Frequently-Used Resource Links

Accessibility
Best Practices
Chancellor's Office Projects
Cooperative Purchases
Instructional Design
Miscellaneous
Streaming Media
Web Design

Accessibility

Access CVC provides training and technical support, including online resources associated with the creation of accessible video and Web-based distance education. Additionally, ACVC provides a help desk, extensive Web-based resources for creation of accessible distance education, associated list servers, chat rooms, and other online resources.

A-Prompt (Accessibility Prompt) is a software tool designed to improve the usability of HTML documents by evaluating Web pages for accessibility barriers and then providing developers with a fast and easy way to make the necessary repairs.

Bobby is an accessibility checker provided by Watchfire (who acquired Bobby from CAST) to help Web page authors identify and repair significant barriers to access by individuals with disabilities. Bobby has a free online checker (one page at a time) as well as a version that can be purchased to check multiple pages. Another tool from the Watchfire folks who put out Bobby is WebXACT.

You can use Watchfire® WebXACT™ to scan and analyze any web page for quality, accessibility, and privacy issues.

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CAST (Center for Applied Special Technology) is an educational, not-for-profit organization that uses technology to expand opportunities for all people, including those with disabilities.

CCC Live Caption, funded by the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office, supports increased student access to distance education by providing reimbursement funding for real-time captioning of live courses in the California community colleges.

Distance Education: Access for Students with Disabilities published in August 1999 by the Chancellor's Office of the California Community Colleges; addresses issues related to assuring accessibility for students in technology-mediated distance education classes, including online courses.

Dive Into Accessibility 30 days to a more accessible web site.

The High Tech Center Training Unit of the California Community Colleges is a state-of-the-art training and support facility for community college faculty wishing to acquire or improve teaching skills, methodologies, and pedagogy in Assistive and Instructional Computer Technology. Visit their Web site for information about accessibility resources.

WebAIM: How to Create Accessible PowerPoint Slides on the Web This WebAIM tutorial provides information on a variety of methods for assuring that your PowerPoint will be accessible and offers alternatives to PowerPoint.

WebAIM Section 508 Checklist The checklist is designed to help you self-assess your own Web pages for compliance with the Section 508.

WebAIM WAVE 3.0 Web Accessibility Tool WebAIM WAVE 3.0 Web Accessibility Tool

Webmonkey: The Web Isn't for Everyone ... Yet A three-lesson tutorial on accessibility.

W3C/508 Accessibility Extension for Dreamweaver MX UsableNet and Macromedia have released a new Free accessibility extension to enhance the current options that come with Macromedia Dreamweaver MX.

W3C-WWW Consortium The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential. W3C is a forum for information, commerce, communication, and collective understanding.

Web Accessibility 101 by Sean Keegan is a brief introduction to the practice of making web content accessible for individuals with disabilities and why it is necessary to integrate accessibility into web page construction. Presentations include tutorials in the following: Creating Accessible Adobe PDF documents; Creating Accessible Data Tables; Accessible Colors on the Web; and Representing Graphics on the Web. (Requires Internet Explorer)

Web Accessibility 101 by University of Wisconsin-Madison, Division of Information Technology, is a free online course that includes a web accessibility self-assessment and instruction for achieving compliance with various components of Section 508.

Word Viewer With the Microsoft® Word Viewer 97/2000, Microsoft Word users can share documents with those who do not have Word and users without Word can open and view Word documents.

Best Practices

Implementing the Seven Principles: Technology as Lever by Arthur W. Chickering and Stephen C. Ehrmann for the American Association of Higher Education

Seven Principles of Effective Teaching: A Practical Lens for Evaluating Online Courses by Charles Graham, Kursat Cagiltay, Byung-Ro Lim, Joni Craner, and Thomas M. Duffy for Assessment, March/April 2001

Seven Principles of Good Teaching Practice by Dr. James W. King, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Sloan-C Quality Education Online Effective Practices To help make quality education online part of everyday life, accessible and affordable for anyone, anywhere, at any time, in a wide variety of disciplines, Sloan-C shares effective practices online.

