Grammar and Style Training
WordPress Training
- Training videos for WordPress are hosted through Lynda.com.
- To access Lynda, sign in through DoIT’s online training page (you can use either the link at the bottom of the page under “Getting Started” or on the right-hand side under “Login to Lynda.com”).
- Either search for “WordPress Essential Training” (course by Morten Rand-Hendricksen) or, now that you’re signed in, follow this link.
- Once inside the “WordPress Essential Training” course, all of these videos will come in handy as you use WordPress throughout the semester. We only require you to watch these particular videos to get started:
- WordPress: An introduction
- The admin panel
- Posts vs. pages
- Creating a New Post
- What is the difference between Categories and Tags?
- Adding Images to posts and pages
- When to use Pages
- Create content
- The three main content types of WordPress
- WordPress content blocks: Working with themes
- WordPress 5 essential training: Site administration
- These step-by-step text directions will also come in handy
- Verify that you completed the WordPress training here.
- Please know that entering confirmation here without completing the training constitutes academic misconduct and may result in a failing grade in the course. This applies to all verifications this semester.
Ethics Module
Premiere Trainings
Start by downloading the exercise files — but don’t do the training here.
Watch these videos on the Adobe site:
Start your video editing project
Get to know the Premiere Pro interface
Learn five basic editing basics in Premiere Pro
HOWEVER: don’t just watch the videos without opening up Premiere and trying to work along with what the narrator is talking about. If you don’t play with it, make mistakes and try it out, you’re going to struggle on your assignments.
Then watch Learn Premiere Pro in 20 minutes — again, be prepared to do the things along with the video. Just watching and listening isn’t enough. You should plan to spend about 90 minutes watching the videos and using Premiere — I did this myself and was able to make a basic video using the test files provided.
Verify you did the Premiere training here.
If you want to learn how to do more in Premiere, check out these additional resources:
21 Insanely Helpful Adobe Premiere Tutorials for Beginners
Written Tutorial from UC-Berkeley
Premiere keyboard shortcut cheat sheet
InDesign Training
- Download folder of training files
- 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
- Verify that you did the InDesign training here
- Please know that entering confirmation here without completing the training constitutes academic misconduct and may result in a failing grade in the course. This applies to all verifications this semester.
Additional Trainings
The guides below are not required training, but you may find them helpful, especially when researching and creating your individual story projects.
Screen Capture Training
- Compare software options
- Jing (download free version)
- Snapz (find purchase info online)
- Screenflow (find purchase info online)
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
Searching with Lexis Nexis
Searching for Story Ideas
Searching for Statistics and Data
Portfolio Site Training
IS Training
- Note: link to IS site used in tutorial here
- Note that the IS Audio Slideshow assignment has changed.
Other Digital Media Resources
Here is a great set of trainings for a variety of useful skills including audio recording, interactive map making, and editing: