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The World Wide Web has rapidly become the dominant Internet tool, combining hypertext and multimedia to provide a network of educational, governmental, and commercial resources. Much of its power comes from the fact that it presents information in a variety of formats while it also organizes that information through hypertext links. Because of the multimedia nature of the web combined with the poor design of some websites, many Internet surfers cannot access the full range of resources this revolutionary tool provides. Some visitors: * Cannot see graphics because of visual impairments. * Cannot hear audio because of hearing impairments. * Use slow Internet connections and modems or equipment that cannot easily download large files. * Have difficulty navigating sites that are poorly organized with unclear directions because they have learning disabilities, speak English as a second language, or are younger than the average user.

HOST: Lawrence C. Ragan, Director of Instructional Design and Development, Penn State's World Campus Strategies for Managing the Online Workload

"Flat World Knowledge, a free, open source textbook publisher, has announced plans to add support for direct integration of its books into campus learning management systems (LMS) like Blackboard and ANGEL. With Flat World's LMS-supported textbooks, professors and publishers will be able to include supplementary material content in its entirety available directly on the platform and split up chapters into various folders according to their syllabus. " Their contents are expanding, but the majority of their contents focus on business at this time.

Designing More Usable Web Sites This section of Designing a More Usable World is dedicated to cooperative efforts linked toward building a more usable Web for all. At the present time, there are a number of interlocking and interrelated efforts. These include:

The Medpedia Project is a long-term, worldwide project to evolve a new model for sharing and advancing knowledge about health, medicine and the body among medical professionals and the general public. This model is founded on providing a free online technology platform that is collaborative, interdisciplinary and transparent.

"The Medpedia Project is an extraordinary global effort to collect, organize and make understandable, the world's best information about health, medicine and the body and make it freely available on the Web site Medpedia.com. Physicians, health organizations, medical schools, hospitals, health professionals, and dedicated individuals are coming together to build the most comprehensive medical resource in the world that will benefit millions of people every year."

Blackboard® technology touches the lives of millions of learners around the world every day. From higher education and K-12 to corporations and government organizations, we're working to enhance every aspect of learning, academic life and the student experience. Establish a relationship with Blackboard and leverage our global reach in the education market to broaden yours.

MERLOT is a leading edge, user-centered, searchable collection of peer reviewed and selected higher education, online learning materials, catalogued by registered members and a set of faculty development support services. MERLOT's vision is to be a premiere online community where faculty, staff, and students from around the world share their learning materials and pedagogy.

What Is A Wiki? At its simplest expression, a wiki is a web page that anybody can edit. The spirit behind the original wiki idea is that any user of the World Wide Web could now read and write at the same time using their web browser, therefore simplifying the web editing process.

Welcome to the Copyright Website, the ultimate copyright portal. Endeavoring to provide real world, practical copyright information for over a decade.

Welcome, We are pleased that you have taken the opportunity to explore our site. There are many grave issues facing the global community today that greatly impact human rights. Issues of poverty, race, discrimination, genocide, global warming, and economic disparity are rapidly becoming global concerns. The threats of apartheids are among those needing attention. This site seeks to inform the public about aparthedism, what it is, and how you can prevent it from reemerging in society and within the human culture. We have reached the end of a tumultuous century that has witnessed the best and worst of human endeavor. Year by year, generation by generation we do move forward. But our work is far from over. With your help the promise of a world at peace, its people free from fear and free from want, can be accomplished. external image S-PeaceHandRound.gif

An OpenCourseWare(OCW) is a free and open digital publication of high quality university‐level educational materials.  These materials are organized as courses, and often include course planning materials and evaluation tools as well as thematic content. OCW Consortium members from all over the world are publishing OCW in a variety of formats, subjects, and languages.  Here are some ways to find OCW.

With VoiceThread, group conversations are collected and shared in one place from anywhere in the world. All with no software to install. A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too.

# The average number of LinkedIn connections for people who work at Google is forty-seven. # The average number for Harvard Business School grads is fifty-eight, so you could skip the MBA, work at Google, and probably get most of the connections you need. Later, you can hire Harvard MBAs to prepare your income taxes. # People with more than twenty connections are thirty-four times more likely to be approached with a job opportunity than people with less than five. # All 500 of the Fortune 500 are represented in LinkedIn. In fact, 499 of them are represented by director-level and above employees. # According to my inside sources, the person with the most pending LinkedIn invitations is...Guy Kawasaki. (Though I'm not sure if I should be proud or ashamed of this factoid.)