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"The More You Learn The More You Are"

Issue #7 - February 16, 2000


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In this Issue
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1. Review - Click2Learn Authoring & Publishing
2. New Categories at World Wide Learn
3. Coming Soon to World Wide Learn
4. New Courses and Learning Resources
5. Free WorldWideLearn.com Email & Community Access
6. Course Contest Winner - Is It You?
7. New in Recess!


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Review - Click2Learn Authoring & Publishing
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Authoring & Publishing Your Own Course
http://www.click2learn.com

For this month's review, I thought it would be fun to turn 
the tables and, instead of learning something new, try my 
hand at developing an online course!

There are many resources on the Internet for course development 
and for this issue I have used Click2Learn.com's Authoring and 
Publishing tools for online course creation. Creating a course 
at Click2Learn is accomplished entirely online (no software to 
install) and is free to use.

To access this program, just point your browser to 
http://www.click2learn.com/c2l/ and then click through on the 
Authoring & Publishing tab and you will be taken to the 
orientation page of the publishing tool. The sections here 
will guide you step-by-step through the publishing process: 
the definition of e-content, publishing and/or creating of 
e-content, FAQ, system requirements, samples of e-content and 
Authoring 101.

Particularly helpful, Authoring 101 is a must read and 
provides guidelines for the writing of procedures and 
instructions, defining your audience and how to engage your 
learners, determining course objectives, organizing and 
writing your course outline, and lastly, preparing to publish.

At this point you may want to see what the end product looks 
like and examples of courses produced are included here or 
you can browse through the catalog of published courses. Many 
are free - I recommend "How to Train Your Human" by Asmartdog 
(the "moaning dog" audio file is pretty funny!). As you go 
through these course examples you'll see that you can 
incorporate a variety of graphics, images, video and audio 
files, as well as interactive questions and quizzes to 
enhance your course and make it more engaging for the reader.

The next step is to begin to create your course and two options 
are available: you can choose to upload your materials and files 
or you can create your content online with the Authoring tool. 
Building your course is as easy as using any word processing 
program - you won't need to know HTML - its just a matter of 
typing directly in the template and then choosing your 
formatting, inserting web links, inserting graphics, video and 
audio files. Also available are several formats of quizzes and 
questions to add interactivity to your course. And don't worry 
if you get stuck - online how-to guides are just a click away. 

You can save your work and return at any time to pick up where 
you left off. Then when you are finished and happy with your 
course, simply click on "Publish" and your course will be 
submitted for review and once accepted, your course will be 
published in the course catalog!

Click2Learn also lets you choose to offer your course for free 
or for a price that you determine, enabling you to share in 
the revenue earned from sales of your online course.

Even though I didn't complete the process and actually publish 
a course, I did build a few pages and found the tools to be 
very easy to use and in no time at all you can create an 
online course that is professional in appearance, engaging, 
fun, informative and interactive.

So if you have some knowledge to share or expertise on a 
particular subject, try Click2Learn's authoring tools and 
create your very own online course! (and maybe even make a 
few bucks!)


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New Categories at World Wide Learn
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Art Courses
http://www.worldwidelearn.com/art-courses.htm
Online art courses, tutorials, classes and workshops. Learn 
how to paint, how to draw, study graphic design or take a 
course in art appreciation.

IT Training & Certification
http://www.worldwidelearn.com/IT-training.htm
Online IT training and MCSE certification courses, tutorials, 
classes and diploma programs.

Online Degree Programs
http://www.worldwidelearn.com/online-degrees.htm
Online MBAs, degree and certificate programs offered by 
leading colleges and universities.

Learning for Women
http://www.worldwidelearn.com/womens-learning.htm
Online learning, courses and continuing education for women.


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Coming Soon to World Wide Learn
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New categories under development:

- Professional Education
- Linux Courses
- Photography
- Cooking and Food


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New Courses and Learning Resources
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Internet Legal Resource Guide
http://www.ilrg.com/
The Internet Legal Resource Guide is a categorized index of 
more than 4000 select web sites in 238 nations and serves as 
a comprehensive resource of the information available on the 
Internet concerning law and the legal profession. Designed for 
everyone, lay persons and legal scholars alike, this site 
features resources for legal forms, lawyers and law firms, 
legal associations, legal experts, legal research, law schools 
and continuing education.

Travel & Tourism Training Course Online
http://www.travelcampus.com/
Travel Campus offers a complete travel and tourism program 
delivered entirely online allowing you to study entirely at 
your convenience, day or night. Designed for both Canadian 
and US residents, the program may be taken in its entirety or 
students can register for individual courses or topics. 
Certificates are awarded upon completion.

Developer.com Training Center
http://www.developer.com/classroom/
The Training Center at Developer.com features a large selection 
of free online tutorials in a wide variety of subjects - java, 
HTML, DHTML, ASP, CGI, Perl, XML, Databases, Push Technology, 
Visual Basic and Multimedia. Also check out the discussion 
areas where you can ask for help from the resident experts.

HTML for the Conceptually Challenged
http://www.arachnoid.com/lutusp/html_tutor.html
Want to learn HTML fast? If you mostly watch television, have 
an attention span measured in microseconds, and think reading 
is a waste of your valuable time, this page is for you! This 
page will teach you the basics of HTML as fast as humanly 
possible and answers most commonly asked HTML questions.

