ACG 2021
Financial Accounting

Business Library: Accounting Tutorial
This website, created by University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries, gives ten steps to researching financial accounting. Information about research will help the students better understand the accounting rules and principles.

Accounting
This site was developed by Ryan Womack and Ka-Neng Au of Rutgers University. It gives the student the main concepts of accounting, the standards, and the organizations involved. It also includes a glossary with key terms about accounting and what they mean.

The Accounting Equation
This site created by QuickMBA group to help student in understanding accounting equation such as assets, liabilities and owner's equity. Student will learn about the assets formula, debits and credits, and view practical accounting examples.

Understanding Financial Statements
Bizzer Professional Training created this site which consists of lessons that serves as an introduction to financial statements and financial statement concepts. This site helps student in understanding accounting equation, debits and credits, overview of the balance sheet and some practice exams.

How to Read an Annual Report
This site has an introduction to reading Annual Reports. It has an interactive diagram that illustrates what an annual report is should attempt to convey.

Beginners' Guide to Financial Statements
This site is part of the US Securities and Exchange Commission and provides an introduction to accounting terms and definitions of financial statements.

Intro to Accounting - Simple
This free web-site is devoted to the principles of financial accounting. This site will help you learn accounting basics, have an opportunity to solve accounting problems and strengthen your knowledge and skills.

McGraw-Hill Online Learning Center - Fundamental Accounting Principles-Tutorial
A free, downloadable, accounting tutorial and testing program based on the text book, 'Fundamental Accounting Principles' by Larson, Wild and Chiappetta.

Campbell R. Harvey's Hypertextual Finance Glossary
Here is the largest financial glossary on the Internet with over 8,000 Entries and 18,000 Hyperlinks.

Guide to Financial Statements
This is an excellent 45 minute online tutorial on financial statements created by the Baruch College - CUNY.

Welcome to MiddleCity - Online Accounting Tutorial
Malcolm E White, CPA, MA, provides a site that has free Accounting tutorials broken up into twenty sub sections. Choose the subject  area from the left column.

ACG 2071
Managerial Accounting

Financial Accounting Tutorial Using Excel
This website contains a set of Excel spreadsheets for your use in learning financial accounting. You can download these to your computer or print them and work with the hard copy. The advantage to utilizing these spreadsheets is that you will get instant feedback on your entries as well as seeing formula information.

Careers in Accounting
This site is designed to help students decide if accounting would be a good career for them. It gives an overview of the profession, skills and talents required, and facts and trends in accounting. It also lists some books that would be helpful to the students throughout the course.

Managerial Accounting: Creating Value in a Dynamic Business Environment
This site developed by McGraw-Hill will help students in the challenging role of managerial accounting in dynamic business environment. The site consisted of the following links; student center, instructor center, and information center links. Also included in this site are the chapter objectives, multiple choice quiz, true or false sample questions, glossary, and PowerPoint managerial accounting documents.

Resources - Cost Terminology and the Environment of Managerial Accounting
This site developed by McGraw-Hill informs students about resources and cost terminology in managerial accounting. Comparisons of managerial versus financial accounting are also covered on this site.

Chapter 8: Budgetary Planning and Control
This slide was prepared by Scott Peterson of Nova State University . This is a PowerPoint slide show that consisted lots of information about budgeting, planning and controlling.

Managerial Accounting (Class Notes and Information)
The Managerial Accounting website developed by Prof. Reed Fisher of Johnson State College of Vermont provides class notes, student study aids and general accounting principle information.

The Changing Role of Managerial Accounting in a Dynamic Business Environment
The website prepared by McGraw Hill Online Learning Center contains multiple choice quizzes in the changing role of managerial accounting in a dynamic business environment.

Managerial Accounting Glossary
The website created by eLiteral The Moving Constant contains a managerial accounting glossary.

Free Financial Excel Templates
This page lists many free Excel downloads and free Excel Templates from Microsoft Corporation. The templates are relatively simple, with no VBA code, and are easy to modify to your course needs.

AMH 2010 / 2020
U.S. History I & II

USHistory.org: Created by the Independence Hall Association of Philadelphia
The Independence Hall Association of Philadelphia provides online information about Betsey Ross’ House, Valley Forge, the Brandywine Battlefield, the Liberty Bell, the Revolutionary War and the Declaration of Independence.

From Revolution to Reconstruction
This website operated by the University of Groningen offers an extensive collection of historical documents, essays, and biographies about the revolution and reconstruction periods.

Digital History
This website contains a wealth of information on American History including online exhibits, interactive timelines, and historical documents. This website was developed by the Department of History and the College of Education at the University of Houston.

A Chronology of US Historical Documents
This website is put together by the College of Law at the University of Okalahoma, and offers many of the historical documents and presidential addresses that have helped to shape the US history.

US History
This website is sponsored by Online Highways and contains a load of information concerning the United State 's history. Some of its interesting features include a chart of historical eras that impacted US history, a large library of historical maps, and a glossary of terms.

History Place
This website is similar to an online museum; some of its exhibits include a photo of the day, a speech of the day, and even a homework help section. It has many features that cover a variety of historical time periods including World Wars 1 & 2, Presidents of the United States , and the Irish Potato Famine.

Today in History
This website takes today's date and finds something interesting that happened in American history on the same date. A comprehensive summary of the event is providing including a synopsis, pictures, and additional links. This is put together by the Library of Congress, American Memory.

Women in American History
Women in American History is put together by the Encyclopedia Britannica, and is a comprehensive website that presents a full, detailed history of the women who played a part in America's rich history. Some of its interesting features include in-depth articles and biographies, a gallery with audio and video, and additional research links.

Archiving Early America
This is an awesome website with a focus on Early American History. The site has many interactive features educational movies, music from that time period, and a breaking news ticker that shares important news from a date in history.

AML 2010/2020
American Literature I & II

LITWEB: An Online Companion to The Norton Introduction to Literature
This site is a guide for students who wish to learn how to think through their responses to a literary text, to better understand how to begin with their personal responses, to reread creatively and analytically, and to ask questions that open the text up to different interpretations.

Florida Heritage Collection: Arts, Culture, History, Sciences, and Social Sciences
This site will help the students in searching more information concerning the history of Florida and its citizens. The materials include family papers and records, diaries, letters, business records, maps, photographs, and other materials that are unique and important for historical research.

American Literature Resources
American teachers have begun to incorporate history into their literature units. The thematically driven curriculum standards are now falling in line behind the theory that combining the two curricula makes for meaningful learning experiences for students. The units below address the history of American segregation within the context of great works of American literature. This unfortunate period of American history played instrumental roles in a broad spectrum of significant writing from both the 19th and 20th centuries.

American Collection Educators’ Site American Writing Gateway
This website sponsored by The National Council of Teachers of English, ExxonMobil and Masterpiece Theatre’s American Collection contains a literary map that allows students to explore literature written in specific geographic areas and a timeline that contains important moments in literary history. The American Collection website also contains teacher resources and information about works of literature on video. The site also lists and rates other online literary resources on the world wide web.

Open Directory Project American Literature
The Open Directory Project contains a list of web resources related to Early American thru 21st century American, African American and Native American literature.

The Poe Decoder
This website, owned and operated by Christoffer Nilsson, contains literary criticisms and information on Poe and his work. There are also links to five of the most useful Poe pages on the net, including extensive biographies, a collection of his works, and other Poe related things.

Timeline of Events
This site gives a timeline of American Literature and events that affected literature. It covers events from the pre-1620's to the 1920's. Having a timeline of events from the years a book was written would definitely help to understand the writing.

American Literature on the Web
American Literature on the Web is a site that covers many aspects of American Literature. The site has links to many other resources that can be used. For example: Movements and Literature, Map Collections, and Literary Theory just to name a few.

American Literature Anthology Writers' Index
The index on this site includes hundreds of American authors and information on each one. If you click on an author's name, it will show you information like date of birth and main books that they have written. The site also includes different eras that the authors can be organized into. The site is easy to use and very helpful.

ARH 2050/2051
Art History I & II

The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art
The Arts Resources Online section provides a number of links to various art and humanities websites. Some of the links offer searchable databases, historical information and images.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Timeline of Art History Homepage
This website provides great navigation where students simply select the era they have an interest in exploring. They will then select the continent which will then lead them to specific timelines relating to that area of the world. This site also provides a search option where you can identify a "Subject", a "Special Topic", and "Artiest", an "Accession Number", or a "Site Map".

Dali Museum: The Collection
The Dali Museum website provides samples of Dali’s work on the internet. Art History students studying twentieth century art will benefit from viewing samples of Dali’s Early, Transitional, Surreal and Classical paintings.

