Learning and Living in the Online World

Continuing to add to our Windows Live topic, our Windows Live Messenger tutorial is now live!

With all of the new Facebook changes, we give you three basic tips for controlling exactly how much information you share on everybody’s favorite social networking site.

The good news is we have finally completed updating our popular Facebook 101 tutorial this summer. We have added new lessons, interactives and accompanying videos covering all of Facebook’s new features like Groups, Video Calling and Facial Recognition. Yay! The bad news is we will likely have to do all of this again very soon. [...]

We are continuing to add to our Social Media tutorials with a new topic on Skype. Skype is a popular, web-based service that allows you to make voice and video calls to fellow Skype users on the internet for free. You can even get a phone number and make calls to phones around the world [...]

Seems like a silly title, right? Actually, it’s more serious than you may think. You may not realize but every time you check into the movie theater using FourSquare, post photos from your vacation on Facebook, or tweet about being at the game with friends, you are announcing to the world that you are not [...]

As you may have heard, Facebook began rolling out its Facial Recognition feature to all of its users in the beginning of June. Currently, Facebook uses this feature to suggest tags to users when they upload photos. It will automatically recognize your Friends in a photo and allow you to tag them in just one [...]

On June 1 we launched our new Email Basics subject with updated topics on Email 101, Gmail and more. As we were revising this subject we realized that communicating online in today’s world is about so much more than just using email. For our learners to be truly skilled in the digital world they need [...]

Email Basics is one of our most popular tutorials and we have been hard at work updating it these past few months. Today’s email is so much more than it used to be, so we have decided to expand this tutorial into a subject that contains several topics. Our new Email Basics subject includes: Email [...]

As the third most visited website in the world, I’m sure you’ve been to YouTube.  Even if you haven’t gone directly to the site, you’ve probably seen embedded video hosted by YouTube on a website or blog.  But did you know GCFLearnFree.org was on YouTube, too? We may not have cats playing the piano or [...]

We have now launched the first of our Google subjects with an introductory tutorial on creating and managing a Google Account. Did you know that Google offers hundreds of apps and services? Gmail, GoogleDocs, Google Calendar, YouTube and Picasa are some of the most popular. If you use any of these services, a Google Account [...]