Chancellor's Office Projects

@ONE provides educational technology resources to California Community College faculty, instructional designers, and technology trainers.

CCC Confer provides e-conferencing to the administration, staff, faculty and students through a five-year, funded grant by the Chancellor's Office.

CCCApply is a service provided free of charge to help students and their families plan for college.

CCCSAT is a statewide initiative established by the California Community College Chancellor's Office,the mission of the California Community Colleges Satellite Network (CCCSAT) is to provide the highest quality digital telecommunications delivery system for distance education in the State.

The California Virtual Campus centers support the design, development, and delivery of online instruction through training and services to California community colleges and their faculty, staff, and students. The goal of the CVC is to assure the availability of high quality, accessible distance learning opportunities for California community college students. CVC regional centers are funded under a grant from the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office.

California Virtual Campus Regional Centers
Bay Area Regional Center (Region 1) at DeAnza College
Greater Los Angeles Regional Center (Region 2) at Rio Hondo College
Southern California Regional Center (Region 3) at Coastline College
Statewide/Rural Regional Center (Region 4) at Cerro Coso College
Professional Development Center Online Catalog

The High Tech Center Training Unit of the California Community Colleges is a state-of-the-art training and support facility for community college faculty wishing to acquire or improve teaching skills, methodologies, and pedagogy in Assistive and Instructional Computer Technology.  Visit their Web site for information about accessibility resources.

Cooperative Purchases

The Foundation for California Community Colleges has cooperative purchase agreements with many vendors that allow faculty and staff to purchase software at discounted prices.

Instructional Design

Designing Technology-Enhanced Instruction is a 5-lesson @ONE tutorial designed to help faculty to employ instructional design principles to successfully integrate technology into teaching. Each lesson covers a sequential phase of instructional design: 

   1. Analysis, 
   2. Design, 
   3. Development, 
   4. Implementation, and 
   5. Evaluation.
For more information or to login go to
http://one.evc.edu/idonlineclass/id_tutorial/index.html
 

Effective Instructional Design: An Online Design Template: The same instructional design principles can be used to create effective lessons for any discipline and course delivery method (even the traditional classroom). This site, developed for a Telelearning 2001 presentation, focuses on ways you can incorporate effective techniques and teaching strategies in the design of your online courses.

Miscellaneous

Check out the Instructional Telecommunications Council's (ITC) website for publications concerning; distance education guides and handbooks, or recent surveys dealing with faculty compensation, copyright, and intellectual property rights.

Intellectual Property in Cyberspace 2000: Who owns what information on the Internet? Who should own what information on the Internet? Harvard has posted an excellent online course in intellectual property rights.

Online Libraries

Software TUCOWS: Billed as The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software, a great software source for browsers and plug-ins, e-mail add-ons, compression utilities, HTML editors, and multimedia tools.

W3C-WWW Consortium The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential. W3C is a forum for information, commerce, communication, and collective understanding.

Streaming Media

See CVC3's Developing Streaming Video Primer for an overview of streaming media and links to resources for developing and delivering streaming video. This site was developed as part of CVC3's Online Summer Institute 2001.

Web Design

C/AIM Web Style Guide: A comprehensive guide from Yale University Center for Advanced Instructional Media

The HTML Basics: A friendly document explaining in English what HTML is, what tags are, how tags work in pairs, etc.

Basic HTML by Example: A 17-step tutorial that shows you one tag at a time and provides another window to let you see the effects of the tag.

HTML Code Tutorial: This is a complete guide to creating web pages anywhere. The Tutorial also has a Help Forum for personalized help.

Introduction to HTML: A quick introduction to HTML with a number of other links to explore.

The Sevloid Guide to HTML: Written primarily for the beginner with basic tutorial sections.

Writing HTML--A Tutorial for Creating Web Pages: Produced by the Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction of the Maricopa Community Colleges and loaded with information!