I found out from the Instagram account of the journalist Cristina Bazavan that AFP (Agence France-Presse) organizes free courses for journalists and students in journalism. (Cititi mai mult pe blogul ei.) I am neither but still I am interested and I need to be better in my searches so I enrolled.
You can find the courses at https://digitalcourses.afp.com/collections/courses
The courses are short, about 45 min -1 hour to follow each. I studied so far these courses:
+ 1. Carry out searches efficiently to find the results you need, very useful, teaches you how to search for information on google and other search engines using operators and also searching by date
+ 2. Find when a photo or video was first published and who published it, also useful, teaches you how to reverse search for an image on google images or other image search engines, and also how to search information about a posted video, using keyframes.
+ 3. Learn methods for dealing with online harassment and for staying safe online, teaches you to check your digital footprint, where you appear on searches, if your email has been compromised (https://haveibeenpwned.com/)
+ 4. Refine searches on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and other social media, a basic course on searching information on social media channels
+ 5. Identify clues in images, use online maps and travel through space and time with them, an intermediary course about identifying the place when a photo was taken.
If you are interested in being able to find interesting things on google, faster and more efficient, for example, I suggest you to enroll.
You receive a certificate after each course, this is how a certificate looks.
