resources, and to support current and future professional development activities.

Goal 3 Contribution to:

Institutional needs and objectives:  Board Ends #1, #2, #3, & #6;
COCC Academic Plan, 2000-2005:  II.D Evolving higher-education opportunities in the region: partnerships, articulation, and change in educational expectations; III.C: Improve Retention; III.D Create a Diverse Academic Community and Reflect Diversity in the Curriculum;

Program/Department needs & objectives:  Humanities Dept. Self Study Goals #1, #2, #4, #5, #6, #7, & #8;  See Humanities Dept. Mission & Goals:
http://www.cocc.edu/humanities/mission.html

Goal 3 Activities & Timelines:

a.  Committee Service

1.      OSU-COCC Curriculum Coordinating Committee, Spring-Summer 2001
References:  Committee Chair Kathy Walsh & OSU-Cascades Asst. Provost Henry Sayre

2.      Collaboration with OSU faculty counterparts on humanities curriculum to begin in Fall 2001.

3.      Participated in full Professors Lunch, at the invitation of Dr. Barber, to discuss “growth and integration of the Branch Campus,” 13 April 2001.

b.  Teaching Upper Division Courses
References:  Humanities Chair Maggie Triplett, Instructional Dean Kathy Walsh & OSU-Cascades Asst. Provost Henry Sayre

1.      Conducted research and began developing course materials, in Summer 2001, for two new upper division courses on Literary Genres/Novel Studies (EOU ENG 339/ OSU 465) and Comparative Literature: Postcolonialism (OSU ENG 458 )that I will teach for OSU and EOU in Spring 2002.

2.      Conducted research and began revising course materials, in Summer 2001, for Writing 316 (Advanced Prose Writing) to refocus the course on cyber-rhetoric and academic prose writing for the World Wide Web, using FrontPage 2000—that I will teach for EOU (double listed by OSU) in Spring 2002.

Goal 4 Contribution to:

Institutional needs and objectives:  Board Ends #1, #2, #3, & #6;
COCC Academic Plan, 2000-2005:  III.C Improve Retention; III.E Strengthen Assessment and Accountability; Appendix 3: Outcomes for Degrees and Programs

Program/Department needs & objectives:  Humanities Dept. Self Study Goals #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, and #8;  See Humanities Dept. Mission & Goals:
http://www.cocc.edu/humanities/mission.html

Goal 4 Activities & Timelines:

a.  Compile, webpublish, and analyze competency-based data from my own and others’ 2000-2004 Humanities Dept. courses and programs

1.  Field test and revise (as needed) identified course competencies, benchmarks, and assessment methods in writing and humanities courses, working with Humanities and other cross-disciplinary faculty to build consensus and strengthen curricular coherence.

·         Revised courses to integrate proficiency-based instruction based on course competencies already defined & those being benchmarked for WR 20, WR 121, and HUM 211 in Fall 2000; WR 40, WR 122 & HUM 210 in Winter 2001; and HUM 299 in Spring 2001.

·         Continue to revise courses that I teach in AY 2001-2004 to achieve the above objectives.

2.  Develop approved new competencies, benchmarks and assessment methods, for humanities and literature courses that have not yet been addressed, working with relevant faculty members to build consensus and strengthen curricular coherence.

·         Eng 103, Spring 2001:  designed pilot course competencies; and course, assignments and assessment methods (using Writing course Benchmarks model) to enable students to satisfy targeted course competencies: See Eng 103 course website:  http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/eng103/index.htm

3.  Webpublish course competencies, benchmarks, student self-assessment results for my courses (8 completed in AY 2000-2001– indexed and accessible from my COCC “Classes” webpage: http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes.htm

4.      Webpublish, in the new Humanities Dept website, webpages devoted to Mission & Goals (from Humanities Dept. Self-Study draft); all available course competencies for all Hum Dept. program courses; and Standards webpages including Oregon state PASS & PREP proficiencies, guidance for defining competencies, and Academic Plan outcomes for degrees and programs; Summer 2001.
Humanities Dept Home Page (root URL): http://www.cocc.edu/humanities/
Mission & Goals: http://www.cocc.edu/humanities/mission.html
Courses & Disciplines:  http://www.cocc.edu/humanities/courses/index.html
Oregon State Standards & Humanities Course Competencies:
http://www.cocc.edu/humanities/standards/index.htm

5.       Asked to review COCC’s Self-Study, Standard 2 & 4, in nearly final draft form, at the request of Stacey Donohue, August-September 2001.

b.  Define program competencies, benchmarks, and assessment methods for the WIC Program, with the help of participating WIC instructors: Fall 2001.

