[UgaBYTES] Internet and E-mail Basics - Introduction to the Internet

[peter balaba]

Dear Ahmed,thanks for this info. we also intend to train over 1000 people in the year 2009-11 in the use of internet I hope Ugabytes will give us a hand  the installation is now complet and we are waiting for the UTL to sign the Contract.
Yours 
Peter Balaba
NakasekeCMC

--- On Mon, 11/10/08, Ahmed Ndaula <andaula at ugabytes.org> wrote:
From: Ahmed Ndaula <andaula at ugabytes.org>
Subject: [UgaBYTES] Internet and E-mail Basics - Introduction to the Internet
To: ugabytes at lists.ugabytes.org
Date: Monday, November 10, 2008, 12:43 AM

Dear members,

I thought this could be on interest to you.

Enjoy.
Ahmed
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Conceived and built by staff at the Institute for Learning and Research
Technology at the University of Bristol and part of The Resource Discovery
Network (RDN), Virtual Training Suite is an initiative designed to teach
information skills to students, lecturers and researchers in higher and
further education-and help them to become e-literate! Although primarily
designed for higher education in the UK, it is also freely available for
anyone else to use. It comprises a set of "teach yourself" tutorials
delivered over the Web, each of which offers Internet skills training in a
particular subject area grouped under six main headings: engineering and
mathematics, health and life sciences, the physical sciences, reference, the
humanities, and the social sciences, business and law. 39 subject areas are
covered at this time, with each tutorial created by a subject specialist
drawn from universities and professional organizations across the UK. The
tutorials take around an hour to complete, and includes quizzes and
interactive exercises to lighten the learning experience. Each tutorial is
structured under four sections: (i) Tour key Internet sites, (ii) Discover
tools and techniques to improve your Internet searching, (iii) Review the
critical thinking required when using the Internet, (iv) and Reflect on how
to use the Internet for studying, teaching or research. The Virtual Training
Suite is also an excellent resource for librarians who need tools to support
their user-education programmes.

Of particular interest will be *"The Internet for Development"* at
http://www.vts.rdn.ac.uk/tutorial/development/ written by Tracy Zussman-Kay
of ELDIS at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of
Sussex.
http://www.vts.rdn.ac.uk/



Source: www.apc.org

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