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Improve your E-Literacy skills!
LITERACY underpins everything we do – it’s not just READING and WRITING
It’s LEARNING and TRAINING for your job
It’s using TECHNOLOGY
It ‘s UNDERSTANDING the world around you
Whether you are new to the computer, returning for review or just want to gain more 21st century skills, these free computer tutorials can help.
This website has a wide range of free computer tutorials to choose from, including -
- Computer Basics
- Microsoft Office
- Internet
- Skype
Also remember to check out Cairns Libraries’ Online Training Courses, which you can access for FREE from our Online Resources page on our website. These training modules are comprehensive and interactive, and are fantastic for those wanting to learn computer basics, internet and email basics, as well as more intermediate training on Microsoft applications such as Excel, Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint.
A FREE website to teach your child to read with phonics
Starfall is a free public resource that aims to teach children to read using phonics. It’s approach is great for literacy skills at all levels and provides a range of animated stories and talking text options and interactive scenarios that entertains users as well as educating them.
Kids, choose your own adventure!
Edmark Make A Story is an online ‘choose your own adventure’ that allows you to create, tell and re-tell a story. It contains a range of electronic texts, all of which are interactive and enable you to animate the illustrations, change the storyline or create a whole new one!
