Helping your students make the best use of IT

1. Productivity tools

Some MSWord features:

• Outline, Document map
• Spelling and grammar checker, readability
• Tools>Language>Thesaurus
• Formatting: fonts, page numbers, ...

Other programs: Office, Reference Manager, MindGenius, SPSS, Minitab, NVivo

2. IT skills

• PC Survival: folders, filenames, backing up, viruses
• email
• Browser skills - adapting a browser, keeping bookmarks
• IT workbooks

3. Information handling skills

• electronic info, ebooks and journals
• google and google scholar
• Searching skills and evaluating: Online tutorials at KIS including CINE text search

4. Other generic/study skills

• Employability Skills Guidelines
• Key Skills On-Line

5. Subject material

• Keele University - Learning Resources
• Subject guides to Internet resources
• PINAKES, A Subject Launchpad & Resource Discovery Network
• Higher Education Academy Subject Network page (LTSNs)

6. Online discussion

• email
• BSCW at Keele or the public BSCW Home Page
• in future: WebCT

Stephen Bostock 2005