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Information Technology
We offer technology workshops from a wise array of topics. Whether you want to learn to use the latest Microsoft office suite products, or improve your current skills on the same products, we've got you covered.
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Information Technology
| Technology Course List | |||
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| MS Excel 2010 Essential | |||
| In the Microsoft Excel 2010 Essentials workshop participants will learn the basics of how to use the world’s premier consumer spreadsheet software. Students will become familiar with how to use Excel to analyze numbers, keep track of data, and how to graphically represent your information. You'll start with the basics, learning how to open and close Excel, differentiating between worksheets, workbooks, rows, columns and cells, and will progress to learning how to format text, numbers and the worksheets themselves by applying borders, backgrounds and cell styles. | |||
| Course length: | 6 hours | Cost: | $295.00 |
| MS Excel 2010 Advanced | |||
| Our Microsoft Excel 2010 Advanced workshop will build on the skills acquired in our MS Excel Essentials workshop by teaching participants how to manage more data than ever, with increased worksheet and workbook sizes, and how to turn their Excel data into useable information to help on the job or with personal projects. | |||
| Course length: | 6 hours | Cost: | $295.00 |
| MS Word 2012 Essential | |||
| Learn the essentials of Microsoft Word 2010 and word processing. This workshop will show participants how to create, navigate and save documents, apply character and paragraph formatting, insert symbols and create headers and footers. Students will also learn how to check spelling and grammar, add page breaks, work with document views and learn how to print and convert documents to PDF. Adding graphics and clip art will also be covered. | |||
| Course length: | 6 hours | Cost: | $295.00 |
| MS Word 2010 Advanced | |||
| Welcome to the Microsoft Word 2010 Advanced workshop. In this workshop, we’ll cover some of the more advanced tasks in Word 2010, like working with pictures and other objects, using generated tables of contents and indexes, and other research and review tasks. | |||
| Course length: | 6 hours | Cost: | $295.00 |
| MS PowerPoint 2010 Essential | |||
| Register for our Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 Essentials workshop and learn how to create and edit presentations from scratch. Students will learn how to insert and modify clipart, images and photos; how to spell check presentations, as well as how to format, edit and proof presentation text. This workshop will also teach students how to create a custom layout for their slides, apply background styles, add speaker notes and copy text and slides between multiple presentations. Find out the different options for printing presentation data and how to utilize outline view as well as slide sorter view to make organizing your slide text easier. | |||
| Course length: | 6 hours | Cost: | $295.00 |
| MS PowerPoint 2010 Advanced | |||
| The Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 Advanced workshop expand on the skills learned in the PowerPoint Essentials workshop. Students will practice such things as creating simple handouts to developing an animated presentation with audio. | |||
| Course length: | 6 hours | Cost: | $295.00 |
| MS Publisher 2010 Essential | |||
| Microsoft Publisher 2010 Essentials workshop will help participants learn to produce high-quality publications for both personal and business use. Students will learn the basics of using Publisher--creating, saving and printing publications; discover how to package and send publications via email, and learn how to use drawing objects, graphics and text tools among many other essential publishing skills. | |||
| Course length: | 6 hours | Cost: | $295.00 |
| MS Publisher 2010 Advanced | |||
| Our Microsoft Publisher 2010 Advanced workshop will expand on the skills students learned in the MS Publisher Essentials class. This course will help you learn more advanced skills for working with print, e-mail and web-based publications. Students will learn how to format, enhance and edit publications as well as work with publication designs, and find out how to customize publications and use tables and utilize mail merge among other useful Publisher skills. | |||
| Course length: | 6 hours | Cost: | $295.00 |
| Access 2010 Essentials | |||
| Microsoft Access is the world’s premier database software. You will learn how to use the latest version of Access to create and edit databases. You can create a database of contacts, expenses, household and/or business inventory. In other words, if you have data, you can create a database of that data using Access. In the day 2 workshop, you will learn advanced forms and tasks to do even more. For example, you will learn to use Access to create mailing labels, work with SQL, publish a Web database, and more. By the time you finish this course, you will be able to navigate Access 2010 and create reports like a pro. | |||
| Course length: | 6 hours | Cost: | $295.00 |
| Access 2010 Advanced | |||
| Microsoft Access is the world’s premier database software. You will learn how to use the latest version of Access to create and edit databases. You can create a database of contacts, expenses, household and/or business inventory. In other words, if you have data, you can create a database of that data using Access. In the day 2 workshop, you will learn advanced forms and tasks to do even more. For example, you will learn to use Access to create mailing labels, work with SQL, publish a Web database, and more. By the time you finish this course, you will be able to navigate Access 2010 and create reports like a pro. | |||
| Course length: | 6 hours | Cost: | $295.00 |
| Microsoft Outlook 2010 Essentials | |||
| The Microsoft Outlook2010 Essentials workshop will demonstrate how Outlook is more than just a powerful e-mail application, it helps you stay organized. With contacts, calendars, and tasks, Outlook can help you manage every aspect of your busy life. The day 2 workshop will cover some of the more advanced tasks in Outlook 2010, like customizing your Outlook interface and your profile. You’ll learn how to use Word elements in your E-mails. This course explains some of the advanced e-mail, calendar, and task commands, as well as the Notes feature. You’ll also learn about RSS feeds and how to manage and protect your Outlook data. | |||
| Course length: | 6 hours | Cost: | $295.00 |
| Microsoft Outlook 2010 Advanced | |||
| The Microsoft Outlook 2010 Essentials workshop will demonstrate how Outlook is more than just a powerful e-mail application, it helps you stay organized. With contacts, calendars, and tasks, Outlook can help you manage every aspect of your busy life. The day 2 workshop will cover some of the more advanced tasks in Outlook 2010, like customizing your Outlook interface and your profile. You’ll learn how to use Word elements in your E-mails. This course explains some of the advanced e-mail, calendar, and task commands, as well as the Notes feature. You’ll also learn about RSS feeds and how to manage and protect your Outlook data. | |||