Dmitry's Design Lab
http://www.webreference.com/dlab/
Dmitry's Design Lab at webreference.com takes up where standard 
HTML tutorials leave off with a look at the basics of proper 
design. Currently there are 25 free online tutorials in such 
diverse topics as Logo Design, The Art of Animation, Preparing 
for XML, The Flesh and Soul of Information, Size and Proportion 
in Web Graphics, The World of Color, Designing Site Navigation 
and much, much more. This is required reading for anyone involved 
in designing web sites!

New School University's Cyberspace Campus
http://www.dialnsa.edu/
Delivered online, New School University offers a Professional 
Certificate in World Wide Web Page Design, which is awarded 
to non-credit students who successfully complete a structured 
program of study that will guarantee proficiency in web design 
and construction. The program of study can generally be 
completed in one year.

Penn State's World Campus Online Webmaster Certificate
http://www.worldcampus.psu.edu/pub/index.shtml
Penn State's Online Webmaster Certificate Program is accredited 
by the Association of Internet Professionals (AIP) and World 
Organization of Webmasters (WOW) and is available for enrollment 
at any time. You can begin taking classes as soon as you want - 
no waiting for the beginning of a semester or term to start 
your program. You also have the option of taking the entire 
certificate program of twelve courses or by taking the program 
one course at a time.

NJIT's Webmaster 2001 Program
http://cpe.njit.edu/webmaster/
NJIT's WebMaster 2001 Program offers three certificates that 
cover the technologies and techniques of the Internet World 
Wide Web. Students can select one (or more) individual tracks 
based upon their unique needs in order to earn one of the 
following WebMaster 2001 Certificates:

- WebMaster Fundamentals Certificate: This track consist of 
three 30-hour training courses: Web Author, Web Developer, and 
Web Manager course.

- Author and Design Certificate: Besides the prerequisite course, 
Web Author, students take an additional two 30-hour courses: Web 
Graphics and Web Multimedia.

- Development and Programming Track: Besides the prerequisite 
course, Web Developer, students take two additional 30-hour 
courses from the following: Perl Programming, Java Programming, 
and Visual Basic Programming.

Web Communication Design
http://www.r35.com/edu/
R35 edu offers an online Web Communication Design Certificate 
program. The comprehensive, challenging and exhaustive curriculum 
consists of over 60 certificate courses developed to address the 
unique demands of the interactive communication design field. 
Students may enroll in the 7-quarter long certificate program as 
well as in individual courses.

Online Certificate Programs in Public Relations and Marketing
http://www.jonesinternational.edu/
Jones International University offers four online certificate 
programs in public relations and marketing:

- Public Relations Fundamentals for the New Media Manager
- Advanced Public Relations for the Wired World
- Marketing Fundamentals in Today's Electronic Business Environment
- Cyber Marketing - Competitive Advantages Using the Internet

Successful completion of courses will earn you a Certificate and 
you can apply course credits toward a degree at a later time.

CADD Primer
http://www.caddprimer.com/
Dedicated to CADD education, CADD Primer offers a free online CAD 
Tutorial for beginners as well as hundreds of links to CAD resources.

e-Seminars
http://members.aol.com/RickAshby/eSeminars.html
Two free e-Seminar courses are available entirely via email - The 
Persuasion Primer: the process of learning persuasive language 
patterns; and 3 Weeks to Live!: a momentum building course that 
helps participants clarify their goals, stay focused and gain 
insight about the process of personal development. These courses 
are created by a professional success coach and are offered at no 
charge.

Business Spanish
http://www.businessspanish.com/index.htm
Free online lessons help you to learn how to speak and write 
business and conversational Spanish by listening and repeating 
examples and simplified grammar rules. All lessons contain 
vocabulary with recorded audio.  This comprehensive site covers 
more than 100 business themes as well as various cultural aspects 
and business etiquette of the Spanish speaking countries.

Russian Language Learning Resources
http://www.russnet.org/online.html
Free online learning resources to help you learn the Russian 
language - video series and interactive tutorials and internet-
based activities.

Cyber Italian
http://cyberitalian.com/index.shtml
Italian with Pinocchio is an online Italian language course 
featuring 30 interactive lessons with pictures, cultural notes, 
activities, easy grammatical explanations, self-administered 
exercises and exams, and audio files. A fee-based membership 
with free trial lessons.

Learn Greek on the Internet
http://kypros.org/Greek/
Kypros-Net in cooperation with the Cyprus Broadcasting 
Corporation offers the unique opportunity of learning Greek 
on the Internet with a total of 105 free audio lessons offered 
online.

Certificate in Continuing Studies in French
http://learn.utoronto.ca/languages/translation/index.asp
The University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies offers 
an online Certificate in Continuing Studies in French with a 
specialization in Professional Translation (English/French). 
This program is delivered entirely online and is open to 
citizens of all countries and is geared to those who have 
near-native or native fluency in English and French and wish 
to do written translations from English to French and French 
to English.


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New in Recess!
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Internet Chess Club
http://www.chessclub.com/
If you love chess, here's a place to play online in real time 
with hundreds of other chess enthusiasts including grandmasters 
and international masters. Lessons, tournaments and chat, too.

E-nough Already!
http://www.persistence.com/e-nough/
The letter "e" is everywhere and its becoming insufferable! 
"E-Nough" is a campaign aimed against the desecration of the 
English language and proliferation of artificial words starting 
with "e-" created by The Society for the Preservation of the 
Other 25 Letters of the Alphabet.



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"Still Learning"
Angela Lovett
Publisher
World Wide Learn

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