Learning and Living in the Online World

In April 2010, we decided to introduce a brand new initiative, the GCFLearnFree Literacy Project. There are over 43 million American adults who cannot read and over 50 million adults who cannot read higher than a fifth grade level. We felt this was an important issue and responded by developing the Reading Program, the goal [...]

Back in February, we were excited to launch our very first mobile application, a Vocabulary Dictionary for iPhone.  It’s hard to believe that in five short months, we have launched SEVEN more mobile applications! Our latest is our first for the iPad. Based on the popular tutorials available at GCFLearnFree.org, the Word 2010 Tutorial App [...]

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 [...]

I actually enjoy writing. I have a personal blog that I regularly update and tend to write a lot in my job here at GCFLearnFree.org. But even I have always dreaded writing cover letters. It’s incredibly difficult to concisely state how you are qualified for an employment position without seeming immodest. And there are only [...]

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 [...]

I sometimes forget that you really don’t know much about the people that work at GCFLearnFree.org. We’ve had conversations with you through Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and here on our blog. You’ve told us about your life and how GCFLearnFree.org has made a difference. But we’ve never really told you much about us. I wonder what [...]

You may have heard about cloud computing. There’s an ad campaign from Windows 7 where the characters exclaim “To The Cloud!“, a superhero-esque phrase that, when said, saves the day. People in your workplace may make reference to utilizing The Cloud for an upcoming presentation or the sales associate at your local tech store lists [...]

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 [...]