NICE Program: Computer Skills and Useful Links

Here are some places to build computer skills online!

Here are some tutorials and places to learn basic computer skills:

• Here's an on-line text book for Internernet Basics for ESL Students by Jim Schweizer. It's free at the The Internet TESL Journal's site! (Mahalos!)
• "Internet for International Communication" - by Bill Pellowe, this a great tutorial for true "newbies." Also, it's designed for ESL learners.
• DEIL of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign also has Web Basics for Beginners tutorials and information for English learners getting started on the web.
• The Online Handbook - Netscape's handbook is not meant for ESL students but gives background and step by step instructions.

Here are some more tutorial sites to try once you get started:

• The Spider's Apprentice- This site compares several of the major search engines. It also provides background and strategies for using these engines.
• TITLE's On-line Tutorials - Canterbury Christ Church College tutorials on Word, Excel, Windows, Power Point etc.
• iBoost has free online html and desktop publishing tutorials for beginners and more advanced computer users.
• Learn The Net has all sorts of fun things yyou can do to become famaliar with the web.

Here are some places you can go to download games, clip-art, and other fun and useful stuff:

• Try these sites for clip art:

http://www.schackne.com/Web.htm

http://www.clipart.com/

http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/xmas/clip1.html

• Fill out this form to download free Real Player Basic. Download and install the software from this site.
• The Adobe Acrobat Reader allows you to browse portable document format (PDF) files that have been created by Adobe Acrobat. This will also allow you to read ebooks and has the ability to download and install Asian font packs, which enable you to view PDF files that contain Chinese, Japanese, and Korean fonts on non-Asian operating systems using Acrobat Reader.
• The British Broadcasting System (BBC), watch and listen to news from a different part of the world. Get a different perspective on world events and listen to a different kind of English. An interesting resource for a comparative study of English use and pronunciation. This site REQUIRES either RealAudio or Windows Media Player software.
• The History Channel Hear the words that changed the world. From Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech to Lou Gehrig's farewell to baseball, this vast collection is drawn from the most famous broadcasts and recordings of the twentieth century. A very wide and very interesting selection of famous speeches covering topics throughout history and from across the globe. This site REQUIRES RealAudio.

Big sites for studying English:

• There are a lot of links and activities at The Internet TESL Journal's site.
• Dave Sperling's ESL Cafe has several links to listening sites and provides ratings by visitors! Check out some and add your ratings at ESL Cafe Web Guide: Listening.
• Ohio University's Ohio ESL has also compiled a nice set of links to listening sites, designed for ESL and for general audiences. This is one of my favorite sites, not only for listening, but for all aspects of ESL. Check out the homepage as well!
• Radio, books and language links from the globe, you name it it's here. It's not Pandora's box; it's The Language Box. Exceptional Site!

Places you can get free email or web page hosting:

• At GeoCities you can create or upload and maintain your web page!
• Hotmail is a favorite for students because it has it's own dictionary and spell checker.

NICE students' web pages!

Term 117 Basic Computer Skills Class

These are are only a few sites to help you get started and enjoy using computers. Try your own searches and let me know if you find any other useful sites! Aloha, John

This site has nothing to do with studying English, but you can help feed someone for free!

• http://www.thehungersite.com/index.html