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Resources
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There
are a variety of tools and resources available to you to assist
you with your learning. The tools you need will vary, depending
on your own situation. It may well be that you are unfamiliar
with some of them. If so, you might like to take a look at some
of the websites listed below:
Internet
http://www.learnthenet.com/
http://www.rgu.ac.uk/schools/sim/research/netlearn/teaching.htm
Email
http://www.webfoot.com/advice/email.top.html
(See
http://www.learnthenet.com/,
too.)
Conferences
Conferences,
like email programs, come in many flavours. They are also known
as forums or message /bulletin boards (if you disagree,
that's ok - you can discuss it on a programme conference). They
should enable threaded discussions (some don't). Usenet
newsgroups follow the same format, and for many people the terms
conference, forum, and newsgroup are just about
synonymous. To take a look at newsgroups, use deja.com (http://www.deja.com/).
To
see how a forum works, you could look at any of the forums (they
call them message boards) on the popular Motley Fool site (http://boards.fool.com/
- there's even a board for teachers in the folder 'Fools of a
Feather'), or carry out a search for a forum on your own subject
area(s) using AskJeeves (http://www.aj.com)
or a search engine of your choice.
Browsers
http://www.learnthenet.com/english/html/12browser.htm
Search
Engines
http://www.learnthenet.com/english/html/78tutorial.htm
Chat
Facilities
http://www.newbie-u.com/irc/
Videoconferencing
(VC)
http://www.learnthenet.com/english/section/conference.html
Other
guides and tutorials
There
are many guides and tutorials available on the Web. Try using
AskJeeves (http://www.aj.com/)
if you would like to find more.
Now
that you have finished reading this Introductory Guide and completed
the introductory tasks, you should feel more confident with the
technology and understand what the programme involves. If you
are unsure about anything, please contact your facilitator and
ask. And remember, the resources listed above will be there to
help you at any time during the programme, so you do not have
to explore each one thoroughly now!
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