Some short guides to popular online tools, to help explain them to people who, for whatever reason, are a bit nervous about them.

Visit http://kindofdigital.com/useful-stuff/what-is-guides/ to find out more.

Lifehacker's Adam Dachis has created a Beginners step-by-step guide on How to Upload Videos to YouTube; available as...

• a text resource; and/or

• a video.

Visit http://lifehacker.com/5804501/how-to-upload-videos-to-youtube-for-beginners to access both or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE_s9P2u2PQ to watch the video clip (also embedded below).

Nik adds three more to the first five tasks, published at the end of 2010, in a series to help teachers learn how to use technology with their learners.

The first few tasks were designed to lay the ground work and get teachers started. Nik says that as the series progresses he plans to include more adventurous tasks.

The three tasks include...

• Wallwisher - an online notice board that I've reviewed in the past;

• Jing - a useful free tool that allows users to create and annotate ima...

Some time ago Nik Peachey had a plan to write a book of tasks to get teachers using technology. In his words...

"As with so many of my plans and ideas, time and circumstances over took me and I never got further than the first 15 tasks. When I went back to do some more I noticed that I was taking so long doing these that some had gone out of date, so to try to get some use from the tasks I've decided to revise them and start publishing them here so anyone can download them and use them...

The Th!nk Tutorial website is a new online resource that is gathering together computer tutorials and lessons.

Early days but the current content deals with everything from sending out emails and uploading images to the Internet, to operations that are notably more complex such as enabling iTunes or handling Facebook privacy settings.

The contents of the site can be browsed by way of the many tags that are displayed near the bottom on the main page however, there isn't an option for arran...

JISC Digital Media has launched two new online tutorials, that follow on from the Internet for Image Searching tutorial <http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/tutorial/imagesearching/>....

• Internet for Audio Resources <http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/tutorial/audio> and

• Internet for Video and Moving Images <http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/tutorial/video>.

The free-to-use tutorials have been designed to assist both practitioners and learners to locate audio and video for use in teaching and learning.

Cr...

Photography is a beautiful form of art with no hard rules.

It's all about creativity and individual style. And that's what makes it so interesting. There are lots of tips and tricks to be learnt, and certainly lots of experiences to be gain before one becomes an expert.

If you are new to photography, Hongkiat has provided five ways to create cool photos to impress colleagues/peers.

Like me, Phil Bagge believes in free and he hopes that practitioners and learners will something useful to use on his ICT Video Help pages.

ICT Video Help has a collection of videos which show visitors how to use a wide range of ICT tools and will keep many educated and entertained for hours.

Tech Training Wheels is a new video sharing site designed and built by five Google Certified Teachers.

The purpose of the site? - To share how-to videos for practitioners.

It is very early days and currently there are only five videos on the site and they are all how-to videos related to using Google products. The site is open to user contributions.

Visit http://techtrainingwheels.com/ to take a closer look.

JISC Digital Media's new advice document Creating an Audio Ident provides information on...

• what an ident is;
• desiging an ident; and
• how-to create an ident using Audacity software.