An economist is a trained professional paid to guess wrong about the economy. 
An econometrician is a trained professional paid to use computers to guess wrong about the economy.  

This page contains a brief list of links to other much more extensive sites with further links to sites which describe how people use technology to teach economics.  This list is illustrative of resources available, and I make no claim to completeness.  These links are divided into three main categories:

Meta-sites for Economics Teaching and Scholarship

META-SITES (images are links)	SELF-DESCRIPTIONS
	Resources for Economists on the Internet   ISSN 1081-4248  Vol. 5, No. 2  June, 2001
	WebEc is an effort to categorize free information in economics on the WWW.
Both of the above sites are jointly searchable at:
	Welcome to the Web site of the Learning and Teaching Support Network Centre for Economics (UK).
	Economics Resources for University and College Teaching  (University of Nebraska at Omaha).
	The objective of FINWeb is to list Internet resources providing substantive information concerning economics and finance-related topics.
	The Journal of Economic Education offers original articles on innovations in and evaluations of teaching techniques, materials, and programs in economics.  (Full text online back to 1984.)
	Biz/ed is a unique business and economics service for students, teachers and lecturers.
	Teaching Economics With Technology:   When is it appropriate to use technology for learning? How do you decide which tools are most appropriate for your teaching style? What can you do to make effective use of technology while avoiding pitfalls? (Northeastern Univ.)
	Resources for Teaching Economics, Univ. Wisconsin, Milwaukee
	We are a unique nonprofit partnership of leaders in education, business and labor devoted to helping youngsters learn to think, to choose and to function in a changing global economy.  [K-12 site;  see their 20-question quiz.]

• North Carolina A&T's Blackboard site; Use the Blackboard "Preview" option, and search courses for ECON.  Many allow Guest access.

• Teaching with technology papers at the 1999 ASSA convention.

• And of course the Union College Economics Department website links.

Using Excel in teaching Economics & Econometrics

• Problems in Microeconomics (Michigan State)

• Steve Erfle's Excel files used in Managerial Economics (Dickinson College)

• Economics with Microsoft Excel at Wabash College

• Introductory Econometrics via Monte Carlo Simulation with Microsoft Excel

• (Barry College)

• BASIC STATISTICS USING EXCEL (McGraw Hill Higher Education; requires registration)

• Larry Miners and Kathy Nantz at Fairfield U. have developed spreadsheet-based workbooks for Macro and Micro.

• Spreadsheets, Mathematics, Science, and Statistics Education

Games and Simulations in Economics

• Classroom Expernomics is a newsletter dedicated to the use of economic experiments as a teaching tool for the classroom.

• Simple Demand and Supply Simulation Model

• LTSN Economics simulations page

• Carnegie Mellon ComLabGames, games played over the internet.

•   Charles Holt's Economics Games page, with computer games.

•   Richard Tucker's collection of Experimental Economics and Games.

•   Lemonade Stand is a classic game that teaches the basics about how supply and demand affect business. In this game, it is your job to run a street-corner lemonade stand and to try to make some money doing it.

•   and others, from David Ludking-Reiley; requires registration.

•   Steve Schmidt's Transportation Simulation Program (Union College).

© 2001, J D Klein
Prepared October, 2001 for the Department of Economics, Union College.
Last updated 10/04/01 , comments, additions, deletions, broken links to J D Klein.  Please cite the page URL:
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