Art History
Christopher Witcombe a professor at that Sweet Briar College in Virginia provides links to art history resources on the World Wide Web. The site provides an easy to use index of Prehistoric Art to Contemporary Art forms. One has the option of searching for resources via geographical location or time period.

Artlex Art Dictionary
This web site provides students with a dictionary of common art terminology that covers Ancient thru Contemporary Art. The dictionary also contains pictures of art work and information about famous art movements through out history.

Infomine Scholarly Internet Resource Collections: Visual & Performing Arts
This free database of Visual & Performing Arts information on the Internet was created by the Regents of the University of California . The student has the option of searching for art information via author, subject, description, title or keyboard. One may also search for resources via type of medium images, museums, electronic journal articles and digital libraries.

World Wide Arts Resources
Students studying art history will benefit from being able to view the articles about art history, art movements and contemporary artists. The site provides listings by artist's name, nationality and century of existence.

Artcyclopedia
The Artcyclopedia offers students articles and web links about museum sites, image archives, and other online resources. Most of the searchable database is by artist name specializing in painting and sculpture, as well as other artistic media (e.g., phtography, video, digital and web-based art, archtitecture, etec.).

National Gallery of Art: Online Tours
The Online Tours on this web site allow students to search by artists, art works and themes. The articles contain historical information about artists, paintings, and movements in art history.

The British Museum Compass Collections Online
The British Museum has one of the most extensive collections of African, British, North American, South American, Asian, Egyptian, European, Greek, Japanese, Roman, Pacific and Australian art. Each piece of art online contains a historical overview and the option of enlarger the picture.

ART 1201C/1203C
Design I & II

The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art
The Arts Resources Online section provides a number of links to various art and humanities websites. Some of the links offer searchable databases, historical information and images.

Art History Resources on the Web
This is a Professor of Sweet Blair College personal webpage. Chris Witcombe’s first online page began in June 12, 1995. The site provides a comprehensive overview of Art overtime.

Digital Art Museum
Digital Art Museum aims to become the world's leading online resource for the history and practice of digital fine art.It exhibits the work of leading Artists in this field since 1956. [DAM] is an on-line museum with a comprehensive exhibition of Digital Art supported by a wide range of background information including biographies, articles, a bibliography and interviews.

Encylozine: The Arts
The arts are about creating objects, images, and works that communicate a message or emotion to an audience. It might be putting on a play for a large audience, or writing a poem that someone will read on their own. The relationship between the artist and their audience is the space where a work of art is interpreted and responded to.

Sceyelines Design & Lifestyle Magazine
The magazine is downloadable and contains articles about professionals working in the design industry as well as amazing pictures of graphic designs.

The Museum of Modern Art The Collection
The Museum of Modern Art provides online tours of its exhibits which include two dimensional forms such as paintings, prints, drawings and photographs.

2D Design Notes ART 104: Design and Composition Table of Contents
James T. Saw of Palomar College has created a website that explains the principles and techniques of two dimensional designs. The website provides examples and explains concepts such as shape, line, space, texture, value and color.

Mother of all Art and Art History Links Page
This site, sponsored by the School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan , provides many helpful links for students taking art courses. Along with extensive resources, there are online exhibitions, art museums, links to art history departments and more.

Art Publications-Artist Resource
This website provides a comprehensive list of art publications links from A to Z relating to art and techniques. Also included is a link to online galleries, organizations and member artists. Artist Resource is a volunteer-supported non-profit organization operating as a project of California Lawyers for the Arts.

Graphic Design Basics
This site, provided by Linda Goin, Includes comprehensive information for design students including elements and principles of design, reviews, journals and links for design.

CAD- Computer Graphics- Drawing with computers
This website sponsored by About.com provides students with extensive articles and resources on computer graphics and drawing software. It includes essentials on getting started and learning how to draw as well as galleries, tips and other related links.

ART 1300C/1301C
Drawing I & II

Portrait Tutorial
This website created by the artist J.R. Dunster contains free drawing tutorials for beginning and intermediate art students.

Drawing From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
The authors of Wikipedia have gathered information about drawing with many different types of mediums such as marker, pen, ink, pastel, silverpoint , colored pencils, graphite and chalk.

Humanities Web: Index by Medium Illustration
Katya Gifford has created this website as a free web resource for those interested in humanities and art. Students studying drawing will find the Illustration section helpful, because it lists articles and information about influential illustrators such as Norman Rockwell and many others.

Wet Canvas!
Artist John Hagan’s website contains lessons that explain basic drawing principles and techniques. He explores art topics such as color, shading, light, texture and depth.

Wanna Learn Fine Arts: Visual Art: Drawing and Sketching
Students who want to learn how to draw animation, anime, caricature, cartoons, computer drawing and perspective drawing should visit this website. WannaLearn also provides listings of free instructional sites.

The Calouste Gulbenkian Museum Collection
The collection on the web contains pictures and descriptions of Egyptian art, Greco-Roman art, Mesopotamian art, Eastern Islamic art, Armenian Art, Far Eastern Art. The site also contains information and pictures of sculpture, painting, decorative arts and jewelry. The Calouste Gulbenkian Museum created this website.

Florida Artists Registry
The Florida Artists Registry contains a directory of artists, galleries, museums and organizations. This information is useful for students who are interested in pursuing a career in art. This site was created by Artists Registry and Savi Graphics.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents a Timeline of Art History
The Timeline of Art History website provides information about the art created around the world in the last four thousand years. Student artists will benefit from viewing this website and learning more about art history. Robert and Harriet Heilbrunn sponsor this website for Metropolitan Museum of Art.

About Drawing & Sketching
Students will learn how to draw portraits, faces, textures and patterns. The website contains information about learning to draw using charcoal, graphite pencils and mechanical aids. This site is maintained by About, Inc.

Visual Manna Online
This website contains free art lesson that teach students how to draw human faces, birds, positive and negatives, and art of Africa, Art in Early America, horses and horses. This website was produced by the family owned business Visual Manna.

ART 2370
Drawing for Animation

Nancy Doyle, Fine Art
Nancy Doyle’s Online Art Studio provides many free instructions on drawing. Start with the Intro to Drawing and work through the exercises in contour, mass, gesture, mechanics and figure drawing.

Anatomy of the Human Body
Bartleby.com provides a searchable view of Gray’s Anatomy of the Human Body

Animation: Human Skeleton In Motion
A short Quicktime movie of a human skeleton running: a project from Stanford University's graphics lab.

The Anatomy Lesson
Wesley Norman PhD, DSc, produced this systematic study of human anatomy. While some information is superfluous to the artist, there are many interesting images and diagrams that make it well worth a look.

Figure Drawing - Life Drawing Tips and Lessons
A multitude of articles and resource links on figure drawing lessons, tips, and techniques.  Additional topics are accessible on the left side of the pages.

On-Line Drawing Lessons
Free online introductory lessons on foreshortening, shading and surface drawing. The lessons are printable.

How to Draw a Caricature
Mario Furmanczyk provides a tutorial on caricature drawing. He provides differentiating tips as well as instruction on head caricatures.

Animate a sequence of images or drawings
This link provides a tutorial on animating a sequence of images or drawings using Adobe Photoshop or ImageReady through the use of sequential layering.

Animation
his VirtualArtRoom site provided many animation links including a Project planning link that provides project guidance, storyboard grids and assessment criteria.

ART 2500C/2501C
Painting I & II

The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art
The Arts Resources Online section provides a number of links to various art and humanities websites. Some of the links offer searchable databases, historical information and images.

Dali Museum The Collection
The Dali Museum website provides samples of Dali’s work on the internet. Painting students will benefit from studying samples of Dali’s Early, Transitional, Surreal and Classical paintings.

Painting- Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
This website is a free content encyclopedia and a trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Students can learn the history of painting and terms associated with painting. Students will also learn techniques and styles of painting and can browse through information on famous painters. This website also offers a variety of links for the students to explore.

Painting: Lessons, Tips, Techniques
This website, named by PC Magazine as one of the top100 sites “you can’t live without”, offers painting students free tips, techniques and tutorials for a variety of painting styles and media. This website was created by Knowledge Hound, LLC.

AST 1002
Universe: Infinite Frontier

Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, managed for NASA by the California Institute of Technology, hosts this website. The site focuses on space exploration with the latest news about space, a planetary PhotoJournal, a searchable multimedia section which allows the visitor to search by mission, subject, format and keyword; past, present and future space missions and information about our own planet Earth.