DOCUMENTATION & EVALUATION

1.  For All Goals & Activities: 

URL’s of relevant webpages have been referenced above for review.

Referenced Email correspondence is available for review upon request.

Colleagues referenced above may be contacted for review of my work.

Copies of referenced articles, presentation proposals, conference programs, etc., are available for review upon request.

2.  Student and Open Campus evaluations of my courses may be reviewed in my personnel file.

Student evaluations were administered in all my Spring 2001 courses: Open Campus Eng 103, Hum 299, and EOU WR 316.

Student evaluations are always administered in Open Campus and in upper division courses, so those that I teach in AY 2001-2004 will be available for review in future: i.e. Open Campus HUM 211 in Winter 2002; ENG 339/465, ENG 458, and WR 316 in Spring 2002.

3.  Annual Reports of Activities, including Humanities Dept. Chair Evaluative Comments, 2000-2004

4.  Major Evaluation:  My next, I believe, will fall in AY 2002-2003, and the resulting Designated and Peer Evaluation Reports will be available for review in my personal file.

5.  Goal 2.b.2 Web Publications: Awards and Recognition

WS 102 online selected for inclusion in the course syllabi Repository in Women and Society website <http://www.womenandsociety.buffalo.edu > by Women and Society Internet Reference Project Team (G. Kawinksi), State Univ. of New York-Buffalo, March 2001.  The Women and Society Course Syllabi Repository:  http://www.womenandsociety.buffalo.edu/syllabrepos.htm

WEB FEET Seal of Approval for my HUM 211 Chinua Achebe website, to be featured in the WEB FEET: Monthly Subject Guide to the Best Web Sites, July 2001; this subscription subject guide (RockHill Communications) is directed toward teachers, librarians, parents, students, and the general public:  www.webfeetguides.com [Marie Boyle, RockHill Communications; and Danielle Shaw, Managing Editor, WEB FEET Guides, Email communications, June 2001]
Chinua Achebe website:  http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/achebe.htm

Editor’s Choice Award, Awesome Library (Dr. R. Jerry Adams and EDI – Evaluation & Development Institute), for African Timelines, Part I: Ancient Africa [pathway: Social Studies/Ancient Civilizations/Ancient Africans/] – Email from Dr. Adams, 9 Feb. 2001; URL:  http://www.awesomelibrary.org/ [last accessed July 2001]

African Timelines Part II: African Empires pre-approved for membership to the HistoryChannel.com Network (by invitation of Mary Lee, Associate Producer, HistoryChannel.com; email communication 9 Aug. 2001; URL:  http://Network.HistoryChannel.com/

African Timelines:  3 star (Excellent) rating, The Web’s Best Sites, Britannica.com online encyclopedia; pathway: History/Places/Africa; URL:  http://www.britannica.com/ [accessed Feb. 2001]

African Timelines: “Africa South of the Sahara: Selected Internet Sites” [pathways: Topics/History/ then click Chronologies or Kingdoms/Ancient Civilizations]], Karen Fung, Stanford University Libraries/Academic Information Resources, Stanford Univ.: 
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/history/hisking.html [accessed Feb. 2001]
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/history/hischron.html [accessed Feb.2001]

African Timelines: Homework Heaven’s Top Sites of the Week/Homework Central’s Topic Eight Internet Homework Research Sites, & Homework Helpers (Paterson Public Schools, Paterson, NJ), Week of 21 & 22 Sept. 1998:
http://www.mthhs.mtlib.org/hwh.html [accessed May 2001]
http://www.arkcity.com/Homework Central/indexhc.html [accessed May 2001]
http://www.paterson.k12/nj.us/~pps/hw/hwsep.html [accessed May 2001]

African Timelines [Parts I, II, & III]: “An extremely comprehensive and useful compendium of historical materials on the African Continent…,” “The Development of World Civilization – UGIS 55A: World Civilization to 1500, Fall 1997, Web Resources for Early African Kingdoms and The Epic of Sundiata,” Carlos F. Camargo, Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Studies, Univ. of Calif.-Berkeley; URL:
http://www-learning.berkeley.edu/wciv/ugis55a/readings/earlyafrica.html [accessed Feb. 2001]

African Timelines:  History Online and ProQuest Learning: History (Richard Westwood, Development Editor, Chadwyck-Healey, Bell & Howell Information & Learning Company), gateways providing “access to the most informative and accessible free web [historical] resources currently available on key historical topics” and support for “teaching and study of History at AS and A Level “ [subscription only]:
http://historyonline.chadwyck.co.uk/info/home.htm [& Email from Richard Westwood, 27 Apr. 2001

