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All Mobile Public Library Locations will be closed on Thursday, July 4. 

Web Resources: Technology & Internet

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  • 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.)

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