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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
Finding and Changing Account Settings
When you’re using online tools, you almost always have to create an account by entering your email address, creating a username, and choosing a password. Sometimes it will ask for more information, but typically, you sign up and then you’re … Continue reading
On “Knowing Enough”
For the month of April, Learning for Life Online will show you how to learn more about the settings and features of the tools you use online. We’ll start by exploring the new Facebook Timeline and the security and feature … Continue reading
Posted in Basics, Big Ideas, This Week on LLO, Tips for Living Life Online
Tagged big ideas, life online, thinky
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Getting Social – Sharing the neat stuff you find online
When the internet began, the only way to share interesting information online was to copy and paste it into an email, or forward one email message around and around. Nowadays, the web is built for sharing neat stuff. From social … Continue reading
Posted in Basics, Big Ideas, This Week on LLO, Tips for Living Life Online
Tagged big ideas, facebook, flickr, google plus, life online, sharing, uploading, youtube
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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
Posted in This Week on LLO, Tools
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
Posted in This Week on LLO, Tools
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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