Own Your Own Education

Own Your Education

Grammar

• Newsroom 101: Exercises in Grammar, Usage and Associated Press Style
  
• If you look at no other, look at this one. (When it asks for your Newsroom 101 name, just hit "OK" twice and you are in.)
• Interactive Quizzes 
• Triangle Grammar Guide Quizzes 
• Grammar Bytes
• Guide to Grammar and Writing
• The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation
• Modern English Grammar: A Hypertext Book
• OWL Exercises
• Grammar for Journalists
• Grammar guide from the OWL
• Punctuation Practically Illustrated
• A Sampling of Grammar Books
• Diagramming Sentences
• English Grammar Book
  
• For "Whom" the Bell Tolls
• Hypergrammar 
• The Tongue Untied
• Modern English Grammar: A Hypertext Book
• All About Conjunctions

AP Style

• AP Style Practice
• Excercise Central for AP Style
  
• Ask the AP Editor

Other Resources

• Multimedia Tutorials Roundup
• Wordista
• Spelling
• Purdue Writing Lab
• Copydesk.org quizzes
• J-Learning
• 100 Best Blogs for Journalism Students
• 50 Resources to Improve Your Writing
• A Bunch of Nuts & Boltz Quizzes
• Self-Grading Multiple Choice Quiz from Norton 
• Purdue Writing Lab
• Common Errors
• Common Errors in English
• Copydesk.org Quizzes
• Free Language Learning Resources
• Hone Your Skills
• Hundred Common Mistakes
• Hundred Most Mispelled Words
• MindMeister (an organizing tool)
• News U
• Newsroom 101 Spelling Exercises
• Online Lectures, etc.
• Things a Journalist Should Know
• Top 100 Tools for Learning
• Urban Dictionary
• Vocab: Hard Words in The New York Times
• Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition
• Wordnik (a 21st Century Dictionary) 

Technology

• Knight Digital Media Center Available tutorials: Video, Audio, Photography, Web design, Flash, Multimedia storytelling, Mashups; Cost: free
• J-Learning Available tutorials: Web design, Video, Audio, Graphic Design, SWiSHmax, Blogging, Photography, Databases; Cost: free
• Media College Available tutorials: Video, Audio, Photography, Graphic design, Web design, Various software (Flash, Photoshop, etc.); Cost: free
• lynda.com Available tutorials: Pretty much everything under the sun, from software to online tools; Cost: $25 monthly/$250 annual membership
• BBC Training & Development Available tutorials: HTML, Dreamweaver, Flash, Photoshop, Audio editing and recording and more; Cost: Varies
• tutsearch Search hand-picked tutorial sites Available tutorials: Photoshop, CSS, Illustrator, Flash, JQuery, Web design; Cost: Free
• Common Craft A series of short explanatory videos that focused on making complex technical concepts ideas easier to understand. Covers everything from wikis to RSS to social media to social bookmarking
• Tutorial Today Available tutorials: Photoshop, Flash, CSS, HTML, Javascript, PHP and more; Cost: free
• W3Schools.com
• Vimeo Video School  Vimeo Video School is a fun place for anyone to learn how to make better videos. It’s a one-stop-shop for Vimeo Lessons and user-made video tutorials about a variety of video-making topics.