Anti Virus Explained

As part of the FETAC Introduction to Internet Module I have put together two presentations on

Computer viruses and Anti Virus Software. This is intended to be a quick introduction for ABE students.

The first is a Prezi presentation:

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Anti Virus on Prezi

The second is a powerpoint presentation:

Anti Virus

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Visual Dictionaries

From Free Technology for Teachers, Richard Byrne.

Snappy Words is a free visual dictionary and thesaurus. Enter any word or phrase into the Snappy Words search box and it will create a web of related words, phrases, and definitions. Hover your cursor over any word or phrase in the web to read its definition. Click and drag any node to explore other branches of the web. Double click on a node and it will generate new web branches.

Visuwords

uses a web design to show users the definitions of words and the connections between words. To use Visuwords just type a word into the search box and Visuwords will generate a web of related words.

Place your cursor over any of the words and the definition appears. Use the color-coded key to understand the connections between the words in any web.

Lexipedia, like Visuwords, provides the definitions of words along with a webbed diagram of related words and their definitions. In addition to definitions and diagrams,

Lexipedia offers audio pronunciations of words although when I tested it the audio didn't seem to be working properly. In my side-by-side comparison of Lexipedia and Visuwords, both performed equally well, but occasionally offered different definitions and connections for the same word.

Merriam Webster's Visual Dictionary is divided into fifteen thematic categories containing more than 6,000 words defined and accompanied by images. You can find words and definitions by browsing through the categorized

images or by using the text search bar.

Wordia is a free visual, video dictionary. Wordia features a selection of user-submitted and professionally created videos explaining the meaning of a word. The videos focus on the everyday use of words while the text accompanying each video provides the dictionary definition of the word.

Got Brainy features two sections; Brainy Flix and Brainy Pics. Brainy Pics is comprised of images that demonstrate the meaning of a word. Most of the pictures are submitted by students. Brainy Flix is comprised of short videos that illustrate the meaning of words. Just like with Brainy Pics, most of the videos are submitted by students.

Encyclomedia is a free video encyclopedia. On Encyclomedia you can browse for videos and articles by category or search for a specific topic. What I like about Encyclomedia is that visitors can read an article then go watch a video that matches that article. It's very similar to the now-offline Nibipedia and VisWiki sites.

Thanks to Ann Oro for sharing Encyclomedia on Twitter.

Blogs

Larry Ferlazzo's Education Blog

21st Century Teaching and Learning
2¢ Worth
Aberth Digital Storytelling
Adult Education and Technology
Adult Literacy Education
Adventures in Teaching and Learning
Bit By Bit
Common Craft
DLC Adult Literacy Community
edte.ch
Edublogs - teacher and student blogs
Educational Technology	.
eLearning Technology
Free Technology for Teachers
GCFLearnFree.org's Blog
Google Tutor
iLearn Technology
literacies café : adult literacy blog
Literacy Source's Adult Literacy Volunteer Blog
LiteracyTech Blog
Technology for the Adult Education Instructor
The Adult Educator Blog
The Edublogger
The Tech Savvy Educator
Writings from Kerry

Learn I.T. Online

BBC Computer tutor
A good starting point for a beginner computer user. Students are led through a series of activities to learn: mouse skills, clicking, dragging and the keyboard. A speaking character guides the student through the activities.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/computertutor/computertutorone/index.shtml

Learning Line
This website explains the basic parts of a computer, how to open and close documents and how to use the internet. Each section has audio and is easy to follow and use.
http://www.rmpbs.org/resources/files/education/learningline/flashhelp/Help01_02.htm

GCF Learn Free
This is an excellent site for learning desktop applications such as Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Internet Explorer and many more. There are instructional videos and printable notes.
http://www.gcflearnfree.org/computer/

Teach ICT
Teach ICT has a range of video tutorials on Software applications such as Word 2003, Word 2007, Excel, Access and more
http://www.teach-ict.com/videohome.htm

Microsoft Office Online Training
Training videos based on Microsoft products.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/training/CR010065456.aspx

Online Content Management

Content Management

There is a lot of information on the web and there are lots of files and programs to download and use. The challenge for users is how to best organise all of this. How do you organise your online content? Is your favourites bar a long list of unorganised web pages? Can you access your favourites from any computer?

The more we use computers the more we create, word documents, PDFs, pictures, video, music files some saved on our computer some online. As the volume of information and content is ever increasing it becomes important to have a strategy to organise your content in an effective way.

Organising Online Content

Home Page

Bookmarks

Using Bookmarks means you can access your favourite web sites from anycomputer, you can also share these sites with others and view other peoplesfavourites. Delicious is one service which lets you do this. Each page is tagged with a word or words to describe its contents e.g. 'spelling' or 'audio books'

News Feeds.

Instead of going to websites for information you can get any new updates from a site sent to your email, from there you can view it in your RSS Reader. This saves a lot of time and means you don't have to switch between multiple sites.

Google Reader

Google Reader is the RSS service for Gmail. When you are in Gmail you can access it by clicking on Reader at the top of the page.

Google Docs

Google Docs can be a useful way of engaging in writing practice with a student outside of contact time.

Google for Teachers

Open publication - Free publishing

Google for Teachers 2

Open publication - Free publishing