Recommended resources for seminar discussion and project planning (red numbers refer to seminars in which reference sources are introduced)

• Central AU resources
• Seminar resources
• Video conference resources
• Web-based resources
• Print resources

Central UWA resources

• Log in to Blackboard
• Voyager Search UWA libraries, on-line journals and other services.
• Search UWA pages or search the web Common search engines like Google and Yahoo are linked here.
• The Aberystwyth Users network (an essential resource for anybody with a web-site on users.aber.ac.uk).
• Guidelines on publishing to the World Wide Web at AU Important guidelines and regulations on publishing your own web-site on the AU server.
• Connecting to your W: drive You can edit your web pages live on-line without using file transfer protocol (FTP) (uploading pages).

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Seminar resources

• Seminar 2: Class demographics, topic interests & topic analysis techniques (Powerpoint)
• Seminar 7: Language of aims and audience characteristics (Powerpoint)
• Seminar 15: Deisgn plan for video conference 2 (Word doc)
• Seminar 20 (semester 1, 2005/2006): link to 50 word mini sagas 2002 as a point of interest for gypsy culture project

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Video conference resources

• Masaryk University partnership video conference pages

• MU staff contacts
  • Libor Štepánek lstep@fss.muni.cz
  • Alena Hradilová steflova@law.muni.cz

• The Aberystwyth video conferencing facilities
• The Welsh Video Network
  • Research paper "Video conferencing as an evolving literacy practice in higher education" including EL27720 presented at the WVN Briefing Day, UWA Arts Centre, 17th November, 2005. Accessible at http://www.wvn.ac.uk/bd20051117.htm Powerpoint presentation available at http://users.aber.ac.uk/jpm/copaper/WVN-17Nov05-JMorgan.ppt
• Geoff Constable (Welsh Video Network Support Officer, UWA) has some very useful information on-line at http://users.aber.ac.uk/ccc which includes a 14 page document on "Guidelines for successful videoconferencing" http://users.aber.ac.uk/ccc/vc-option
• Video Technology Advisory Service. UKERNA guidelines to successful video conferencing http://www.video.ja.net/usrg/

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Web-based resources

• 4 McMurrey, D.A. "Online Technical Writing: Strategies for Peer-Reviewing and Team-Writing." [On-line] http://www.io.com/~hcexres/tcm1603/acchtml/team.html
• 20 Kraut, R., Lundmark, V., Patterson, M., Kiesler, S., Mukopadhyay, T. & Scherlis, W. (1998). "Internet Paradox: A Social Technology that Reduces Social Involvement and Psychological Well-Being?" American Psychologist, 53/9. September, 1998. Pp 1017-1031. Also available on-line: http://www.apa.org/journals/amp/amp5391017.html and http://homenet.andrew.cmu.edu/Progress/
• 10 Morgan, J., Taschner, J., Hermosa, N. & Abel, R. (1999) "Electronic Literature and Language in South East Asia." Commissioned by United States Information Service. [On-line]. http://users.aber.ac.uk/jpm/ellsa/ellsa_index.html
• 10 Morgan, J. (1999). "Anxiety, Depression, Non-Reading and the Internet: A Few Considerations in Developing an On-Line Resource for the Teaching and Learning of Literature." [PDF file On-line] http://users.aber.ac.uk/jpm/ellsaone.pdf
• 9 Morkes, J. & Nielsen, J. (1997). “Concise, SCANNABLE, and Objective: How to Write for the Web.” [On-line] http://www.useit.com/papers/webwriting/writing.html
• 20 National School Boards Foundation (2000). "Safe and Smart: Research and Guidelines for Children's Use of the Internet." [On-line] http://www.nsbf.org/safe-smart/full-report.htm
• 11 The Essential English Usage: http://website.lineone.net/~eshp/styles.htm
• 10 Usable Information Technology: Jakob Nielsen's Web-Site http://www.useit.com

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Print resources

• 3 Argyle, M. (1969). Social Interaction. Tavistock Press.
• 8 Brookes, A. & Grundy, P. (1990). Writing for Study Purposes: A Teacher's Guide to Developing Individual Writing Skills. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• 7 Crusius, T.W. & Channell, C.E. (1998). The Aims of Argument: A Brief Rhetoric (Second edition). Mountain View, Ca: Mayfield.
• 15 Dignen, B. (1999). Down to Business: English for Presentations. York & Kuala Lumpur: York Associates & Falcon Press.
• 3 Heron, J. (1989). The Facilitator's Handbook. Kogan Page.
• Huckin, T.N. & Olsen, L.A. (1991). Technical Writing and Professional Communication for Nonnative Speakers of English (Second edition). New York: Mc Graw Hill.
• 3 Kessler, C. (Ed.) (1992). Cooperative Language Learning: A Teacher's Resource Book. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall Regents.
• 8 Nielsen, J. (2000). Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity. Indianapolis: New Riders Publishing.
• 3 Olson, R.E.W-B & Kagan, S. (1992). "About Cooperative Learning" in Kessler, C. (Ed.) (1992).
• 3 Sharples, M. (1999). How We Write: Writing as Creative Design. London: Routledge.
• 20 Slevin, J. (2000). The Internet and Society. Cambridge: Polity Press.
• 2 White, R. & Arndt, V. (1991). Process Writing. London: Longman.

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