Access IA: Introduction to Microsoft Access

Microsoft Access is a powerful relational database software program. Learn database basics including how to design and maintain tables and create relationships between data. No previous experience necessary. (PC only.)

Access IB: Introduction to Microsoft Access

Learn to create queries that draw data from multiple tables, create reports, print mailing labels, and integrate Access data with other Microsoft applications. Prerequisite: attendance at Access I workshop or basic knowledge of Access. (PC only.)

Access Users Group

Want to discuss issues you with Access and ask questions of other Access users on campus? Spend this hour getting answers to your questions and learning tips and tricks from your peers.

Acrobat I: Creating PDF Documents

The Adobe Acrobat Distiller works with other programs to create files in Portable Document Format (PDF) that preserve all the formatting, images, etc. of the original. They can be uploaded to Moodle emailed, printed, and offered from Web pages.

Acrobat II: Interactive PDF Documents

Learn to create PDF documents with bookmarks, indexes, stamps, and printable interactive forms. Add searching capabilities. Attach and link to multimedia files and other pages. Learn to export materials.

Administrative Computer Training

This training session is designed for administrators and support staff who are receiving new computers this month. You will learn how the conversion process saves your data and settings, how to operate the equipment, what software packages are installed and what they do, and what you need to do (and no longer need to do) to keep your computer safe and trouble-free.

ArcExplorer I

ESRI's Arc Explorer Java Edition for Education (AEJEE) is a free, downloadable, application for visualizing, querying, and mapping geographic and other data. It runs on BOTH Mac and PC. ArcExplorer comes with sample base maps and data to get you started. You can also to work with your own data and with GIS data downloaded from the Geography Network and other Web sites. ArcExplorer layout, tools and commands are similar in look and feel to ESRI's ArcGIS software and can ease the move to ESRI's MORE powerful product. In this introductory workshop, you will learn how to install AEJEE; explore its menus and options; build mapping layers; sort and select features; and query, classify, symbolize, and display data on a map.

ArcExplorer II

ArcExplorer II builds upon the basic skills learned in ArcExplorer I. You will learn how to add your own data and/or locate and incorporate data from other sources. You will create hotlinks, produce a finished map layout to share with others. We will also discuss and adjust map projection and scale, measure distances, and create buffer zones to display the relative proximity of various features. ArcExplorer I or previous experience with using ArcExplorer (AEJEE) required.

ArcGIS I: Building a Map with ArcGIS

ESRI's ArcGIS software, a powerful mapping and analysis application, is used world-wide in engineering, geology, law enforcement, government, city planning, sociology, medicine, and other fields. ArcGIS software is installed on all Skillman Library PCs. In this introductory workshop, you will use ArcGIS tools to build a basic map. We will download data sets; layer the data onto a base map; classify, analyze and symbolize the information; add a legend, and output a finished map. No experience necessary. For PC only.

Audio Editing with Audacity

Learn the basics of audio capture, editing, and export using the free, cross-platform sound editor Audacity. Learn about various input devices and practice recording, editing, and saving audio files for multiple purposes.

Blogging with Soapbox

Learn more about the capabilities of Soapbox and discuss the educational applications of blogging. Learn how to get started with your own blog, create an online group, add photos, and post podcasts.

Bulk emailing with Constant Contact

Constant Contact is a subscription services some departments are using on campus to help with bulk emailing. If your department has a bulk email campaign coming up or you are interested to see what this can do for you, join us for this informative session.

Cracking HTML code

Knowing a little html can help you decipher some of the mystery behind web pages, blog posts, and basic formatting for Moodle and other web systems. We won't attempt to create a web site by hand, but we will learn what some of the code means and how you can use it to your advantage.

Creating Web-based Surveys using Opinio

Opinio, a Web-based survey creation tool now hosted at Lafayette, allows you to create online surveys and forms for your class, research, or department. This workshop will provide instruction for creating and managing surveys using Opinio. No experience creating Web-based surveys is necessary.

