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Finding and Using Online Help
Out in the wild world online, getting help using a particular tool is often up to you. However, using help centers, support pages, live chat, and discussion forums, there are many ways to figure out how to make things work … Continue reading
I’ll Tumblr For Ya…
This week, we’ll finish this month’s ‘social finding and sharing’ theme with a look at Tumblr, a social sharing site that mixes blogging and image linking with great results. What Is It? Tumblr‘s tagline is Follow the world’s creators, and … Continue reading
Posted in This Week on LLO, Tools
Tagged blogs, eat sleep draw, everyday things, finding stuff online, new york times, photos, play, searching, sharing, surprisingly useful tools, tumblr, twitter, uploading
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Playing With a New Gadget
Welcome back to Learning for Life Online, the Boston Public Library’s self-directed learning program about online life. We’re starting up again after a brief hiatus by getting back to basics. When you’re trying to live life online, it’s important to … Continue reading
Yahoo! – More than just a search engine
As we continue our month of looking more closely at online accounts, we’ll leave Google for now and see what another provider has to offer. Yahoo! started life as just a search engine (much like Google) and has added features … Continue reading
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Tagged calendars, email, events, everyday things, evite, flickr, IM, instant messaging, invitations, life online, monster.com, notepad, online accounts, photo editing, photos, picnik, yahoo, ymail
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Stay on Schedule with Google Calendar
Continuing our theme of going deeper with online accounts, this week we’ll take a brief look at Google Calendar. What Is It? For starters, it’s a calendar that is easy to check and edit from anywhere you can log in … Continue reading
Google Documents – Working together far apart
First, an apology – there was no lesson from LLO last Monday due to circumstances beyond our control. Sorry for the missed week, but we’re back today! As you may remember, we posted early on in Learning for Life Online … Continue reading
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Tagged collaborative work, documents, downloading, drawing, everyday things, forms, google, google docs, google documents, hotmail, life online, mobile devices, online accounts, presentations, saving, spreadsheets, surprisingly useful tools, uploading, yahoo
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