|
|
|
Links
Examples of Good
Work
Go to top.
Distance Education
Issues
Copyright Issues
Go to top.
Accessibility
 |
The Bobby Online Free Portal
The free
service that allows to test web pages and help expose and
repair barriers to accessibility and encourage compliance with
existing accessibility guidelines.
http://bobby.watchfire.com/bobby/html/en/index.jsp
|
|
Nanopac Assistive Technology
for People Who Are Disabled
A good overview of
products and services for individuals with disabilities (low
vision, blindness and quadriplegia products, reading machines,
environmental controls, voice activation, augmentative
communications, hearing impairments, voice recognition, speech
synthesis, text to speech, switches and switch mounts,
magnifiers, and door openers).
http://www.nanopac.com/ |
|
Web Accessibility In Mind (WebAIM)
A site that provides information on
improving accessibility to online learning opportunities for
individuals with disabilities. A site contains full of
resources, articles, and materilas to support the development
of accessible web sites and solve web accessibility problems.
http://www.webaim.org/
|
|
Freedom
Scientific
A good overview of innovative
technology-based products and services for vision impairments
and learning disabilities. There are numerous resources
available to invidividuals that may be able to assist them
with understanding or acquiring assistive technology to meet
with their specific needs.
http://www.freedomscientific.com/fs_products/software_jaws.asp
|
|
Microsoft Accessibility
Its assistive technology products
are accessible to everyone, including people with
disabilities. The products are designed to accommodate an
individual's disability or multiple disabilities. A site
provides useful resources, case studies, video case studies,
press releases, and feature articles on the use of accessible
technology.
http://www.microsoft.com/enable/default.aspx
|
|
Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Home Page
Home page of W3C's Web
Accessibility Initiative. A site provides resources for
increasing accessibility of the Web for people with
disabilities.
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
|
|
WebABLE
A good overview of
the products with Web Accessibility technology. WebABLE is the
authoritative Web site for disability-related Internet
resources. A site contains important resource, tool and
utility links for accessibility aids.
http://www.webable.com/ |
|
A-Prompt: Web Accessibility Verifier
A-Prompt (Accessibility Prompt) is a free software
tool designed to help Web authors improve the usability of Web
pages created in HTML format. A-Prompt first evaluates an HTML
Web pages to identify barriers to accessibility by people with
disabilities.
http://aprompt.snow.utoronto.ca/ |
|
AbilityHub.com
AbilityHub.com provides information on adaptive
equipment and alternative methods available for accessing
computers.
http://abilityhub.com/
|
Examples of Teaching with
Technology
|
The Future of
Learning
Paper first
presented at the Minister's Forum on Adult Learning, Edmonton,
Alberta, November 30-December 1st, 1995
This site talks
about the rapidly changing context of adult learning requiring
equally rapid and radical changes in teaching methods and
methods of delivery, with profound implications for the
organization of post-secondary institutions.
http://bates.cstudies.ubc.ca/learning.html |
|
University of Texas
UT has a World
Lecture Hall (WLH) which contains links to pages created by
faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver class
materials.
http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture/ |
Go to top.
FAQ's
Pages
Go to top.
How-to sites:
Go to top.
Tutorials:
Go
to top.
Course Authoring and Evaluation
Tools:
Go
to top.
Products and
Services:
Go to top.
Associations & Journals:
Go to top.
Tools
(resources):
|
TrackStar
guides a user (student) through a set of sites
(URLs). With this tool, you can make a list of sites that is
always visible and therefore accessible to the user throughout
the entire lesson. In addition, there are annotations that
accompany every site. These annotations are comments on what
to look for or a question that can be answered by browsing
that particular site. http://trackstar.4teachers.org/trackstar/ |
|
Gamelan
Java
scripting site. Download stuff to produce Java files. http://www.gamelan.com/ |
|
Free Images.Com
http://www.freeimages.com/ |
|
Instructional Resources on the
Web
maintained by
James L. Morrison http://horizon.unc.edu/projects/resources/ |
|
Netscape's Tool Chest
http://home.netscape.com/navigator/vgold3.0/using/index.html |
|
Web
Graphics on a Budget
http://mardiweb.com/web/
|
|
Georgia Tech Multimedia Development
Tools
site with needs
analysis tools, course planning tools, course management
tools, multimedia production tools, and evaluation
tools.
