Resources for online delivery; Joe Wilson

Contents

e-mail

News groups

Hosting web site and server space

Files on Line Sharing resources

better searching

HTML Help

Chat facilities

managed learning environments

Scottish and UK developments and news

on-line testing tools

Resources from JISC Regional Support Centres
South and West

North and East

New Articles:

Check out Scotfeict.

This is a web page was orginally created with Microsoft Word - Good Morning Langside College, Good Morning South Lanarkshire College Good Morning GCNS and Good day Cardonald College, Good afternoon Oatridge and West Lothian College , Hello Moray College, Good Morning Inverness College, Hello GCNS, Hello Central College, Hello Moray College, Hello Telford College, Hello GCFT

Managing Learning Resources for On-line delivery - Where to get them and how to set them up.

These resources are free or shareware in most cases. With a little know-how your course could be on-line tomorrow. This is a rough and ready list of useful resources. If you want to regularly update your knowledge in this area. Why not join scotfe online and where staff like you share ideas.

Click to subscribe to ScottishFEOn-line Eventually this will become part of SFEU's services. You should join the national mailing list for your subject check out www.sfeu.ac.uk and go to the networks section. The subject forums are supported by the Jisc Regional Support Centres and all the relevant Scottish agencies working together

Where can I get an explanation of all the technologies available and what is happening nationally?

A resource site for ICT in Scottish FE - new and relevant to the sector
http://www.scotfeict.ac.uk/. If you want to take your skill on to the next level check out the events section of this site.

The Jisc Regional Support Centres in Glasgow and Edinburgh web sites and staff offer a great deal of useful information and support. Links are in the left hand margin.

E-mail Return to top

Why wait until your College sets up e-mail addresses for you or your students. Get them free here.

News Groups On Line Communities File Sharing and Chat Rooms

Many on-line environments offer free chat rooms. You can set up an on-line community and control who gains access to it. Why not set this up for one of your classes. Especially useful for distance learners or flexible learners who have access to a computer and the Internet.

www.msn.com – set up your own on line community / can password protect
www.groups.yahoo.com why not join this and join the group joecar80
or http://courses.yahoo.com/
www.smartgroups.com have a look at http://www.smartgroups.com/groups/southlanarkshirecollege
Delphi.com
http://www.vrvs.org/ Virtual Video Conferencing What it says if you want to see your students.

Free Web Hosting Return to top

If you are worried about staff accessing your own servers or you simply want to develop this area without a lot of outlay why not use the free space that exists on the web.

Many of these sites will also help you create your web site. You can probably set up a useful web page in less than 30 minutes.

Remember these services are free. You may have to put up with an advert on your page

You normally get about 20mb of free space enough for at least one course dependant on file sizes, graphics etc.

If you want a massive site you can even link between the free space at different providers. It is sometimes a bit slow but its free and you control it. Reliable enough for you and your students.

http://www.net4nowt.com/ Useful for finding an connection from home.Return to top

http://www.freeuk.net/ A uk based provider that gives you free space, e-mail and hosting
http://www.free-web-page-site.com/ a good regularly updated list of free space
Cybercities.com -Cybercities
http://geocities.yahoo.com/home/
www.prohosting.com
http://www.xdrive.com/ a very impressive tool 100 megs of space
www.dreamwater.com
www.angelfire.com
http://www.webspawner.com – free space and templates to create your page quickly
http://www.50megs.com Thats how much space you get free
http://www.freeservers.com Freeservers also support to quickly set up your pages.
http://www.fortunecity.com/
http://www.50megs.com
http://www.tripod.co.uk/
http://angelfire.lycos.com/
http://www.arealcity.com/
http://www.arealcity.com/ BizLand.com FreeServers
http://www.limu.com/ Put a course on line and charge for it here
http://webspawner.com Webspawner create a web page quickly

Ideally look for site that runs or allows you to run CGI scripting Allows on-line forms, mail to and various other useful utilities.You might not be able to use these at the moment but they could come in handy at a later date.

Remember to keep a copy of your site on disk in case you ever have to rebuild it from scratch

A simple exercise = Share your best links with your students

Your first webpage . You can do this now

Turning bookmarks or favourites into a web page. This show you what it look like the link at foot of the page will take you to a page where you can download free software to do this

Files on line and sometimes a bit more Return to top

These free servers allow you to save work on their servers. Access your notes, powerpoints, pictures anywhere in the world. Some of these sites like Yahoo Groups and Smart Groups Provide a bit more

http://www.swapdrive.com/ You register and get access to free server space - all free for uploading and downloading.
www.driveway.com Faster than above but not available for sharing.
http://eboard.com An alternative to having your own web page fast and effective.
www.smartgroups.com More than just file sharing
http://www.freespace.com/
http://www.mydocsonline.com/ a pay for site now

Better Searching

How well can you use google Do you use it for graphics?, Searching Newsgroups ? , Detecting plagiarism ?