African Timelines, “impressive!”:  “World Lit II: Links about Africa,” Prof. Wayne Stein, English Dept., College of Liberal Arts, Central Oklahoma Univ.: http://www.libarts.ucok.edu/english/faculty/stein/world/africa/countries/index.htm [accessed Feb. 2001]

African Film Contexts:  Keita: The Heritage of the Griot:  Live/Film Resources, “Sundiata Links and Bibliography,” History Through Literature, ORIAS (Univ. of California, Berkeley: International and Area Studies [IAS] “dedicated to providing outreach support to educators in the classroom:): URL:  http://www.ias.berkeley.edu/orias/sundiata.html [accessed Feb. 2001].

Chinua Achebe: 2-star rating, The Web’s Best Sites, Britannica.com online encyclopedia [search term: achebe]; URL:  http://www.britannica.com/ [accessed May 2001]

African Films: 1-star rating, The Web’s Best Sites, Britannica.com online encyclopedia [search term: achebe]; URL:  http://www.britannica.com/ [accessed May 2001]

Core Values Internet Resource Library: Social Studies – World History Grade 7 Curriculum: Oakland [CA] Unified School District, partnered with Interactive University, Univ. of Calif-Berkeley:
(1) Timelines of Asia: “Core Values Internet Resource Library” for  “Feudal Japan” and “Imperial China,” L. C. Swanson, Middle School Technology Literacy Project for Language Arts & Social Studies, Oakland Unified School District; URLs:
http://tlc.ousd.k12.ca.us/library/japan_china/china_history.html [accessed June 2001]
http://tlc.ousd.k12.ca.us/library/japan_china/japan_history.html [accessed June 2001]
(2) African Timelines: “Core Values Internet Resource Library: Sub-Saharan Africa,” L. C. Swanson, Middle School Technology Literacy Project for Language Arts & Social Studies, Oakland [CA] Unified School District; URL:
http//www.tlc.ousd.k12.ca.us/library/africa/africa_maps.html [accessed June 2001]

African Links & my logo: “Alcuni links sull’Africa:” 19, Chi Siamo, SMA: Societa Missioni Africane [Italy]; URL:  http://www.erga.it/sma/index/chisiamo/link.htm [accessed July 2001]

“Humanities Course on Africa” [Hum 211 & African Timelines]: “Columbia University – Area Studies: African Studies: History and Cultures of Africa,” Joseph Caruso, African Studies Librarian, Columbia Univ., The World-Wide Web Virtual AFRICAN STUDIES: URL: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/area/Africa/cult.html [accessed Feb. 2001]

“HUM 211 Course at Central Oregon Community College…” & “Cora Agatucci Hum 211 Central Oregon Community College”: Things Fall Apart [Study Guide & Notes on my Chinua Achebe website] – “What Is Things Fall Apart?” [student website]; and “Other Writings,” Univ. of St. Francis, Jolliet, IL; URLs:  http://www.stfrancis.edu/en/student/achebe/chinua/tfa.htm [accessed Feb. & June 2001]
http://www.stfrancis.edu/en/student/achebe/chinua/other.htm [accessed May 2001]

“African Empires Time-line” [Part II]:  Looksmart: The Quality Web Directory [pathway: Library/Humanities/History/Africa/African Empires & Kingdoms: Guides and Directories] URL:  http://www.looksmart.com/

“Nervous Conditions Synopsis and Information” [Dangarembga]: “Tsitsi Dangarembga,” Rebecca Grady, Postcolonial Studies at Emory Univ.; URL:
http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/Dangar.html [accessed June 2001].

Introduction to Studies in Women and Gender (WS 102): “Syllabi on the Web for Women- and Gender-Related Courses,” Joan Korenmann, Center for Women and Information Technology, Univ. of Maryland-Baltimore County:
http://www.umbc.edu/cwit/syl_wmst.html [accessed Feb. 2001]

·         WS Timeline, Introduction to Women and Gender Studies, & Links: “HIST 4101: Herstory – Websites,” History Dept., Catawba College, North Carolina; URL:
http://www.catawba.edu/dept/history/hersites.htm [accessed Feb. 2001]

“Breaking from the Cage of Identity: Doris Lessing and The Diaries of Jane Somers” [my article collected in Redefining Autobiography, Garland, 1994]: Linda Scott (Dept of English, Univ. of Otago, New Zealand), “Writing the Self: Selected Works of Doris Lessing.”  Rpt. Deep South 2.2 (Winter 1996); URL: http://www.otago.ac.nz/Deepsouth/vol2no2/lessing.html [accessed Feb. 2001].

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