Get Help Using Computers and the Internet
DigitalLearn.org - Tutorials to help new computer users learn technology at their own pace. Examples: Navigating a Website, Using Windows 10, Online Scams, Intro to Facebook, Buying a Plane Ticket and more
GCF Global Learning - A free web-based computer and career training program for beginning computer users
Evaluating resources on the Internet - From Berkeley Library: helps you decide if a particular source is a good fit for your research project.
Learn to Type - This free website helps you master touch-typing
TechBoomers - free educational website that teaches older adults and other inexperienced Internet users with basic computer skills about websites that can help improve their quality of life.
w3schools.com - Free tutorials in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, SQL, XML, and more.
Technology
Adobe Certified Expert - ACE Exam preparation guides and exam registration
Apple Training and Certification - LearnQuest is Apple's Global Training Provider and delivers technical and creative classes using Apple's Authorized curriculum.
Google Developers Training - Learn and grow as a developer with Google's educational resources and certification exams
Microsoft Certification - advance your skills with Microsoft certifications. Delivering a wide range of online certification programs
Nation of Makers - A nonprofit organization dedicated to helping makers by supporting maker organizations; through advocacy, the sharing of resources and the building of community within the maker movement and beyond.
Popular Science: Technology
Tested - Read about breakthroughs in science, amazing tales of exploration, and discoveries in nature to emerging technologies and new consumer products that promise to change our everyday lives.
Thingiverse - MakerBot's Thingiverse is a design community for discovering, making, and sharing 3D printable things.
Unique Ways to Find Information on the Internet
Ask.com - just ask a question!
Duckduckgo.com - private searching, no filter bubble or cookies (click on the duck tosee how it works). Be sure to checkout the Goodies - special search queries that give you instant answers
Google Scholar - enables you to search for scholarly literature
HowStuffWorks.com - award-winning source of unbiased, reliable, easy-to-understand answers and explanations of how the world actually works.
Oaister - includes more than 25 mil records representing digital resources from more than 1,100 contributors
WorldCat - find books all over the world. Hint: Click on Find a Library and put in 36602, then pick MPL. A list of all our new materials for the previous month appears on our WorldCat page! (Staff login here.)
