Computer Skills, Online Tutorials and Education Resources

The links below will lead you to a wide variety of training videos and other educational resources that will help you improve your computer skills, your ability to use the Internet and your understanding of select software programs.

Highly Recommended Site - GCF Learn Free

This site contains a wide range of excellent tutorials - from introductory explanations of how a computer works to more advanced lessons on word processing, spreadsheets and Internet skills

Learn How to Use a Mouse

http://www.lclshome.org/tutorials/mouse/index.htm

mousercise

http://tech.tln.lib.mi.us/tutor/welcome.htm - Basic mouse and scrolling skills

Basic Computer Skills

http://www.ctdlc.org/remediation/indexComputer.html - click right arrow on each page to advance
http://www.bcot1.com - Don't miss the menu on the right side of this site
http://www.learnthat.com/courses/computer/windows/index.html - Tutorials ranging from keyboard skills to understanding Windows' folder system

Basic Internet Skills

Searching on the Internet

Tips on Internet searching
http://www.lib.purdue.edu/phys/inst/searchinginternet.html - how internet searching works
http://websearch.about.com/od/internetresearch/a/searchstarters.htm - web search for beginners
http://www.sc.edu/beaufort/library/pages/bones/bones.shtml - more extensive tutorial on searching the internet

E-mail basics

Sign up for a free e-mail account at www.gmail.com - click on "create an account" and follow the on-screen instructions
How to use e-mail effectively

Twitter

Facebook 101

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