Center for Workforce Development - Professional Development Workshops
- Workshops Include:
- • eBay 101, Introduction to Online Auctions
- • Google Sketch Up
- • Basic Business Computing
- • Computer Workshops
- • Basic & Intermediate Excel
- • Basic & Intermediate QuickBooks
- • MS Publisher
- • Keeping Your Computer Virus Free
- • Cyberlaw
- • Identity Theft
- • Copyright: Goals, History and Lessons
- • Cyberstalking and Online Harassment
- “Because of my participation in this workshop I can’t wait to go back and work more with Excel.”
Basic Business Computing Course Information
The Basic Business Computing workshop combines Introduction to the PC, Basic and Intermediate Word, Basic and Intermediate Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint Basics, and Microsoft Outlook Basics into one complete package.
For more information, call the CWD at 524-3207, extension 759 or 773
Computer Workshops
Introduction to the PC (2290)
| Fall 2009 | ||||
| 11505 | 9/1 & 3 | T/R | 9 am - 12 noon | $100 |
| 11513 | 10/20 & 22 | T/R | 6 pm - 9:00 pm | $100 |
This is a course for the new user who wants to learn the essentials, and gain hands-on experience with a personal computer. Course topics will include an overview of the computer, hardware, software, purchasing considerations, the mouse, printers, computer terminology, and operating systems. You will also learn to search on the Internet, and an overview of software applications such as MS Word and MS PowerPoint will be presented.In addition, the course will train you to use Windows; including understanding the difference in operating systems and applications, the desktop, the explore function, control panel settings, tips on disk maintenance, and copying and working with folders and files.
Microsoft Word Basics (0090)
| Fall 2009 | ||||
| 11506 | 9/8 & 10 | T/R | 9 am - 12 noon | $100 |
| 11514 | 10/27 & 29 | T/R | 6 pm - 9:00 pm | $100 |
In this workshop, both new users and users with some experience will learn how to manipulate the elements of the screen, how to create and edit documents, use the Auto Correct, Spelling, and Thesaurus features as well as handling files, saving, cutting and pasting, and printing. It provides skills required to perform basic word processing tasks in an efficient manner.
Microsoft Word Intermediate (2320)
| Fall 2009 | ||||
| 11507 | 9/15 & 17 | T/R | 9 am - 12 noon | $100 |
| 11515 | 11/3 & 5 | T/R | 6 pm - 9:00 pm | $100 |
This workshop uses more advanced features of Microsoft Word to manage files and complex documents, set up pages, create newspaper columns, create and edit tables and indexes, use the AutoText entry feature, merge, sort, and use Word’s templates and wizards.
| Fall 2009 | ||||
| 11508 | 9/22 & 24 | T/R | 9 am - 12 noon | $100 |
| 11516 | 11/10 & 12 | T/R | 6 pm - 9:00 pm | $100 |
Designed for new users and those with some experience who want to expand their knowledge, topics include spreadsheet building, simple formulas, and special routine functions.
Microsoft Excel Intermediate (2310)
| Fall 2009 | ||||
| 11509 | 9/29 & 10/1 | T/R | 9 am - 12 noon | $100 |
| 11517 | 11/17 & 19 | T/R | 6 pm - 9:00 pm | $100 |
Designed to show experienced Excel users advanced features available for working with established or new spreadsheet and entire workbooks, topics included are manipulation of multiple spreadsheets, advanced formulas, special formatting, charts and tables.
Microsoft Outlook Basics (4710)
| Fall 2009 | ||||
| 11511 | 10/8 | R | 9 am - 12 noon | $50 |
| 11519 | 12/1 | R | 6 pm - 9:00 pm | $50 |
Google Sketch Up is a free, downloadable 3D modeling software. It is extremely user friendly and can be considered layman's AutoCAD with a tweak. Sketch Up allows you to create and share 3D models of anything from a piece of furniture or machine part to a house or even an entire housing development or city.
The aim of this introductory training is to provide participants with a basic knowlege of the entire program and to provide step by step instruction for all of the basic modeling tools in the program. What each participant chooses to do with the program will vary and these tools are the foundation for using the program. "We would love to follow up on this training with an intermediate Sketch Up training or even a timber design course where the participants would get to design and build a small building," said Instructor Rawlings.
The training will be held at LRCC on Monday, 9/14 and 9/21 from 5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Cost: $60.00, limited to 12 participants. For more information call Joe Hallgran at LRCC's Center for Workforce Development at 524-3207 ext. 759
Keeping Your Computer Virus Free
Learn how to keep your PC running at top speed by deleting temporary files and cookies, introducing links to free tools that can detect spyware and Trojans, as well as how to get a free virus scan program, and provide information about the best virus scan programs available. Also, learn how to setup automatic Windows Updates, stressing the importance of letting these updates install and review some of the most common spyware programs; learning how to remove them from the add/remove programs, then how to run anti-spyware programs, and delete hidden temporary files in c:\temp, c:\windows\temp and c:\documents and settings\local settings\temp where a lot of spyware files hide.
A series of seminars that introduces students, educators and business professionals to the complex issues arising out of the new technologies of the information age economy. These workshops provide a foundation for understanding the concepts of law, and how those concepts are struggling with the challenges of the information age. Topics covered include: identity theft online (privacy, controlling personal information), copyright, (why is it illegal to download music?) and cyber stalking, (the Amy Boyer case and others).
The number of identity theft victims in New Hampshire has jumped from 349 in 2002 to 543 just two years later in 2004, an increase of more than 50 percent, according the Federal Trade Commission. Senior Assistant Attorney General Connie Stratton said those figures didn't surprise her."It's a huge problem that people are just learning about now and learning what kinds of things to do to protect their identities. It's a fairly new criminal statute in New Hampshire,” she said.
- Sample topics covered include:
- Identity Theft Net scams can snag those who bank old-fashioned way
- Identity Theft Cyber crooks break into online accounts with ease
- Online fears by the numbers
- Identity Theft: How one little fob could foil a cyber bank robber
- Identity Theft: Token makers vie for market
- Do you know how safe your credit card number is? Some good advice
Copyright: goals, history and the lessons of Mickey Mouse
- Sample topics covered include:
- Copyright Basics
- Copyright Term Extension Act/Sonny Bono Act
- Digital Millennium Copyright Act
Recording Industry Begins Suing P2P File Sharers Who Illegally Offer Copyrighted Music Online "We've been telling people for a long time that file sharing copyrighted music is illegal, that you are not anonymous when you do it, and that engaging in it can have real consequences"
Cyberstalking and Online Harassment:
Cyber stalking is a specific kind of harassment. The Department of Justice 1999 study on the subject defines it as "the use of the Internet, e-mail, or other electronic communications devices to stalk another person. Stalking generally involves harassing or threatening behavior that an individual engages in repeatedly, such as following a person, appearing at a person's home or place of business, making harassing phone calls, leaving written messages or objects, or vandalizing a person's property." Cyber stalkers frequently follow their targets around the net, frequenting in chat rooms, message boards, newsgroups or mailing lists in which the target participates. At times they will also attempt to form relationships with those who are friendly with the target in order to get more information about the target.
Sample topics covered include:
- Online Harassment/Cyber stalking Statistics
- New Hampshire Statute
- 644:4 Harassment.
- Instant Messenger Safety
- Pretext calling in New Hampshire
- Some easy to follow suggestions for online safety
For more information, call the CWD at 524-3207, extension 759 or 773
