Great Tutorials from GCFLearnFree

GCFLearnFree provide "quality, innovative online learning opportunities" for anyone who wants to improve their technology, literacy or mathematics skills.

There are over 200 tutorials available including topics such as Facebook, Microsoft office, open office, computer basics, email and Internet safety.

GCFLearnFree also provide free online classes, for the Microsoft applications, where you can learn to use these applications with the help of an online instructor.

You can also create an account to store your own personal profile and learning history.

A very useful resource indeed!

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Technology Related Animated Explanations

Just came across Animated Explanations thanks to a tweet from @ninapeery.

Animated Explanations is a website "full of animated movies, interactive tutorials and instructional videos, all free for you to view and to embed in your website".

Currently there are over 50 animations covering the areas of Health, Technology and Work. Great little assets for your online learning environment!

You simply select the animated explanation that you want and follow the instructions to add it to your site. Works a treat. Here is one, from the Work section, about choosing a safe password.


How to choose a safe password - Animated Explanations

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Creating software tutorials

Use Wink to create tutorials on how to use software packages. With Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons and titles. Audio (voice or music) can also be added as you create the tutorial.

The resulting file can be saved in several different formats including Macromedia Flash (for the web), Standalone EXE (distrubition via CD-ROM), PDF (user manuals), PostScript, HTML or image formats such as JPG, GIF, PNG.

Have a look at this completed example to see how Wink works. Links to further examples can also be found on Wink's showcase page, which is a collection of good examples of tutorials created with Wink. Finally, if you need any more ideas, check out the examples at Instructional Endeavors.

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