Resources for Online Folks

Software

Function Download Trial Free
Web Browser
HTML authoring
QuickTime
Live WebCasts
Mac/PC: Macromedia Flash Player (needed for Breeze)

Acrobat PDF Reader
Graphics Editing
Mac/PC: Adobe Photoshop* (Complete graphics editing)
or Adobe Photoshop Elements (30 day trial)
Animation (GIF and Flash)
Mac/PC: Macromedia Flash*(30 day trial)
GIF animation only
Site Map Drawing
Mac/PC: Inspiration (30 day trial)
PC: SmartDraw* (30 day trial)

*Signficant educational discounts (compared to normal retail prices) are available for these products.

Free Web Server

All students will need to have access to a web server in order to complete exercises in Homer 4 and beyond. You may use just about any free or commercial Web server you wish (the free and lowest cost Yahoo Geocities accounts will not accept Dreamweaver or other FTP programs, but the "higher" level accounts will).

We recommend SDSU's Rohan server, for those who might wish to use it. By signing up for a rohan email account you get web server space as well. You can get a rohan email/web account by logging into the SDSU Web portal:

Once you've logged on to the SDSU webportal, click the "Graduate" tab (not "Extended
Ed"). Then click on "Get a Rohan E-mail Account" and follow the instructions.

If you run out of space in your rohan account, you can obtain more for free by requesting it via email at scc@rohan.sdsu.edu.

Other Web Hosting Services

Those who feel comfortable striking out on their own a little might like to consider subscribing to a commercial web hosting service. Advantages include: 1) you can obtain and use your own domain name (e.g., www.janedoe.com); and 2) you can keep your web address after you leave SDSU.

The downside: 1) it'll cost you $3-6 per month, depending on the service you choose, plus a small yearly fee for registering your domain name and, perhaps, optional services you may want to purchase; and 2) the instructor and fellow students will be less likely to be able to provide technical support for uploading and downloading—you'll be pretty much on your own with whatever help your hosting services provides.

To choose a web hosting service—if you don't already have one—take a look at Hosting Review (http://www.hosting-review.com/). While it isn't always listed in Hosting Reviews top-10 web hosting services, many EDTEC 798B students recently looked around and chose DreamHost (http://www.dreamhost.com/) for their e-portfolios and other purposes.

Web Resources/History

Title Description
ERIC The leading educational database for papers and such
SDSU Library Excellent resource, links to all search engines for papers and such
Short History of the Web Short text history from the organization that runs the standards behind the web
Interview with Tim Berners-Less on Science Friday Real Audio radio interview with inventor of the Web
Computer Dictionary The Free Online Dictionary of Computing. A classic user created, cross referenced, noncommercial, free computer dictionary.
Color Tool VisiBone's awesome color matching and converting tool. Great for finding RGB values from Hex codes, seeing what colors look like with text, etc.
HTML Goodies A PhD's site full of HTML tutorials, tricks, code, books, etc.
Virus Hoaxes Symantec's virus hoax search engine.
More HTML Goodies Webmonkey is a subsidiary of "Wired", an e-business and technology magazine. It has loads of tutorials on tons of subjects, and it's written in English, rather than in "technobabble."
APA The American Psychological Association's Web site will help you format citations and references.

Purchasing academically priced software

To purchase academically priced software from the SDSU bookstore, you will need:

Please fill out the phone order form (pdf document) and fax it to (619) 265-7504. You can either fill out the form in Acrobat Reader and then print it or print the form and then fill it out.

You can purchase Adobe products directly from the Adobe Education Store.

You can also purchase software at academic prices from vendors such as CPE or Academic SuperStore or GradWare.com.

Free Software Tutorials and Reference Guides

Copyright Issues

As you develop any multimedia project, you must be aware of the copyright laws in order to protect your work and to keep from infringing on others’ copyrighted works. Please review the Copyright and Ownership Guide to learn the basic facts about copyright and ownership, and some specific guidelines to help you protect your own and others’ work from infringement.

Getting an SDSU Student ID Card

See the Department of Educational Technology RED ID Card page.