http://mime1.marc.gatech.edu/MM_Tools/ |
|
Yale Web Style Manual
This site provides guidelines and
standards for web sites and user-interfaces.
http://www.info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual
|
|
WS_FTP LE
This program is free for most non-commercial
uses. It handles FTP tasks speedily and
efficiently. The program makes file transfers easy with
its dual-pane view, which displays your local files in one
pane and your remote files (i.e. the files on your webspace)
in the other. http://www.zdnet.com/downloads/stories/info/0,,000PVP,.html |
|
Transmit
This
is a well-rounded FTP program for your Mac. It is one of
the best shareware programs for FTP. It has elegant Mac
OS-style interface, powerful FTP features, and ease of use for
$24.95 registration fee. http://www.panic.com/transmit/ |
|
IrfanView32 Image
Editor
Free download software tool that can alter,
resize, crop, and convert graphic files into Web-ready JPEG's
and GIF's. http://www.irfanview.com/ |
|
GraphicConverter
This is a useful graphics program for your
Mac. It allows you to adjust your image's appearance and
add an impressive range of special effects. It is a $30
shareware program.
http://www.graphicconverter.net/ |
|
HTML Colors
This free for noncommercial use program allows you
to try different combinations of text, link, and background
colors so that you can see how they look before altering your
Web pages. It also writes the necessary HTML code that
you can cut and paste.
http://www.ogopogo.net/products/html_colors/ |
|
The HTML Reference
Library
This is a freeware HTML tag reference program
that uses a windows interface for easy browsing.
Extensive scripting and dynamic HTML sections are
included. Internet Explorer 4 or higher is needed for
installation. http://www.webreference.com/ |
|
HTML Vocabulary
This is a $5 shareware program that
lists HTML elements with descriptions of each. TA
section of style sheets in included for more advanced Web
authors.
http://www.gla.ac.uk/~gwm1h/htmlvoc2/ |
Clipart Sites
|
Pambytes
This
site offers original background tiles, borders, arrows, image
sets, buttons, and clipart.http://pambytes.com/ |
|
Barry's Clipart
This site is a great source for
animated images. http://www.barrysclipart.com/ |
|
Clipart.com
If you would like to find an extensive list of
other clipart sites choose go to quick lists. Here you will
find numerous links. You can become a member of this site. If
you choose not to, you are only allowed to capture images at
designated times of the day. http://www.clipart.com/ |
|
Cool Graphics
Contains over 100
animated images, 80 types of arrows, 90 types of backgrounds,
80 different kinds of bullets, 130 buttons, lines, interfaces
and icons. Great resource. http://coolgraphics.com/gallery |
|
Animation Factory
This sites offers images from
creatures to interfaces. You do have to pay to use the images.
http://animfactory.net/ |
|
Art Today
This
site offers free images of all types. You can become a member
of this site. If you choose not to, you are only allowed to
capture images at designated times of the day. http://arttoday.com/ |
|
Xerox My Butt
The site offers 3D images and screen savers and
other animated images. http://xeroxmybutt.com/tools |
|
ProDraw
If you are looking for more modern graphics, this
is the site you are looking for. http://www.prodraw.net/ |
|
DebiDawn
This site offers original small icons for all
occasions.
http://debidawn.com/icons.htms |
|
Acme City
This is a huge resource for all
kinds of graphics. http://www2.warnerbros.com/web/hometown/new.jsp |
Go to top.
Online Education Sites:
Go to top.
WebQuests
Go to top.
Other Indices of Online Learning
|
Open University.
