JUST A FEW OFFICE WEB SITES

 

DESKTOP PUBLISHING

http://desktoppub.miningco.com/cs/microsoft/index.htm

Interesting tips about Office products

COLOR CUBE

Curriculum/A+/A+websites/Microsoft Office User Specialist, MOUS Program.url

This is a great site for teaching students about the concepts of colors.  It is fairly good for all ages. In my class of juniors and seniors, colors and how they mix is important to know when discussing screen resolutions, web page colors and VB colors.

History of Computers 

http://www.maxmon.com/history.htm

This site takes you through the history of computers. The left pane show links in history from 350 million BC to 1997.  Who knew you could make a connection back that far, but when discussing counting and the base ten system, it fits.

Retro Computer Gallery

http://www.retrocomputergallery.com

The link to computers pops up a list of old PCs.  When you click on those links, pictures and brief descriptions of each pop up.  This is a great site to show the history of PC within the last 20-25 years.

Think Quest: Computer Ethics

http://library.thinkquest.org/26658/cgi-bin/toc.cgi

This site includes a classroom activity on computer ethics (mostly Internet) applicable to K-12 computer courses. The references are good, and with the proper direction, students can explore the many topics of computer ethics.

CENTER for APPLIED ETHICS (Computer Ethics on the WWW)

http://www.ethics.ubc.ca/resources/computer/

This site lays out computer ethics in four categories.  Organizations, Topics, courses and publications.  When doing research for Computer Ethics, this site is valuable.

WHATIS.COM

http://whatis.techtarget.com/

This site is a reference site of computer terms.  Often with BESS (A filter system) simple things like looking up OSI models in the image search s locked out. However, if the students first navigate to a computer reference site they can find the images and information about the topic.

WEBOPEDIA

http://www.pcwebopedia.com/ 

An online dictionary and search engine for computer and Internet. technology. It includes Network Topology Diagrams.