General Help and Tutorials to help you manage your own web site and learn HTML

http://www.netmag.co.uk/ .Net magazine Web site

www.webmonkey.com Copy the web monkey and learn HTML, Javascript and lots more

Software for chat Return to top

If you just want to chat,

http://www.mirabilis.com ICQ = latest as you can see respondents if you have a web cam .Alerts users in real-time when friends sign on. Beta versions for Mac and Windows.
Netmeeting = part of Office Professional Suite of products is actually very good why not try it.
http://www.edge-zone.net/irc/irc-body.html IRC = various sources of this offers information on chat and downloadable software. Newcomers to IRC will find a comprehensive online tutorial.
http://www.mirc.co.uk mIRC Popular shareware Internet relay chat client for Windows. Download the software, read download and IRC instructions for beginners, or view FAQs
http://thinkofit.com/webconf/ updates on web conferencing software

Web authoring Tools Return to top

There is a large number find one that you are comfortable with. I recommend Dream Weaver.You can get free copies or trial versions of many of these packages on the cover of magazines. There are also some small applications that you can down load free from the web.I have used the following packages in the past and they all work well. These are big downloads so best get them from a CD ROM. the new version of Microsoft Office can be used too. This page was originally created using Microsoft Word.

Macro Media Dream Weaver ( free on the cover disk of NET magazine)

Microsoft Front Page

Hot Metal Pro

CGI Scripts - That can password protect materials

Register -Register.pl is a script that helps you control access to pages within one of your directories.

Password Authentication "This script basically checks an entered password against a password file. If the user enters the correct data, [they] get through, if not [they] are asked to register. Many new flags have been added for creating user database, emailing notification, generating passwords, allowing direct registration, or logon only etc...

StepWeb's CheckMe http://www.stepweb.com/ - This script will allow you to password protect a page, with a UserID and a Password which you can add or delete very easily with an admin tool.

Techno Trade's Password Protector http://www.technotrade.com/password/ - This script is a very simple form of web site password protection. Instead of directing people to your main html file, you use this script as a filter to verify users for the password to gain access. If the password is accepted, then the script automatically takes the browser to the "protected" web page.

File Transfer Protocol ( FTP software) Return to top

You will normally need this to upload and download files for your web site.

http://www2.serve.com/FAQ/cute_ftp.shtml - Cute FTP
http://www.ipswitch.com/Products/WS_FTP/index.html - ws_ftp
Winzip www.winzip.com Files are often zipped when you download them you will need this to unpack them

Learning Resources / Subject Gateways a sample /

www.sfeu.ac.uk - the virtual learning centre
http://www.svtc.org.uk/ – the virtual teachers centre
http://bubl.ac.uk - BUBL
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/fe - BBC Links
http://www.tc.cornell.edu/Edu/MathSciGateway - Cornell University Maths and Science Gateway
http://www.sosig.ac.uk –Social Science Gateway

On-line Testing Return to top

Difficult now to use this for summative assessments but can be used for formative work.

http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked Hot Potatoes -- a free down load that lets you create on-line tests quickly and easily
Interactive Test www.interactivetest.com
Quiz Maker http://lang.swarthmore.edu/makers more complicated to utilise but potentially very useful
http://www.swin.edu.au/tafe/eis/indsci/assess/doit.htm
http://www.cict.co.uk/software/
Quiz Maker.
http://www.quia.com/

On-line Surveys

Use HTML Forms for all you internal/ external surveys or use a cgi script 'mail-to' or products like Info Poll Designer. http://www.infopoll.com

You can be very teckkie or just use a free tool.

Learning Environments Return to top

Black board http://www.blackboard.com/
LearnWise (from Granada Learning) http://www.learnwise.net/
Web CT http://www.webct.com/
Teknical http://www.teknical.com/
Lotus Learning Space http://www.lotus.com/home.nsf/welcome/learnspace
Web CT http://www.webct.com/
Top Class http://www.wbtsystems.com/
Think Wave http://www.thinkwave.com/
Learning objects http://www.nln.ac.uk

File Compression Return to top

As you really get into this you will need to unpack compressed files that are sent to you and you may want to compress files to send on to another. The standard package for this is