BASICS

  • Build your digital confidence
  • Fundamentals for your Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone or BlackBerry device
  • Organizational skills for your Laptop, Desktop, Server, Cell Phone and Life
  • Getting things done with your Mac or PC
  • Internet Connectivity: Broadband, Wireless, Satelite, Modem
  • Hardware and software recommendations and training
  • Digital asset security (backups and encryption)
  • Life with multiple computers
  • Open Source Software

INTERNET

  • E-mail overload management
  • Tips and tricks for the web
  • Internet Services
  • Websites, RSS news feeds, e-mail lists
  • Blogs and Wikis
  • Howto run a production Web Server
  • Howto run a production E-mail Server
  • Social Networking
  • Domain names, website hosting & remote storage
  • Internet Shopping
  • Advertise: Search engine optimization, banners, AdWords, e-mail
  • E-commerce: options for internet storefronts
  • Mobile phones and the Internet
  • The internet for parents
  • Network monitoring
  • Home automation, weather devices & monitoring

DIGITAL MEDIA

  • Management: ipods, itunes, music, video, photos, podcasts
  • Production: photography, podcasts, video, audio
  • Host, stream & distribute digital media

PROGRAMMING

  • Standards compliance and cross-browser, cross-platform web development
  • Development with Open Source software
  • HTML, CSS & Javascript
  • PHP & SQL
  • Database schemas and queries
  • Intro to programming languages
  • Business modelling and workflow
  • Document version control