International Centre for
Distance Learning (ICDL)
The International Centre
for Distance Learning (ICDL) is a documentation centre
specializing in collecting and disseminating information on
distance education worldwide. ICDL is part of the Institute of
Educational Technology (IET) of the UK Open University.
Services which are currently offered include: Distance
Education Literature (bibliographic references including
abstracts to the literature of distance education); Distance
Education Database (online access through telnet and on CD-ROM
to the distance education database containing detailed
information on courses, institutions and literature) and
Mindweave (full text chapters of Mindweave: Communication,
Computers and Distance Education).
http://www-icdl.open.ac.uk/ |
|
Open
Learning Technology Corporation
The Open Learning
Technology Corporation Limited (OLTC) was established in 1993
as a company owned by Australia's Ministers of Education and
Training. OLTC's role is to facilitate and support the
equitable provision of high quality, cost effective open
learning on a national basis, providing a focal point for the
promotion of collaborative activities. The website contains
documents, available publications and reports, and a
comprehensive listing of Australian distance education
programs, initiatives, and projects along with the agencies
and universities which provide them. http://scout.wisc.edu/addserv/NH/95-09/95-09-01/0015.html |
|
Distance Education Clearinghouse
The Distance Education Clearinghouse
provides electronic access to a wide range of information
about distance education. With its partnering agencies and
other University of Wisconsin institutions, the University of
Wisconsin-Extension delivers information from Wisconsin,
national and international sources. New information and
resources are being added to the Clearinghouse on a continuing
basis. http://www.uwex.edu/disted/home.html |
|
Indices and Hotlists for
Educators
The
following sites are good starting points for exploration. Each
leads to a huge number of interesting and useful lessons,
resources and activities for teachers, administrators,
instructional designers, trainers, counselors and other
educators. http://edweb.sdsu.edu/links/index.html |
Go to top.
Other University ID sites
|
University of South Florida
Another good example of a university
based site for distance education. http://www.outreach.usf.edu/ |
|
Indiana University. Distance Learning
The Indiana University Distance
Learning website not only describes the courses, programs and
services which are available to Indiana users, it also
provides the "Distance Learning Primer" as well as ordering
information for "Distance Learning: A Guide to System Planning
and Implementation" (the 135-page guide discusses the key
issues that should be addressed by those persons responsible
for planning and managing distance learning systems). http://www.iusb.edu/~sbit/ims/distlearn.shtml |
|
University of Texas
UT has a World Lecture Hall (WLH) which contains
links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the
Web to deliver class materials. http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture/ |
|
Penn
State Continuing and Distance Education (C&DE)
C&DE applies the
resources of The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) to
business, academic, and professional clients as well as adult
learners through courses, seminars, workshops, conferences,
and services all designed to help you stay competitive, learn
new skills, share the latest research, and keep up with the
latest technologies. The website provides links to places such
Penn State Distance Education programs, and the American
Center for the Study of Distance Education (ACSDE) where there
are descriptions of the services and products of the Center,
including the American Journal of Distance Education, Readings
in Distance Education Series, and the Distance Education
Online Symposium (DEOS).
http://www.cde.psu.edu/ |
Go to top.
K-12 site for Distance Education
|
Northern Ohio
Educational Computer Association
NOECA is a state
sponsored resource site for distance education for K - 12. http://www.noeca.esu.k12.oh.us/ |
|
Guidelines
for Distance Education
This site is put out by the
Commission on Institutions of Higher Learning and gives
excellent definitions and resources for distance education
across all grade levels.
http://www.ncahigherlearningcommission.org |
|
Education First
As part of Pacific Bell's Education First
Initiative, and working with San Diego State University's
College of Education and the Educational Technology
department, this website describes the educational
applications for K-12 schools, community colleges, and public
libraries. Specifically, applications are featured that
capitalize on TeleComputing (e.g., internet-based activities)
and Interactive TeleLearning (e.g., video conferencing) via
ISDN lines. An excellent section of this site is
"Videoconferencing for Learning" which is a comprehensive look
at videoconferencing for teachers, librarians, and students.
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/ | |