Digital Still Photography

Learn how to work with digital still cameras, use tripods, consider the elements of photo composition, and stitch together adjoining photographs to make a panorama. Borrow one of Skillman's digital cameras, or bring your own. Crop, size and adjust your photos. No experience necessary.

Digital Video: Project Planning, Equipment, Shooting

Learn what to consider when planning a digital video project, how to lay out a story line or progression of ideas, and what to consider when shooting footage that will accomplish your goal through video. Practice operating Skillman's miniDV cameras and tripods, become acquainted with the camera's most used features, and shoot workshop footage. No experience necessary.

Dreamweaver I: Introduction to Macromedia Dreamweaver

Learn to design, create, and publish a basic Web site using this powerful Web-publishing program. Learn how Dreamweaver helps you organize your Web site assets, site windows, images, and related web pages. Create and edit tables and nested tables. Learn how to edit HTML tags. Topics include the presentation of data and page layout design using tables and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), concepts of design, Web standards, and accessibility.

Dreamweaver Topics: Building Accessible and User Friendly Sites

Discover how to adapt your site to accommodate the visually, hearing, or mobility-impaired. Learn simple ways to make your pages more accessible and easier for all users to navigate. Check your website for possible roadblocks that may make it difficult or impossible for some people to access your information. Previous Web design experience required.

Dreamweaver Topics: Cascading Style Sheets

Learn to do more with cascading style sheets. Examine how to create pages that can be formatted easily using CSS.

DVD Studio Pro

Learn to create a professional quality DVD with multiple soundtracks, subtitles, alternative views, slide shows, DVD-ROM material, and more. Start with DVD Studio Pro's page templates or build it completely from scratch. Previous experience with iDVD helpful but not required. (Mac only.)

Excel Clinic

Transform the appearance of your data. Learn some quick tips and tricks to make your information come alive. We'll focus more on formatting and less on formulas in this session. We will examine how to organize and format worksheets and create professional looking charts and graphs from the data. Prerequisite: experience with Excel.

Excel I: Introduction to Microsoft Excel

Explore the basics of creating and manipulating spreadsheets using Microsoft Excel. Learn to use Excel to organize data and perform basic calculations. Enter simple formulas and functions, organize data onto multiple sheets, use tools for documentation and sharing, and format spreadsheets for presentations.

Excel II

Take your Excel knowledge beyond the basics of creating spreadsheets. Learn to produce charts from Excel data and create interactive data reports with PivotTables. We'll also look at adding comments and protecting spreadsheets.

Excel: Beyond the Basics

Using a ready-made workbook you will learn how to organize, sort, and filter data; use simple functions and formulas; and create charts and graphs.

Excel: On My Own

Explore online learning resources and self-help web sites where you can download free templates and watch tutorials from your own desk on your own timeline.

Excel: Beginner Basics

If you have no experience with Excel, this course will start from the beginning and help you understand spreadsheets and why to use them. Learn to navigate and enter data in existing spreadsheets and then begin to create your own. Basic tools and concepts will be covered.

Facebook & MySpace: Social Networking

You've probably heard about Facebook and MySpace, but you may not have had an opportunity to look at these social networking web sites and learn why they're so popular with students. Join us for an exploration of Facebook and MySpace as well as a discussion of the reasons for their popularity and the implications of their use on campus.

Final Cut Pro Clinic

Working on a film project for class or for a personal project? This clinic is for anyone with Final Cut Pro experience who needs help troubleshooting or refining skills. You are highly encouraged to bring a project to work on. Final Cut Pro experience required.

Final Cut Pro I: Video Capture & Basic Editing

Learn to capture and edit video. Explore Final Cut Pro's screen layout and basic features. Import images, other video, and audio files into your project. Trim clips and place them in initial play order. Previous video-editing experience helpful but not required. (Mac only.)

