Free training curriculum from Microsoft
Have you visited the Microsoft NGO Connection site at www.microsoft.com/ngo recently? Microsoft has done a bunch of work to make available free curriculum and training materials for nonprofits to use for internal staff training or for public training if they are a Community Technology Center (CTC).
I see these resources as being complementary to NPower’s in-person training offerings for nonprofit staff, and a great resource for any of our customers or grant partners who are offering training to the public.The NGO Connection site offers curriculum in multiple languages and different tiers of difficulty:
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Essential (mousing, keyboarding)
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Standard (internet and www, security, and a mystery item called digital lifestyle)
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In the spring of ’10 there will be Advanced (creating an email account, social networking, internet search, writing a great resume)
There’s lots of self-serve training resources on the site too - screencasts, webinar recordings. Take a look!
