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Why You Need Excel Drop-Down Lists (And How to Build Them)

Learn how to use Data Validation tools in Excel to improve the accuracy of the data in your spreadsheets. One of the Data Validation features you'll l...

Excel

Intermediate Excel Skills, Tips, and Tricks Tutorial

Here's my entire playlist of Excel tutorials: http://bit.ly/tech4excel Learn many of the intermediate skills, tips, and tricks that you'll need in ord...

Excel

Future Literacies: Crash Course Media Literacy #12

We’ve seen and discussed the ways in which the rapid pace of technological change has affected the media literacy landscape, and it’s clear that chang...

Media Literacy

Media Skills: Crash Course Media Literacy #11

Now that you have a solid understanding of the media landscape, it’s time to equip you with the essential skills for navigating it. *** Resources: NAM...

Media Literacy

The Dark(er) Side of Media: Crash Course Media Literacy #10

Propaganda! Misinformation! Disinformation! Today we’re talking about the dark – or, shall we say, darkER – side of media. Understanding these media b...

Media Literacy

Media Policy & You: Crash Course Media Literacy #9

Copyright and other media regulations have always been a bit tricky, but the internet made all of that infinitely more complicated. But what does all...

Media Literacy

Media Ownership: Crash Course Media Literacy #8

We’ve talked about how broad a concept “the media” really is – and given that, it can be hard to keep track of all the different forces that constitut...

Media Literacy

Online Advertising: Crash Course Media Literacy #7

You're being watched. That sounded more sinister than I intended, but online, it's true. Facebook, Instagram, Amazon, Netflix... the list goes on and...

Media Literacy

Influence & Persuasion: Crash Course Media Literacy #6

We’ve mentioned already that there’s a lot of money in media and a huge chunk of that money is spent on trying to get you to do something – buy someth...

Media Literacy

Media & Money: Crash Course Media Literacy #5

Media isn’t just movies and newspapers and TV shows, it’s also a part of society that involves a lot of money. And all that money has implications for...

Media Literacy

Media & the Mind: Crash Course Media Literacy #4

You are constantly surrounded by media, so the question is: how does your brain handle all of that? The unfortunate answer is that our brains have a l...

Media Literacy

History of Media Literacy, Part 2: Crash Course Media Literacy #3

Jay continues our journey through the history of media literacy with the arrival of movies, television, and the other screens that now permeate our li...

Media Literacy