great training materials are available for a fee at lynda.com, my favorite site for learning new skills (UW-Madison students link through STS to get this for free)
Narrated Training Tutorials
Please feel free to use any of the brief tutorials below as refreshers. They are not intended as exhaustive software training but as reminders of key elements of programs.
The tutorials are all screen captures in high-resolution, so to view them, you need to be on a high-res monitor. To see the Quicktime controls, expand your window to make it larger than the window shown in the tutorial. Or in Quicktime, choose view/half size.
A note on bandwidth -- all are large .mov files, so I don't recommend opening them over a slow connection.
Software Troubleshooting Wiki Instructions
JRR Lexis Nexis Guides
JRR Guides on Searching for Story Ideas
JRR Guides on Searching for Statistics and Data
Screen Capture Training
- Compare software options
- Jing (find purchase info online)
- Snapz (find purchase info online)
- Screenflow (find purchase info online)
Audacity Training
- Download: Audio Training Files
- Downloading Audacity and installing LAME, downloading exercise files
- Launch, save project, basics of interface
- 3 ways to add sound
- Playing sound and adjusting zoom
- Editing clips
- Building a package
- Recording voice
- Moving bites around
- Adding ambient sound & music
- Saving and compressing
Sound Slides Training
- Basics
- Adjusting images
- Changing the template and adding cutlines and headlines
- Saving file and saving for Web
Web Building Blocks
- What are HTML & CSS
- HTML codes
- Styling text with HTML
- Creating links
- Inserting images
- Creating tag styles
- Creating class styles
- Creating link styles
- Understanding page structure (your page as a farm)
- ID styles
- Compound styles
Dreamweaver Training
- 202ers: do not do this (wait for the version integrated with WordPress for you)
- Setting up a site and index (be sure to download Training Files 1)
- Inserting images and creating links
- Tables
- CSS: Tag and class styles
- CSS: ID styles
- CSS: Text and troubleshooting CSS problems (PDF of CSS styles)
- Inserting text, images and plugins
- Review: Building from the beginning