Now available for check out is a growing collection of Lynda.com technology training videos on CD-ROM. Ranging from 2 to 20 hours each, and including sample files for you to work along with, these videos are like classrooms in a box. While that kind of time commitment may sound daunting, it's easy to jump around between chapters. I've already learned a lot from them, even about programs I've been using for years. Look for more (including FrontPage) in our Media Browsing Room in the weeks to come.

                                           



Ruby on rails: essential training
Adobe Flash CS3 Professional
Adobe Photoshop CS3: one-on-one
Adobe Flash CS3 Professional essential training
Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 essential training
Microsoft Outlook 2007 essential training
Microsoft Excel 2007 essential training
Microsoft Access 2007 essential training
Adobe Flash CS3 Professional: Beyond the basics
Adobe ActionScript 3.0 in Flash CS3 Professional
Adobe After Effects 7
Podcast + videocast: essential training
Dreamweaver 8 dynamic development
Effective presentations
Final Cut Pro 5
Adobe Acrobat 8 professional: beyond the basics
Adobe illustrator CS3: Essential training
Adobe illustrator CS3 one-on-one: Essential training
Home and small office networking
Adobe InDesign CS3 essential training
Microsoft Publisher 2003: Essential training
CSS site design
XML: Essential training
Apple Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: Essential training
Microsoft Windows Vista: Essential training
CSS for designers

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The full text of The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning is available online through the MIT Press. This series "examines the effect of digital media tools on how people learn, network, communicate, and play, and how growing up with these tools may affect a person's sense of self, how they express themselves, and their ability to learn, exercise judgment, and think systematically." Worthwhile reading for educators.

CURRENT VOLUMES:
Civic Life Online: Learning How Digital Media Can Engage Youth
Digital Media, Youth, and Credibility
The Ecology of Games: Connecting Youth, Games, and Learning
Digital Young, Innovation, and the Unexpected
Learning Race and Ethnicity: Youth and Digital Media
Youth, Identity, and Digital Media

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Google SketchUp for dummies
Hacking Google Maps and Google Earth
Google Maps hacks
The Google story
Google's PageRank and beyond : the science of search engine rankings
Google Analytics
Google advertising tools
The search : how Google and its rivals rewrote the rules of business and transformed our culture
Google powered : productivity with online tools
Google talking
Google : the missing manual
Google's PageRank and beyond
Google Maps hacks
Beginning Google maps applications with PHP and Ajax : from novice to professional
Hacking Google Maps and Google Earth
Winning results with Google AdWords
Messages : free expression, media and the west from Gutenberg to Google

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The Google CheatSheet
Google Book Search
Google Alerts
Google Docs
Google Reader

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New subscription databases available:

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See the rest of our Research Databases.

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The TedTalks conference series is invitation-only, but the videos are available online for anyone to watch or download. Browse the hundreds of talks by discipline (technology, entertainment, design, business, science, culture, arts, & global issues) or choose from some of the most interesting linked below.

>> Hans Rosling: Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seen
>> Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity
>> Al Seckel says our brains are mis-wired
>> Dean Ornish on the world's killer diet
>> Robert Neuwirth on our "shadow cities"
>> Stewart Brand on squatter cities
>> Stefan Sagmeister on happy design
>> Richard Dawkins on militant atheism
>> Malcolm Gladwell on spaghetti sauce
>> Jeff Hawkins on how brain science will change computing
>> Al Gore on averting climate crisis
>> Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child
>> Bob Thurman on Buddha & the internet
>> Seth Godin on sliced bread
>> Michael Shermer on believing strange things
>> Richard Baraniuk on open-source learning
>> Ray Kurzweil on how technology will transform us
>> Filmmaker/Artist Gregory Colbert on "Ashes and Snow"
>> James Watson on how he discovered DNA
>> Phil Borges on endangered cultures
>> Jane Goodall on what separates us from the apes

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Use SketchUp, Google's free (and very powerful) 3-D design software product to draw a campus map and win a trip to Google!
Deadline: June 1 (work fast!)

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