Teaching with technology

• Virtual Resources for Teaching with Technology (UMUC - Bell Atlantic)
• Explorations in Learning and Instruction:  Theory Into Practice
• Center for Digital Discourse and Culture
• Teaching, Learning, and Technology Roundtable

Humanities Computing

• Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography

Evaluating Internet Sources

• What is the Internet, the WWW, and Netscape?
• Evaluating Information Found on the Internet
• Search Engines

Website Design Tools

• Basic Instructions for NKU students
• Descriptions of programs you'll need to build a webpage
• Creating a personal webpage on www.nku.edu (Composer)
• Creating a personal webpage on www.nku.edu (Unix)
• Using WS_FTP
• Displaying graphics on your webpage/Using WS_FTP
• Using UNIX on www.nku.edu

• HTML Reference Guides
• HTML Quick Reference
• A Beginner's Guide to HTML
• HTML- the complete guide
• HTML tutorial from gettingstarted.net

 

• Website Design Elements
• Visual Design Resource Page
• Hee-Yun's Clipart, Bullets, Bars, and Backgrounds For Your Homepages--Includes some of the most elegant backgrounds I've seen.
• Background Sampler
• CEAS's Graphics Warehouse
• Idaho Color Center--Interactive site that permits users to try out various color combinations and provides the appropriate html code to duplicate the colors selected.
• HTML Hex Color Codes
• Media Links Free Graphics
• Barry's Clip Art
• Laura McCanna's Free Clip Art
• Fonts supported by most browsers
• The Corporation's Funny Icons
• Icon Bazaar

 
• Principles of Good Web Design
• Art and the Zen of Websites--Witty and well written advice about designing a website.
• Guidelines for Designing Usable Webpages--An article written by Jose A. Borges, Israel Morales, N. J. Rodriguez
• HyperContent, HyperJunk
• Webtools
• Hints for Web Authors
• Widening your web audience
• Designing for multiple web browsers
• Websites that Suck
• HTML Standards
• World Wide Web Consortium
• HTML /Web Writing Standards
• Web Style Sheet
• HTML Help
• State of the Art Review on Hypermedia Issues and Applications
• Human-Computer Studies--Special Issue on Web Usability
• cgi sites

Technical Communications Websites

• Award Winning Work in Technical Communications--Site compiled by Stuart Selber
  
• Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication
• Society for Technical Communications
• Technical Writing Resources at New Mexico State University
• Association of Teachers of Technical Writing
• Archives from attw-l list
• Engineering Communication Websites
• Ethics
• The Tavani Bibliography of Computing, Ethics, and Social Responsibility
• Web Clearinghouse for Engineering and Computing Ethics
• Depaul's web resources for the study of ethics

• Usability
• How to Write for the Intranet
• Usability Methods Toolbox
• Software Usability: Choosing Appropriate Methods for Evaluating Online Systems and Documentation
• User Interface Engineering:  Article, "Surprises on the Web"
• Iconic Communication
• Practical problems and proposed solutions in designing action-centered documentation

Web Accessibility Initiative

• Reference materials
• CBE Scientific Style (Norse Scientist uses the Name-Year system)
• Norse Scientist website
• ISI Journal Abbreviations
• US Patent Office--Search for registered trademarks
• Periodic Table of Elements
  

Revised 1 May 2006
Roxanne Kent-Drury
Northern Kentucky University