HARDWARE, SOFTWARE TECHNICALITIES -- Internet -- Tutorials &/or guides

Bare Bones 101: A Very Basic Web Search Tutorial                                                                25 July 2001

Becoming WebWise(British Broadcasting Corporation )                                                           23 March 2002
simple & easy-to-follow online course for novice Internet users; getting connected, emailing, searching, bookmarking, creating address books, building a Web page; Digital TV, WAP phones, legal online rights, history of the Net, ways of accessing the Internet

Big List of Sites That Teach You How To Do Stuff                                                                   30 November 2007

Butterscotch free video tutorials instruct in use of all kinds of hardware & software  (Review)      27 July 2010
visual emphasis also allows for a quick comparison between your computer or device & the tutorial; archived & continually updated;

EduWizards online live tutoring  free 1/2 hour trial sessions                                                       29 November 2008

Einztein Knowledge Network catalogues virtual courses on Web                                                9 July 2010

Free online image search tutorial                                                                                              27 October 2008
pros & cons of using search engines to find images; financial & legal implications of using digital images; key online image sites & collections; success stories for creative use of images;

Find tutorials    442 online training courses, 403 online tutorials, 1,956 online jobs available        3 February 2003

FybreSearch Tutorial Search                                                                                                     17 May 2005

Google Tutor & Advisor: Tips, Techniques & Advice                                                                 25 March 2005

Guide to Computer Training                                                                                                        22 February 2011

Instructables web-based documentation platform to share how-to-do-it info                                 2 July 2011
Contests, Answers, Forums, Blogs; Newsletter, Guided tour; free subscription;

Internet Detective interactive tutorial evaluating Internet resources                                              2 December 2001
hints, tips, evaluation criteria, exercises, quizzes; navigation, URLs, evaluation criteria, primary & secondary sources; 3-4 hours to complete; login to check progress; for librarians, information professionals, teachers, trainers, students; download (less than 1mb) HTML, self-extracting file, or compressed zip file. Offline versions are not fully functional. Launched 1998; DESIRE project; Telematics for Research Programme; Intute’s funding has been cut; after August 2010 service will remain available with “minimal maintenance”

Internet for Historians                                                                                                               13 October 2006
interactive guide for academic historians; survey of online resources, tips on planning effective search strategies, techniques for evaluating websites, Quizzes & exercises for individual use or class setting; updated & maintained by staff at Intute: Arts & Humanities;

Internet for Image Searching                                                                                                      17 October 2008
free online tutorial for staff & students in universities & colleges to find digital images for their learning & teaching; find copyright cleared images for work, quickly & efficiently;

Internet GuidesTutorialsInternet Search Engines & Internet Search Strategies(U of Albany)     22 February 2011

Internet Tutorials(Laura Cohen, Network Services Librarian) Internet tutorials(May 2007)         30 July 2001

Internet Tutorials for Health & Life Sciences(Intute)                                                                   15 February 2007
1 hour, free, updated, revised by subject experts from UK universities:  Internet for Veterinary Medicine; I for Biosciences; I for Health & Social Care; 2nd stage of major programme to update & revise all tutorials in Virtual Training Suite over the coming year;

Intute’s Virtual Training Suite discontinued in July 2011, part migrated to TutorPro                       9 December 2006
major programme to update & revise all tutorials in Virtual Training Suite over 2007; Intute’s funding has been cut: Intute’s executive director announced this morning that Intute has lost its JISC funding & will maintain its current level of service only until 1st of August 2010. The Intute blog post continues, “After this date, Intute will still be available but with minimal maintenance. In addition, we are looking at possibilities to develop Informs(free tool for creation &d sharing of interactive online tutorials) & Virtual Training Suite & offer these as membership services”; Intwine Google custom search engine covering URLs catalogued by Intute Arts & Humanities cataloguers at demise of Intute; 14 Aug 2010: Intute reflections at end of era; 27 June 2011: Virtual Training Suite of 60 online subject-based tutorials for internet research developed as part of Intute will survive discontinuation of that resource in July 2011 & be enhanced at TutorPro;      

Lockergnome Tutorials Technology Help, How-to Guides, Internet Business Training Manuals        9 June 2003

