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

[Mark Farahani]

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Mark Farahani

--- On Mon, 11/10/08, FELICIAN NCHEYE <ncheyefb at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: FELICIAN NCHEYE <ncheyefb at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [UgaBYTES] Internet and E-mail Basics - Introduction to the Internet
> To: ugabytes at lists.ugabytes.org
> Date: Monday, November 10, 2008, 7:42 AM
> Hi, Ahmed,
>  
> Thank you
>  
> Ncheye
> 
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> --- 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
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 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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> Technology management
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