great training materials are available for a fee at lynda.com, my favorite site for learning new skills (UW-Madison students link through STS to get this for free)
Online Training Tutorials
Available trainings:
- Using our software wiki
- Journalism Reading Room guides for finding information
- Using screen capture to record and narrate from your computer
- Audacity for audio editing
- Soundslides for audio slideshows
- Web building blocks for designing and customizing sites
- InDesign for creating print layouts
- Creating simple vertical timelines using Google spreadsheets
- Setting up a public folder on Dropbox
- iMovie (through Apple, not J202)
Software Troubleshooting Wiki Instructions
Screen Capture Training
- Compare software options
- Jing (find purchase info online)
- Snapz (find purchase info online)
- Screenflow (find purchase info online)
Audacity Training
- Download: Audio Training Files
- Downloading Audacity and installing LAME, downloading exercise files
- Launch, save project, basics of interface
- 3 ways to add sound
- Playing sound and adjusting zoom
- Editing clips
- Building a package
- Recording voice
- Moving bites around
- Adding ambient sound & music
- Saving and compressing
Soundslides Training
- Basics
- Adjusting images
- Changing the template and adding cutlines and headlines
- Saving file and saving for Web
Web Building Blocks
- What are HTML & CSS
- HTML codes
- Styling text with HTML
- Creating links
- Inserting images
- Creating tag styles
- Creating class styles
- Creating link styles
- Understanding page structure (your page as a farm)
- Sample CSS Template files(download to accompany this and future segments)
- ID styles
- Compound styles
- Customizing WordPress
InDesign Training
- Creating files
- Tools and palettes
- Adding text
- Manipulating boxes
- Manipulating text
- Stylesheets
- Importing and manipulating images
- Framing boxes
- Lines
- Shapes
- Color
- Linking boxes
- Tabs
- Printing
Vertical Timeline Training
- Download timeline folder and files
- Access sample spreadsheet template
- Overview and organizing files
- Spreadsheet entries
- Publish and edit script
- Customize and edit CSS
Journalism Reading Room Guides
Searching with Lexis Nexis
Searching for Story Ideas
Searching for Statistics and Data