HUNDREDS of Training Resources

 

Hundreds of FREEBIES & More: This guide contains links to hundreds of free & Inexpensive technical training opportunities.

 

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This contains listings of hundreds of free training opportunities. To find the ones most relevant to your needs, search the document (using Edit/Find, or Ctrl + F.)

 

Use broad categories as well as specific application names. For example, if you are looking for Excel training, search on “Office” or “Excel.” This will give you a more-complete listing, since many sites which offer the entire office suite are listed as offering “Office” training, rather than itemizing all of the components.

 

For many sites, you can search in the same manner when you link to their site, using an internal search. Many vendors or University/Extension sites have navigation bars which serve not only to navigate, but to let you know what their offerings encompass.

 

To ease in the navigation of this document, it is divided into 2 categories:

• University and Cooperative Extension-sponsored sites
  
  
• Commercial sites

 

 

Please note there are additional listings for hands-on, web-based, and Computer Based Training in our UNHCE Technical Training Resources Guide at: http://ceinfo.unh.edu/Intranet/ITDE/trg/indextrg.htm

 

 

University Trainer’s Pages and Cooperative Extension-sponsored Sites

 

Alabama

 

• Alabama Cooperative Extension’s Reference Desk has a site with information on a variety of topics, including:

• Printers
  
  
• Software - Including Acrobat, Netscape, Eudora, MS Office, and Windows
  

• The following sections on Alabama ’s site are particularly well-developed, including tutorials and “how to” guides.
  
  
• MS Office
  
  
• Windows

 

 

Minnesota

 

• The University of Minnesota has a site with a variety of training materials.
  
  
  
  • One of its features is a wealth of materials & training sessions on digital imaging and PowerPoint

 

• The University of Minnesota Cooperative Extension also offers several opportunities at their IT site, including:

 

• Quick start to PowerPoint at: http://www3.extension.umn.edu/units/cets/it/quickstart.html#start

 

• Advanced PowerPoint: http://www3.extension.umn.edu/units/cets/it/advanced.html

 

• Windows XP online tutorials and training videos on a variety of related topics at: http://www3.extension.umn.edu/units/cets/it/index.html?getnav=1200

 

• Graphics, including PhotoShop

 

• Utilities such as Acrobat Reader, WS-FTP, and Crystal Reports.

 

Penn State

 

• Penn State’s IT Group
  
  
  • Penn State’s IT Group offers an online area with handouts, class files, and helpful links on a variety of topics, including: The Office suite, Windows XP, PhotoShop, Acrobat, Digital photography & imaging, and Dreamweaver.

 

• Penn State ’s general training site is available at: http://ict.cas.psu.edu/Training/WebBasedTrng.htm
  
  
  • Penn State also has links to “How To’s” for Dreamweaver at: http://ict.cas.psu.edu/Training/instrmats/Dreamweaver/InstMaterials.html
    
    
    
    
• Penn State College of Agriculture offers an excellent on-line tutorial in Basic Dreamweaver at: http://ict.cas.psu.edu/Training/instrmats/Dreamweaver/WorkSpace.html

Purdue

 

• Purdue’s Training Site offers information on general topics such as managing your email, and security at: http://sharepoint.agriculture.purdue.edu/agit/default.aspx

 

• Purdue’s Office Technical Guides (http://sharepoint.agriculture.purdue.edu/agit/office2003.aspx) include information on Word (enhancements and security features), PowerPoint, Excel, and Clip art.

 

• Purdue also offers free tips for various applications we use. Topics include: The Office Suite (Access, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word), along with Acrobat, clip art, Browsers (Both Explorer and Netscape), and information on palm pilots. It is located at: http://sharepoint.agriculture.purdue.edu/agit/instructional_tools.aspx

 

• Course materials in Dreamweaver, Acrobat, PhotoShop, and the web are available from Purdue at: http://www.itap.purdue.edu/training/materials/

Arizona

• Free Video clips and tutorialsare available from The University of Arizona with topics in the following areas: Web site – planning, layout, and accessibility; Web site design; website graphics; and FTP; as well as applications, including Dreamweaver, PhotoShop, and Eudora.
  