| Course length: | 6 hours | Cost: | $295.00 |
| Microsoft Project 2010 Essentials | |||
| The Microsoft Project 2010 Essentials workshop teaches sophisticated project management software that can help project managers with planning, assigning resources, tracking progress, managing budgets, and analyzing workloads for projects. In the day 2 workshop you will learn how to create, monitor, and update, many aspects within your project. The software allows project managers to track budgets, completed and pending tasks, examine overall progress, and see the big picture of the project as it is advancing toward completion. | |||
| Course length: | 6 hours | Cost: | $295.00 |
| Microsoft Project 2010 Advanced | |||
| The Microsoft Project 2010 Essentials workshop teaches sophisticated project management software that can help project managers with planning, assigning resources, tracking progress, managing budgets, and analyzing workloads for projects. In the day 2 workshop you will learn how to create, monitor, and update, many aspects within your project. The software allows project managers to track budgets, completed and pending tasks, examine overall progress, and see the big picture of the project as it is advancing toward completion. | |||
| Course length: | 6 hours | Cost: | $295.00 |
| Microsoft Visio 2010 Essentials | |||
| Microsoft Visio 2010 is a drawing application that uses different shapes and stencils to help you draw different types of diagrams. You can use Visio to create simple flowcharts, complicated engineering plans, or even floor plans. You will continue on day 2 by unleashing the full potential of this powerful application for creating dynamic diagrams and drawings. | |||
| Course length: | 6 hours | Cost: | $295.00 |
| Microsoft Visio 2010 Advanced | |||
| Microsoft Visio 2010 is a drawing application that uses different shapes and stencils to help you draw different types of diagrams. You can use Visio to create simple flowcharts, complicated engineering plans, or even floor plans. You will continue on day 2 by unleashing the full potential of this powerful application for creating dynamic diagrams and drawings. | |||
| Course length: | 6 hours | Cost: | $295.00 |
| Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2007 Essentials | |||
| SharePoint Designer is a reincarnation of the previous Microsoft FrontPage product. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to create dynamic websites with custom development. By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to perform such tasks as understand the SharePoint Designer interface, create a new web page from scratch or from a template, create a new web site, understand design view and code view and more. | |||
| Course length: | 6 hours | Cost: | $295.00 |
| Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2007 Advanced | |||
| SharePoint Designer is a reincarnation of the previous Microsoft FrontPage product. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to create dynamic websites with custom development. By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to perform such tasks as understand the SharePoint Designer interface, create a new web page from scratch or from a template, create a new web site, understand design view and code view and more. | |||
| Course length: | 6 hours | Cost: | $295.00 |
| E-commerce with Zen Cart | |||
| Interested in starting your own home-based small business to sell hand-made or manufactured products, then understanding how to use an e-commerce content management system is for you. Zen Cart is an open source shopping cart application that's user-friendly and easy to install and to use. This course will walk participants through the installation of Zen Cart onto a compatible hosting account, and then through the basic setup and configuration of the installed cart. | |||
| Course length: | 3 days | Cost: | $295.00/day |
| Building Your Own Website with Joomla 1.7 | |||
| Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), that enables website owners to build full-featured web sites. It's ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular website open-source software available. This course will teach students how to install Joomla 1.7 to any compatible hosting account; how to set up the Joomla CMS, and then how to install, modify/customize a Joomla 1.7 web site template that will transform a basic site into a beautiful showcase site. | |||
| Course length: | 3 days | Cost: | $295.00/day |
| Build Your Own Website: Beginners Edition | |||
| Build your own individual or small business website as a class project. This course will provide students with a basic understanding of how to design and develop their own website. Students will learn the basics of web standards, how to "spec" a website, and learn the bare essentials of how to code in HTML, and to use CSS to make your site presentable. Students will receive links to free website building alternatives to Dreamweaver, Photoshop or Fireworks. | |||
| Course length: | 3 days | Cost: | $295.00/day |
| My Site was SEO'd: Was it Really? | |||
| Search Engine Optimization (SEO) isn't some mysterious, magical process that can't be known outside of a few Black Magic practitioners. Learn the basics of SEO and how all modern websites can be "search-bot" darlings by just following the most current Web Standards. Students will learn how to review the source code for their SEO'd websites to determine if the critical components exists that will allow the search engines to rank their sites properly. | |||
| Course length: | 6 hours | Cost: | $295.00 |
| I've Got a New Website: Did I get Screwed | |||
| Recently commission the services of a web designer or web design company to build your website? Are you now wondering if you got what you paid for, but have no idea how to tell because you don't know anything about building a website? If you answer "Yes" to any of these questions, this class is for you! Enrolled students will learn how to review their site's source code to see if all that they contracted for was delivered. | |||
| Course length:: | 6 hours | Cost: | $295.00 |
| MS Office 2010: Boot camp | |||
| Learn how to use the heart of Microsoft's latest office suite - Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and MS Outlook. This course will cover the basics of using Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Publisher. A full day will be devoted to each main software application. For instance, students will learn how to open and close each application, then progress to creating new documents and projects. | |||
| Course length: | 4 days | Cost: | $295.00/day |
| OpenOffice Suite | |||
| Lookout MS Office Suite, there's a new office suite in town, and it's free! Apache OpenOffice is an open-source office productivity software suite with word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, graphic, and database capabilities. This course will teach you the basics in using its main software applications. Step into the light and see that free software isn't bad software. | |||
| Course length: | 4 days | Cost: | $295.00/day |