Earth & Sky
This site, sponsored by Byrd & Block Communications Inc. is designed to guide your eye to something you can see that night, or the next morning before dawn. There are sky watching tips, weekly charts (with descriptions and tips on how to use the charts), tonight’s sky and weather conditions, a Q&A section (where the visitor can also submit questions) and a star pronunciation guide.

U.S. Naval Observatory Astronomical Applications
This site, sponsored by the Astronomical Applications Department of the U.S. Naval Observatory, lists sunrise/sunset times, moonrise/moonset times, moon phases, eclipses, an interactive solar system almanac and occultations. Some sections allow the visitor to search for astronomical images or information by specific dates and US cities.

The American Meteor Society
The American Meteor Society is a non-profit scientific organization established to encourage and support the research activities of both amateur and professional astronomers who are interested in meteor astronomy. Members observe, monitor, collect data on, study, and report on meteors, meteor showers, meteoric fireballs, and related meteoric phenomena. This site also has a site search feature.

HubbleSite
HubbleSite is produced by the Space Telescope Science Institute’s Office of Public Outreach and contains a plethora of information about the Hubble Space Telescope In addition to news about the Hubble, this site includes an archive of past Hubble photos, a Gallery with pictures taken from the Hubble, what the science instruments do, how the pictures are made, interactive games & activities. This site is also searchable.

Oracle ThinkQuest
The ThinkQuest Library is a free educational resource featuring 5,500+ websites created by students around the world as part of a competition, sponsored by the Oracle Education Foundation. The Astronomy site features websites about the Solar System, Space, Stars, and the Universe.

Sky & Telescope Magazine
This commercial website has information on Astronomy basics - the science and the hobby; It also has information on visual observing; how to choose, use, and get the most out of telescopes and binoculars and astroimaging.

The Eight Planets
Created by Bob Arnett, this site is a multimedia tour of the solar system. It gives an overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of each of the planets and moons and other objects in our solar system. There are images, and some have sounds and movies, as well as other links to additional resources.

The Constellations and Their Stars
This University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Astronomy website, created by Chris Dolan, includes descriptive information and photos about constellations and stars (listed by month and alphabetical). Also featured is an interactive sky chart (requires a Java applet to view).

Views of the Solar System
Views of the Solar System, created by Calvin J. Hamilton, contains images and information about the latest Sun, planets, moons, asteroids, comets and meteoroids found within the solar system in a multimedia format. The History of Space Exploration contains information about rocket history, early astronauts, space missions, spacecraft and detailed chronology tables of space exploration.

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Biological Science & Biological Science Lab

The Biology Project
This site provides students with information as well as links to other sites on Biology, Cell Biology, Biochemistry, Chemicals and human health, Immunology and Genetics. It helps the student locate resources on all of these.This site provides students with information as well as links to other sites on Biology, Cell Biology, Biochemistry, Chemicals and human health, Immunology and Genetics.   It helps the student locate resources on all of these.

Knowing How to Practice Safe Science
This site offers the student a plethora of knowledge on topics such as lab safety, managing hazardous wastes, emergency response guidelines as well as links to training videos on said subjects; and, also, online training courses on lab safety and haz mat procedures.

The Skull Module
This site allows the student to navigate through the human skull either by actually clicking on and "opening" certain parts of the skull or by sending them to other links which also have human body parts. It would help in the skeletal system lab by allowing "hands on" experience without an actual cadaver.

Cells Alive!
This site contains all the information you ever wanted to know about cells. Moreover, it is littered with wonderful images and video-clips that can be easily downloaded.

BBCi7 
This site is a great resource for students. It has a "chat" area, a newsletter, weekly quizzes on biological issues and also news on different biological issues.

American Institute of Biological Science
The American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) is dedicated to advancing biological research and education for the welfare of society. AIBS seeks to facilitate communication and interactions among biologists, professional biological societies, biological and other scientific disciplines, as well as to serve and advance the interests of biology in the broader scientific community and in other components of society.

Action Bioscience
This website features a number of articles on seven specific biology related topics. Each of these topics has links to articles that explain each topic in full detail. Up-to-date external links are provided at the bottom of each article to help the reader "learn more" about or "get involved" in the issue.

Biology Online
This site includes an online directory of biology websites, a dictionary (with a search engine), and a range of biology tutorials. Richard Lees is the webmaster and content provider.

Biology/Tutoring Links
This University of Huston website lists numerous links to tutorials related to biology. Most of the tutorials are hosted by other universities. Subjects include respiration, reproduction, chemistry, biochemistry, cell structure, DNA, genetics, circulatory, photosynthesis, etc.

North Harris College Biology Department
The Biology I and Biology II links include reference sites, interactive tutorials (including lab tutorials) to cellular processes and animal and plant kingdom information. In addition to animations and movies this site also provides many images to demonstrate biological concepts.

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Human Anatomy & Physiology I and II with labs

Anatomy Laboratory Manual
This site provides useful information as well as detailed images that a standard laboratory manual would contain. The "main" value of this site is its visual images.  It includes but is not limited to images of cells, tissues, muscles etc.

Loyola University Health System
This site provides general questions and answers that are generally asked on lab practicals; as well as many wonderful images to the students  It also provides slides and detailed explanations of the human body functions studied in A & P.

Web Anatomy
This website features interactive worksheets that help you to learn all the systems of the human anatomy.

A/P Lab – A Website for Human Anatomy & Physiology
This website, hosted by the, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, was developed for students enrolled in Human Anatomy & Physiology I & II. Laboratory materials are provided within a “virtual laboratory experience”. It also contains a self-testing tool to help students study materials for laboratory practical exams. Each section contains a series of images with questions of the type typically found on these exams. Answers are also provided.

Anatomy & Physiology II WWW Sites
This website is hosted by North Harris College. It includes interactive activities, medical dictionary references, and an exhaustive list of university links in the areas of animal dissections, human cadaver, blood, heart, blood vessels, respiratory system, immune system, AIDS, digestive system, nutrition, urinary, reproduction, embryology, human genetics, science news and general anatomy and physiology.

The Internet Pathology Laboratory for Medical Education
This web resource, hosted by Florida State University, College of Medicine, includes over 1900 images along with text, tutorials, laboratory exercises, and examination items for self-assessment that demonstrate gross and microscopic pathologic findings associated with human disease conditions.

The Visible Human Project
The Visible Human Project ® , sponsored by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, is the creation of complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the normal male and female human bodies.

NetAnatomy
NetAnatomy is a multi-modal anatomy teaching tool from Scholar Educational Systems, Inc. This site is designed to teach human anatomy to students of the health professions, including undergraduate medical, health sciences, and nursing students. The site contains detailed images utilizing radiographic, cross-sectional, and gross anatomy.

Anatomy and Physiology/Tutoring Links
This University of Huston website lists numerous links to tutorials related to anatomy and physiology. Most of the tutorials are hosted by other universities. Subjects include cellular respiration, muscular structure, protein synthesis, basic chemistry, histology, neuron structure/physiology, biochemistry, central nervous system, cell organization, skeletal, peripheral nervous system, cell membrane, articulation and special senses.

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Field Biota of Florida Plants & Animals w/Lab

Florida Plants Online Bookstore
This site has a comprehensive list of online books dealing withFlorida plant life.  Along with a list of many books with information about Florida andFlorida History etc.

Wild Florida Photography
This site is primarily a photographic site of the plant and animal life ofFlorida.  It also includes some other photographs of Florida and in Florida.  Other than the beautiful photography, it has links to many useful sites if you are studying Fl Biota.

Rare and Endangered Biota of Florida:  Birds
This site is a link to books on the rare, endangered and already extinct birds ofFlorida.

Florida Wildflowers
This site offers descriptions, pictures and explanations about the wild flowers in the state ofFlorida. It is a good place for a student who is writing a short report to get clear, concise information on this subject.

Florida's Native Bromeliads Illustrated
This site offers the student pictures and descriptions of the different types of plants and trees that  are threatened by bugs, diseases, etc in the state of Florida.

Bromeliad Biota
This site has pictures and descriptions of plants and flowers in the Florida plant life system. It also describes the "enemies" of such plants (bugs, poisons, etc.) and the solution(s) for "fighting" such.

National Audubon Society
This website is full of information about birds and animals and their habitats.

USDA Natural Resources Conservation Services – Plants Database
This website features a dynamic plants database focusing on the vascular and nonvascular plants that inhabit the United States and its territories. The student can search by region or specific plant. The database includes checklists, species abstracts, distributional data, crop information, plants symbols, plant growth data, references and other plant information. There is also an image gallery which contains more than 16,000 photos and line drawings in the gallery.

