Learn Awesome Skills For Free

WebSites That will Teach You Awesome Skills For Free

Everyone knows the internet is filled with useful (and not so useful) information, and many site’s won’t even charge you a penny.

Why spend your hard-earned dollars on a class when you can gain tons of new skills online for free?

Become an Excel expert.
http://chandoo.org:  Chandoo is one of many gracious Excel experts who wants to share their knowledge with the world. Excel excellence is one of those skills that will improve your chances of getting a good job instantly, and it will continue to prove invaluable over the course of your career. What are you waiting for?

 

Instructables.com: Learn how to DIY just about anything (seriously!) with instructions from hundreds of contributors offered up free of charge. DIY solar food dehydrator, anyone?

Make your own animated GIF at http://gifmaker.me/ http://makeagif.com/: Learn how to make a gif. Create animated gifs online with our free gif animator in just three easy steps. Upload, Customize, Create.
SAMPLE ON HOW TO MAKE GIFT ANIMATION FROM YOUTUBE VIDEO:

http://makeagif.com/D8deb5

http://www.buzzfeed.com/katienotopoulos/how-to-make-a-gif-without-photoshop

Lifehacker.com/Night School: Hidden among the hacks on this uber-useful site are posted tagged “night school” where you’ll find freebie lessons on everything from how to build a computer to photography basics.

LEARN PHOTOGRAPHY

Lifehacker’s basics of photography might be a good place to start. Learn how your camera works, the basic of composition, and editing images in post-production. Life Hacker Course

Skillshare.com: Find out how to brew a perfect cup of coffee, pickle like a pro, knit, sew, and 100s of more skills. Cram your head full with the site’s complimentary 14-day trial, stat!

JustinGuitar.com: Always dreamed of becoming a rock star? You won’t even have to busk to take advantage of this site’s 850+ gratis guitar lessons.

Drawspace.com: Sharpen your drawing skills with lessons from pros. About 15% of Drawspace’s content is on the house.

All kids draw — so why do we become so afraid of it as adults? Everyone should feel comfortable with a sketchbook and pencil, and sketching is a wonderful way to express your creativity.

DrawSpace is a great place to start. I also highly recommend the book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain if you can drop a few dollars for a used copy

YogaMeditationAtHome.com: YOME is made up of 100% free online yoga videos that will get you saying ‘omm’ in seconds.

Chesscademy.com: Become a chess master by watching videos, solving puzzles,  and playing games, all free of cost.

GoHighBrow.com: Sign up for unpaid bite-size courses delivered to your inbox daily, aimed at expanding your knowledge on topics ranging from philosophy to Greek mythology.

Spreeder.com: Quick: How fast can you read these words? Use this Spreeder’s completely free reading program to double, triple, even quadruple your reading speed.

DuoLingo.com: Learn a new language from this site’s extensive costless online courses. Bonus: The ‘lessons’ are set up like games!

Codecademy.com: Get yourself up to speed on the in-demand skill of coding—all without spending a dime.

Online College Courses

All Winter Olympics Game Medals and Winner #Socialympics

The 2014 Winter Olympics, officially the XXII Olympic Winter Games, or the 22nd Winter Olympics, is a major international multi-sport event being held in Sochi, Russia.

#Socialympics
The Winter Olympic Games is a major international sporting event that occurs once every four years. The first celebration of the Winter Olympics was held in Chamonix, France, in 1924. The original sports were alpine and cross-country skiing, figure skating, ice hockey, Nordic combined, ski jumping and speed skating. The Games were held every four years from 1924 until 1936, after which they were interrupted by World War II. The Olympics resumed in 1948 and were celebrated every four years. The Winter and Summer Olympic Games were held in the same years until 1992, after a 1986 decision by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to place the Summer and Winter Games on separate four-year cycles in alternating even-numbered years. Because of the change, the next Winter Olympics after 1992 were in 1994.

XXII Olympic Winter Games Medals Count in Sochi 2014 Olympics : http://www.sochi2014.com/en/medals

The 2014 Winter Olympics, officially the XXII Olympic Winter Games, or the 22nd Winter Olympics, is a major international multi-sport event being held in Sochi, Russia. Officially scheduled for 7 February through 23 February 2014, opening rounds in figure skating, skiing, and snowboard competitions were held on the eve of the Opening Ceremony, 6 February 2014. Both the Olympics and 2014 Winter Paralympics are being organized by the Sochi Organizing Committee (SOC). Sochi was selected as the host city in July 2007, during the 119th IOC Session held in Guatemala City. The Sochi Olympics will be the first Olympics in the Russian Federation since the breakup of the USSR in 1991. The USSR was the host nation for the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.

98 events in 15 winter sport disciplines will be held throughout the Games.
A number of new competitions—a total of twelve accounting for gender—will be held during the Games, including biathlon mixed relay, women’s ski jumping, mixed-team figure skating, mixed-team luge, half-pipe skiing, ski and snowboard slopestyle, and snowboard parallel slalom. The events will be held around two clusters of new venues; an Olympic Park was constructed in Sochi’s Imeretinsky Valley on the coast of the Black Sea, with Fisht Olympic Stadium and the Games’ indoor venues located within walking distance, and snow events will be held in the resort settlement of Krasnaya Polyana.

Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics Game Medals and Winner

Medal count

Rank	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russian Fed.	13	11	9	33
2	Norway	11	5	10	26
3	Canada	10	10	5	25
4	United States	9	7	12	28
5	Netherlands	8	7	9	24
6	Germany	8	6	5	19
7	Switzerland	6	3	2	11
8	Belarus	5	0	1	6
9	Austria	4	8	5	17
10	France	4	4	7	15
11	Poland	4	1	1	6
12	China	3	4	2	9
13	Korea	3	3	2	8
14	Sweden	2	7	6	15
15	Czech Republic	2	4	2	8
16	Slovenia	2	2	4	8
17	Japan	1	4	3	8
18	Finland	1	3	1	5
19	Great Britain	1	1	2	4
20	Ukraine	1	0	1	2
21	Slovakia	1	0	0	1
22	Italy	0	2	6	8
23	Latvia	0	2	2	4
24	Australia	0	2	1	3
25	Croatia	0	1	0	1
26	Kazakhstan	0	0	1	1
–	Albania	0	0	0	0
–	Andorra	0	0	0	0
–	Argentina	0	0	0	0
–	Armenia	0	0	0	0
–	Azerbaijan	0	0	0	0
–	Belgium	0	0	0	0
–	Bermuda	0	0	0	0
–	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	0	0	0
–	Brazil	0	0	0	0
–	Bulgaria	0	0	0	0
–	Cayman Islands	0	0	0	0
–	Chile	0	0	0	0
–	Chinese Taipei	0	0	0	0
–	Cyprus	0	0	0	0
–	Denmark	0	0	0	0
–	Dominica	0	0	0	0
–	Estonia	0	0	0	0
–	Georgia	0	0	0	0
–	Greece	0	0	0	0
–	Hong Kong, CHN	0	0	0	0
–	Hungary	0	0	0	0
–	Iceland	0	0	0	0
–	Independent Olympic Participant	0	0	0	0
–	India	0	0	0	0
–	IR Iran	0	0	0	0
–	Ireland	0	0	0	0
–	Israel	0	0	0	0
–	Jamaica	0	0	0	0
–	Kyrgyzstan	0	0	0	0
–	Lebanon	0	0	0	0
–	Liechtenstein	0	0	0	0
–	Lithuania	0	0	0	0
–	Luxembourg	0	0	0	0
–	Malta	0	0	0	0
–	Mexico	0	0	0	0
–	Monaco	0	0	0	0
–	Mongolia	0	0	0	0
–	Montenegro	0	0	0	0
–	Morocco	0	0	0	0
–	Nepal	0	0	0	0
–	New Zealand	0	0	0	0
–	Pakistan	0	0	0	0
–	Paraguay	0	0	0	0
–	Peru	0	0	0	0
–	Philippines	0	0	0	0
–	Portugal	0	0	0	0
–	Rep. of Moldova	0	0	0	0
–	Romania	0	0	0	0
–	San Marino	0	0	0	0
–	Serbia	0	0	0	0
–	Spain	0	0	0	0
–	Tajikistan	0	0	0	0
–	Thailand	0	0	0	0
–	The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia	0	0	0	0
–	Timor-Leste	0	0	0	0
–	Togo	0	0	0	0
–	Tonga	0	0	0	0
–	Turkey	0	0	0	0
–	Uzbekistan	0	0	0	0
–	Venezuela	0	0	0	0
–	Virgin Isl, B	0	0	0	0
–	Virgin Isl, US	0	0	0	0
–	Zimbabwe	0	0	0	0

List of All Winter Olympics Game Medals and Winner Before Sochi 2014

Rank	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Norway	107	106	90	303
2	United States	87	95	71	253
3	USSR	78	57	59	194
4	Germany	68	72	48	188
5	Austria	55	70	76	201
6	Canada	52	45	48	145
7	Sweden	48	33	48	129
8	Switzerland	44	37	46	127
9	Finland	41	59	56	156
10	GDR	39	36	35	110
11	Italy	37	32	37	106
12	Russian Fed.	36	29	26	91
13	Netherlands	29	31	26	86
14	France	27	27	40	94
15	Korea	23	14	8	45
16	FRG	13	15	13	41
17	China	9	18	17	44
18	Japan	9	13	15	37
19	Unified Team	9	6	8	23
20	Great Britain	9	3	10	22
21	Olympic United Team of Germany	8	6	5	19
22	Czech Republic	5	5	6	16
23	Australia	5	1	3	9
24	Croatia	4	5	1	10
25	Estonia	4	2	1	7
26	Czechoslovakia	2	8	15	25
27	Poland	2	6	6	14
28	Liechtenstein	2	2	5	9
29	Belarus	1	4	4	9
31	Bulgaria	1	2	3	6
30	Kazakhstan	1	3	2	6
=33	Belgium	1	1	3	5
=33	Ukraine	1	1	3	5
32	Slovakia	1	2	1	4
35	Spain	1	0	1	2
36	Uzbekistan	1	0	0	1
38	Slovenia	0	2	5	7
39	Hungary	0	2	4	6
37	Yugoslavia	0	3	1	4
40	Latvia	0	2	1	3
42	DPR Korea	0	1	1	2
41	Luxembourg	0	2	0	2
45	Romania	0	0	1	1
=43	Denmark	0	1	0	1
=43	New Zealand	0	1	0	1