Student Services
These materials together with the techniques used have been developed and tested as being specifically relevant and effective to Student Services staff. However many of the techniques and ITQ skills required are transferrable to other roles just as the resources developed for LRC staff and Teachers can be adapted for Student Services.
Equality
and Diversity
This is an example of how you might use a simple web site to both give
information and link to other information in a colourful and entertaining
way. It utilises formative texting throughout by means of a variety of
Hot Potatoes tests. 
Substance
abuse
This resource aims to show how some of the more advanced features of PowerPoint© can
be used. Includes hyperlinks, object creation and animation. Designed around
a learner resource featuring Substance Abuse, it utilises other resources
in Word, Excel and Hot Potatoes.
How
we learn
This resource is aimed squarely at showing practitioners how to employ
Reload as a learning object creation tool. To illustrate this, it
takes the subject of ‘How we learn’ and presents us with a
very useful learner resource and instruction about how practitioners could
do the same.
Leaving
home
These two resources are a clever attempt at showing how PowerPoint can
be used alongside other 'Office ' products (in this case Excel) to
provide effective learning episodes. The PowerPoint asks questions
and guides towards answers whilst the Excel pages interact with the
user's own input. Tutorials are provided for 'how' use action buttons and
'IF' statements.
Living
alone
This resource utilises NLN materials to illustrate some of the issues
that come with living alone. Covering, cookery, food hygiene, finance,
personal hygiene and gardening (well you never know!) the materials are
knitted together using hyperlinks from PowerPoint. to link individual
NLN units. It demonstrates how colleagues skilled with PowerPoint can
prepare learning episodes without needing other software like Reload.
Healthy
Eating
This resource consists of a series of web pages which contain interactive
elements such as JavaScript rollovers and interactive Flash movies.
They are designed to help learners understand the concept of healthy eating.
The student resources are complemented with a comprehensive 'how to' concerning
the manipulation and re-use of such resources.
Preparing
for University
This resource takes several large Word© documents kindly donated
to the project by Runshaw College and makes them more usable online with
Course Genie. Course Genie is a plugin for Word which allows
the developer to make interactive web ages in a quick and easy fashion.
A 'how to' use Course Genie file is included.
Job
seeking
This resource is presented as a Flash movie. It has been designed
to work both on-screen through a web browser and on a Personal Digital
Assistant (PDA). This is a prime example of m-Learning. The accompanying
documentation explains why this process was used and which software was
employed. By using the techniques described in the healthy eating resource,
this episode can also be used in other ways.
Job
applications
This resource is built around a series of three PodCasts. The PodCasts
cover CV creation, job applications and the interview itself. These audio
files are held together both online (at an address given within the documentation)
and by an index file for use in-house. Documentation is included telling
practitioners how sound files are made and how they might be used. This
resource would make an excellent accompaniment to the partner resource
to be found in the library section