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
This Florida State Agency website was designed to be the administrative/informational website for the management of Florida fish and wildlife. Numerous links cover a variety of topics including information about wildlife viewing and animal species found in the State of Florida. There are also several searchable databases.

Everglades Information Network
The Everglades Information Network (EIN) is a program of library and information services in support of research, restoration, and resource management of the south Florida environment. This site has an "Ask an Everglades Librarian" reference service, an Everglades Digital Library which includes documents relating to the environment of the Everglades, and Everglades Online, a searchable database.

CGS 1000
Introduction to Computers and Programming

Operating Systems
ComputerHope.com created this website with lots of information about the types of operating systems and the date of release of different operating systems.

Peter Norton's Introduction to Computers
This site provides downloadable presentations and online quizzes for Computers, Operating Systems, Programming Languages and other computer related areas.

Computer Information Tutorial
This site provides basic information on the fundamentals of computers, operating systems, applications, programming, and systems analysis.

SmartDraw Flowcharting and Tutorials
Free Trail flowcharting software, templates and tutorials that work in MS Applications are available on the site. The tutorials discuss flowcharting basics, uses and symbols.

DevZoo Free Text Editors and Compilers
This site provides reviews and links to free text editors, C++ compilers, tutorials and debuggers.

Computer Programming Languages - Directory of Online Resources
This link provides a list of specific Computing Languages. The languages listed here either have usenet groups, FAQs (from the List of Usenet FAQs at Ohio State ), or WWW home pages.

C Programming Tutorial
This site gives an overview of the C programming language for beginners. Examples and programming information is provided.

Norman Matloff's Unix and Linux Tutorial Center
This site provides an excellent Unix operating tutorial that includes Unix shells, file system, beginner and advanced C. A link is also provided to Unix--The Bare Minimum for beginners.

CGS 1100
Microcomputer Applications XP

Office Tutorials
Direct site to Microsoft for their tutorials on Microsoft Office applications

Florida Gulf Coast University Office Tutorials
This site goes over each of the applications in grave detail. It has graphics with PowerPoint, and examples of how Word, Excel, and Access work.

A Microsoft Model Professional Development Program Site
Greg Butler, Janie Schwark, Janet Steele, Daryll McDade and Suzanne Peterson at Microsoft, David Hudson at Verizon, Britt Davis at the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges (VFIC), the Council for Independent Colleges in Virginia (CICV), and Susan Nichols at Lynchburg College created the website. This site gives a lot of information helpful to the student to help them learn the different computer applications. The authors above give permission to copy these tutorials in any way that might help the student.

Operating System
This site developed and created by webopedia.com will help students in understand what an operating system is and its classification. A flowchart diagram of how operating system connects to different peripherals and application is also introduced.

Business Productivity Tools
This site, developed by San Jose State University College of Business ,includes tips and tutorials on several applications like Excel, Access, and Word.

EducationOnlineForComputers.com
This site offers step by step ways of learning the different applications such as Word, Access, Excel, and PowerPoint. The student can use this site to help when trying to learn how these applications work. Dreamweaver, Photoshop, and QuickBooks also have information on this site. It is an excellent site.

You Can Learn How To Use Your Computer!
This free tutorial only requires the student to enter in their email address and name and it automatically emails you a free tutorial on the subject you have chosen. The student can learn Excel, Access, Word, PowerPoint, and more. This site was developed by 559cd.com.

CGS 1510
Electronic Spreadsheet I

Education Online for Computers
This site provides a directory of free Microsoft Excel spreadsheet tutorials and resources available online.

Microsoft Excel
This web link provides Excel course help in the form of quizzes, tutorials and reference links to multiple sites.

Excel 101 Tutorial
This University of South Dakota site will help the student with creating, editing, importing, and exporting information with an Excel document. It also covers adding, subtracting, dividing, and multiplying of different fields on the Excel document. The tutorial even suggests that you open the excel program while going through the tutorial so you may do some hands on practicing.

Microsoft Excel Tutorials
This site offers MS Excel lessons and tutorials on how to use the application. Real-life examples are provided to experiment with.

Microsoft Excel Awareness Training, Western Carolina University
This site contains tutorials on how to use many of the basic features found in Microsoft Excel.

Mr. Excel.com
Weekly tips and solutions for users of Microsoft Excel. This site provides a comprehensive index of over 500 articles and tips on MS Excel.

Tutorials: Microsoft Excel
One-stop site for an Excel topics, tutorials and examples that are alphabetically arranged.

Microsoft Excel Tutorial: Excel 2003/2002
This tutorial covers all of the features you need to get started using Microsoft Excel such as entering data, formatting, cell alignment, fonts, mathematical calculations, functions, and much more. Although knowledge of how to navigate in a Windows environment is helpful, this tutorial was created for the computer beginner.

Excel Tutorials, Lessons and Help
This site includes Excel tutorials, help, and lessons. All you ever needed to know about this spreadsheet program.

Anthony’s Excel VBA Page – Excel Tutorial
This site contains Excel and VBA (Macro) tutorial examples on various topics such as finance, mathematics, statistics and other general issues.  Users can learn Excel VBA topics range from simple issues such as using VBA recorder to record macro, computing sum, average, median and standard deviation to advanced issues such as Black-Scholes and Binomial option pricing models, multiple regression, portfolio optimization, probability distribution random numbers generator, Bootstrap, Monte Carlo Simulation, risk analysis and many more.

CGS 1520
Microcomputer Business Presentations Graphics

Indezine
This site offers some slides on the new revisions of PowerPoint. The student will find some excellent features to work with including image rotationand photos.

CGS 1540
Microcomputer Computer Database Management I

SQL Tutorial
This site provides a well organized easy to understand SQL tutorial with lots of examples. SQL allows users to access data in relational database management systems.

Introduction to Relational Databases
This site includes introductory information on relational databases. It includes links to more advanced topics in the field of database management.

Microsoft Office Online
This is the official Microsoft page for their Access database management software. It provides links for product support, discussion groups, and expert advice.

CGS 1874
Introduction to Flash

Tizag.com
This site offers a comprehensive overview of Flash, web tutorials, scripting, and various databases.  Flash tutorials cover such subjects as how to install Flash, creation of animation and drawing, and shape and motion tweening.

W3schools.com
Students can navigate within this site to get a better understanding of Flash and the various components associated with Flash.  Also included within this site are web statistics, glossary, web hosting, and web quality; which can improve a students understanding of Flash.

Informit.com
Students who tour this site will benefit from the all encompassing Flash design guide and Flash interactive developer guide.  Students can navigate and get a better understanding of Flash, animation, working with templates, and numerous resources that interact with Flash.

Web Developers Notes
This site offers a wide range of Flash and Macromedia tutorials and various tools used for Flash.

EchoEcho.com
EchoEcho goes over the Flash basics and offers free resources and quizzes for better understanding of Flash.

Webworksite.com
Students can tour this Flash site with ease.  Everything is spread out and categorized in specific sections for easy navigation.

LearnFlash.com
Learnflash.com offers tips and tricks for beginners and intermediate/advance computer users.  This site also offers live help.

Flash Applets
Within this site students can easily steer their course and discover new and exciting things about Flash and other components of Flash.

Macromedia Flash MX Fundamentals
This is a fun interactive site that allows the users to get the basics of Flash and provide examples as well.

CGS 1930
Windows XP 2002

Tech Tutorials
Tech Tutorials provides free technical reference and training materials. A rather comprehensive computer reference site for IT professionals as well as beginners. Features include numerous tutorials and a reference section.

Microsoft.com
Microsoft offers many resources for using Windows XP.

CGS 2525
Introduction to Multimedia

Multimedia Links
Paul Kopco's web site provides links to multimedia web sites. The site also contains links to audio, MP3, music, MIDI , Video, QuickTime, Streaming Media and animation resources.

Introduction to Audio Technology
David Sebald's web site provides a list of online audio tutorials. The web resources cover topics like MIDI , MP3, and WAV files.

Team PhotoShop: Tutorials
Students taking CGS 2525 are required to learn PhotoShop. The site contains tutorials about PhotoShop tools, techniques and text effects.

Tom's Hardware Guide: Audio Video Articles in Chronological Overview
The articles displayed on this website cover basic topics related to audio and video production.

Tutorialized.com
The Tutorialized.com site allows students to choose a program and view the way it works. Information is provided for the following programs: PowerPoint, Excel, Photoshop, and more. It shows the students how to insert clip art and other graphics.

W3Schools - Full Web Building Tutorials - All Free
This tutorial will help the students understand what multimedia is and how it works. There is also some links they may click on to try it themselves. This website was created by Refsnes Data.

