Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Communication skills resource portal

The Vocational Information Center website is a directory that provides links to online resources for career exploration, career and education, work opportunities, trade and technical schools and career related reference resources.


Skills for Today's Workforce provides links to workplace skills, personal skills, life skills, math skills and study skills. Communication skills including resume writing, report writing, grammar, interviewing, speaking and presenting are found on the Communication Skills page. Online learning and free tutorial resources are found on Online Tutorial Resources.

Color blindness check

About 5% of the population (that is one person in twenty) has difficulty distinguishing colours, so red swriting on a green background appears to them to be a single colored blank slide.

You can check out your slides or web pages at http://www.vischeck.com/vischeck/

Vischeck is a way of showing you what things look like to someone who is color blind. You can try Vischeck online- either run Vischeck on your own image files or run Vischeck on a web page. You can also download programs to let you run it on your own computer.

Cartoon source

3M provides aseries of carttoons in their meeting network site at http://www.3m.com/meetingnetwork/cartoons/cartoon.html