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Examination Information

New CLAIT Documentation from OCR [Suggested by Andrea Jones]

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Adult and Community Learning on Blogspot [Suggested by Debbi Walcott]
E-learning news and reviews for the adult and community learning sector

Teaching Resources

AllAboutOffice [Suggested by Andrea Jones]
A site with information on how to use the different areas of Microsoft Office.

AllAboutOffice [Suggested by kazzabeee]
Website containing ECDL powerpoints and Hot Potato quizzes. Author Gary Mason.

BODMAS Exercises [Suggested by Maxine]
Does exactly what it says on the tin! A selection of exercises designed to test students' understanding of the BODMAS method of evaluating formulae (Brackets, Orders [ie. powers], Division, Multiplication, Addition, Substraction).

ECDL Resources [Suggested by Kazzabeee]
An excellent website with lots of useful ECDL stuff.

Form Practice for ECDL Module 7 (Information and Communication)
Authors Bob Richardson and Wendy Banks.

Freeskills.co.uk [Suggested by Chris MacGregor]
This site has 550 FREE tutorials for a wide variety of skills.

GaryWilkes.co.uk [Suggested by kazzabeee]
An excellent website full of brilliant resources for CLAIT, ECDL, ICT Entry 3 and Easy Ebay.

Information Technology Homepage [Suggested by Karen Blakeley]
Lots of exercises for ECDL and CLAIT.

TechLearning.com [Suggested by Chris MacGregor]
"The resource for Education Technology Leaders"

Utilities

Mozy [Suggested by Wilf Voss]
A free service which will automatically backup your PC across the web. The free option gives you up to 1 Gb of storage, which you can upgrade for a small annual fee, and the only catch is that you have an email from them every so often.

CutePDF [Suggested by Jodi Cook]
A freeware program for creating PDF's from any application. It installs as a printer and you just print to it to create PDF's. There are two parts you need to download and install; instructions are on the site.

Design Gallery Live [Suggested by Jodi Cook]
Free photos, clipart, sounds and animation from the Microsoft Office website. You can still download and use the clips without Microsoft Office installed, although the site is very much geared towards Office users.

TinyURL [Suggested by Carol Downey]
Enter a URL in the text field, and it will create a tiny URL that will not break in email postings and never expires.

Yahoo Desktop Search [Suggested by Mick Hardwick]
Find it fast with the power of Yahoo! Search: anything on your computer, instant messages from Yahoo! Messenger, contacts from Yahoo! Address Book, and protect your privacy with easy search controls.

Graph Paper Generator [Suggested by Carol Downey]
Does just what it says on the tin: generates all kinds of graph paper, dotted paper to your exact specifications. The finished result is a PDF available for immediate download.

YouSendIt [Suggested by Jodi Cook]
Send files of up to 1 GB reliably without clogging up the recipient's inbox. YouSendIt uploads the file to their servers, then sends the recipient a link to retrieve it within 7 days.

Deep Freeze [Suggested by Peter Dagnall]
Set up PCs with default settings such as screensavers, wallpapers, Office toolbars etc. and no matter what changes a learner makes, when the machine is logged out, the whole lot reverts back to those default settings.

E-Backup [Suggested by « Jê±hrõUK© »]
Back up Outlook Express email accounts, email folders, newsgroups, email rules (stored in registry) and your Favourites folder - all into one zip file that can be reinstalled at any time or on a new computer.

Answers.com [Suggested by Bill Bruen]
Answers.com is a free, ad-supported, reference search service, created to provide you with instant answers on over a million topics. As opposed to standard search engines that serve up a list of links for you to follow, Answers.com displays quick, snapshot answers with concise, reliable information. Our editors take our content from over 100 authoritative encyclopedias, dictionaries, glossaries and atlases, carefully chosen for breadth and quality. For ultimate convenience, install 1-Click Answers™ software, and click on any word in any document on your screen for 'Answers At Your Fingertips'.