The Best Free Training

Topic: Powerful search tool & web safety rating resource
Format: It’s not training! It’s a Swiss Army knife for your web browser!
Reviewer/email: Mike G – greers_pm@yahoo.com

The LinkExtend Browser Add-On

Sometimes the best learning occurs as you ping-pong around the web, discovering new tutorials, courses, and classes for yourself. If you’re one of those restless, self-directed learners, then LinkExtend is just what you need! It will put your browser on steroids and vastly increase your chances of finding relevant, high-quality and safe websites, no matter what you’re searching for.

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Topic: Overview of iPad hardware & how to use the iPad
Format: 11 Flash & Quicktime Videos (brief, approx. 3 minutes each)
Reviewer/email: Mike G – greers_pm@yahoo.com

This nice, tight collection of 11 short video tutorials will help you learn how to use your new iPad. Or, if you haven’t purchased one yet, it will give you an in-depth tour of Apple’s groundbreaking new device so you can figure out if you really want one… and what you might do with it!

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Topic: How to use Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn
Format: Web-based introductory tutorials and more
Reviewer/email: Mike G – greers_pm@yahoo.com

Have you been avoiding any of these great free social media tools because you can’t figure out where to start? Or, worse, have you signed up for them and find yourself clicking around aimlessly, wondering how to use them to accomplish your goals? Then it’s about time you for you to become more systematic in your self-teaching approach and take advantage of some of the free online training and info available for these products.  In this post, we’ll briefly review some of these resources.

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If you subscribe to this blog using a Kindle or any RSS feed reader, you might be interested in this post.

I just received the following comment from one of my visitors:  “I subscribed to your Kindle edition of The Best Free Training, and the complete articles are not available; just a title and introduction preceeded by “….”. Are you planning to provide the complete version for Kindle since we can’t access the web from it?”

The answer is Yes! And I’m sorry Kindle subscribers were only getting summaries! I thought you have been getting the whole blog post. (But I don’t use the Kindle, so have no way of knowing.) I’m going to provide further explanation and info below the “Read the rest of this entry »” link below. If you DO NOT receive this further explanation in your Kindle or RSS feed, please let me know by posting a Comment or emailing me at greers_pm@yahoo.com . Thanks!

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Topic: Technical and not-so-technical info & how-to guides to help WordPress bloggers
Format: Website with many, many videos and blog posts
Reviewer/email: Mike G – greers_pm@yahoo.com

WordPress is an open source (i.e., free) blog publishing application. And it’s also one of the most popular tools used by bloggers everywhere. Both of my blogs, The Best Free Training and Inspired Project Teams, have the powerful engines of WordPress running underneath their hoods. (Each of these blogs has a different “look and feel,” since each uses a different “theme” or layout/design scheme. But both are operational thanks to WordPress.)

WordPress is also a community of hard-working and dedicated folks who create, maintain, and help each other use the many tools and add-on stuff that has grown up around this amazing application. And, as if it’s not enough that these dedicated people keep WordPress running & free, they have now launched a giant collection of free video resources for all us WordPress bloggers.

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Topic: Overviews of technology-related topics, finance, and more
Format: Website featuring ultra-brief (under 5 minutes!) videos that are uniquely animated, fun, and filled with big ideas.
Reviewer/email: Mike G – greers_pm@yahoo.com

So how much content can you cram into 5 minutes (or less) of video…. and still have powerful, clear explanations? You can see for yourself at the amazing Common Craft website! It’s recently been completely reworked and has a great, easy-to-use new interface.

If you want tight (and fun) little explanations of all sorts of complex topics, then you gotta check this site. And if you are a video producer or a trainer, you need to see what these guys are up to! They set the bar very high indeed for quick, clean, efficient, and effective training tools!

I’m a big fan of Common Craft and have reviewed several Common Craft videos on this blog in recent months. And they are all amazing, fun, and information-packed.

You’ll find links to my past reviews, as well as a complete list of all Common Craft videos available at the website, below:

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Topic:  Languages, exam preparation, cooking, and many more topics added all the time
Format: Live video classes, tutors, online community, and more
Reviewer/email: Mike G – greers_pm@yahoo.com

On this blog, we showcase great free training resources. In most of my posts, I use the word “free” to mean “at no cost.” However, when writing about eduFire I’m forced to expand my definition of “free” to include: “unencumbered… unrestrained.”  That’s because eduFire has set loose the power of teachers and learners from all over the planet to connect directly… with no institutional middle-man!

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