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Category Archives: Big Ideas
TED Talks – Inspiring, Educational, Wonderful
Since the first week of August is apparently one of the busiest travel weeks of the year in the United States, let’s take a look at a perfect travel companion: TED Talks What Is It? Straight from the About page: … Continue reading
Posted in Big Ideas, Resources, This Week on LLO
Tagged inspiring, online videos, TED, ted talks, TEDx
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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
The Only Constant is Change
We’ll be taking a short break from ebooks this week to talk about one of the skills necessary for living life online: being comfortable with change. “Nothing but change endures.” Whether we know this quote from Heraclitus or Isaac Asimov, … Continue reading
Introducing….the Cloud
First, a note: Last week, I said that we would talk about buying music online and introduce “the cloud” in this post. As I wrote, I realized that it was too much information and should be split in two. So, … Continue reading
Posted in Basics, Big Ideas, This Week on LLO
Tagged amazon, amazon cloud, apple, apple icloud, blogs, cloud computing, dropbox, email, flickr, gmail, google, google docs, google documents, music libraries, saas, software as a service, spotify, storing in the cloud, subsonic, the cloud, web-based services, yahoo, ymail, youtube
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Playing with online tools
Just like any other tool, the best way to learn a new online service or website is to play with it. Push the buttons, click the links, enter some information – it’s by using a tool that we figure out … Continue reading
Posted in Basics, Big Ideas, This Week on LLO, Tips for Living Life Online
Tagged basic skills, getting started, play
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