NOTE: This article is a reprint in response to recent conversations with a few citizens. While using a computer use can be daunting and intimidating; there are free resources to learn how to use computer applications.

Are you “confounded by computers?”

Fooled by Facebook?

Worried by Word?

Puzzled by PowerPoint?

Don’t be. Click here to get access to “low-stress, no-cost” learning points. The DigitalLearning Website will enable you and guide you into and along the path of “digital literacy and collaboration.”

This free site is provided by the United States government and the collaborative input of consumer organizations and businesses. Go ahead, take a look. You’ll find online training programs for:

• People who have never used a computer before.
• How to use the Internet to search the Internet, use email, register on a website. Here’s a real starter-kit for the Internet that begins with “how to use the mouse.”
• How to use Microsoft Office programs like Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
• Cell phone safety tips.
• Find out more about Google Docs.
• The Facebook dictionary.

You will find the training programs fascinating and very useful “even if you think you know a lot about computers.”

If you are an educator, teacher or librarian, you can find lesson planning here, too.