The following ideas started from a post from http://teachingcollegemath.com/?p=1498. I hope that others will add to the list and we can share resources. She also has a mind map available for a visual guide on http://www.mindomo.com/view.htm?m=73adb8d9c6d24d0a9f92090d5877b862 . I am playing around with the best ways to incorporate and teach the foundational technical skills within existing courses as well as a "elearning 101" course as a prep-course for students.

This is open for anyone to edit. I hope that others will share their ideas.

"The difficult part about including these alternative learning methods is teaching the students all the necessary technology skills first. Most of my students are the traditional freshman-level age-range (18-25). For the most part, they “get” technology (cell phones, facebook, video games, and gadgets), but they haven’t been taught how to do anything productive with technology - at least, not with regards to learning or career skills."


Basic Web Stuff
1. Basics of HTML (bold, underline, italics, special characters)
2. How to use EMBED code or make a live link
3. How to make and share a screenshot
4. How to make and share a short video explaining something or asking for help
5. Learn basic abbreviations and emoticons (e.g. ROFL, IMHO)
6. How to build a landing page for your web-based stuff (e.g. iGoogle, NetVibes)
7. How to add gadgets or plug-ins for various sites
8. How to make a simple website (e.g. Google Sites)
9. Build a clickable resume / digital portfolio
10. How (and when) to use collaborative documents or spreadsheets
11. How (and why) to create tags and labels
12. How (and why) to use URL-shortening sites (e.g. TinyURL) Organization
13. How to set up a web-based calendar and use it to manage your time
14. How to set up and manage an RSS reader
15. How to find a common meeting time (e.g. Doodle)
16. How to set up a communication aggregator (e.g. Digsby, Trillian, TweetDeck) Communication
17. How to manage email
18. How to write a good “first-contact” email
19. How to write a good subject line
20. How to write a good email response
21. Texting etiquette (when it’s appropriate, when it’s not)
22. How to summarize your thoughts in 140 characters or less
23. How to use Twitter (reply, retweet, direct message)
24. How to determine whether you should share it in a public forum (will it affect your future job prospects, your current employment, etc.)
25. How to manage an online meeting
26. How to give an effective webinar
27. What are the differences between various social networks and how they are used? (e.g. Facebook, Ning, LinkedIn) Finding and Managing Information
28. How to use web-based bookmarks
29. How (and when) to use library search databases
30. How (and when) to use an image-based search engine
31. How (and when) to use alternate search engines (e.g. Clusty)
32. Who writes Wikipedia articles and when can they be trusted?
33. How to build a custom search engine
34. When can you trust the information you find?
35. How to use article citations to find better references
36. How to manage a bibliography online (e.g. Zotero)
37. How to set up web alerts to track new information (e.g. Google Alerts) Privacy, Security, and the Law
38. Creative Commons – what is it and how to choose appropriate license?
39. How to read the legalese that tells you who owns it after it is shared online
40. What should you share and how does that change for different audiences?
41. How to manage usernames & passwords
42. How to find and tweak the privacy settings in common social networking sites (e.g. Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter)
43. How do data-mining sites get your information? (e.g. participating in FB quizzes)
44. What are the security concerns with GPS-based tracking systems? Presentation
45. How to determine the audience and appropriate length for your presentation
46. Good presentation design principles
47. Principles of storytelling
48. How to share a set of slides on the Internet
49. How to build a non-linear presentation
50. How to build a flashy presentation (and when to use it)
51. How to find high-quality images that can be used in presentations (with appropriate copyrights)
52. How to find audio that can be shared in a presentation (with appropriate copyrights)
53. How to create a captioning script for a video
54. Ways to caption an internet-based video
55. How (and when) to use a virtual magnifier with your presentation Ways to Learn
56. How to build an interactive mindmap to organize ideas
57. How to use a blog to track your learning process
58. How to find good sites, blogs, and other online publications for the topic you are learning about
59. How to cultivate a personal learning network (PLN)
60. How to participate in a live learning chat (e.g. TweetChats)
61. Touch typing
62. Zipping and Unzipping files and folders
63. Turn on file extensions so they can see them
64. Printing using a PDF distiller or something like Mircosoft XPS Document Writer
65. Reading lectures and notes on a monitor while they are online so that hyperlinks are usable
66. Using several open windows at once and toggling between them
67. Using free services such as Skype or Google Talk to get instructor’s help quickly and efficiently
68. How to save documents in formats that almost everyone can open and read such as PDF or RTF
69. How to set up and maintain your own set of directories or folders on your local storage media so you can save and then later find important files and information (whether self-generated, received as attachments or harvested from the web). It’s true that there are now tools to organize and store info from Web (delicious…), but being able to organize and find stuff on your own hard drive is still necessary.
70. How to use documents, spreadsheets, presentations - how to open, close, save (.doc, .docx, .pdf), print (in different formats), changing font/fontsize/color, insert picture/file/diagram