Final Cut Pro II: Effects, Filters, Audio

Enhance your movie with transitions and special effects. Add additional audio soundtracks and voiceovers. Edit audio clips with precision. Apply effects and filters to both video and audio. Prerequisite: Final Cut Pro I workshop or previous experience. (Mac only.)

Final Cut Pro III

Give your video a finished polish with this bag of advanced editing tools and techniques. Learn how to correct colors, adjust audio, and keep both within safe ranges for viewing on regular televisions. Apply advanced filters and effects. Display two video clips on a split screen, superimpose graphics on top of video, set up trick shots and related special effects. We'll explore these and many other options of this powerful program. (Mac only.)

Final Cut Pro IV: Preparation, Compression, and Output

Explore compression and output options for full quality or streaming, video, CD-ROM, email, and other formats. Learn where you can compromise and compress to get the best quality video for your purpose and available space, how to prepare your video for a DVD project, and how to export to tape. Prerequisite: Final Cut Pro I or experience using Final Cut Pro. (Mac only.)

Fireworks

Learn the basics of creating images for the web with Macromedia Fireworks. In this introduction you'll learn to resize and manipulate existing graphics as well as create originals. You'll also discover how to create images that find a balance between quality and load time. Also, learn how to create and export image maps as well as how to 'slice-and-dice' images for faster loading. Previous experience with a graphics program is helpful but not necessary.

GarageBand

Mac's GarageBand software makes it easy to build original, royalty-free music. Record a melody line and then add segments, called loops, of electronically generated or pre-recorded music to build your own backup band. In minutes, you'll have the bongos and congas, flutes and saxophones, piano, guitars, and more, all playing in tune and time. Export your music ready to use for your multimedia projects. (Mac only.)

Google and Lafayette

Lafayette uses a localized version of Google to provide search results for its web sites. Learn how to improve your web site's rankings within Lafayette's Google through the addition of keywords, page descriptions, and other tweaks to your web pages. Discover how to use Google to provide search results for your own Lafayette web site.

Google Earth I: Finding Your Way Around Google's Earth

Google Earth makes it possible for you to search for and "fly" to any place on earth, zoom in for a closer look at detailed satellite images, tilt and turn your view to see terrain in three dimensions, add or hide layers of detail, get directions from one place to another, measure distances. We'll show examples of how the software can be used for academic purposes. No experience necessary. For PC or Mac.

Google Earth II: Adding Your Own Data

Learn to import data and annotated maps into Google Earth, create and tour a path, add image overlays, 3D models, and more. Google Earth I or previous experience with Google Earth required. For PC or Mac.

Google My Maps

Create your own annotated and illustrated maps with Google Maps, a free software application available on the Web. Add placemarks, text blocks, photos, video and audio to document a journey, historical pathways, or other types of landmarks. Share with others by email or on the Web. Output your file in a form that can then be imported into and layered onto the Google Earth globe. No experience necessary. For Mac or PC.

iDVD

Learn how to create a professional-looking DVD that can be played on almost any DVD player or computer with a DVD drive. Import your project into iDVD, set chapter headings, design custom menus with motion and music. Prepare to burn the final DVD. No experience necessary. (Mac only.)

Illustrator: Introduction to Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Illustrator can be used to produce stunning posters, graphics, web page buttons, and other digital artwork. You'll learn to create a document, use many of Illustrator's tools, add text and images, choose and apply colors, draw shapes, align elements, apply graphic styles, and paint with stars, butterflies, and other designs. We'll discuss guidelines for preparing a large poster for printing.

iMovie I: Intro to iMovie

Learn to capture and edit video with Apple's iMovie, including how to plan and build a movie, add titles and background music, and output the movie to the Web, videotape, or other media. No experience necessary. (Mac only.)

iMovie: Creative Techniques

iMovie is elegantly easy to use, but also has hidden powers, especially when used in combination with QuickTime Pro, some simple Photoshop techniques, and a little imagination. Learn how to layer video and audio, create masks that reveal part of the scene below, build creative titles, and more. (Mac only.)

