I’d like to create some student activities that exploit resources that I’ve found on the Web but I don’t have regular access to a computer lab.

I know it’s sometimes difficult to organise access to computers and plan when you will require them in the context of a traditionally organised unit or course. My advice would be to keep it simple at the start and try to encourage your learners to investigate topics in a semi structured way by distributing activity sheets as “Word” documents. Feedback sessions to discuss, focus, contextualise and consolidate the topic can follow on. It is easy to insert a link to a website (hyperlink) by typing in the web address or copying and pasting the web address from the address bar in your browser. Press the space bar and the link will become active and change to blue, underlined text. A series of questions with links to appropriate information sources means that your learners will be pointed to sites that you have selected but will not be restricted to them if they wish to find others. It will allow you to exploit visually stimulating sites that can potentially include multimedia, quizzes and games if appropriate but does not involve learning a new software package or having specialist skills.