Tutorials on Other Tools
The links below relate to:
- PowerPoint Tutorial
- from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Rhode Island.
- Introduction to MS PowerPoint Version 4.0
- from the Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration of the University of British Columbia.
- PowerPoint in the Classroom
- produced by ACTDEN.
- PowerPoint Tutorial
- from www.science.iupui.edu.
- Put PowerPoint Presentations on the Web
- This quick guide gives the steps for University of Washington faculty
to put their PowerPoint Presentations
on the Web; your steps will vary a bit but not much.
Details of putting your work on the Web will vary depending
on which server your want to use.
- A reasonable way to skip learning about html
- is to just use the "save as html" or "save as a Web page" option such
as is offered by
Microsoft Word. For example, a professor might take their class handouts
and save them in Web page format and upload them to a WebCT site.
-
Netscape Communicator
- can also be used, without knowing html, to create Web pages.
- HTML Tutorials for the Complete Idiot
- Although it is possible to make Web pages without knowing html
(as shown in the
Put PowerPoint Presentations on the Web
referenced above) in the
opinion of at least one facilitator, there will
come a time when you want to write your own HTML.
You will quickly pick up all that you are likly to want to know of
this skill. This link is just one of many available
for learning HTML but it seems about as good as any.
(If this one doesn't suit your taste, choose from below
or from
some listed by Infoseek
or from
some listed by Yahoo
or
or other search tool.)
- Sandvig's HTML Summary
- Once you've have the fundamental ideas, you might want to print out a
summary -- Christian Sandvig's (4 page) HTML summary is excellent. The output to a Web page is
shown on the right and how to produce that output is shown on the left.
- The Auburn University Instructional Media Group
- presents seminars -- including seminars on html -- from time to time. Of course the
Auburn Campus is an easy drive from AUM and fellow FDI participants might like to join you.
- The Auburn University Auburn Campus also has
- a page on technology
with links to, for
example, the Office of Information Technology. From
there are links which eventually lead to
creating & customizing Your Auburn University
personal web page with Netscape Composer
- Web Tutorial
- Click on the "Start Here" link on the left hand side.
-
Beginner's Guide
- from the National Center for
Supercomputing Applications is a classic -- well written, easy to read, and
authoritative. The Beginner's Guide is probably the web document of preference for
Jack Webb types ("Just the facts, Mam." -- Dragnet -- an old TV show).
as well as for other dry types that have the attention span needed to read manuals and prefer
to get straight to the points.
-
So, you want to make a Web Page?
- is at another extreme from theNational Center for
Supercomputing Applications' Beginner's Guide . It is verbose and flippant but has proved
successful in CS 100.
- HTML Goodies
- Click on a link from the left hand side.
- List of HTML Commands
- This is useful if you know the basics. Click on the "go to the html now" link.
- If you use Microsoft's Internet Explorer (version >= 4.0 )
- and have an abnormal interest in outdated material you might want to look at Furman Smith's
(Microsoft 2000) PowerPoint
presentation to the AUM Faculty
Development Institute. He has not been able to get
the presentation to work with Microsoft's rival
Netscape. Now the author knows that the best place to put your Web pages is in
a subdirectory of your login directory -- a subdirectory named public_html. This
link is only included because of the fond position it holds in this Web author's
heart. (The day before my presentation on html at the first FDI meeting I bought
Microsoft Office and had my first experience with Power Point. I did this because
I knew that Ray Braswell would be making a presentation on the subject of Power Point
just before my presentation and I wanted to know a bit about the subject already so
that I would be collected and rested for my presentation. I got so interested in
Power Point that, just like an undergraduate, I worked through the
night -- zero minutes in bed -- and was hardly collected and rested for my
presentation. That's ok -- I don't mind looking like a fool. By the way, Ray's
presentation was great. He said that we should do certain things in our PP presentations
and he illustrated his advice in such a manner that it was obvious that he was pulling
our legs; for example, he claimed that we should use a variety of colors and fonts
and some slides should have as much as possible on them.)
- Microsoft Excel Tutorial
- from the TRIO programs at the University of South Dakota.
- Picking Up Perl
- This site was created as an early distribution center for Picking Up Perl.
Picking Up Perl is a freely redistributable tutorial
book on Perl. The book is being written by members of the Perl and GNU
communities in a collaborative effort.
- HTML-based Interfaces
- This document describes how to build graphical, form-based interfaces for end-user programs using HTML
and CGI. HTML
is used only to describe the look and feel of the user interface, many programming languages can be used
to write the
program itself. We will illustrate this by showing example programs written in C, C++, PERL, and PASCAL.
This document
is intended for an audience that does have prior knowledge of the writing of documents and forms in HTML.
- Sun's Java Tutorial
- On-line version of book from Addison-Wesley.
- Shlurrrpp
- Advertised as the first user-friendly tutorial on Java.
- Python
- is a relatively new language with lots of
supporters. It is free and is said to run on more
platforms than any other computer language.
The on-line
tutorial by Guido van Rossum, the
creator of Python, is excellent for programmers. Josh Cogliati
has a Python tutorial for nonprogrammers. There is a version of Python, JPython,
which produces pure Java code; if you are running Internet Explorer 4.0
or higher or Netscape 4.6 or higher, you can see a
JPython demo
(of disabling and enabling buttons).
and the fifteen line source code that produced the demo.
- The
Logo Foundation
-
has links to many Logo resources including to the
producers of the version
of Logo that AUM has a site license for --
MicroWorlds Logo. With a help of a free plug-in
for your browser, you can run MicroWorlds Logo programs
over the Web. (You can also run Java programs over the
Web and modern browsers are ready for Java but
MicroWorlds Logo is sooo easy.) The inventor of Logo, Seymour Papert,
is said
to have originated the
concept of constructionism -- "an epistemological reversion to more
concrete ways of learning".
- The Webmonkey has a tutorial on
- JavaScript for the beginner.
- The Web Developer's Virtual Library
- has a JavaScript tutorial for programmers.
- Yahoo's Tutorial on Using the Web
- staring Yahoo!.
- Bare Bones 101
-
tutorial on searching the Web from the University of
South Carolina Beaufort Library
This page was originated from the interests and suggestions of
AUM Faculty Development Institute
participants. In the above links, the author has felt
free to copy and paste descriptions from the sites themselves.
Furman Smith was the instigator of the page
and updates it from time to time. Keep those
suggestions for links comming to
fdi@sciences.aum.edu.
If you liked this page, you might also want to look at the
Enhancing Education with Technology
page.
This page had its dead links pruned and otherwise updated in early Mar-2001.