Course Web Site Creation...
You Can Create Your Own Online Course...
Learn how to build your own course web site...at home, at your own pace, at any time of day, without spending a bundle.
If you buy the Bargain Hunter's Guide to Building Your Course Web Site now, you will also get these six free bonuses:
1) FutureU's Online Course Planner
2) Guide to Effective Email
3) Guide to Emoticons
4) Guide to Netiquette
5) Intellectual Property Rights on the Internet
6) Copyright and Public Domain on the Internet
...all for just $27.00 (A $135.00 value). Keep reading to find out the details of this special one-time offer.
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Everything you need for building a terrific course Web site is available free or for a few dollars on the Internet.
The Bargain Hunter's Guide is without question the best deal in e-learning today. Originally sold at $100.00, but now ON SALE at just a bit more than 1/4 of the original price.
Buy the Bargain Hunter's Guide to Building Your Course online for Just $27.00.
There's no great mystery to the process of building an online course.
And there's no reason why it has to cost a bundle. You just need to know where to look. That, plus a few simple guidelines and instructions, and you're on your way.
FutureU co-founder Claude Whitmyer has identified and tested dozens of low-cost site-building resources that really work. He's always on the lookout for the next great bargain. It's kind of a hobby for him.
Like all enthusiasts, Claude Whitmyer has a network of colleagues who let him know about bargains and great ideas they discover. Software developers around the world have asked him to "beta test" their new products. Seems like every week there's something new worth checking out.
Meanwhile, we marvel at how much is spent on course management software that accomplishes little or nothing more than what can be done, just as well or better, on a dime.
We sympathize with the many eager course developers who loyally wait while an internal committee debates the many software options and reaches an agreement on which one to anoint. We've seen that process take years.
We've also seen organizations and institutions invest (financially and emotionally) in one software package, and train their instructors in its use, only to see the whole initiative crumble when the vendor goes out of business. The search starts over and the course developers and instructors go back to a holding pattern, having picked up few if any transferrable skills.
It's a shame.
With so many excellent solutions available at bargain prices, there's no reason to delay. There's no reason to settle for solutions that are unreliable or more complicated than you need. There's every reason to start building your own course Web site right now.
We believe in online support of the training room or classroom and we want everyone to learn how to build a terrific course Web site as quickly, easily, and inexpensively as possible.
We created The Bargain Hunter's Guide to Building Your Course Web Site as an alternative (maybe short term, maybe longer)—or as a supplement—to the uptown packages so popular in companies and on campuses today.
- Do you want your course Web site up and running right away?
- Are you tired of waiting for your company or institution to settle on a plan?
- Are you less than satisfied with your company's or institution's software choices?
- Do you like some features of the chosen software but not others?
- Would you rather spend your training time on solid, transferrable skills than on the peculiarities of some software that may disappear next year?
- Do you have an independent streak, an eye for a bargain, and a yen to add an online component to your current courses?
- Do you perhaps represent a department, campus, or company that's ready to "test the waters" before committing to a full-scale software investment?
The Bargain Hunter's Guide will get you off the ground right away. It will expand your horizons. It will lead you to options you might never have known existed.
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There are a lot of free and low-cost solutions.
Not until we started building this guide did we realize just how much we know here at FutureU about low-cost solutions for the online training room or classroom. And how much we continue to learn. There's more available all the time: web hosting packages and HTML editors and online calendars and online grade books and quiz generators and much, much more, all free to you or costing just a few dollars.
In the Bargain Hunter's Guide, we've collected links to dozens of free and low-cost resources for building your course Web site. We've personally tested every one of these products and selected only the best to share with you.
Wrapped around these links are more than 50 pages of guidelines and tips written by us to help you get started on the right foot, avoid wrong turns, and finish with a truly terrific course Web site. The material is easy to read, so the work is painless and even fun.
And best of all, the Bargain Hunter's Guide to Building Your Course Web Site is yours for just $27.00.
The Bargain Hunter's Guide is without question the best deal in e-learning today. Originally sold at $100.00, but now ON SALE at just a bit more than 1/4 of the original price.
Buy the Bargain Hunter's Guide to Building Your Course online for Just $27.00.
And here's what you get!
Eight information packed chapters containing step-by-step instructions to find and use cheap or free tools for building your own course web site. But that's not all! You also get 2 bonus chapters, one about using a virtual learning environment to build your course and another containing a simple, easy to use guide to writing your own basic HTML codes.
