Digital and information literacy

An introduction to Web sites that discusses how they are planned, designed, built, published, and maintained.

An introduction to graphic design and desktop publishing that discusses design basics, fonts, typography, images, and layout.

An introduction to creating web-based user-generated content for such things as social networking, sharing ideas, and creating online information, and discusses some of the online tools and Web sites for sharing information, including blogs, widgets, Twitter, Facebook, and wikis.

Discusses the meaning of a digital footprint, or online identity, and such things as personal communication and privicy issues, and the social effects that electronic communication can have on the users of this technology.

Provides an overview of Internet research basics and includes information on how to search for image, audio, and video files.