Websites That Will Make You Smarter Forget formal schooling for 30 minutes. Here are outstanding examples of how a simple half-hour of web reading can increase your ability to understand and influence the world around you. Want to get smarter at understanding taxes or the economy? Want to better understand your own risk fears or why your teenager is so defiant? Want to improve your leadership ability at the office? RSA Animate: Hand-Illustrated Presentations People who love TED.com also love RSA Animate. The RSA delivers many of their thought-provoking messages (often from TED speakers) through the novel means of hand-drawn illustrations. Inc.com Inc.com (named for 'incorporation") is an intelligent and inspirational resource for the business world. Focused on modern theories of business growth and organizational development, Inc.com has a deep library of modern blogging and thought-leader insights. If you are a manager, team leader, executive, or hopeful business owner, you must visit this site. Discover Magazine HowStuffWorks
It’s Time To Plug In: How Non-Techies Can Get In On Coding Coding is like the new yoga. It’s seem so cool and everyone is doing it! But to do or not to do? I struggle with this every day. I don’t necessarily gravitate toward numbers, signs, and lines and lines of them. There are so many resources to help you get started. I suggest (as many others do too) to start with the very basics. Worry not, to ease the process, I’ve picked five of my favorites that are easy to work with and keep me engaged. 1) Dash, General Assembly This is my latest obsession. 2) Skillcrush “Digital skills are job skills.” 3) Code Academy Website & App Code Academy was one of the first online resources I used to dive into my coding education. 4) Coursera Coursera boast legitimate online courses aka MOOCs. 5) HackDesign This is my second latest obsession. HTML. As always, if you need more and want to have a vent session about the struggle, just holler.
Top 10 Sites for Designers: September 2016 Edition Every month, HOW art director Adam Ladd curates a list of inspiring websites of particular interest to designers and creatives. This month’s selection includes a hub for UX design tools and resources, a quick and easy invoicing tool, a collection of motion graphics, and a few gorgeous sites for web design inspiration. 1. sansfrancis.co A collection of digital tools for designers, this punnily-named website is one to bookmark for your next project. 2. teletype.online Teletype uses an endearing, subtly animated mascot to welcome you to their site. 3. foxcodex.html.xdomain.jp I’m hoping the full site for this one will be translated into English at some point, because it’s beyond helpful. 4. mixtheplay.britishcouncil.org It’s your turn to be the director: direct your own version of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with this website from the British Council. 5. pricingpages.xyz 6. nowdue.ai 7. draft.co.jp 8. beyondthemap.withgoogle.com/en-us Didn’t get enough Rio during the Olympics? 9. 10.
PowerPoint: Animating Text and Objects Lesson 19: Animating Text and Objects /en/powerpoint/aligning-ordering-and-grouping-objects/content/ Introduction In PowerPoint, you can animate text and objects like clip art, shapes, and pictures. Animation—or movement—on the slide can be used to draw the audience's attention to specific content or to make the slide easier to read. Optional: Download our practice presentation. Watch the video below to learn more about animating text and objects in PowerPoint. The four types of animations There are several animation effects you can choose from, and they are organized into four types. Entrance: These control how the object enters the slide. To apply an animation to an object: Select the object you want to animate.On the Animations tab, click the More drop-down arrow in the Animation group. At the bottom of the menu, you can access additional effects. Effect options Some effects will have options you can change. To remove an animation: Select the small number located next to the animated object.
12 Dozen Places To Educate Yourself Online For Free All education is self-education. Period. It doesn’t matter if you’re sitting in a college classroom or a coffee shop. We don’t learn anything we don’t want to learn. Those people who take the time and initiative to pursue knowledge on their own are the only ones who earn a real education in this world. Take a look at any widely acclaimed scholar, entrepreneur or historical figure you can think of. If you’re interested in learning something new, this article is for you. Note that some of the sources overlap between various subjects of education. Science and Health MIT OpenCourseWare – MIT OpenCourseWare is a free web-based publication of MIT course materials that reflects almost all the undergraduate and graduate subjects taught at MIT.Tufts OpenCourseWare – Tufts OpenCourseWare is part of a new educational movement initiated by MIT that provides free access to course content for everyone online. Business and Money History and World Culture Law Computer Science and Engineering Mathematics
Design Elements and Principles - Tips and Inspiration By Canva Design is an intricate, complicated, fun and exciting business. There’s always a lot to learn, a lot to do, and a lot to consider when you’re a beginner – not to mention the fact that technology is constantly evolving, new software is being released, and new trends are coming at you rapid-fire. Truth be told, it can get a little overwhelming. So, let’s slow things down a little bit. 01. I’m sure we’re all aware of what lines are, but just to be sure, lines can be defined as any linear marks. Lines can channel certain ideas too. A technique applied a lot in photography is the use of ‘leading lines’ which do just what they claim – they lead the eye. Lets look at an example of leading lines in web design. A strong use of line is a great way to stylise your illustrations. Lines are versatile, simple and effective graphic elements that you certainly should not take for granted! 02. Scale is a large part of design, sometimes literally. Scale can help us make sense of designs and images. 03.
Free Online College Courses from Prestigious Schools Nick Beer/Shutterstock Computers and technology Intro to Computer Science from Harvard University, offered on edX Introduction to Corporate Finance from Columbia University, offered on edX Programming for the Web with JavaScript from University of Pennsylvania, offered on edX Computational Thinking for Problem Solving from University of Pennsylvania, offered on Coursera Artificial Intelligence from Columbia University, offered on edX With computer literacy an increasingly marketable skill, it’s nice to know that free online college courses can help supply you with some of those skills. toysf400/Shutterstock Psychology Introduction to Psychology from Yale University, offered on Coursera The Science of Happiness from Berkeley University, offered on edX Psychology of Popularity from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, offered on Coursera The Science of Well-Being from Yale University, offered on Coursera Billion-Photos/Shutterstock Literature
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