Multimedia 101- A Web Based Tutorial
This site was developed by J. Hepple, Inc. It outlines multimedia and goes through step by step the process. This information is helpful to the students because they can get answers to many of their “How to Do” questions. It also offers examples of sound, animation, and movies. There are other tutorials available as well.

Flash Tutorials
This site provides over 900 categorized tutorial links for Flash. The links are listed by areas including animation, interactivity, special effects, 3D, audio, utilities and tips & techniques.

International Digital Media and Arts Association
iDMAa's purpose is a response to the need of an emerging field involving multiple disciplines and new and emerging areas of study within Digital Media and Digital Arts. This site includes a forum and newsletter.

Digital Media Association (DiMA)
The Digital Media Association (DiMA) is a national trade organization devoted primarily to the online audio and video industries, and more generally to commercially innovative digital media opportunities. This organization focuses strictly on the growth, technology, development and public policy of the digital media industries.

CGS 2871
Desktop Audio & Video

Audio Guide for Web Developers
Walt’s Publishing on the Web Forum shows students how to the use audio files in web pages. The website explains the most common file types and their uses, it explains how to code audio links in pages, it lists major sources of audio files and clips, and it gives a brief copyright guidelines.

Desktop Video: A Starter's Guide to Video Editing
Hardware Central provides tutorials for using desktop video hardware. This site also contains articles about video and audio software.

Warner Bros. Studios
The Warner Brothers Studios' website provides an example of how desktop audio and video can be used on a website to promote movies and recently released DVDs.

Online Video Tutorial - RealSlideshow For RealPlayer
This site was developed by Denise Etheridge from BayCon Group, Inc. This tutorial site will help students create their own online video. Using RealPlayer media (free download) is recommended to view the streaming audio and video in order to create a RealSlideshow.

Home Video Editing
This site was developed by John G. Faughnan. The site will help students in understanding home video editing. John G. Faughnan has shared his knowledge and experience on home video editing.

Avid Free DV Training
These tutorials are designed for anyone exploring video editing to provide an understanding of the Avid editing environment. The student will learn how to use Avid Free DV to: input source footage, create and trim sequences, edit audio, create titles, and output a finished program.

Creative Communities of the World (COW) Video and Film Editing Tutorial Site
This COW site provides reviews, tutorials, articles, etc. sorted many ways to help you find the answers you need for your editing project.

Free Tutorials for Avid and Final Cut Pro
This site provides links for free tutorials, Q&A and tips for Avid and Final Cut Pro Audio Video editing solutions. Check here if you are having trouble with your desktop video.

CHM 1025/1025L
Introductory Chemistry & Introductory Chemistry Lab

Chem4Kids
This site is an excellent source for our "mini" chemists.  It lists lots of information on chemistry as well at several of the other natural sciences in simple language that children can understand.

Environmental Chemistry.com
This site has a wonderful dictionary on most commonly used chemistry terms as well as environmental terms.  It also contains information on the make-up of an atom.  The Periodic Table of the Elements is also available on this site.  (A must have for any beginning to intermediate chemistry student).

COP 1822
Introduction to Web Design

Vincent Flanders's Web Pages That Suck
One of the best ways to learn is by example. Here's a site, produced by a pair of graphic-designer professionals that shows you what not to do.

eXtropia
This site offers a tutorial on web design and other related web development programs (Perl, Photoshop, Java, Web Security, Databases etc.).

Website Creation Tutorial for Beginners
This site created by 2CreatAWebsite.com consists of the following tutorials: register a domain, select a web host, create a free site, and many more topics.

How do I create a website?
This site developed by createawebsitenow.com helps students create a basic website. A step by step guide on how to create a website included on this site.

W3 Schools Web Developers Site
This site has comprehensive coverage of all Web-building technologies. HTML Tutorials, References, and online examples are provided. The site has an on-line HTML editor that allows you to edit examples and experiment with the code on-line.

The easiest HTML guide for beginners
The easiest HTML guide for beginners. This tutorial will guide you in creating a simple web page containing text, image, and links to other web pages, adding sound, and a section on frames.

WEBalley Web Publishing Made Easy
Excellent html tutorials and web design guides. Free web templates to help beginners writing their first basic homepage. Have tips on how to use graphics on your web pages.

FrontPage Tutorials
This site contains a basic Microsoft FrontPage tutorial that covers many common tasks that you would use while working in FrontPage creating web pages.

A Complete Web Design Course for Beginners
This web site is designed for total beginners and people who use programs like Dreamweaver, and now want to learn what's going on 'behind the scenes'. No previous experience is required! Only seven simple tutorials and a total beginner will be designing websites quickly.

COP 1826/1827
Web Graphics Design I & II

Smart Webby
This site has a collection of articles, tips, guidelines and tutorials on effective web site design. From web design tips and ideas to HTML, CSS Styles, Fireworks and Dreamweaver you'll find all you need to know about web design right here.

Castleberry Arts Web Graphics
This site offers free images and webmaster tips. Free animations, holiday graphics, and sign and cards are also available. Students can use this information to complete a project that would otherwise be difficult to finish.

Make Animated Text with Wild FX!
This site, created by Wildform, Inc., shows a student how to create animated text in seconds, output their name to an HTML page in one click and create their own effects templates.

Graphics on the Web
This site is created by Chris Lilley of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Overviews and formats of portable network graphics (PNG), joint photographic experts group (JPEG), graphics interchange format (GIF), and scalable vector graphics (SVG) are covered on this site.

WebReference.com: Dev the Web™
A great site that provides information and reference to almost anything related to Web design and development.

Graphics, Tips, and Software
The site, created by Andre Bakker, includes tips on graphics such as how to convert graphics' file formats and how to morph images. This site also has tips for affluent graphic users and links to graphics software.

Animation Library
Animation Library created this site in order to help students creative animation. The site consists of over 13,729 animations online.

Animated Gifs
The site, created by Entheos, helps students learn how to create simple animated gifs.

JavaScript Kit
This site provides a wealth of information on JavaScript. Tutorials, Q&A's, reference, design info and forums are accessible from this link.

COP 2010
Visual Basic I

WhatIs.com
This web site allows the student to research definitions of commonly used phrases or pieces of equipment in the IT industry.

Planet Source Code
This web site allows programmers to view others code, helping them to understand logic problems and giving them a place to go for reference.

Microsoft Developers Network
Students can visit Microsoft's website to search for code, common programming problems and more.

Visual Basic Forum
Visual Basic Forum allows student's to post messages and view other messages in a message board format.  All topics are relevant to visual basic programming and students can post messages to receive answers to hard to solve problems and questions

VB Code
VB Code is similar to Planet Source Code.  It provides code snippets and files for students to reference to and use as tutorials.>

Abstract VB
Abstract VB provides code, tutorials and links to books (for purchase) to help students code better.

Learn Visual Studio.NET
This website provides videos, (free & Paid) for students to use to help them learn not only Visual Basic but Visual Studio as well.

COP 2823
Advanced Web Page Creation

The Journal of Digital Information (JODI)
Students taking the Advanced Web Page Creation class re required to learn about the latest developments in web page design. The articles in this website are peer reviewed and deal with theories and scientific studies that cover such topics as hypertext, web page design and digital media being used in libraries.

WebAim: Creating Accessible Tables
This site created by Web Accessibility in Mind provides students with tips on how to create simple table configurations when creating a website.

W3 Schools Web Developers Site
This site has comprehensive coverage of all Web-building technologies, including W3C standards like HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML and other technologies like ASP and ADO plus much more. Tutorials, References, and online examples are provided. The site has an on-line HTML editor that allows you to edit examples and experiment with the code on-line.

WebMonkey: A Web Developer's Resource
This is a great web site that is sectioned for beginners, builders and web masters. It has how-to articles and quick reference areas from the home page.

Web Developer's Virtual Library
This site provides useful information. Articles, tutorials, forums and reviews are included on many different web topics.

Dynamic HTML Script Library
This site has scripts, tutorials, articles, FAQs and forums on Dynamic HTML Language.

Dreamweaver Developer Center
You are able to download, view, or search all of the Dreamweaver documentation and tutorials.

Cascading Style Sheets
The site contains helpful tutorials, hints, rules and references on Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

WEB STYLE GUIDE, 2nd edition
In this Web Style Guide, second edition the focus is on good web design and functionality with added sections on Web site accessibility, Cascading Style Sheets, and flexible page design. Other sections are included on information architecture, site maintenance, and multimedia design. Illustrations and web site examples are included to reflect current best practices.

COP 2837
Visual Basic.Net Programming

Visual Basic.NET Definitions
The SearchVB website provides students with information about Visual Basic.NET and related Visual Basic programming languages. The site contains a professional forum, a search engine, the latest news in software development, links to web resources and tips.

Beginners Guide to Visual Basic
This site was developed by Tore Nestenius, a Webmaster consultant, from Synchron Data. The site will help a student understand and use Microsoft Visual Basic programming languages. Included in this site are sample syntaxes and an explanation on how to get started on Visual Basic.

Welcome to the best place to learn about .NET and VB.NET online!
This site was developed by Faraz Rasheed, a Computer Science student, at the University of Karachi in Pakistan. This site will help a student become a VB.NET expert through the free weekly online lessons provided. The site includes exercises, answers in the next week’s lesson and a dedicated message board for the school.

Visual Basic Tutorial
This is a Visual Basic tutorial site. The site will help student understand the introduction of Visual Basic from building a Visual Basic application to creating an advance VB database application. The site contains 22 Visual Basic detailed lessons.

CRW 2001
Creative Writing

Journal of Digital Information
Creative writing students will love the free newsletter, message forum, poetry contests and resource links provided by the Poets and Writers Organization.

The Academy of American Poets
This website, sponsored by the Academy of American Poets, allows students to explore the works of various poets, listen to recordings of poetry, search literary links and browse by the poet’s name or poem title.

Web English Teacher- Creative Writing
This site has several exercises and brainstorming ideas for creative writers. It also has tips on different techniques like making your characters more interesting.

Poets & Writers
This is a great site for writers to get more involved with other writers. It has writers' exchanges and frequently asked questions that writers ask.

Resources for Creative Writers
"Writing Prompts" is a very helpful tool for creative writers. It's a site with dozens of writing prompts to get your mind to start thinking.

CTS 1101
Computer Literacy

Webopedia
This site introduces the computer, its parts of hardware and instructions on how to use it and what software is involved. There are words you can click on to go more into detail about the computer.

Basic Computer Tutorial
This basic computer tutorial is written for those who do not know very much about computers. The purpose of this basic computer tutorial is to help the reader better understand how to use their computer more effectively and safely. It will help the reader understand: What files and file types are how to copy files, where your files are stored, what the parts of your computer are, what an operating system is, and what a computer program is.

eXtropia
This site offers a tutorial on web design and other related web development programs (Perl, Photoshop, Java, Web Security, Databases etc.).

SeniorNet
SeniorNet includes eleven Tutorials for Beginning and Intermediate Computer Users - for getting started, and getting out of trouble with your computer. Includes instruction on cookies, function keys, drawing tools, screen savers, firewalls, and many other subjects.

Welcome to Cyberspace
This simple How-To guide for going online will help make the venture into cyberspace a little less mysterious, even for those who have never used a computer.

Jan's Illustrated Computer Literacy 101
This site hosts free lessons for basic computer literacy that is free to personal users. It covers working with Windows, words, numbers, presentations and the web in easy illustrated lessons.

Rapid City School's Educational Computing Your Way
This site includes tutorials on a wide range of applications for your computer. Links are also provides for clipart, templates and graphics.

Tutorials for OpenOffice
OpenOffice is a FREE Software application that includes a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, and graphics program (a link for the free application is included). This site includes basic tutorials on how to use Writer (word processing), Calc (spreadsheets), Impress (presentations), Draw (drawing) and How-to Download and Install OpenOffice. Tutorials are available to be downloaded and printed in the OpenOffice format.

Web Searching Tutorial
This Web search tutorial will help you select proper search terms for your searching and how to use Web databases and search engines in an effective way.

A Short and Easy Internet Search Tutorial
This link provides a short and easy guide to Web searching, search engines and directories. This little crash course will teach you how to explore the Net more efficiently.

DIG 1710
Introduction to Game Development Programming

Ultimate Game Programming
This site offers various tutorials and demos and other resources dealing with game development programming.  This site’s layout is set up in an easy to navigate format.

gamedev.net
gamedev.net provides information regarding game programming for beginners and existing programmers.  Gamedev.net also provides forums for opening communication with other beginners or existing programmers.

DIG 2030 (formerly GRA 2710)
Survey of Digital Video

About.Com: Desktop Video
About.com provides tips about planning, shooting, lighting, capturing, and editing video. This site includes a glossary of commonly used video production terminology that students need to know.

CyberLink
Digital video students will find the articles on the CyberLink website useful since the site covers such topics as the basics of movie making, recording with DVD, choosing editing software and uploading video on the web.

VideoUniversity.com
The Video University website contains a free library with articles about video production and community forums where video professionals can exchange information. The site also provides useful information for students who want to start their own video production business.

Atomic Learning Macintosh
The website contains several basic tutorials for Final Cut Pro which is software students are required to know

The Home of the Short Courses Publishing Company: A Short Course in Digital Video
Digital Video students will find this website extremely valuable. The website reviews the basics of video production and covers topics like editing video and capturing video, stills and audio.

Digital Post Production: A Digital Media Net Community
Students enrolled in the Survey of Digital Video will find useful articles related to editing, audio, animation and graphics.

Multimedia Seeds: Exploring Audio & Video Production
This website, created by Annette Lamb and Larry Johnson, contains good information about planning audio and video productions.

Informedia: Digital Media Understanding and Research
Students may enjoy browsing current and past research on this Carnegie Mellon University project site, which includes workshops, conference presentations, and various publications on the topic of digital media.

DIG 2040
Survey of Game Development

International Game Developers Association
This site is a helpful resource for students who are interested in joining a non-profit organization that advocates issues related to game development. Students can connect with others in the industry using discussion forums and mailing lists, read relevant newsletters and articles, apply for scholarships and view upcoming IGDA events.

Entertainment Software Association
This site is mainly geared towards interactive entertainment software publishers, but can be useful for students who wish to stay current with facts and news related to entertainment software, including copyright laws.

PONG - Story
The focus of this site is on the early history of video games in the United States and Europe before the modern video gaming era that exists today. There are many pictures of outdated systems and scans of aged electronics magazines.

Video Game Design
This is a collection of articles that describe how to become a video game designer, what employers would want from you, and more.

Gamasutra - The Art & Science of Making Games
This site contains up to date information about video game industry including current news, special features, companies, and jobs, just to name a few.

GameDev.net
This site is for video game developers of any level. It includes current news, informative articles, and other recourses.

The Art of Computer Game Design
This is the electronic book of The Art of Computer Game Design by Sue Crawford. It is a text for anyone who wishes to make video games its own art form.

Wing Commander CIC Music
This is a collection of sound clips from every Wing Commander game, from Wing Commander I to Wing Commander the Movie.

Michael Giacchino
This the personal site of a symphonic composer who has worked often in the video game industry. Some of his credits include Medal of Honor and The Incredibles.

DIG 2091
Legal Issues/Media Development

Educause: DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act)
This site's content includes articles, papers, reports, publications, website links, and conference information on the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

Videomaker Magazine Videography FAQ
This webpage covers some basic legal issues that students will want to be aware of.

Educational Cyber Playground Music Law: Contracts and Music Deals
This site provides basic information and links on music copyright laws, downloading music, legal file sharing, distribution and other topics that may be of interest to students using music in their videography works.

Copyright and Related Issues For Multimedia and Online Entrepreneurs
Students visiting this site will find a general overview of copyright issues in multimedia from the lecture notes of a UCLA course on the topic. Copyrights, trademarks, photos, scanning, ownership and laws are covered.

Copyright Website, Digital Domain
This site addresses major issues surrounding copyright and digital media.

UT Crash Course in Copyright
This is a simple, interactive way for students to learn the basics of copyright, created by the University of Texas.

Intellectual Property Law Primer
This site assists students in understanding the legal issues in developing digital media. Although a bit dated, it does have some good information and basic principles are covered.

Digital Media Association (DiMA)
The Digital Media Association (DiMA) is a national trade organization devoted primarily to the online audio and video industries, and more generally to commercially innovative digital media opportunities. This organization focuses strictly on the growth, technology, development and public policy of the digital media industries.

DIG 2109 (formerly GRA 2158)
Digital Graphics

Free Art Site
The website provides free tutorials and tips for beginning, intermediate and advance graphic designers. The programs explored within the site include Illustrator, CorelDraw, CorelXara, Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro.

About Graphics Software
The website contains articles related to digital graphics and explores such topics as PhotoShop, troubleshooting graphics, image resolution and many more articles related to the topic of digital graphics. The site also contains links to other websites related to graphics software.