- Chapter 1. A Fresh Look at Course Management Software
- Chapter 2. The 4 Easy Steps to Putting Your Course Online
- Chapter 3. A Simple Online Syllabus and Course Calendar
- Chapter 4. No-Frills (But Highly Effective) Online Course Materials
- Chapter 5. A Quick Way to Post Quizzes, Tests and Exams
- Chapter 6. The Fastest, Cheapest Ways to Move Your Site to the Web
- Chapter 7. Easy Online Communication With Your Students or Trainees
- Chapter 8. A Proven Way to Prepare Students for E-Learning--for just $17!
- Chapter 9. The 10 Mistakes You Don't Want to Make
- Bonus Chapter 1: Build a Successful Course Web Site...Automatically
- Bonus Chapter 2: The Tenderfoot's Guide to HTML
This book is a true bargain! Look at what else you get:
- The 8 basic steps for building a web page.
- 3 basic rules that will save you from headaches.
- 8 essential HTML tags and the clearest instructions you'll find anywhere on how to use them.
- The one big no-no you want to avoid.
- Ways to build a page without knowing any HTML at all
- Access to a free online discussion forum where you can ask questions, find answers, and exchange ideas
- Hot links to the best:
- Free tutorials for novices about computers and the Internet.
- Free and low-cost Web hosting services.
- Free lesson plans and course content.
- Free and low-cost HTML editors.
- Free and low-cost calendar templates.
- Free and low-cost quiz generators.
- Free and low-cost solutions to the online grade book dilemma.
- Free and low-cost discussion software
- Cheap and easy online quiz generators
- Low-cost web conferencing that works like WebEx, Elluminate, or Wimba, but doesn't cost a fortune.
- Free and low-cost virtual learning environments like Moodle or NiceNet
- Free and low-cost content management systems like Joomla, Mambo, or Drupal
Buy the Bargain Hunter's Guide to Building Your Course online for Just $27.00.
Here's how you can benefit from buying this ebook.
- Significantly broaden your career options.
- Find out what all the fuss is about—without making a huge commitment.
- Save hundreds or even thousands of dollars on software.
- Avoid institutional delays. Get your course Web site up now!
- Work at your own speed, at your own convenience.
- Pick and choose from the tools you prefer. (Don't settle for packaged software that frustrates and limits you.)
- Replace one or more parts of a course management software package with something much better but still compatible.
- Gain confidence at your own pace!
- Have it all for just the $27.00 cost of this ebook!
What kind of a computer setup will you need? Nothing fancy. Here's the details.
Once your purchase by credit card has cleared, you'll be able to download the e-book with any recent vintage Web browser from the last couple of years and you'll access it directly from your own computer using Adobe Acrobat Reader (Yes, the links will be hot). If you don't have the Reader, don't worry. A link is provided on the download page for you to visit Adobe and download and install it from there.
The Bargain Hunter's Guide is without question the best deal in e-learning today. Originally sold at $100.00, but now ON SALE at just a bit more than 1/4 of the original price.
Buy the Bargain Hunter's Guide to Building Your Course online for Just $27.00.
Learn more by taking the free tour...
Get these Bonuses!
Purchase this introductory offer and you will receive by email a link to six more bonuses worth $35.00:
A collection of 6 FutureU Guides to Online Learning, including:
Bonus 1: Course Planner
The FutureU Course Planner (Normally $10.00.)—A 10-page template for planning your online course.
- Covers all stages of course development including choosing group learning structures, individual learning activities, and the best sequencing for both.
- Provides inspiration for choosing among the possible course components, materials, and assignments.
- Reminds you to specify your grading criteria and external Internet links, if appropriate.
Bonus 2: Effective Email
Guide to Effective Email
(Normally $6.00.)—A 5-page guide to understanding email and becoming more efficient in using it, including:
- Email Basics
- Choosing Email Software
- Deconstructing Email Addresses
- Understanding How Email Works?
- Guidelines for Using Email to Communicate with Your Students or Trainees
Bonus 3: Emoticons 
and Abbreviations
Guide to Emoticons and Abbreviations (Normally $1.00.)
—A short and sweet description and listing of the most common emoticons (smiley faces) and abbreviations used in online discussions—a definite help with expressing emotions when communicating online.
Bonus 4: Netiquette
Guide to Netiquette (Internet Etiquette) (Normally $6.00) to share with your students for establishing a baseline for participation rules.
Bonus 5: Intellectual Property Rights
Guide to Intellectual Property on the Internet (Normally $6.00.)
—The important facts about the issue of who owns the software and content you're using and what you're legal and ethical responsibilities are.
Bonus 6: Copyright and Public Domain
Guide to Copyright and Public Domain on the Internet (Normally $6.00.)
—The important facts about copyright and public domain on the Internet—what's ok under "fair use" and what you must get permission for.
That's $135.00 worth of concentrated wisdom about technology-mediated learning for just $27.00. You save $106.00.
The Bargain Hunter's Guide is without question the best deal in e-learning today.
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