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Online Tutorials

Internet Skills

Contents

Searching Basics
Search Engines
Evaluating Internet Resources
Creating Web Pages
More help

Other Online Tutorials

Software Tutorials
Information Research Skills
Referencing

 

Searching Basics and complete tutorials

ICYouSee Pages - This site uses humor to provide a good beginning introduction to use of the Web, geared to no specific audience. There are several lessons, each one short and concise. There is a glossary of web terms and a trouble-shooting guide called "What went wrong". (Ithaca College Library)

TILT: Texas Information Literacy - you need to register to use these, but they are free. The tutorial is organized in three modules on selecting, searching and evaluating internet resources, which you can complete in any order. Each one should take you 30 minutes

Internet Navigator - a comprehensive tutorial to planning and carrying out your Internet research.

The RDN Virtual Training Suite - trains you how to use the web according to your discipline area.  Tutorials for Psychologists, Nurses, Artists, Chemists, Engineers, Theologians, Bioresearchers and many, many more.

Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial - Teaching Library Internet Workshops, University of California, Berkeley - very wordy but covers it all.

net.TUTOR - Ohio State University Libraries has developed a series of quick one-screen tutorials/information pages on a range of Web topics, including online discussion groups and evaluating web sites.

Internet for Macquarie University students - Macquarie University's Guide to the Internet. An excellent beginners guide!

The Internet as a Research Tool - an interactive tutorial

Spider's Apprentice - Explainations of how search engines work, tips on improving your own search engine ranking by careful use of meta tags and keywords, and which search engines are most effective

Search Engines - which to use and how to use them.

Search Engine Watch - overviews of the major search engines, information on specialty search services; trivia and interesting facts

Search Engine Showdown the Users Guide to Web Searching - another good evaluative site on search engines

Search Tools Chart - useful comparison of coverage, search techniques of Subject Directories and Search Engines

Web Search Cheat Sheet - search tips for many search engines

Evaluation of Selected Internet Search Tools - A very useful site which discusses various aspects of Alta Vista, DejaNews, Excite, Galaxy Search, Harvest Broker, HotBot, Infoseek Guide, Lycos, NlightN, Open Text Index, SavvySearch, WebCrawler, and Yahoo! Search. The *Evaluation of Selected Internet Search Tools* link will take you to a list of search engines broken down into four large categories - Top Searching Tools, Specialized Internet Search Tools, Finding People, and Finding Software

Internet Search Tools Details - Berkeley Digital library site offers information about Alta Vista, Excite, HotBot, Infoseek Ultra, Lycos and Open Text Web Index, gleaned from the tools themselves. Topics include: databases, contents, search options and tips, how the results are ranked and returned, frequency of updates, and where you can find additional information

Evaluating Internet Resouces

Criteria for Evaluation of Internet Information Resources - discusses such aspects as scope, content, accuracy, authority and purpose. Compiled by Alastair Smith, VUW Department of Library and Information Studies, New Zealand

Thinking Critically about World Wide Web Information - Offers points for consideration when evaluating Web sources, such as content, source and date, and structure of the document. (Esther Grassian, UCLA College Library)

Internet Detective - an interactive tutorial

A Students Guide to Research with the WWW - easy to follow and apply.

Elixir of e-health. What to believe online - a great article; readable, clear and from Aunty

Evaluating Information found on the Internet - Discusses authorship, referral to and/or knowledge of the literature, accuracy, and currency. (Elizabeth E. Kirk, Milton)

Practical Steps in Evaluating Internet Resources - discusses in particular authorship, publishing body and currency

Tillman's tips - a quick check list by Hope Tillman (1996)

Evaluating Quality on the Net - latest version of Hope Tillman's widely read article

The Internet as a Research Tool - includes a glossary of terms

Web Page Evaluation Criteria - a table which lists criteria and offers a scoring system with clear explanations on the criteria.

Berkeley's Finding Information on the Net

Creating Web Pages

Creating Pages using HTML - University of New South Wales

Teach Yourself HTML An Introduction - developed by Mark Gregory of Macquarie University

Writing HTML: A Tutorial for Creating WWW Pages - Maricopa Center for Learning & Instruction

Webmonkey - tutorials on learning html and creating web pages

Writing effectively online - lots of very helpful links and information on how best to write for an internet environment

SkillBuilder - tutorials on using FrontPage

University of Newcastle Information for web authors

Other useful sites

More sites to give you more information on tools and tips for using the internet as it comes to hand…

Research Buzz - lots of up-to-date info and also offers a newsletter.

The Scout Project - includes the Scout Report, portal tool kit, etc

CNET - software and hardware information

Princeton's Computing and Internet pages

Atlas of Cyberspaces

Tile.Net - discussion lists, usegroups, ftp sites, vendors and companies

The Internet Tour Bus - fun and reasonably informative

 

University of Newcastle Guidelines for acceptable use of the Internet