Instructors' Resources

We understand that, in today’s teaching environment, offering a textbook alone is not sufficient to meet the needs of the many instructors who use our books. To teach effectively, instructors must have a full complement of supplemental resources to assist them in every facet of teaching from preparing for class, to conducting a lecture, to assessing students’ comprehension. Internet Literacy offers a fully integrated supplements package on the Web site, as described below.

Instructor’s Resource Kit

The Instructor’s Resources, located on the textbook’s Online Learning Center/Web site, contains PowerPoint Presentation Slides, Solutions to the Crossword Puzzles, and Interactive Links.

• The Internet Literacy test bank, authored by Margaret Treholm-Edmunds, contains over 1,200 multiple choice, true/false, and fill-in-the-blank questions. Each question will be accompanied by the correct answer, the level of learning difficulty, and the corresponding page references. The Computerized Test Bank is available through PageOut and as a stand-alone CD-ROM.

• PowerPoint Presentation Slides: The Internet Literacy presentation slides, authored by Margaret Treholm-Edmunds, will include chapter learning objectives, chapter outlines, figures, hands-on practical exercises, and comprehensive speaker’s notes. Also included are bullets to illustrate key terms, concepts, and FAQs.

Online Learning Center/Web Site

Online Learning Center (OLC) is a Web site that follows the text chapter-by-chapter. OLC content is ancillary and supplementary germane to the textbook. As students read the book, they can go online to take self-grading quizzes, review material, or work through interactive exercises. OLCs can be delivered multiple ways-professors and students can access them directly through the textbook Web site, through PageOut, or within a course management system (i.e., WebCT, Blackboard, TopClass, or eCollege).

Found at www.mhhe.com/cit/hofstetter3, this site provides additional learning and instructional tools to enhance the comprehension of the text. The OLC/Web site is divided into these three areas:

Information Center:  Contains information about the text, supplements, and the author.

Instructor Center:  Offers downloads and relevant links for professors.

Student Center:  Contains chapter objectives, definitions, self-quizzes, additional Web links, and statistics pertaining to each text chapter-over 25 links per chapter!

Digital Solutions to Help You Manage Your Course

PageOut

PageOut is McGraw-Hill’s unique point-and-click course Web site tool, enabling you to create a full-featured, professional quality course Web site without knowing HTML coding. With PageOut you can post your syllabus online, assign McGraw-Hill Online Learning Center or eBook content, add links to important off-site resources, and maintain student results in the online grade book. You can send class announcements, copy your course site to share with colleagues, and upload original files. PageOut is free for every McGraw-Hill/Irwin user, and, if you’re short on time, we even have a team ready to help you create your site!

The Internet Literacy Test Bank is now available through PageOut.

For more information, visit the PageOut Web site at www.pageout.net.

Online Courses Available

Online Learning Centers (OLCs) are your perfect solutions for Internet-based content. Simply put, these Centers are “digital cartridges” that contain a book’s pedagogy and supplements. As students read the book, they can go online and take self-grading quizzes or work through interactive exercises. These centers also provide students appropriate access to lecture materials and other key supplements.

Online Learning Centers can be delivered through any of the following platforms:

• McGraw-Hill Learning Architecture (TopClass)

• Blackboard.com The Internet Literacy Test Bank is now available through Blackboard.

• eCollege.com (formally Real Education)

• WebCT (a product of Universal Learning Technology) The Internet Literacy Test Bank is now available through WebCT.

McGraw-Hill has partnerships with WebCT and Blackboard to make it even easier to take your course online. Now you can have McGraw-Hill content delivered through the leading Internet-based learning tools for higher education.

McGraw-Hill’s Knowledge Gateway-The Complete Resource for Teaching Online Courses

McGraw-Hill/Irwin, in partnership with Eduprise, is proud to bring this unique service to instructors. This comprehensive Web site contains a wealth of information for any professor interested in teaching online. Level one is available to any instructor browsing our Web site. Level two is reserved for McGraw-Hill customers and contains access to free technical and instructional design assistance. For more details, visit mhhe.eduprise.com/home.nsf.

MS Office XP Applications Texts and CDs

McGraw-Hill offers three applications series: The O’Leary Series, The Advantage Series, and The Interactive Computing Series. Each series features its own unique approach to teaching MS Office in order to meet the needs of a variety of students and course goals.

• The I-Series strongly emphasizes that students learn and master application skills by being actively engaged-by doing.

• The O’Leary Series features a project-based, visual, step-by-step walk through of applications.

• The Advantage Series features a case-based, what, why and how approach to learning applications to enhance critical thinking skills.

• The Interactive Computing Series features a visual, two-page spread to provide a more skills-based approach to learning applications.

Each series offers Microsoft Office User Specialist (MOUS) approved courseware to signify that it has been independently reviewed and approved in complying with the standards of content coverage related to the Microsoft Exams and Certification Program. For more information on Microsoft’s MOUS certification program, please visit Microsoft’s Web site at www.microsoft.com/office/traincert/.

Also available for applications are the Interactive Computing Series Computer-Based Training CD-ROM tutorials. These CD-ROMs offer a visual, interactive way to develop and apply software skills. The CD-ROM features a unique “skills-concepts-steps” approach, and includes interactive exercises and performance-based assessment. These CD-ROMs are simulated, so there is no need to load the actual software package onto your computer.

Skills Assessment

SimNet XPert

SimNet XPert is a simulated assessment and learning tool. It allows students to study MS Office XP skills and computer concepts and professors to test and evaluate students proficiency within MS Office XP applications and concepts. Students can practice and study their skills at home or in the school lab using SimNet XPert, which does not require the purchase of Office XP software. SimNet XPert will contain new features and enhancements for Office XP, including:

NEW! Live Assessments!SimNet XPert now includes live-in-the-application assessments! One for each skill set for Core MOUS objectives in Word 2002, Excel 2002, Access 2002, and PowerPoint 2002 (total of 29 Live-in-the-Application Assessments). Multiple tasks are required to compete each live assessment (about 100 tasks covered).

NEW! Computer Concepts Coverage!SimNet XPert now includes coverage of computer concepts in both the Learning and the Assessment sides.

NEW! Practice or Pretest Questions!SimNet XPert has a separate tool of 600 questions for practice tests or pretests.

NEW! Comprehensive Exercises!SimNet XPert offers comprehensive exercises for each application. These exercises require the student to use multiple skills to solve one exercise in the simulated environment.

ENHANCED! More Assessment Questions!SimNet XPert includes over 1,400 assessment questions.

ENHANCED! Simulated Interface! The simulated environment in SimNet XPert has been substantially deepened to more realistically simulate the real applications. Now students are not graded incorrect just because they chose the wrong sub-menu or dialog box. The student is not graded until he or she does something that immediately invokes an action.

PowerWeb

PowerWeb is an exciting new online product available from McGraw-Hill. A nominally priced token grants students access through our Web site to a wealth of resources-all corresponding to computer literacy. Features include an interactive glossary, current events with quizzing, assessment, and measurement options, Web survey, links to related text content, and WWW searching capability via Northern Lights, an academic search engine. Visit the PowerWeb site at www.dushkin.com/powerweb.