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Technology Skills

Easy Guides to Using Today's Technology

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Our learning curriculum offers free, educator-created and classroom tested technology tutorials for teachers and students. These short videos (about 4 minutes each) offer a quick way to successfully get up to speed in specific technology concepts.  The videos:

  • provide the basic "getting started" steps
  • include concrete examples
  • work for individual learning or in a classroom setting
  • are always available to return to for review  

This series of technology topics can be incorporated into all curricula and offer alternative methods of teaching and learning!

Technology Topics

Creating Objects in Flash

These video tutorials describe and illustrate the basics of using the Flash program's work area, animating objects and creating buttons!  Use these excellently presented, well-illustrated videos to make your web site an even more helpful user interface. 

Digital Audio

Testing...1..2..3. Whether you are recording for an audio blog or for a movie, the sound quality in a video or audio presentation can make or break your product. With this series you can learn how to create good quality audio files with a few clicks of your mouse. 

Digital Ethics

Oops, don't do it again! This series focuses on understanding the "rules of the e-road", and common pitfalls that will help keep your research and use of the Internet legally and ethically sound. 

Discovering the Internet

Did you know that the Internet has been around for over 30 years? Do you know what "http" stands for? If not, you need to check out this series which will will walk (or run) you the fundamentals of Internet surfing including the basics of how the Internet works and how to better navigate the vast resources available on the web. 

Imaging

It's true that a picture is worth a thousand words so learn how to say more with digital images. With this series you can start at the very beginning or move ahead to advanced principals and techniques to help you take your digital imagery interests and skills to the next level. 

Networks to Knowledge (N2K)

The fundamentals of communicating in a technology dependent world are critical to successful 21st century teaching and learning. N2K is not about technology. It's about how people use technology. 

Online Safety

It can be a big cyber-scary world out there. This series will show you how to help protect your privacy, enhance your safety, as well as how to safeguard your PC from virus attacks. Gotcha! 

PowerPoint Presentations

PowerPoint isn't just for business presentations any more. Do you have a lesson to teach, a report to give, an argument to make, or a story to tell? If so, this video series will show you have to create professional presentations to better engage your audience and convey your messages. First timers and experienced users will all benefit from this series. 

Video Production

So you want to create the next Shrek or Nemo? Digital video cameras are getting cheaper and easier to use by the nano-second . This comprehensive series has plenty of learning for all levels, or my name isn't George Lucas. 

Web Content Creation

From the basics of what are good web design principles to the complexities of creating a rich, multimedia online experience, this series shows you how to create your own web content. This series includes the following topics: web site naming, hosting, maintenance; good web site design criteria; adding multimedia features to web sites; instant web publishing through online tools such as wikis and blogs; how to use office productivity tools to create web content; using the free website creation tool Nvu, and; using the most popular commerical web authoring tool, Dreamweaver.