MICROCOMPUTER WORKSHOP HANDOUTS

MICROCOMPUTER WORKSHOP HANDOUTS AND VIDEOS

Handouts

Most of the following handouts are in Microsoft Word for Windows format. In order to view these documents, you must either have Microsoft Word installed on your computer or another program (such as Microsoft Word Viewer) that is capable of opening .doc files. To view any of these handouts, simply left-click on one of the titles below. Alternately, these files can be downloaded to your computer for later viewing by first right-clicking on the appropriate document name and then selecting the "save target as" option (if you are using Internet Explorer) or the "save link as" option if you are using Mozilla FireFox.

(For Expression Web Users ONLY)--Summary of Expression Web Procedures (Rev. 3)
Summary of the Procedure for Copying Your Web Page(s) to the Illinois State University Web Server Using Version 1.1 of the Map Network Drive Utility (Rev. 5)
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Web Authoring Assignment FAQ
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(For Excel 2007/2010 Users ONLY)--Summary of Procedures for the Excel Reading List Workshop--(For Excel 2007/2010 Users ONLY) (Rev. 2)
Excel Spreadsheet Assignment FAQ
Conditional Logic Using Excel "IF" Statements
(For Access 2007/2010 Users ONLY)--Summary of Access 2007/2010 Procedures for the Database Workshop (Rev. 3)
Access Database Assignment FAQ
Six Things Teachers Can Do to Help Visually Impaired Students in Their Classrooms
A "Virtual Tour" of Illinois State University
2009 Chrysalis Microcomputer Seminar

Videos

To view any of the following videos, you can either: (1) left-click on the "Play Flash" button and watch the presentation from within your web browser or (2) "right-click" on the "Download" button and use the "Save Target As" option in Internet Explorer (or the "Save Link As" option in FireFox) to save the clip to your desktop for later viewing. If you choose the second option, you will need to have a media player capable of displaying files in the .wmv format installed on your machine. Examples of such a player include any recent version of the Windows Media Player (which is already installed on computers running the Windows operating system), or one of the many cross-platform alternatives (like the VideoLAN VLC Media Player).

Copying Your Web Site to the ISU Web Server

Fixing Problems with Missing Images on Your Web Site

Part 1 of 6--Introduction, assumptions, suggestions, and illustration of the proper procedure for copying your site to the ISU web server

Part 2 of 6--First Scenario: The images were not copied to the web server along with the web pages.

Part 3 of 6--Second Scenario: The images were not copied to the correct place on the web server.

Part 4 of 6--Third Scenario: The images were not in the correct place on the flash drive when they were initially inserted on the web pages.

Part 5 of 6--Fourth Scenario: The images were not named correctly when they were initially inserted on the web pages.

Part 6 of 6--Additional suggestions, summary, and conclusions

***Watch the complete presentation--(all 6 parts)

(For Excel 2007/2010 Users ONLY)--Using Excel 2007/2010 to Create Graphs of Information in Your Reading List

Supplementary Downloads

The files listed below are intended to serve as supplementary materials for some of the workshops. (Unlike the other materials on this page, they are normally not needed.) If you are instructed to do so, any of these files can be downloaded to your computer by right-clicking on the appropriate file name and selecting the "Save Target As" option from within Internet Explorer (or the "Save Link As" option in Mozilla Firefox). For easy access, it is recommended that you download these files to your desktop.

	Web Page Authoring with Expression Web (Rev. 3)--(a PowerPoint presentation containing important information that is presented at the beginning of the Expression Web workshop)
	A Crash Course in Web Authoring (Rev. 3)--(an overview of the steps that need to be followed when creating a web site, along with some very important caveats)
	Practice Web Site Files--(for use by laptop computer users during the Expression Web workshop)
	(For FrontPage XP/2003 Users ONLY)--Summary of FrontPage 2003 procedures (Rev. 3)
	Summary of the Procedure for Copying Your Web Page(s) to the Illinois State University Web Server Using Version 1.0 of the Map Drive Utility (Rev. 5)--(useful only to those who are running an obsolete version of the Map Drive Utility)
	(For Excel XP/2003 Users ONLY)--Summary of Procedures for the Excel Reading List Workshop--(For Excel XP/2003 Users ONLY) (Rev. 4)
	Excel 2007 Basics
	(For Access 2003 Users ONLY)--Summary of Access 2003 Procedures for the Database Workshop (R1)
	Word 2007 Basics
	Summary of LiveText Procedures (Rev. 6)--(now quite dated, and of limited value)

	(For Excel XP/2003 Users ONLY)--Using the Excel XP/2003 Chart Wizard to Create Graphs of Information in Your Reading List
	Last Week's Database

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