About Teaching Politics
Introduction
Teaching Politics Techniques & Technologies is devoted to increasing the quality of teaching and learning about politics in higher education settings. It supports the work of the H-Teachpol discussion list and the American Political Science Association's Section on Undergraduate Education. Users of Teaching Politics are strongly encouraged to become members of both. All of the material on Teaching Politics is copyrighted by its author (or other entity, as indicated) but is free to the public. Teaching Politics is published by William J. Ball, Dept. of Political Science, The College of New Jersey. Send any inquiries about the site to him at ball@tcnj.edu.
Site Contents
All navigation of the site is done through the drop down menu on the top right of each web page. The major content sections of the site are as follows:
- What's New and Site Index
- A list of recently added content and a searchable index of the entire site.
- Conference Papers
- Papers on teaching and learning politics presented at academic conferences. Papers are in PDF.
- Book Reviews
- Reviews of books on politics from a teaching perspective. Reviews are initially published on H-Teachpol.
- Virtual Conference
- An online conference on teaching politics.
- The Guide to Teaching
- Advice from members of H-Teachpol on selected teaching topics.
- Multimedia Resources
- Papers, video, newsletters from the American Political Science Association's Conference Group on Politics and Film, illustrated descriptions and video tours of a variety of multimedia classrooms used to teach politics, and a highly selective and annotated list of online resources for teaching political science, particularly U. S. politics.
- H-Teachpol Discussion List
- Information about the H-Teachpol discussion list and links to joining the list, to list logs, and to the list's sponsor, H-net.
- The Web Crawler
- A searchable index of online journals, papers, and syllabi in political science.
Site Requirements
Teaching Politics is designed to work with Netscape Navigator 2.0 (or newer), or Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 (or newer). The "Go" button next to the navigation menu needs to be used only in older versions of Netscape Navigator. Teaching Politics requires a JavaScript compatible browser (for the navigation menu)--and one which interprets tables and forms.
Some content on Teaching Politics is in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) or Real Networks RealAudio/RealVideo. Viewing either form of content requires the installation of a free plug-in viewer. The PDF viewer (version 3 or newer required) can be obtained at the Acrobat web site. The Real player (version G2 or newer required) can be obtained at the Real Networks web site. Note that in most cases, you have to exit your web browser after downloading the plug-in and restart it after installing the plug-in. Further details on installation can be found at the Adobe and Real Networks sites.
Submitting New Material
Most sections of Teaching Politics are open for the submission of new material. Also, new sections will be considered for addition to the site. If you have material to submit, please contact William J. Ball at ball@tcnj.edu.
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Teaching Politics is published by William J. Ball. The site will be closed down by Sept. 31, 2004.
