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Worksheets and reference sheets for
Improve your English through ICT
at Southampton City College

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• Language of computing
• Say IT Printable lists of useful computer words in English translated into other languages.
• Webopedia online encyclopedia of computing. Good for looking up definitions of computer-related words, but sometimes provides so much information it's confusing!
• NetLingo Acronyms and Shorthand List of abbreviations used in email and txt msgs (like B4 = before)


• Understanding the Internet
• Learn the Net - Learn more about the Internet and how it works (includes a useful search engine tutorial) and animated guide to how the Internet works
• BBC Webwise - BBC Education guide to the internet. Click 'net_basics' for help using the internet and e-mail
• www.quick.org.uk Can you trust the information you read on the Internet? (clear layout with pictures)


• Learning about Word-processing
• Baycon Group Word tutorial


• Learning about Spreadsheets
• Baycon group Excel tutorial
• Excel tutorials from Western Carolina University
• Reference guide. might be useful to look up things quickly after you have already learnt a bit about Excel.


• Making your own web pages
• www.echoecho.com/html.htm has lots of good HTML tutorials.
• www.activejump.com has some more (they teach the same things in a different way - try them and see which you get on with best.
• http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~lendl/tags.html is a nice list of the most common HTML tags showing you what they do. You might find it useful to look up how to do something quickly once you already have a fair idea about how HTML works.
• Bare Bones guide to HTML A reference guide to HTML tags
• Hex code chart background colors for your webpage
• NCSA Beginner's Guide to HTML More than just the basics
• Adam's Advanced HTML guide makes learning more difficult HTML (such as tables, frames) very easy


• Other
• Beginners.co.uk free tutorials on many aspects of computing including office skills and programming
  (The language and reading level in these courses is quite high).
• BayCon Group various Software tutorials including PaintShop Pro (for making and working with images) and Flash (for making animations for the Web)