  
  Links to these tutorials are listed at: http://ag.arizona.edu/ecat/classes/videoclips.html
  
  
• The University of Arizona has specific tutorials in various topics in Dreamweaver and Photoshop at: http://ag.arizona.edu/ecat/classes/
  
  
• RIO (Research Instruction Online) at the University of Arizona offers Software & hardware guides, along with links to other resources.
  
  
• The University of Arizona Multimedia Lab offers User and Instructor manuals for courses on various topics, including many multimedia applications, Dreamweaver, PhotoShop, Office XP (2002), File management, and browsers.
  
  
• AgInfo at The University of Arizona College of Agriculture – has links to a wealth of tutorials and training materials. Scroll down (approximately one screen) to the section called Special web sites put up by ECAT.
  
  
• FREE videos available on the Internet - The University of Arizona also offers video clips on http://ag.arizona.edu/ecat/classes/videoclips.html

Berkeley

 

• The University of California at Berkeley offers free online tutorials on using the internet & searching the web. A listing of their offerings can be found at: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html

Kearney

 

• University of Nebraska at Kearney offers free on-line tutorials in Office 2000 applications. These are available at: http://goforit.unk.edu/cscourse.htm

Colorado State University & Cooperative Extension

 

• Colorado’s Computer and Web Resources area has articles and links to a variety of resources. The CSU site has a hierarchy of tips & articles on the basic topics and applications we use in Extensions, including, word processing (both Corel and Word.)
  
  
• CSU’s Computer Applications Training area has links to several PowerPoint presentations on a variety of topics, including the entire Office Suite and Dreamweaver. It also has a section with links to relevant articles, including topics such as mail merges in Word.
  
  
• Colorado’s Database area offers a Tips & Tricks as well as on-line tutorials section in Access & Excel .
  
  
• CSU offers a section on the Internet & using the web and search engines.
  
  
• On-line tutorials for creating presentations & using PowerPoint can be found on the CSU site at: http://www.ext.colostate.edu/training/presentations.html
  
  
• CSU’s spreadsheet tutorials are available at: http://www.ext.colostate.edu/training/spreadsheets.html
  
  
• Word Processing Tutorials in both WordPerfect and Word are available at the CSU site.

Texas Cooperative Extension

 

• Tips for Windows, WordPerfect and videoconferencing are available at: http://eit.tamu.edu/eitdocs/eitdocs.htm
  
  
• Texas A&M University Extension Information Technology has information on digital imaging, safe computing, and links to other topics at: http://eit.tamu.edu/learning.html
  

 

Iowa

• Iowa State University Extension offers information on general computer topics, such as how to search the web, Netiquette, peripherals, etc.
  
  
• Iowa Cooperative Extension has an online tutorial in Excel, which is available at: http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Pages/Excel/
  

Kansas

• Kansas State University Research and Extension has a variety of tutorials as well as links to relevant information on a variety of computer-related topics.
  

 

Nebraska

• Nebraska offers online self-paced learning resources, which are available at: http://citcomputing.unl.edu/training.html/study.htm There is a small fee per class. Topics include: Windows, Microsoft Office applications, Corel WordPerfect and Presentations, Adobe PageMaker and PhotoShop
  
  
• Tutorials are available at Nebraska’s Info Service site. Topics include PhotoShop & Photoshop Elements, BlackBoard, Dreamweaver, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Corel WordPerfect, Fireworks, and Flash
  
  
• Nebraska also hosts a Tips section at: http://elkhorn.unl.edu/cit2005/pages/index.jsp?what=weeklyTipList
  

 

Land Grant Training Alliance

 

• Land Grant Training Alliance ’s (LGTA) archives of training resources are available at: http://eit.tamu.edu/EITDOCS/lgta.pdf . LGTA is no longer active, but many of it’s functions have been assumed by American Distance Education Consortium (ADEC)
  

 

Washington State

• Washington State University’s Computer Resources Unit has a well-developed website which includes:
  
  
• Links to on-online training courses, many of which are hosted by other institutions or companies.
  
  
• They also offer a section on Windows links, which is sponsoered by their site. It has pointers to many commercial & eduacational sites with information about various releases of Windows

ADEC

 

• ADEC ( The American Distance Education Consortium) offers links to hundreds of sites with free training and information relevant to Extension educators. Consult their site at: http://www.adec.edu/user/links.html and select the links most relevant to your discipline or needs.