University of Idaho: Center for Teaching Innovation
This website provides basic Photoshop and Front Page tutorials for beginning students. Students learning about digital graphics need to understand the difference between JPGs and GIFs as well as how to use transparent images. The website provides tutorials for using graphics in PhotoShop.

Atomic Learning Adobe Illustrator 10
Students taking the Digital Graphics course use Adobe Illustrator. This website provides a few basic Illustrator tutorials.

DIG 2141 (formerly GRA 2727)
Streaming Media

Wikipedia
In its definition of streaming media, this site will also cross reference any related topics to this subject. The architecture, streaming media systems, protocols and file formats are among the topics covered.

International Engineering Consortium
This tutorial, available in PDF format or online, explains the process of preparing video and audio for delivery via the Internet. Its purpose is to outline the basic steps involved and offer suggestions for simplifying the process.

Streaming Media @ The University of Wisconsin
This is a University of Wisconsin at Madison Streaming instructional site. Get tips, techniques and resources to help you get started designing and producing streaming media. Site also includes tutorials and production software links.

All-Streaming-Media.com
This commercial site lists information and tips on software to record streaming audio and video. Guidelines are also included on how to find the best freeware and shareware stream recorder. Viewers may also email questions and receive free advice.

Streaming Media World
Streaming Media World is part of the internet.com Network, which is a division of Jupitermedia Corp. This site features tutorials, reviews, links, references and editorials and opinions in the areas of audio, video, Flash, SYMM, and more.

Streamingmedia.com
Streamingmedia.com is a resource for those seeking industry news, information, articles, directories and services. The site features articles, audio/video content, breaking news, research reports, industry directory and case studies that showcase the latest real-world streaming media implementation. You can also sign up for their e-Newsletters.

IEEE Multimedia
IEEE Multimedia, the online magazine by IEEE Computer Society, covers technical information on a broad range of issues in multimedia systems and applications. Articles, product reviews, new product descriptions, book reviews concerning hardware and software for multimedia are highlighted in this website.

Apple QuickTime Tutorials
By QuickTime. These comprehensive tutorials, divided into three sections - basic, interactive and delivery - show you how to create QuickTime tracks, audio and video tracks, text tracks and chapter tracks. The Interactive tutorial explains how to build interactive Websites using QuickTime sprites, QuickTime VR movies and Flash tracks. The Delivery tutorial explains the RTP (Real-Time Transport Protocol) and RTSP (Real-Time Streaming Protocol) and how to prepare QuickTime movies for delivery on the Web.

Streaming Media FAQs
This website, sponsored by Cable-Modem.com, provides answers to common questions on streaming media, including: "What is streaming media?; How do I get streaming media?; What are the most common streaming media players?; What's the difference between streaming media players and technologies?; What is codec?; Why do I have to choose a streaming 'speed?'; What's the difference between a broadcast, a multicast and a cybercast?; and What is 'broadband content'?"

Workshop on Streaming Media
This tutorial was created by the Information Resources & Technology Department at Drexel University . The four-part tutorial covers the fundamentals of streaming media, QuickTime, Real Networks and Windows Media.

Deliver Your Media
This collection of articles covering every facet of audio and video online including 5 basic steps to creating audio files and putting them on your Web site: 1. Setting up recording hardware; 2. Recording the material as a WAV file; 3. Removing Noise and Static (optional); 4. Compressing and Encoding the created WAV file into the MP3 format; and 5. Updating your web page with the new files and appropriate links.

Cornell's Academic Technology Center
The section about digitizing audio and video site provides a basic overview on how it is used for education. The Audio and Video Streaming section explains more about how the process works as well as the basics of how to create streaming media using RealMedia from RealNetworks.

Digital Media Association (DiMA)
The Digital Media Association (DiMA) is a national trade organization devoted primarily to the online audio and video industries, and more generally to commercially innovative digital media opportunities. This organization focuses strictly on the growth, technology, development and public policy of the digital media industries.

DIG 2200
Basic Video Camera

Digital Cameras- A Beginners Guide
The information on this site is ideal for students who want a basic overview of video camera basics.

Exploring Your Camcorder
understanding how camcorders operate may be helpful for students who are unfamiliar with camcorders.

Video and Camcorder Jargon Decoded
This article covers some commonly used terms that students taking a basic video course should be familiar with.

DIG 2205 (formerly GRA 2713)
Basic Video Editing

Pro Digital Production Support
Students taking GRA 2713 use video editing software such as Final Cut Pro. The site provides software updates, trouble shooting information and a frequently asked questions section. Click under the Demos section, view free tutorials and learn the basics of Final Cut Pro.

DVCreators.net
Visit Final Cut Pro Planet and view the free training videos.

Creative Planet Communities Editors Net: The Art, Technology and Business of Film and Video Editing
Creative Planet Communities Editors Net's website has a forum, job postings and a free newsletter for editors.

Digital Video Editing: Professional Production Resources
This website contains news, product reviews, and tutorials for digital video editors.

The Digital Director: A Guide to Digital Video
Marc Peters provides guides to digital video editing for beginners. Budget and freeware software are discussed as well as hardware guides, tips, capturing, editing, DVD creation and burning. This site also has a forum for questions.

Digital Producer Magazine: A Digital Media Net Community
This magazine site features product and book reviews, techniques, interviews, and events that may be of interest for a video editing student. Industry news, tutorials, forums and career service tools may be helpful as well.

DIG 2284
Advanced Videography

Videomaker.com Magazine
This is the site of Videomaker.com Magazine. Forums, product reviews, articles, blogs, and software downloads are all available at this site. An archive of all Videomaker.com magazine back issues is also available.

eMediaLive: Digital Studio Resource
A concise web resource for media information, this site provides up to date links on news, reviews, editorials and other articles related to the professional videography industry. A free subscription to a weekly eNewsletter is available as well as archived articles.

Final Cut Pro Planet
Visit Final Cut Pro Planet Users Group get advice, tips and view the free training videos.

Digital Video Editing Techniques
This site provides capsulated tips, techniques and tutorials on many digital video editing software packages.

Videography for Educators
The Videography for Educators exhibit features tips and techniques to assist in the creation of quality video products. The exhibit provides example planning documents and video examples to illustrate concepts and skills. The content assumes you are already learning the mechanics of iMovie 3 or Final Cut Pro, are familiar with the fundamentals of operating your camcorder, and are ready to learn the art of videography.

Video University     
100s of pages of expert articles, guides and handbooks for video professionals and advanced hobbyists. Video University's Free Library has been rated one of the top ten sites for video production.

Television Production
Index for Free, Comprehensive Audio and Video Course. A Comprehensive On-line Cybertext in Studio and Field Production.

DIG 2285 (formery GRA 2132)
Advanced Multimedia with Director

Director Web
This website contains tips, demos and web resources for students learning how to use Macromedia Director software.

The University of New South Wales: Director Tutorials & Notes
Students learning Director will find the tutorials in this website valuable. Students will learn how to create animated bouncing balls and "the waving woman."

Director Online User Group
The website contains articles covering topics related to Director and Flash. Students learning Director will find the articles informative.

Macromedia Backstage with Director MX
Students Learning Director with find the several tutorials helpful. The tutorials cover topics such as integrating Director and Flash and integrating video in Director.

Atomic Learning Bryce 5
The Atomic Learning website contains five Bryce tutorials. The tutorials cover such topics like making a mountain terrain and adding texture.

Developer Dispatch
This website, published by Gary Rosenzweig, is geared towards everything about Director and Lingo. It also has a Director bookstore and lots of free tips, tricks and other information.

Mediamacros Inc.
Mediamacros, a free web resource for Macromedia Director Developers, is a great site to find free examples of Lingo behaviors, XTRAs, and other Director utilities. There are also great ActionScript scripts and Flash examples here as well.

updateStage
UpdateStage, inc. is an online information resource for Director developers. The archive contains practical tech notes and how-to articles on Director. The Quirk List alerts developers to potential pitfalls and the workarounds. The Mile High Table O'Products lists helpful xtras and utilities from many sources.

Director Lingo Guides
This site was created by Stephen Wilson, Professor Conceptual/Information Arts Program, Art Department, San Francisco State University . In addition to Director lingo guides, this site has other guides and mini-tutorials citing specific examples, as well as links to various Director resources.

Adobe
This site contains information and tutorials for Director.

DIG 2360
Advanced Animation/Macromedia

Learning @ Your Own Pace Lynda.com
This site includes training videos on the topic of animation (and other topics) that students can access for free, and additional training videos that subscribers can access for a fee.

Flash Kit, A Flash Developer Resource Site
Information on this site is great for students using Flash in their class.

Adobe
This site contains tutorials on programs such as Adobe Premiere and Flash.

