Teaching Students to Use Technology

Whether students have a basic knowledge of computers and the internet or a broad knowledge of both, additional resources may help them fulfill their obligations in class, whether it be for writing papers, completing projects, or improving organization skills.

Blackboard Tutorials
  • Quick Start -- This site gives basic navigation instructions and tool descriptions so that you know where you are going in Blackboard and what the different sections mean.
  • Distance Learning Orientation -- An animated tutorial includes a video and a speaker and teaches you the different sections of your course.

MS Office Tutorials
  • PowerPoint 2003 -- From Microsoft, this site offers training from presentation creation to adding details and animation.
  • PowerPoint in the Classroom -- Although directed towards kids, this site is a quick and appealing way to learn PowerPoint.
  • Excel 2003 -- From Microsoft, this site provides training from the basics to the details and not only helps you get started, but helps you to use the program to its fullest potential.
  • Excel Tutorial -- This tutorial offers help from entering data to forming calculations to creating charts.
  • Publisher 2003 -- From Microsoft, this site takes you through the different options offered in the Publisher program.
  • FrontPage 2003 -- From Microsoft, this tutorial helps learners to navigate through FrontPage's many features to create their own creative website.
  • FrontPage Electric Teacher -- This link includes many common tasks that would be used in FrontPage creating pages.

HTML Tutorials
  • An Interactive Tutorial -- This tutorial explains the basics of html code along with how to find a host and maintain an internet page.
  • HTML Tutorial -- This tutorial will carry you along from beginning to end, giving you direct demands so that you can try it yourself.  This site also has many different examples that you can view.
  • Tutorial for Beginners -- From 2K Communications, this tutorial goes through tags, paragraphs, text formatting, links, images, tables, and frames.
  • Authoring HTML -- This site from webmonkey, a well-known html resource, starts out with the basics and gives you some names to some programs that will convert regular text into html.
  • HTML Primer -- Besides the basics, you need to learn how to manipulate your text, or add style through different fonts and colors.  This site also includes instructions on how to link to another web page and add images.
  • Symbol Chart -- Here is a table that will give you the html code for all sorts of different symbols.


 

 Citing Internet Resources
  • MLA Citation Style -- Commonly used by English professors at LeTourneau University, this color-coded guide shows you the order of items in MLA Style for many different types of sources.
  • MLA Examples -- Not only does this site provide excellent examples for different types of sources, but it also provides instructions for various specifications, such as more than one author or editor.
  • MLA Web Citing -- From the official MLA site FAQs, this resource offers the specifications for citing different types of Internet sources in a Works Cited page.
  • APA Citation Style -- The color-coded guide to APA style.  This guide shows the order of items in examples for different types of sources.
  • APA Source Citing -- This site provides guidelines for in-text citing as well as a reference list for detailed oddities in the APA style.
  • APA Electronic Source Citing -- Here is the way to cite different electronic sources.

Copyright Information
  • 10 Big Myths -- Brad Templeton goes through eleven common myths of copyright and explains them.
  • Fair-Use Issues -- Understanding what fair use is and how to use it.
  • Crash Course in Copyright -- This site contains a tutorial informing when it is right to copy something and how to go about it and when it is illegal.


 

 

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