Web Tutorials: Free Learning Resources on the Internet

General

• VTC.com - VTC Online offers University of Delaware affiliates unlimited access to over 55,000 video tutorials, covering over 400 subject areas. To get your own user name and password to the full VTC library, send your request from your UD e-mail account to usered-info@udel.edu.
• Lynda.com - The lynda.com Online Training Library includes more than 10,000 Windows and Macintosh compatible QuickTime video tutorials from over 170 topics. Validate your University of Delaware affiliation through our central authentication system to obtain your own limited time user id and password. If you experience difficulty obtaining a logon, e-mail usered-info@udel.edu. Effective January 2008, Apple's Quicktime 7 will be required to use this training.
  
  
• Consulting on Demand - University of Delaware produced video tips to help you with a variety of tasks.
  

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Microsoft® Products

• Microsoft interactive command reference guides illustrate tool positions in the Office 2007 interface by clicking on their previous location in Office 2003. Guides require Adobe Flash Player 7.0 or later to run.
  
  
  • Access 2003 to 2007
  • Excel 2003 to 2007
  • PowerPoint 2003 to 2007
  • Word 2003 to 2007

• Microsoft Educational Tutorials teach how to use and integrate Microsoft software in the classroom with in-depth, step-by-step tutorial guides for students, teachers, and staff. Tutorials have been developed for a variety of Microsoft Office, Windows, the Microsoft Office Outlook messaging and collaboration client, and Microsoft Exchange products and technologies.
  
• How-to articles from Microsoft are organized to help you learn how to use Microsoft software in the classroom.

• To find the location of menu and toolbar commands in Office 2007
  
  • MS Word, Scroll to bottom of page to download the Excel Worksheet (Ribbon Mapping Workbook)
• MS Access, Scroll to bottom of page to download the Excel Worksheet (Ribbon Mapping Workbook)
• MS Excel, Scroll to bottom of page to download the Excel Worksheet (Ribbon Mapping Workbook)
• MS PowerPoint, Scroll to bottom of page to download the Excel Worksheet (Ribbon Mapping Workbook)

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Apple® Products

• Apple Seminars Online, free training for a multitude of Apple's products.
  
  
• iLife ’06 Multimedia Tutorials let you proceed through the tutorials topic by topic or use the Tutorial Menu links to find the topic you need.

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Web Design and Graphics

• UD's Idea Center
  
  
• Web Publishing, using Dreamweaver MX 2004: A four-part companion site to the instructor-led classes offered by User Services, this site provides an outline for web publishing. Thought-provoking concepts and inspirations are paired with downloadable handouts and sample assignments. Use this site for independent learning, to refresh your web publishing skills, or as a preview of the material to be covered during instructor-led sessions.
• Writing HTML: A Tutorial for Creating Web Pages (Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction)

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Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

• Geographic Information Systems: University faculty, staff, and students may take ESRI's Virtual Campus courses on GIS software and technology for free.  Access the ESRI's online technology course catalog and contact gis-info@udel.edu if you have any questions or would like to register for a free Virtual Campus course.

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