Saturday, March 19, 2011

The TOR

The TOR stands for Technology Orientation Requirement.  All new students are required to take this three part test.  The first part is basic computer skills; taking screen shots, saving files as PDF's, using the library databases, etc.  The second part is making a wiki page and the third part (the one I feared the most!) is making a web page.  I breezed through the first part of the exam, and then began the wiki page.  I must say, this was actually fun! The technology staff at Simmons also provided detailed, step by step instructions for both the wiki and web pages.  Yes, I even conquered the web page, but this was much more detailed and all done by manually entering the code.  I learned so much and was very proud of myself when I finished!  Here are some great links if you'd like to make your own wiki page, including what a wiki actually is!

Wikis in plain English
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY

Wiki Cheat Sheet
http://gslis.simmons.edu/tor/AdditionalMaterials/PC-MAC-howto-Wikicheatsheet.pdf

Sites to create your own Wiki:
http://www.pbwiki.com/
http://www.wikispaces.com/

Help for making a web page:

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