InDesign I: Introduction to InDesign

Need to design a poster or publish a newspaper, magazine, or book? Similar to PageMaker but more versatile, InDesign can do it all. Learn how to design pages, add images and other design elements, and make design choices that will give your documents a professional polish. Experience with PageMaker ot other desktop publishing application helpful but not required.

Intro to Opinio

Opinio, a Web-based survey creation tool now hosted at Lafayette, allows you to create online surveys and forms for your class, research, or department. This workshop will provide instruction for creating and managing surveys using Opinio. No experience creating Web-based surveys is necessary.

Intro to Second Life: Entering the Virtual World

Build a new you with a singular name and explore the growing online world of Second Life. In this introductory workshop your new self will learn how to dress, lose or gain weight, walk, sit, fly, pick things up, assemble an inventory of useful things, and communicate with other residents. WeÕll navigate across the Second Life grid, visit educational and other "islands," and discuss ways that colleges are using Second Life. For Mac or PC.

Intro to Zimbra Webmail

Learn about the new Webmail interface and how to effectively integrate the basic use of email, calendar, and contacts. This class will also cover how to customize Webmail preferences to better meet the needs of individual users.

iTunes U

Lafayette College iTunes U is a free, Lafayette-specific version of Apple's commercial iTunes Store. iTunes U is used to host and distribute audio, video and PDF files to the campus community. Content can be made available to the public, to the campus community, or to individuals in specific classes, and is downloadable using Apple's iTunes software. Learn how to use the service to download and view content as well as how to share media files with others on campus.

iTunes, iPods and Portable Content

Feeling a little left behind in the age of iTunes, iPods, podcasts and the like? Come learn how to locate and listen to portable content such as music, podcasts, and audio books. We'll examine some of the advanced features of iTunes and take some of the mystery out of portable content. Come with your questions, and feel free to bring your portable device if you have one.

Learning Objects

An overview of what learning objects are, where to find them, and how to incorporate them in your teaching.

Mac for PC Users

Instructional Technology's laboratories feature the latest in Macintosh technology and a wide variety of multimedia software, including many programs that run only on a Mac. Although most cross-platform programs operate much the same on either type of system, to a PC user, the procedures for some basic operations on a Mac may appear a bit mysterious. At this workshop, you will learn basic skills needed to navigate on a Mac. No question is too basic, and by the end of this workshop, you'll be ready to explore the many treasures these Macs have to offer.

Mapping on the Web I

Explore a variety of web-based options for creating maps and analyzing data. Learn to create maps that can visualize current and historical data, environmental conditions, weather, flood zones, and more. No experience necessary. These web-based applications run on either Mac or PC.

Mapping on the Web II

Investigate additional web-based options for creating maps and analyzing data that run better or only on a PC. We will work with PC-only sites not covered in Mapping on the Web I. No experience necessary.

Mapping on the Web III: Visualizing and Analyzing Census Data

These web-based applications make it easy for you to access and visualize data regarding changes in population over time. We'll work with web sites that locate, and display a wide variety of census information; combine and compare data sets; create animated slide shows showing changes from decade to decade. We will discuss the assets and limitations of each option and how the results can be used in classes, papers, and research.

Microsoft Drawing Tools, Editing Clip Art

You've found a piece of clip art you'd like to use for your newsletter or PowerPoint presentation, but the colors are all wrong, it has an ugly background, and a few other things you'd like to change. We'll show you how to take clip art apart, make changes, add parts from other images, change shapes and colors, add depth and shadowing, and put the parts back together again. Learn how to animate parts of an image. Discover how easy it is to use Microsoft Office drawing tools to create your own illustrations. No experience necessary.

Moodle for Offices and Organizations

Learn how Moodle, Lafayette's course management system, can be used to help offices and organizations share information and collaborate with one another. No Moodle experience is necessary.

Moodle Quickstart

An overview of the new Moodle course management system, available tools, applications and best practices. Previous Moodle experience is not required.

