Here are links to links about distance education development tools of various types and complexities as well as other resources for online efforts.

• Helen Barrett's list from the University of Alaska, Anchorage, is a comprehensive list of useful tools, organizations, and samples
• The WITS list features related organizations and some interesting projects you might want to adapt to your discipline, e.g. UCLA's Virtual Office Hour project (click the home icon at the bottom for class pages).
• Research findings and presentations about computer-mediated learning are at this commercial site's library.
• More ideas on applying the Web, including guidelines for online projects with other classes, are at this site for teachers.  
• Ask not what you can do for your publisher but what your textbook's publisher can do for you:  Both of these sites use pop-up hints or comments done with Javascript.  If your textbook's publisher has a companion website, see what's there and send your students to the good stuff as study help or even a quiz grade if they review the site or use the information at the site to answer a question.
  • Here's a sample textbook "Companion Website"; scroll down and look at the online quiz (the multiple-choice one gives hints and feedback) and other features for "Chapter 1."  Find your textbook publisher's website and see if there's a companion website for the text you use.
  • Here's another: Click on the "Demo Site" link.  Already gathered for your use are study questions in three sets that increase in complexity and links to related resources that you or your students can preview or use.
• Try using this search engine to find pictures and sounds on the Web.  Of course, many (if not most) will be copyrighted, so you have to be concerned about fair use and permissions.  The site also provides a list of collections.
• Science Educators: February 8-20, 1999, has focused on science teaching at the Midcentral Region Center for Teaching Excellence "Idea of the Day" site, so click here and here to visit about a dozen websites that may provide resources (or design ideas if you make your own web pages) for your science.