MERLOT [Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning & Online Teaching                            31 January 2003
8000+ free, peer-reviewed online learning tools & simulations for higher education; browse by subject - Arts, Business, Education, Humanities, Mathematics, Science & Technology, Social Sciences - MERLOT Awards Program for Exemplary Online Learning Resources

MITx portfolio of Massachusetts Institue of Technology courses free online                               21 December 2011
online interactive learning platform combined with MIT-wide research initiative on online learning & teaching offers courseware, community & credentials in contrast to MIT OpenCourseWare(lecture notes, video lectures, transcripts, etc); will feature interactivity, online laboratories & student-to-student communication; Those who have ability & motivation to demonstrate mastery of content can receive a credential for a modest fee; FAQ; Overview; MIT expands its free online courses(NYT, Dec 19, 2011);

Netskills quality Internet training                                                                                                3 December 2002
partially funded by Joint Information Systems Committee(JISC) based in Computing Service at U of Newcastle (UK)

Online Collaboration Tools  See Screensharing technology  & Post-processing tools (below)
del.icio.us & furl - open access bookmarks, Gibeo select people for access; Skrbl whiteboard; create a room & give the URL to collaborators to write, read & edit, copy notes & images from anywhere & paste them; privacy feature; Register to archive session; 

Online Collaboration Tools: Cost-Effective Solutions For Online Teachers                                  26 April 2007
Collaborative writing tools, Screensharing Tools & Technology, Whiteboarding Tools & Technology, Web Presentation Tools & Technologies, Instant Messaging Tools & Technology, Online Video Publishing & Sharing For Learning & Collaboration.

Online Search Tutorials(National Library of Medicine) screencasts                                               14 December 2010
NLM Catalog: a quick Introduction, Searching for journals in NLM Catalog & NLM Catalog: building a set of journals to search in PubMed;

Pandia Goalgetter Web search tutorial                                                                                        27 October 2008

PHP Tutorials: Create a Search Engine (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4)                               23 April 2011

PubMed Tutorial (Macromedia Flash Player)                                                                             16 November 2003
web-based learning program for PubMed, National Library of Medicine’s journal literature search system; explanations & animations; practice exercises.

RDN Virtual Training Suite                                                                                                         24 November 2001
1 hour tutorials help students, lecturers & researchers improve Internet information skills; quizzes & interactive exercises; now Intute’s Virtual Training Suite; 27 June 2011: Virtual Training Suite of 60 online subject-based tutorials for internet research developed as part of Intute will survive discontinuation of that resource in July 2011 & be enhanced at TutorPro;      

Search for music lessons with TakeLessons                                                                                    4 January 2009

Tutorial Resources(Marcus Zillman Awareness Watch) tutorial resources & sources on Web    3 September 2005
See also Tutorials Directory: Internet services & tutorials covering operating systems, web design, Macromedia, Microsoft Office, graphics software, web marketing, programming; Tutorial Sphere; Tutorial Resources(Awareness Watch, Dec 2009);  February 26, 2010; Featured Report,  Awareness Watch V. 10 No. 2, Feb 2012: Tutorial Online Resources 2012;

TutorPro                                                                                                                                    27 June 2011
Virtual Training Suite of 60 online subject-based tutorials to help students Internet research skills will continue to be developed after July 2011 by agreement between U of Bristol & software house TutorPro who will significantly enhance & develop VTS with new material & new media, specifically to make the tutorials available through mobile, smartphone & tablet applications;

W3Schools free, for developers, coders & designers                                                                   4 January 2007
HTML, XML, browser scripting, server scripting, .NET, multimedia, web building & technologies as SMIL, Semantic, PHP, SOAP; Web Primer(XML is used to describe & transport data, while HTML is used to display data); exercises, jumping-off points to learn related technologies, multiple-choice quizzes, examples of languages & scripts, tip sheets, called References, for HTML colour names, PHP 5.1, ASCII characters, forums, certification in HTML, XML & ASP - small fee for the certification exam, $59 for HTML & ASP. XML certification is provided separately through Altova;

Web Search Guide: Tutorials: Table of Contents IE 5.0-5.5(Win)                                                25 March 2005
Communication; Discussion Groups; Research

Web Search University                                                                         18 March 2011
Power searching with the pros: Mary Ellen Bates, Mark Godstein, Ran Hock, Gary Price, Chris Sherman, Diane L Stubbs