 

Commercial sites

 

 

Adobe

 

• Adobe offers a wealth of training resources on their website. Their training covers not only their products, but popular uses of them. For example, they don't just offer PhotoShop, they offer training in digital imaging. They offer training in the following products used by UNHCE: Acrobat, PageMaker, and Photoshop.
  
  
• They have a special section on training for educators, listed at: http://www.adobe.com/education/training/main.html This has links to curriculums, resources, CDs, etc.
  
  
• Adobe also offers free training for educators. To register, go to: http://www.adobe.com/education/training/training_form.html.
  
  
• Their site has special sections listing tours where Adobe staff offers free demos; eSeminars, which you can take interactively; and an archive of former eSeminars which you can access (called OnDemand.)

 

Custom Guide

• Custom Guide.com (http://www.customguide.com/ ) offers Computer-Based Training (CBT) in the areas of MS Office, including Access, Excel, PowerPoint., Word; as well as Windows and PhotoShop.

Keystone

• Keystone's site has free downloadable tutorials for the Office Suite. Applications include Access, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word mail merge.)

 

Freeskills.com

 

• Freeskills.com offers free web-based training courses. Topics include Windows; the Microsoft Office Suite; Corel WordPerfect and Draw; and Adobe’s Photoshop, PageMaker, Acrobat, and Illustrator. For further information and a listing of their course offerings, see their website at: http://training.freeskills.com/courselist

• Freeskills also offers free and low-cost online training. Free tutorials include Office 2002 (XP) applications and Windows XP, along with others. For a complete listing, go to: http://www.freeskills.com/, and search the site for your desired topic.

 

Free-ed.net

 

• Free-ed.net – Offers free online computer training resources, including tutorials and online courses in Office applications, the internet, PhotoShop, and Windows.

 

Hewlett Packard

• Hewlett Packard’s Learning Center has online classes in several topics, along with Solutions, Supports and Drivers sections.
  
  
• HP’s In-house marketing center offers free courses in PhotoShop, Word, and Digital Photography.
  
  
• HP’s Software and Technology area offers courses in PhotoShop, the entire Office Suite, PDAs, and servers.

I-Training.com

• http://i-training.com/ is a general training site with links to hundreds of other sites. Topic areas include, but aren’t limited to Access and IT Training. (They also handle generic training in other content areas, such as real estate.)
  
  

Learn2.com

• Learn2.com’s Home Page offers f ree tutorials and training opportunities on a variety of topics, including Office and WordPerfect (through version 9.)
  
  
• Learn2 also has a huge library of inexpensive on-line courses, and a FREE Microsoft Office & Windows Tips & Tricks electronic newsletter

 

Lisa’s Freebies

• Lisa’s Freebies (lisasfreebies.com/freeeducation.html) – Contains links to other training sites with free or inexpensive training materials

 

Microsoft

 

• Microsoft has a variety of opportunities to receive training, tips, or information on the use of their products. Offerings include all Microsoft applications, such as Office suite (Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Word), as well as Windows and Internet Explorer.
  
  
• For a listing of options, you can go to their training area at: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/training/find/findcourse.mspx and search for the desired product.
  
  
• Their site changes on a regular basis. As of the time of publication, the following links contained information which may be useful in meeting your training needs:
  
  
• http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/FX010804491033.aspx contains demos on a variety of topics
  
  
• http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/FX011217671033.aspx?FB=FX01056259 has self-paced training courses
  
  
• http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx contains a listings of tips and pointers to other training resources on their site
  
  
• http://www.microsoft.com/education/Tutorials.aspx is a link to their tutorials
  
  
• http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/FX010559221033.aspx contains links to Office training tips, courses and publications
  
  
• http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx is the home page for Office online, which has various tips, updates, as well as links to training materials such as demos.

 

One Thirty

• OneThirty.com’s site has articles, tip sheets, learning guides, and tutorials for computer-related topics. They have a lot of material on creating web pages using various applications, as well as a section titled, “Teaching & Learning on the web.”
  
  

• They also offer free images and clipart at: http://www.onethirty.com/web/resources.html