The Librarian's Internet-Teacher Knows Best
Some worthy Web tutorials to help you create your own
Gail Junion-Metz -- School Library Journal, 5/1/2000
Looking for good Web tutorials or getting ready to create some for your library? Then check out the following sites, which will amaze, amuse, and inspire you to create some great tutorials of your own:
Computer Training Tutorials
www.ckls.org/~crippel/computerlab/tutorials/index.html
Gr 9-12, adults--Seven cool computer and Web tutorials. Author: Chris Rippel. Sponsor: Central Kansas Library System, Great Bend, KS. Don't Miss: "Cleaning Your Mouse," a useful tutorial that uses more pictures than text. "Keyboard," a simple-to-create tutorial, and "Developing Web Vision," a unique tutorial that teaches you how to identify important information on a Web page. Detour: "Mousercise," a 30-page mouse tutorial.
Teach Yourself...the Internet
ww.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/instruct/instgui.htm
Gr 10-12, college students, adults--Three interactive research exercises are the highlight of this site. Use them "as is" or as models when designing exercises for students. Authors: Esther Grassian and Diane Zwermer. Sponsor: College Library, UCLA. Don't Miss: "Who Dunnit?" an interactive exercise that challenges you to correctly identify the source or sponsor of a Web site. "Hoax? Scholarly Research? Personal Opinion?" is an exercise in which you evaluate real Web sites. (Some sites may contain content inappropriate for young students). "Flow of Information" allows you to trace a news event from the day it happened to a decade later.
Finding Information on the Internet
www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html
Gr 10-12, college students, adults--This is one of the best tutorials. Author Joe Barker creates great content and also provides instructor scripts and worksheets in PDF format, as well as PowerPoint slides (complete with instructor notes), exercises, and lessons on specialized subjects, such as a 10-minute mini-tutorial to insert into a standard bibliographic instruction session. Don't forget to send Joe an e-mail "thank you" note. Sponsor: Library, University of California at Berkeley. Don't Miss: Links to other Berkeley library tutorials at the bottom of the page. Detour: Sink or Swim: Internet Search Tools & Techniques at www.sci.ouc.bc.ca/libr/connect96/ search.htm. It's an example of how to create your first Web-based tutorial using beginner-level HTML or an HTML editor.
The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
lib.nmsu.edu/staff/susabeck/eval.html
Gr 10-12, college students, adults--A simple tutorial in which each of the evaluation points contains a link to an actual Web site for "real time" evaluation experience. Author: Susan E Beck. Sponsor: Library, New Mexico State University.
Learn the Net
www.Learnthenet.com/English/index.html
Gr 10-12, adults--A commercial site with low-tech and high-tech tutorials. Visit "How To" and explore topical sections that all contain mini-tutorials. Also available in Spanish, French, German, and Italian. Sponsor: Michael Lerner Productions, San Francisco. Don't Miss: "Animated Internet," on the navbar under "Resources." If you have the Flash 4 player or use IE 5 or Netscape 4, you can view nine fully animated tutorials on search engines, streaming media, and how encryption works. Don't miss: "The Interactive Search Engine Tutorial" in the "Finding Information" section, where, with a mock version of AltaVista, you'll help locate a dog psychologist for Patches, the depressed pooch. Note: This site contains small banner ads, but the great tutorials are worth the distraction.
Learning on the Web
teleeducation.nb.ca/lotw/
For college students, teachers--When you're short on time, this teacher/trainer-oriented tutorial will show you how to start planning and creating Web-based tutorials. Authors: Rory McGreal and Michael Elliott. Sponsor: TeleEducation, New Brunswick, Canada.
