Access 2007

This workshop will introduce you a relational database. Work with tables to create and maintain records, locate records, and produce reports based on the information in the database. Learn the fundamental knowledge and techniques needed to advance to more technical Access responsibilities, like creating and maintaining new databases and other techniques that transcend Excel’s capabilities.

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Excel 2007: Creating & Enhancing Spreadsheets

Excel has many uses and the new version brings some new features. Learn to create and format an Excel spreadsheet, sort and filter data and perform basic calculations.

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Excel 2007: Creating Charts and Graphs

Streamline and enhance your spreadsheet with templates, charts, graphics and formulas.

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Flash Visual Objects

An introduction to Flash - a program enabling you to create dynamic, moving images. Take the first step to creating a visual object that exemplifies abstract concepts.

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iPhoto

Another great Mac app, iPhoto is a photograph organizer, catalog tool and photo editor all in one. Come and learn how to use it!

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Keynote

Another great mac app, Keynote is Mac's presentation software (think: Powerpoint). Easy to learn, easy to use, and makes your presentation look like Steve Jobs'!

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Leopard, Run With

Take a test drive of the newest operating system for the Mac in Lab 229. If you like it, we can then schedule an appointment for the install, and then you're off, running with Leopard!

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Mind-Body Convergence in Presentation Effectiveness

Improve your presentation style by learning techniques for effective content delivery! Professors Joan Walker (Psychology/Education) and Benjamin Moore (Theatre/Performing Arts) combine their collective expertise to teach us how to become better presenters, keener audience perceivers, and more astute communicators.

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Multimedia Narration

This quick overview of available software and procedure for narrating PowerPoint or Keynote presentations will provide a good orientation as to what is involved. Bring one of your own presentations, or narrate over a quickly made one.

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Office 2007

Come and get acquainted with the new look and feel of Microsoft Office 2007. This workshop will help you get acclimated to the new version by focusing on the changes and the added functionality. Learn about some of the powerful new features of Microsoft Word 2007, Outlook 2007 and Excel 2007.

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Outlook 2007

Learn how Outlook can be used to make your life more organized and your desk cleaner. There are many organizational and scheduling tasks that Outlook can handle for you.

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Photo Editing with Photoshop

This hands-on workshop for beginners introduces Adobe Photoshop to faculty as a tool for editing digital images. Topics include working with layers, adjusting color and brightness, resizing & cropping images, adding text, and exporting modified images for use on web sites or for incorporation in class materials.

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Poster Creation for Mere Mortals

We know it is difficult to understand how to transfer a Word document, PPT slide, or Excel chart into a poster-size image suitable for conference or classroom presentation. Let us help you prepare by a short tutorial on resolution, images and file types. Bring a document you want to enlarge.

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PowerPoint Best Practices

This workshop addresses what are the best practices for using PowerPoint in a teaching environment, specifically focusing on what are good, bad and ugly practices that can distract your students. Topics include: hands-on instruction in customizing presentations with charts, graphs and animation and adding images, movies or sound files. The workshop will also discuss some of the pedagogical issues in using PowerPoint successfully in the classroom.

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Smartboard

Learn to use a SmartBoard to enhance your teaching. This interactive whiteboard connects to the computer and projector and integrates smoothly with Word, Excel and PowerPoint and also inlcludes its own Notebook software to create interactive presentations.

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WebCT Assessments

The Assessment tool enables you to deliver a quiz, self-test or survey to your students in real time or online. Learn how you can collect statistics along with automated grading in a sustainable fashion.

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WebCT Communications

WebCT offers several communication tools: a discussion board, chat, email and announcements. Learn to use these tools and collaborate with other faculty on uses and best practices.

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WebCT Content Delivery

New to WebCT and interested in getting started? Here's where you begin. This workshop will introduce you to uploading content to a course space, linking documents, and an overview of tools and how you can begin thinking about adapting them to your content delivery.

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WebCT Faculty Showcase

Ever wondered how other faculty solve instructional issues in WebCT? Suggested by Wendy Ryden, this workshop gives faculty the opportunity to "show and tell" and ask others what works and a forum for sharing ideas to tough instructional questions.

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WebCT Grade Book

The Grade Book provides an excellent way to give students continual feedback about how they are doing in the course. The workshop will discuss how to use the grade book, add columns and enter grades and how the grade book interacts with quizzes and assignments. The workhop will also discuss how the grade book can be downloaded and edited in Microsoft Excel.

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WebCT Paperless Classroom

Learn how to incorporate WebCT's assignment tool with Word 2007's commenting feature for a paperless assignment exchange with your students. Hands-on Word 2007 commenting, WebCT assignment submission and dropbox plus discussion of best practices.

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Word 2007 Research Tool: Bibliography, Citations & More

Come and learn about the new research features in Microsoft Word. You will be amazed at how easy it is to create a bibliography, citation or reference and how you can now manage and share these sources. We will also review the new and existing file formats for publishing you work.

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Word 2007 Document Enhancements

Word 2007 includes numerous new tools designed to help speed-up tasks and to visually improve the look of your documents. Come and learn about Smart Art, Building Blocks, Quick Parts and more.

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