Learning Aids and Resources

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Learning Aids and Resources
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Session Aims and Objectives

• Aim of the lesson
• To give students an awareness of a range of ICT
  resources to assist in their teaching
• Objectives by the end of the session you will
• have an awareness of a range of websites which
  offer ICT resources
• have an awareness of a range of different search
  engines and advanced search techniques
• have an awareness of ICT tutorial websites
• have an awareness of software used to develop
  interactive assessments.

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Useful URLs

• http//www.fenc.org.uk/
• FENC
• Further Education National Consortium
• http//www.rdn.ac.uk
• Resource Discovery Network
• The RDN selects, catalogues and delivers
  high-quality internet resources for further and
  higher education
• http//www.nln.ac.uk/
• National Learning Network
• NLN Materials - Free interactive e-learning
  materials

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Useful URLs

• http//www.ferl.org.uk
• Further Education Resource Locator
• An advice and guidance service supporting
  individuals and organisations in making effective
  use of ILT within the Post Compulsory Education
  sector.
• http//www.jisc.ac.uk/
• The Joint Information Systems Committee
• JISC supports further and higher education by
  providing strategic guidance, advice and
  opportunities to use Information and
  Communications Technology (ICT) to support
  teaching, learning, research and administration.
• http//www.merlot.org/Home.po
• Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and
  Online Teaching
• MERLOT is a free and open resource designed
  primarily for faculty and students of higher
  education.

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Useful URLs

• http//www.athensams.net/myathens/
• Electronic resources, periodicals and journals
• http//materials.netskills.ac.uk/
• Netskills provides a comprehensive range of
  internet training materials, tried and tested in
  our own training courses.
• http//www.jiscpas.ac.uk/
• JISC Plagiarism Advisory Service aims to raise
  awareness of plagiarism in the academic community
• https//www.quizlab.com/
• Create your own online quizzes or select
  from  our huge library of teacher-created quizzes
• http//www.jisc.ac.uk/coll_tmvd_cons.html
• Motor Vehicle Online Resource

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Useful URLs

• http//www.dogpile.com
• Dogpile Search Engine
• http//www.altavista.com
• AltaVista Search Engine
• http//www.invisible-web.net/
• The Invisible Web Directory
• http//www.animfactory.com
• Animation Factory for PowerPoint templates etc
• http//www.fgcu.edu/support/office2000/
• Microsoft Office 2000 tutorials
• http//www.find.com.au/tutorials/
• Find tutorials

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Advanced Searching

• BOOLEAN "AND
• football AND newcastle
• BOOLEAN "OR
• food OR drink
• BOOLEAN "NOT"
• football NOT newcastle
• IMPLIED BOOLEAN OPERATORS
• cars ford
• SEARCH PHRASE
• london bridge

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Hot Potato

• Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications
• Interactive multiple-choice
• Short-answer
• Jumbled-sentence
• Crossword
• Matching/ordering
• Gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web.
• You can download a free copy of Hot Potatoes from
  http//web.uvic.ca/hrd/hotpot/index.htmdownloads
  It is free of charge for those working for
  publicly-funded non-profit-making educational
  institutions, who make their pages available on
  the web.

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Blackboard VLE

• Blackboard is a Virtual Learning Environment
  (VLE) designed for institutions dedicated to
  teaching and learning, and provides the
  functionality required to successfully manage
  distance, web-enhanced, or hybrid education
  programmes. 
• Embedding multimedia
• Movies
• Flash
• Interactive Quizzes
• Virtual classroom
• Discussion boards
• http//www.mgccc.edu/distance_learning/blackboard
  _6_animated_tutorials.htm
• Blackboard 6 Animated Tutorials

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Examples

• Blackboard Quiz example
• HNC Unit 3 C
• Drag and Drop example
• BTEC FD Unit 1
• Hot Potatoes example
• BTEC FD Unit 1
• Flash example
• Driving Test

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Questions

• Any questions?