Webmonkey: The Web Developer's Resource
Webmonkey includes many tutorials, focusing on internet and web design.

Tutorialized.com
Students in courses using Photoshop and Flash will find the tutorials on this site helpful.

DIG 2410 (formerly GRA 2715)
Basic Scripting for Video

Writers Guild of America, West: Guild Publications Online
The Writers Guild of America's website provides free publications about writing scripts and producing television shows. Students learning to make scripts will find this site very informative.

Atomic Martinis
This website by Atomic Rom Products contains guides related to script writing and writing for multimedia.

The Script Doctor
This site includes items such as the ten point scripting process, video script elements, script samples, and resources that digital media students might appreciate.

ECO 2013
Principles of Macroeconomics

Economics Interactive
This site created by Samuel L. Baker contains several interactive tutorials that help the student understand major concepts covered in Macroeconomics.

Walras Law and Macroeconomics
This website created by the Department of Economics at the University of Melbourne discusses the impact that Walras’ Law had in the study of macroeconomics.

AmosWeb
This site offers a wealth of information for beginning economics students including a glossary, encyclopedia, practice exams, and many more extensive features that will allow students to explore the world of economics. This website was created by Orley M. Amos, Jr. Professor of Economics at the Oklahoma State University.

Biz/Ed
This interactive website is put together by the Joint Information Systems Committee, and contains of wealth of information on economic topics. This site is maintained by the Institute for Learning and Research Technology at the University of Bristol.

World Exchange Rates
This is a very simple, yet informative site put together by Rubicon International. This website offers an updated presentation of the international exchange rates and conversion amounts.

World Bank
This is the main website for the World Bank Group. There is a wealth of information about their aid and economic help to developing countries.

National Economic Accounts
This site is put together by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, and offers a comprehensive overview of the United States ' national economic accounts.

The Inflation Calculator
The Inflation Calculator was created by S. Morgan Friedman, and is an interactive calculator that converts money into the value it was in the past. Enter in some data, and you will see how much inflation has changed over the past two hundred years!

ECO 2023
Principles of Microeconomics

Microeconomics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An online encyclopedia with pictures and definitions of many theories and concepts of Microeconomics.

Problems in Microeconomics
This site offers information and sample problems for microeconomics.

Library of Economics and Liberty The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics
This is an online encyclopedia of economics, which includes many articles defining and elaborating on economics. Articles also include historical bases for many principles.

Speculative Microeconomics for Tomorrow's Economy
This is a forward thinking essay that uses modern microeconomic principles that will influence our new era of information.

HighWire Press, Internet Imprint of the Stanford University Libraries
This is a database of economic magazine websites. It is organized by the particular subject of economics that the journal specializes in. It may help the student keep to up to date on particular fields of economics that may interest the student.

Economic Journals on the Web
This is a bibliography of electronic economic journals. The journals are in alphabetical order. It may help the student choose what journal to select when conducting economic research.

U.S. Census Bureau Foreign Trade Statistics
This site contains information on foreign trade that is invaluable to any student who is interested in the current condition of foreign trade.

Intute- Microeconomics
Intute is a free online service providing access to the very best Web resources for education and research. The service is created by a network of UK universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in the database and write high quality descriptions of the resources.

EDF 1005
Introduction to Education

P.E.links4U
The site created by a non profit organization based out of Central Washington University.  This is a great website for college students who are interested in becoming coaches or physical education teachers in grades K-12.  The website contains links to articles and other websites that discuss topics like classroom management and rules.  PELINKS4U website also provides fitness activities for the classroom.  Every education major is required to take the Introduction to Education class before they can specialize in one area of education.

MiddleWeb
College students who are considering a career in middle schools will find these articles about teaching strategies and classroom assessment useful in the classroom.  The website also contains chat room and education links that give student teachers resources they can use when doing their contact hours or internships in public school or private schools.

The Journal: Educators Road Map to the Web
The website contains educational links for teachers. The site provides lists of websites related to specific subjects such as Arts and Humanities, History and Social Sciences, Math and Science, History and Social Studies, Teacher Resources, Technology, Guidance and Psychology.

The Lesson Plan Page
The website provides lesson plans for subjects such as math, science, music, language arts, computers, social studies, art and health. The lesson plans are for grade levels preschool thru high school.

LessonPlanZ.com
The website contains teacher chat forums by subject and lesson plans for literacy, math, book activities, science, and social studies. Teachers and student teachers will find information about making centers and teaching themed lessons.

Journal -The Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society: Philosophical Studies in Education
Students taking the Introduction to Education course learn philosophy of education and this website contains research articles that cover topics in educational philosophy.

The History of Education Selected Moments of the 20th Century: A work in progress edited by Daniel Schugurensky
This website was created by the Department of Education at the University of Toronto and contains historical information about education in the United States, Canada and Europe.

International Reading Association: Web Resources
The International Reading Association's website has articles that deal with the following topics: language and cultural diversity, reading assessment, teacher education, technology, and struggling readers and writers. Students taking the Introduction to Education course are required to get fifteen hours of field experience and will find the information useful when assisting students with reading.

TheFreeDictiontary.com: Philosophy of Education
Education students are required to know some educational philosophy. The Free Dictionary contains a general overview of education philosophers and theories.

EDG 2701
Teaching Diverse Populations

Enhanced Learning:  African-American History:  Black History Month
Since students will be studying diverse populations they will need to about the history of different minority groups.  The site contains biographies of famous minorities with African heritage.

LD Online
Learning disabled students are one of the diverse populations that teachers must deal with on a daily basis. This website provides resources for teachers, student teachers, parents and young students. The site has a KidZone with educational games; a bulletin board to post questions and articles about various learning disabilities.

Special Education News
Special Education News provides articles on such topics as classroom ideas, curriculum planning, teaching methods and literacy information. The website also contains sections about specific disabilities like ADD, ADHD, Emotional Disabilities, Vision Disabilities, Mental Illness, Developmental Disabilities, Autism, and Cerebral Palsy.

Teaching Tolerance
Teaching Tolerance is a nonprofit organization that provides classroom activities used for teaching tolerance and articles about tolerance, sexism and racism.

Diversity Web: An Interactive Resource Hub for Higher Education
The Diversity Web contains articles related to the importance of encouraging diversity in university settings.

Teaching Diverse Learners: Northeast and Islands Regional Educational Laboratory
The website created by Brown University contains articles about learning strategies, assessment and organizations for students who are learning English as a Second Language (ESL). Educators can also read articles related to education policy and how to increase parent involvement.

National Center for Education Research
Through its research programs and the national research and development centers, NCER supports research activities to improve the quality of education and thereby, increase student academic achievement, and reduce the achievement gap between high-performing and low-performing students.

WestEd: Excellence in Research, Development and Service
The WestEd website contains free online publications that cover topics such as special education, educational reform and students' civil rights.

BBC - Skillswise - Homepage
Tutors, parents and students will find this website helpful because it contains tools to assist them with literacy and numeric concerns and improve your English and math. It also provides a Tutor section which will help teachers create resources for their students. All are able to participate in the "Message board" area where one can gain additional skills or post their individual needs for additional assistance. BBC stands for British Broadcasting Corporation. It is a very informative web site.

EEC 1601
Observing and Recording Early Child Behavior

Early Childhood Research and Practice
The Journal contains articles related to teaching strategies and research in preschool classes.

National Network for Child Care
The website provides forums and articles related to child care management, practices, public policy, child development and discipline.

EEC 1603
Early Childhood Development

Bright Futures at Georgetown University: Bright Futures Family Tip Sheets
The tip sheets on this website cover the four stages of childhood and provide social development, diet and health tips for child care providers and parents.

Child Study: Classic Theories of Child Development
This website contains an overview of cognitive and social-emotional development of children. Students have an opportunity to learn the theories of Sigmund Freud, Margaret Mahler, and Erik Erikson.

Child Welfare League of America
Students taking the Early Childhood Development course will find the articles on Child Welfare League's website helpful when they are studying the topic of childhood emotional development.

EME 2040
Introduction to Educational Technology

The Encyclopedia of Educational Technology
This website was created by the San Diego State University. The online encyclopedia provides teachers and student teachers with valuable tips for using technology in the classroom. The website also provides explanations for educational theories.

University of Minnesota Digital Media Center
The website provides teachers with tips for using technology in the classroom. Topics covered in this site include using e-mail, chat, bulletin boards, websites and quizzes for educational purposes.

EduHound.com
EdHound.com contains Weekly Spotlights which provides educational websites that are useful for students and teachers. Educators can create a free web page on the site. T