INTERNET SITES PROVIDING FREE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY HELP

 

These sites are supplemental to the resources available from HU and are offered only to encourage colleagues to bring the Third Revolution to your courses with only access to a PC with a modem or Internet connection. Neither the University nor I endorse any of these sites.

 

HELP WITH GETTING STARTED:

Internet Navigator from University of Utah, a short course in using the Internet for newbies, covers everything from browsers and email to web development. http://medstat.med.utah.edu/navigator/

Everything E-Mail, explains every aspect of e-mail http://www.everythingemail.com/

Inside a Typical Computer (illustrations) http://members.aol.com/wbox/wboxmenu.htm

What is?com explains perplexing Information Technology terminology http://www.whatis.com/

 

Web Site Development and Design:

W3Schools Online. Recommended tutorials on web site development from beginning website to ASP for the advanced. http://www.w3schools.com/

All Things Web. A great collection of resources and tips for web authoring. http://www.pantos.org/atw/

AoL’s “Creating a Home Page”, a basic instructional article. http://hometown.aol.com/flanker.adp?fType=build&cid=10000

How To Build a Web Site with Free Stuff. http://www.stars.com/Authoring/Design/FreeStuff/index.html

“WebMonkey” is a thorough course on-line from basic to advanced web development. http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/

HTML Editors: Reviews of commonly used editors used in creating websites and links to the products. http://webdesign.about.com/compute/webdesign/msubeditors.htm

MS Word and Excel. Newer versions allow you to save files as web pages. This is useable, but keep your pages small because this technology uses lots of code that takes a long time for browser to read.

 

HOSTING- SITES WHERE YOU CAN POST YOUR WEBSITE:

Start with your own ISP (AoL, Compuserve, Earthlink, etc.) and many textbook publishers are now offering both websites to support their texts and free websites to instructors using their texts – ask your text representatives.

Blackboard.com. HU supports this platform with courses, but this is the site publicly available to educators. This comprehensive site includes web development tools, customizable templates, free hosting, and articles. http://www.blackboard.com/

Teacher’s Net Home Page Maker. Offers free web site and easy web page construction for K-college teachers. http://teachers.net/sampler/

Free Web Space. Provides a search engine for 443 free hosting services. http://www.freewebspace.net/

 

FREE E-MAIL (There are a lot of these, but here is the most popular):

HotMail (MicroSoft) http://www.hotmail.com/

ExciteMail http://mailexcite.com

Yahoo Mail http://mail.yahoo.com/

 

FREE INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS: For instructors and students who have access to a telephone and PC with modem, but don’t want to pay a monthly service charge to connect to the Internet. Make sure that your dial-in phone number is a local call.

 

FREE SOFTWARE: Sites with web editors and all kinds of software, some free, others are shareware (a small fee, often voluntary) and software from small firms at low prices.

Download.com http://download.cnet.com/

Jumbo! The Download Network http://www.jumbo.com/

TuCows http//:www.tucows.com

 

SEARCH ENGINES: Be careful, many sell positioning on search results. Try these search engines:

MetaCrawlwer. Searches major engines to generate results. http://www.metacrawler.com/

All-in-One Search Page. Categorizes and lists search engines. http://www.allonesearch.com/

 

THE LEGAL ISSUES: “The most compelling questions are: (1) Is a proposed use of another's work likely to offend, and (2) Are expected benefits worth the bother and possible cost to resolve a dispute?” Franklin Pierce Law Center.

Franklin Pierce Law Center. “Copyright on the Internet”. http://www.fplc.edu/tfield/copyNet.htm

KuesterLaw - The Technology Law Resource. http://www.kuesterlaw.com/

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act. http://arl.cni.org/info/frn/copy/band.html