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Portal Tutoring's Resource Page
Welcome to Portal Tutoring's Resource Page. Here you will find links to resources which supplement the tutoring one receives. They are divided into several categories. This page is likely to change often as more resources are added and obsolete links are removed, so please check back to see what's new.
Portal Tutoring's Materials
Portal Tutoring offers a set of basic tutorials on computer concepts called Mini Blinds. These thirteen tutorials are available in three formats: Microsoft Word, braille ready file, and hard copy braille. Microsoft Word and braille ready files cost $3.00. Hard copy braille Mini Blinds cost $5.00 each. A complete set of Microsoft Word or braille ready files costs $33.00. The complete set in hard copy braille costs $55.00.
Please feel free to download the free file Email Dos And Don'ts Free download This file is freely given as an example of the type of tutorials which are available from Portal Tutoring.
We are also pleased to offer a text book designed for the beginning computer user. Entitled Introduction To Computers, this book can be purchased from Portal Tutoring for $30.00 for Microsoft Word and braille ready files. For a hard copy Braille edition, the cost is $45.00.
Portal Tutoring is pleased to announce that we now have a series of audio classes. Entitled Sound Foundations, they include: The Windows Keyboard and The Windows Desktop. Each MP3 files costs $9.95. Both files can be purchased for $17.00. If you would like the files to be mailed to you on CD, each file costs $12.00 and you can obtain both classes for $21.00.
All resources offered by Portal Tutoring can be purchased online at our bookstore, (see navigation bar), or you may contact Portal Tutoring directly by email or by phone in order to make arrangements for purchasing via other means. Portal Tutoring accepts money orders and personal checks, no cash sent through the mail please! Again, see the navigation bar for contact information.
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Portal Tutoring offers a free newsletter to keep students, and other interested individuals current with what is happening at Portal Tutoring. To access the latest of these newsletters, choose the link below.
Internet Resources
the following is a list of resources for materials and tutorials which can supplement any materials from Portal Tutoring. These may change as new resources become available, so be sure to check this section of the web page often.
- Access Technology Institute
- American Printing House for the Blind
- Bookshare, fee based source for electronic texts
- Crisscross Technologies
- Freedom Scientific Tutorials
- Tutoreial for Nemeth Code from Humanware
- Iowa Department for the Blind's Tutorials
- National Braille Press, source for hard copy and electronic books and magazines
- National Library Service for the Blind, Library of Congress, USA
- O'Reilly Publishing, computer books in electronic text and in print
- Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic, source for recorded and digital books, USA
- Sound Computing, for excellent sound based tutorials
If you know of resources which should be added to this page, please do not hesitate to contact us, and we will place it on this page.
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