TITLE- FutureU's Online Course Planner.

FORMAT- Microsoft Word Document (DOC) (Requires Microsoft Word or Word compatible application, such as Open Office Writer or Corel Write)

DESCRIPTION- A series of questions to answer and tables to fill out that guide your planning of a course you'd like to deliver online.

Use this document to guide your planning process. Some items may require multiple pages to describe, so, as with any planning form like this one, feel free to use more paper or reformat these pages to include all your thoughts and plans. You can print them out and write on the printed pages, or you can type directly into this form while viewing it in your word processor and deleting the blank lines or empty table cells as you type.

TITLE- FutureU's Guide to Effective Email.

FORMAT- Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader (free at http://get.adobe.com/reader/)

DESCRIPTION- This guide contains basic information about email and how to use it. If you are new to email, read the entire guide and complete all the exercises. If you are a veteran mailer, scan the guide to solidify what you already know and enhance your use of the medium.

Because most emailers learn by the seat of their pants, a quick review is always useful.

This guide includes:
Are you a Beginner or an Advanced User?
Electronic Mail: An Introduction
Email Basics
Advantages and Disadvantages of Email
Choosing Email Software
Deconstructing Email Addresses
How Does Email Work?
Guidelines for Using Email
Which email program should you use?
Practice Exercise 1: Learn More About Email Online
Practice Exercise 2: Send an Email Message

Checklists for Effective Email

TITLE- FutureU's Guide to Emoticons and Abbreviations.

FORMAT- Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader (free at http://get.adobe.com/reader/)

DESCRIPTION- This is a simple, one-page list of the most frequently used emoticons and abbreviations for expressing emotion in text messages, whether they be twittered, IMed, emailed, or posted to a blog, wiki or discusion forum.

Print this page out and keep it next to your computer. You'll find it helpful on certain occasions when a picture is worth a thousand words. :-).

TITLE- FutureU's Guide to Netiquette (InterNET etIQUETTE.

FORMAT- Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader (free at http://get.adobe.com/reader/)

DESCRIPTION- A two-page quick guide to the "rules of the road" for the Internet Super Highway. Everything you need to know about manners, behavior, and ways to communicate your best and stay out of trouble by avoiding social faux pauxs.

TITLE- FutureU's Guide to Intellectual Property on the Internet.

FORMAT- Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader (free at http://get.adobe.com/reader/)

DESCRIPTION- A one-page overview of the issues of copyright and intellectual property as they play out on the Internet. A good place to start if you want to understand, rights and obligations regarding using other peoples intellectual property in online courses or on web sites.

Beyond the basic information presented there are also links to web sites with more in-depth knowledge on these matters.

TITLE- FutureU's Guide to Public Domain on the Internet.

FORMAT- Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader (free at http://get.adobe.com/reader/)

SIZE- 42kb

DESCRIPTION- A five-page overview of the issues surrounding public domain as they play out on the Internet. A good place to start if you want to understand what's in the public domain and what is not.