Project
Materials Bank Item
A set of online tutorials, authored by university subject specialists, are designed to help students develop Internet research skills for their university or college work, and can be used by lecturers and librarians to support their courses.
LLAS Event
Event date: 16 March, 2007
Location: Stirling Management Centre, University of Stirling
Event date: 14 May, 2004
Location: Kingwood City Learning Centre, Fulham, London
News item
The JISC funded ARIA (Arts and Humanities Research ICT Awareness and Training) project is currently looking for information from researchers from all arts and humanities communities about good examples of how ICT resources and tools are being used in your subject area of research and about what ICT skills and tools you may need to acquire in future to support your research e.g. word processing, databases, linguistic analysis, web search engines, image enhancement tools and so on.
Web Guide (GPG)
Focusing on the IT skills required increasingly of staff in areas of administration, research and classroom practice, this article distinguishes generic core skills from those required in more specialist situations (such as applied language study and areas of linguistics). A number of key sources of information and training are given, together with a brief review of forms of certification. Best practice is seen as knowing how to define clearly the skills one needs to develop and, having aquired a new capability, being able to show that one can use it effectively.
An introduction to Computer Assisted Language Learning, including a brief history and mention of more recent trends (CD-ROMS, DVDs, the Web) and professional associations dedicated to CALL.
Humbox
The Humbox is a humanities teaching resource repository jointly managed by LLAS.