INLS261/461 Tools for Information Literacy
topical starters | Summer Session I, 2008
- 12 June 2008 - PowerPoint 2007 - What PowerPoint Beginners Need to Know. About.com
- 11 June 2008 - we took a break to focus on databases
- 10 June 2008 - SQL.org. As it says on their site, their goal is to build a resource that will help those using or wanting to make use of an SQL database find the resources and reference materials they are looking for: an sql tutorial, manual, introduction, SQL hosting provider, or someone to help them out.
- 09 June 2008 - Forms - some tips from AccessWeb
- 06 June 2008 - Database design and implementation tutorials, articles, tips, tricks, code samples, Microsoft Access Help and FAQ's and Microsoft Access database samples and examples available to download from a UK site.
- 05 June 2008 - Building an Access Database From the Ground Up by Mike Chapple at About.com. There are lots of places to find assistance and this is an example.
- 04 June 2008 - Mathtools.net offers links to all sorts of sites that provide advice on using both Excel and Access as database tools
- 03 June 2008 - Create a Graph offers advice to kids on how to do it. These may well be your future competitors, so it might be a good thing to know what they do.
- 02 June 2008 - It started with VisiCalc... Spreadsheet history
- 30 May 2008 - If you want to get even more deeply into Word and its possibilities, Microsoft engineers are providing online help
- 29 May 2008 - The table of contents is the primary access point to what's in a publication. Don't just rush through it; done right, it's an exercise in information design. by John D. Berry, creativepro.com contributing editor, 21 March 2007
- 28 May 2008 - If you are interested in how Microsoft if working to improve Word, you can follow the progress by reading The Microsoft Office Word Team's Blog
- 27 May 2008 - Microsoft made some big interface changes with Word2007, but does provide a lot of online, free, self-paced training aids
- 23 May 2008 - Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us
- 22 May 2008 - JavaScript Source: Free JavaScripts, Tutorials, Example Code, Reference, Resources, And Help
- 21 May 2008 - ATN is very helpful, but not for everything. They offer help on Dreamweaver but not much for Microsoft editors. Others, however, offer free assistance. An example is Free HTML Editors, Web Editors, and WYSIWYG Web Editors and Site Builders, which also includes links to other free services.
- 20 May 2008
- three sites where we can get both CSS design ideas and CSS templates
- Zen Garden
- CSS Trappist Monastery
- Open Design Community website, where one can find XHTML and CSS based free web design templates available for download.
- 19 May 2008 - HTML Primer - If you know nothing about HTML, this is where you start
- 16 May 2008 - upcoming information professionals might want to start
thinking about the structure they will be using. This is a series on
one observer's view of the state of the Internet
- The Internet Is Broken - The Net's basic flaws cost firms billions, impede innovation, and threaten national security. It's time for a clean-slate approach, says MIT's David D. Clark by David Talbot, Technology Review, 19 Dec 2005
- The Internet Is Broken -- Part 2 - We can't keep patching the Internet's security holes. Now computer scientists are proposing an entirely new architecture by David Talbot, Technology Review, 20 Dec 2005
- The Internet Is Broken -- Part 3 - Researchers are working to make the Internet smarter -- but that could make it even slower, warn experts like Google's Vinton Cerf by David Talbot, Technology Review, 21 Dec 2005
- The Next Internet - A leading advocate of radical change in the Internet says research solutions will straddle the twin concepts of replace and revamp by David Talbot, Technology Review, 22 Dec 2005
- 15 May 2008 - again, Wikipedia is a good place to start when one is wondering about things, in this case about Networks
- 14 May 2008 - What is client-server? - a definition from Whatis.com. Wikipedia just keeps getting better and better. Its article on UNIX is pretty informative and interesting.
- 13 May 2008 - Grace Hopper, the discoverer of the computer bug [as well as a lot more]
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