Entertainment
Stage Lighting
Area Four Industries a dynamic “think tank” corporation that guides activities with our Milos, Litec, Tomcat & JTE brands.
Vectorworks Spotlight Essentials Seminars (Code: MAGNUM) – 100% Discount on Vectorworks Training.
ACT Online Courses – ACT Lighting is offering free online courses with promo code act4me until June 1, 2020 to help programmers during this period of social-distancing
ETC Connect Courses – Temporarily free to the community
ETC EOS Training and Workbooks – More free training material from ETC
Vista by ChromaQ – Intro class to Vista 3 as well as an advanced programming class
on Vista
Obsidian Onyx Classes – Console Training
Chamsys MagicQ Training – Video classes
Chamsys “Stuck at Home” Programmers Challenge – Provides lighting pros with more than a creative outlet during slow times, it also offers a chance to win a new MagicQ MQ70 console
Strand Console Training – Free
Avixa CTS Certification Courses – Free through June 12
USITT Teaching Archive – FREE online resource for teachers in areas of technical theater and live entertainment
Avolites Online Learning – hosting live learning sessions on their Facebook page for both their Titan and Ai platforms
Gaffer Systems 3D Modeling – Free training for their 3D Modeling/Visualization software
LightWright6 – Free through June 1, 2020 – Helps designers and electricians record and keep track of the vast amount of data needed to install and maintain a lighting installation.
Capture Student Edition and Demos – Great for creating small rigs that lighting designers can play with, will link with Nomad offline relatively easily
Drafty App – CAD Tool with a few tutorials
GrandMA Training
MA University – Intensive training for all MA products. We are working with MA Lighting to offer a limited number of readers access to the full MA University training for free
grandMA2 Tutorial Series – Youtube videos created by MA Lighting
grandMA3 Tutorial Series – Youtube videos created by MA Lighting
Christian Jackson’s MA2 Console Resource – Great tutorials on programming a show on grandMA2
Audio Training
HARMAN Professional University – Audio, control, and networked AV certification courses
JBL CBT Calculator Training – Video tutorial
Crown Amplifier Training – Video Tutorials
QSC QSYS level 1 – Always free. Great certification for an Audio Tech
Dante level 1 and 2 (maybe 3) – Always free. Great certification for an Audio Tech
Design Courses
- Cars: Past, Present & Future - Free Online Course - Michael Shanks, Stanford
- Crash Course in Design Thinking - Free Online Course - Stanford
- Design Thinking for Innovation - Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) - University of Virginia
- Digital Design - Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) - The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Everything I Know - Free Online Lectures - Buckminster Fuller
- Fashion as Design - Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) - Museum of Modern Art
- Ideas from the History of Graphic Design - Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)- Cal Arts
- Introduction to Design Thinking - Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) - Microsoft
- Introduction to Visual Design - Free Online Course - Carnegie Mellon
- Product Design: The Delft Design Approach - Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) - Delft University of Technology
- Video Game Design History - Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) - Rochester Institute of Technology
Film Courses
- An Introduction to Screenwriting - Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) - University of East Anglia
- Existentialism in Literature & Film – Free Online Audio - Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
- Creative Activism - Free iTunes Audio - Peter Woodbridge, Coventry University
- Holocaust in Film and Literature – Free Online Course – Todd Presner, UCLA
- Introduction to Film Studies - Free Online Video - Free Video Download - Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan, IIT Madras
- Philosophy in Film and Other Media - Free iTunes Video – Free Online Video – Related Materials - Irving Singer, MIT
- The Film Experience - Free Online Course - David Thorburn, MIT
- Western Movies: Myth, Ideology, Genre - Free iTunes Video - Richard Slotkin, Wesleyan
Music & Performing Arts
- Basic Concepts of Music Theory - Free iTunes Video - Jamie Henke, U. of Wisconsin
- Dave Conservatoire (Music Theory Lessons) - Free Online Video - David Rees, Royal College of Music, London
- Free Music Courses (Multiple Offerings) - Free Online Video - Berklee College of Music
- Introduction to Pitch Systems in Tonal Music - Free Online Video + Course Info - Free Online Video - John Crooks, UC Irvine
- Introduction to Theatre and Drama Arts - Free Online Video - Missouri State, Robert Bradley
- Introduction to World Music - Free Online Video - Free iTunes Video - Syllabus - Missouri State, John Prescott
- Jazz and Culture - Free iTunes Audio - Andrew Barnes, Arizona State
- Listening to Music - Free Online Course - Craig Wright, Yale
- Musical Improvisation - Free iTunes Video - Mark Harvey & Tony Hall
- Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring: Modernism, Ballet, and Riots - Free Online Video - Thomas Forrest Kelly, Harvard
- The Ethics of Jazz (Lecture Series) - Free Online Lectures - Herbie Hancock, Harvard
- The Language of Music - Free iTunes Video - Free Online Video - Amy Muchnick, Missouri State
- The British Lectures - Free Online Lectures - Karlheinz Stockhausen
- The Unanswered Question: 6 Lectures on Music - Free Online Lectures - Leonard Bernstein, Harvard