aclJohn's ICT Finds

How can learning providers teach their learners employing legitimate, useful websites and avoid those holding viruses and malware?

One way is to encourage practitioners and their learners to scan through website resources they plan to use/visit in the learning environment with URLVoid; a free service that puts a URL address through their paces.

URLVoid...

• uses various virus search engines to scan a website;
• provides a report that can be used to evaluate the safety of the websit...

Internet Buttons...

• is a free to use website;
• lets users place brightly colored buttons on a webpage...
  • these buttons act as shortcuts to other URLs
  • users choose how many buttons to place on their webpage;
  • the selection is saved through the account users create;
  • users can name the buttons whatever they want and choose a different color for each button.

This simple way of labelin...

First Click

As we come to expect from the BBC, this website helps learners realise that using computers and the internet is easier than they think.

Practitioners and their learners will find...

• lots of activities;

• video guides; and

• printable pages
  

all of which will help the "unsure" get started and feel more confident.

Understanding the Basics includes...

• What computer do I need?

• How do I get broadband?

• Practice mouse skills;

• Practice keyboard skills;

• Pract...

To use Good Typing users will need to register, but an email address isn't necessary for this registration; making it available for use by those that don't have email addresses.

Good Typing...

• is a free online typing skill development program;
• provides 27 graduated lessons designed to help learners to use their entire keyboards correctly;
• offers support for twenty different keyboard styles including...
  • US style;
  • Japanese style; and
  • several European languages.

Visit http://www....

Today many jobs require employees to type. Being able to type fast and accurately can save a lot of time on the job and while there are many typing tutor programs out there, tools that are absolutely free and cover multiple languages are rare. Sense-Lang is one of these rare tools.

Sense-Lang is a free to use website that helps visitors improve their typing speed. They can take advantage of Sense-Lang through...

• tutorials: - classified into different sections...
  • typing tutorials ...