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Helpful Websites For This Chapter

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• Groupware
• Open Source Software
• Software Definitions (added September 30, 2006)
• Tutorials
• User Groups
• Voice Recognition

Groupware

Information on groupware.
http://www.usabilityfirst.com/groupware/

Choosing web conferencing software.
http://thinkofit.com/webconf/wcchoice.htm

Williams, J. P. (2003, April 22). Groupware: Shared Thoughts, Shared Media, and Shared Models. A white paper from the School of Information at the University of Texas. (Added August 10, 2007)
http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~i385tkms/blog/archives/patrick/groupwarepaper.html

Open Source Software

All About Open Source. An excellent overall article about open source from the "Did You Know" reference secion at Webopedia. (Added July 15, 2005).
http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Computer_Science/2005/open_source.asp

Murray, P. (2003). Open source and free software – what’s in it for nurses? An excellent article summarizing the nursing role in open source software. (Added October 15, 2004)
http://www.bcsnsg.org.uk/itin15/Vol%2015%20issue%201%20March%202003research.pdf
Open SourceNursing Informatics (OSNI) Working Group of IMIA-NI. Much information about nursing activities and sources for open source software. (Added October 15, 2004)
http://www.osni.info/html/index.php

Open Source Licenses. Open source journals or software require different types of copyright licensing. See this site for links to licenses approved by the open source initiative. (Added April 3, 2006)
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/

Wong, K., & Sayo, P. (2004). Free/open source Software: A general introduction. A 61 page source of everything you wanted to know about open source software including what it is, its history, benefits and shortcomings and examples of its use. (Added October 15, 2004)
http://www.iosn.net/downloads/foss_primer_current.pdf

Software Definitions

Maintained by Webopedia, this site gives a good defintion of the types of software including malware. Infomrative site. (Added September 30, 2006)
http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Hardware_Software/2006/types_of_software.asp

Tutorials

Improving Computer Fluency with Shortcut Keys. Provides not only may shortcut keys, but instructions on using them for both PCs and Macs..
http://www.4teachers.org/techalong/bartol3/index.shtml

Kids Domain. Although designed for kids, this site is valuable for all. From this site select the lessons you want. When you go to the site you will be greeted with a splash page of advertising, but you can click in the upper right corner to skip it. (Added December 18, 2004)
http://www.kidsdomain.com/brain/computer/lesson.html

Study guide site. This instructions use programs from the Windows 95 era, but could be used as a guide to developing your own instructions for using some of the office suite software. (Added December 18, 2004)
http://www.tekxam.com/StudyGuide/Guide.html

User Groups

User groups. Web site for the Association of Personal Computer User Groups. Useful for finding a user group near you.
http://www.apcug.org/

Voice Recognition

Baumann, J. Voice Recognition. Although old, this provides a thorough explanation of voice recognition. The article is not dated, but the latest reference is 1990.
http://www.hitl.washington.edu/scivw/EVE/I.D.2.d.VoiceRecognition.html

Online References For This Chapter

(These references are from the chapter. This list only include the ones that are still available. Please report broken links to Linda Q. Thede)

Business Software Alliance. (n.d.) Antipiracy information.Retrieved January 19, 2002 from
http://www.bsa.org/usa/antipiracy/. (This group's main activity is to prevent software piracy. They have recently become concerned about computer viruses too.)

Seymour, J. The truth about voice recognition software. Retrieved from
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,262680,00.asp

Woolley, D. R. (1996). Choosing Web Conferencing Software. Retrieved January 19, 2002 from
http://thinkofit.com/webconf/wcchoice.htm