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Resources
Materials
& Resources:
Blackboard
& the Web
Blackboard:
What
is Blackboard?
blackboard.depauw.edu:
Blackboard at DePauw
Blackboard User Quick
Start Guide
Coming soon: A printable handout for students.
MS Word  PDF
3.0 PDF
Managing Online Courses(Bb)
Simple steps to follow when developing a course web site with Blackboard.
Blackboard
Areas & Button Labels
A one-page summary of Blackboard's Areas and Buttons to
help you organize the course content.
HTML
Basics
PDF 3.0, 26KB (Bb)
Blackboard
Training Center
(trainingcenter.blackboard.com)
Tip sheets, tutorials, & manuals for instructors.
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The
Web in the Classroom
Aspects of a
University Course Web Site
This article focuses on Web sites that serve traditional university
classes, functioning as an additional channel for student-lecturer communication.
(By Orit Hazzan, College Teaching, Spring2001,
Vol. 49 Issue 2, p55, 6p. Available online at Academic Search Elite)
Sarah
Horton's Web Teaching Guide
The companion site for the book Web
Teaching Guide: A Practical Approach to Creating Course Web Sites
by Sarah Horton.
Elements
of Good Web Design
Fundamental principles for designing the best web sites
Yale
Web Style Guide
This is the web version of the book Web
Style Guide: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites
by Patrick Lynch & Sarah Horton. ...an excellent resource for anyone
who designs webs, whether novice or expert!
Why
User Testing is Good
A short article that describes the merit of usability testing and prescribes
a brief test process
FITS'
list of resources about web design
Articles & resources about key issues related to designing web sites,
including Human Factors (How we learn, what we expect ...), Planning
for disabilities, Usability Testing, Technical Issues (ac vs. Windows,
Internet speed, standards ...)
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Macromedia
Dreamweaver:
Dreamweaver
Document Editing Fundamentals 
PDF, 1.12MB
A printable guide for editing pages with Dreamweaver 4
Embedding
sound player controls in a web page
PDF, 32KB
A printable quick guide for using Dreamweaver to embed a sound clip
with player controls in a web page.
Dreamweaver
Site Management & Templates
PDF, 1.60MB
A printable document covering basic site management and use of
templates in Dreamweaver 4
Macromedia
Dreamweaver Support Center
Macromedia's
support center for Dreamweaver 8.0.1
Download
Trial Copy of Dreamweaver
Download a free 30-day trial of Macromedia Dreamweaver 8.0.1 from Macromedia
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Macromedia
Fireworks:
Macromedia
Fireworks Support Center
Macromedia's support center for Fireworks 8
Download
Trial Copy of Fireworks
Download a free 30-day trial of Fireworks 8 from Macromedia
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PowerPoint
in the Classroom:
Element
K
Online tutorials & computing help for using PowerPoint
Presenters
University
PowerPoint
in the Classroom
Purdue
OWL Model Presentations
Tips
for Delivering Your Presentation
Research,
Copyright & Fair Use:
DePauw
Libraries' Research Resources
Including DePauw's online catalog, indexes & databases, and research
& style guides
IUPUI
Copyright Management Center
Image
Collection Guidelines
The Acquisition and use of images in non-profic educational visual resources
collections
When
Works Pass into the Public Domain
A
Crash Course in Copyright
A collection of guides for faculty about copyrigh & fair use published
by the University of Texas Office of General Counsel on Intellectual
Property.
Copyright
Tutorial
A tutorial about how ownership of copyrighted materials works, what
is fair use and when and how to get permission to use someone else's
materials. (From the University of Texas Office of General Counsel on
Intellectual Property)
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Image Editing & Scanning:
Guidelines
for Creating Images for the Web
Planning, scanning, cropping, sizing & saving
Photoshop
5.5 Quick Tips
PDF 3.0, 433KB
A printable document with instructions for the basic functions of Photoshop
5.5,including all of the tasks included in Guidelines for Creating Images
for the Web
Microsoft
Clip Art Gallery
Lots & lots of free clip art images to download
http://macworld.zdnet.com/2000/05/create/scanright.html
A good general article about scanning
http://macworld.zdnet.com/2000/04/create/sharperimages.html
Just in case your scan isn't great the first time, this article tells
how you can sharpen up a fuzzy scan. Also has links to related articles.
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