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Technology and Computer Skills

FAITS - Faulkner Advisory for IT Studies: Offers a broad range of reports plus vendor directories and a comprehensive glossary of IT and related terms. Continually updated and fully searchable, it contains hundreds of technology reports that are meticulously researched, plainly written, uniformly formatted, and easy to understand.

Hargrave's Communications Dictionary A treasure of simplified communications terms, definitions, acronyms, charts, equations, and a wealth of related information amassed over the author's extensive engineering career.

Basic Online Skills  This short, easy-to-master, web based course on basic online skills will help you understand the basics of computers and the Internet.

The Encyclopedia of Educational Technology A collection of short multimedia articles on a variety of topics related to the fields of instructional design and education and training.

Desktop Internet Reference Download this helpfile to learn about the Internet. Compiled by John Buckman, it is based on Peter Scott's Hytelnet, an excellent DOS and UNIX reference to the Internet.

Instructional Technology On the Learners pages, you will find links to the Orientation to Technology Services, guides, and other resources on the use of technology specifically related to UI&U.

A Basic Guide to the Internet A brief discussion of the Internet and its components.

Understanding the World Wide Web A discussion of the major protocols that make up the Web, the makeup of URLs, browsers and plug-ins, multimedia, Web programming languages and more.

The Help Web is intended to help people who are just getting started on the Internet learn their way around.

Basic Overview Of How The Internet Works

Computer Basics  The lessons in this section of Jan's Illustrated Computer Literacy 101 explain a lot of the techno-babble that you hear about computers. The goal is to learn enough that you can follow along as computer technology becomes more and more important in our world.

A Beginner's Guide To Word Processing

Tutorial For New Computer Users

Cut and Paste This page shows you the basics of cut and paste in Microsoft Word. 

Entry-Level Computer Skills  Learn how to use a mouse, manage windows, save documents, search the web, and other useful basic skills on the computer.