Putting Your Spotlight on CAUSEweb Dr. Jackie MillerJanuary 10, 2006 Welcome to our webinar! The webinar will begin in approximately 15 minutes.

Putting Your Spotlight on CAUSEweb Dr. Jackie MillerJanuary 10, 2006 Welcome to our webinar! The webinar will begin in approximately 10 minutes.

Putting Your Spotlight on CAUSEweb Dr. Jackie MillerJanuary 10, 2006 Welcome to our webinar! The webinar will begin in approximately 5 minutes.

Putting Your Spotlight on CAUSEweb Dr. Jackie MillerJanuary 10, 2006 Welcome to our webinar! The webinar will begin in approximately 2 minutes.

Putting Your Spotlight on CAUSEweb Dr. Jackie MillerJanuary 10, 2006 Putting Your Spotlight on CAUSEweb A CAUSE webinar

Putting Your Spotlight on CAUSEweb Dr. Jackie MillerJanuary 10, 2006 Notes About the Webinar This webinar will be recorded for later viewing For excellent audio quality, I plan to mute everyone but myself until near the end of the webinar You can type in comments and questions in the chat section of your screen

Putting Your Spotlight on CAUSEweb Dr. Jackie MillerJanuary 10, 2006 What is CAUSEweb? CAUSEweb is the primary vehicle for communication for CAUSE Supported by an NSF grant Information on Resources, Professional Development, and Research Documentation for past USCOTS and information on future USCOTS Webinars, Forums

Putting Your Spotlight on CAUSEweb Dr. Jackie MillerJanuary 10, 2006 Webinars This is the very first CAUSE webinar—we’re making history! Free web-based seminars for up to 25 statistics educators Sessions are recorded for participants and others to view later. –Session recordings include both the audio and web portions of the webinar, synched together

Putting Your Spotlight on CAUSEweb Dr. Jackie MillerJanuary 10, 2006 Why Put Your Spotlight on CAUSEweb? Prime forum to showcase your work in a peer- reviewed repository This repository is part of MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) Excellent way to contribute to the resources available in statistics education Submission is easy!

Putting Your Spotlight on CAUSEweb Dr. Jackie MillerJanuary 10, 2006 Types of Resources on CAUSEweb Side trip to

Putting Your Spotlight on CAUSEweb Dr. Jackie MillerJanuary 10, 2006 Peer-Review Process Peer reviews may take up to six months Roger Woodard sends the submission to two reviewers Reviewers work in their “Workspace” in MERLOT (side trip to JBM’s Workspace) Reviews go to Rog, who compiles them into a composite review that is posted to CAUSEweb and MERLOT

Putting Your Spotlight on CAUSEweb Dr. Jackie MillerJanuary 10, 2006 Example of a Submission Statistics Jeopardy! by Adam Weimer Side trip to Statistics Jeopardy! example

Putting Your Spotlight on CAUSEweb Dr. Jackie MillerJanuary 10, 2006 How to Submit Sign in to CAUSEweb –If you have not previously registered, create a login Once signed in, you will see “Submit a Resource” near the top of the left panel Side trip to resource submission on CAUSEweb

Putting Your Spotlight on CAUSEweb Dr. Jackie MillerJanuary 10, 2006 Resources on CAUSEweb Notice that all resources on CAUSEweb are web- based This means that all resources need a URL (Uniform Resource Locator, the web address of the resource) If you don’t have a URL for your resource, you can submit a resource by ing it to

Putting Your Spotlight on CAUSEweb Dr. Jackie MillerJanuary 10, 2006 Questions and Answers Go ahead and submit any questions you have for me via the chat portion of our webinar I will answer these questions as they appear If you want to ask a question by phone instead, please click “Raise Hand,” and I will un-mute your phone line

Putting Your Spotlight on CAUSEweb Dr. Jackie MillerJanuary 10, 2006 Final Comments Feel free to me at with any I will send a link to the recording of our webinar within the next week Thanks for being part of the first CAUSE webinar!