Moodle: Assignments and the Grade book

An in depth look at the assignment features of Moodle and an exploration of the Moodle grade book. Prerequisite: Moodle Quickstart and Moodle Developing Your Course.

Moodle: Creating Quizzes

How to write quizzes, import questions, and work with quiz settings. Prerequisite: Moodle Quickstart and Moodle Developing Your Course.

Moodle: Developing Your Course

Use this workshop time to begin development of new Moodle courses or import and make changes to previous content. Discuss learning goals and determine the best tools to meet those goals. Prerequisite: Moodle Quickstart

Moodle: Navigating the gradebook

An in-depth exploration of the new Moodle gradebook. Treat the gradebook much more like a spreadsheet with manual editing, calculations, aggregations, weighting, locking, hiding, textual notes and more.

Moodle: Using Forums

Discussion forums allow students to be active participants in course topics outside of the time and space of the traditional classrooom. However, managing these discussions and students' participation can sometimes become an unwieldy task. This workshop offers strategies for helping students effectively and juditiously settle into using discussion forums as well as provides scenarios for using discussion forums.

NetStorage

Learn how to access files stored on Novell shares from computers that don't have our Novell client installed. Great for students as well as faculty and staff who travel or work from home.

Opinio Reporting

Opinio, Lafayette's web-based survey software, offers a variety of reporting features such as data filtering, displaying bar or pie charts, detailed statistics, and cross tabulation. We'll explore how to create your own custom reports as well as how to share them with others.

Outlook I: Introduction to Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Outlook, part of the Microsoft Office suite and the email program installed on the new administrative computers, can do much more than manage your email! Learn how you can use Outlook to keep track of your contacts, maintain a list of tasks, coordinate with other electronic devices, manage your electronic calendar and share it with others.

Outlook II: Beyond Basics

Learn to build and use contact lists and address books, create distribution lists, and schedule and manage appointments and meetings. Set rules to manage your incoming email automatically. Customize your Outlook and configure your options. Other topics as requested. Outlook I or previous experience with Outlook required.

Outlook III: Working in Collaboration

Set and manage tasks, share your calendar and contacts, determine levels of access for others who view your calendar. create, view and work with multiple calendars, create a general office or departmental calendar and more. Outlook I or previous experience with Outlook required.

Outlook: Contacts & Distribution Lists

Create an electronic rolodex and share it with others!

Outlook: Resolving and Avoiding Account 'Over Quota'

Learn maintenance techniques like saving attachments to hard disk, mail archival, sorting techniques to assist with deletion of messages, and more.

Outlook: Shared Calendars

In this hands-on exercise you will learn how to set up and use shared calendars.

Outlook: E-mail Organization

Learn how to organize your mail by creating folders, flagging emails for follow-up, color coding important emails, search for particular messages, and save attachments so you stay within quota.

PC Maintenance

Don't wait for your PC to slow down, grind to a stop, and evaporate your valuable data. Proper updates and disk maintenance can help you avoid these problems as well as malicious viruses, Trojans and spyware. Learn how to use computer maintenance utilities and programs to clean up your hard drive, back up your data, update your system and programs, as well as other ways to help keep your computer running smoothly. For PC only.

Photoshop I: Introduction to Photoshop

Discover some of the many capabilities of this powerful photo-editing and image-creation software. Get acquainted with Photoshop's tools and menus. Learn how to crop, size, and combine images, change resolution, adjust and improve image quality, and add type. Eliminate dust, scratches, and minor flaws from your images.

Photoshop II: Getting Creative with Photoshop

Explore some of Photoshop's advanced features. Learn how to work with layers. Move, adjust, reshape parts of images. Change colors, adjust light and opacity, add special effects. Build images from parts of other images. Retouch photos, get rid of scratches and dust. Use filters to enhance your images or to create special effects. Prerequisite: Photoshop I or previous experience with a graphics program.

Photoshop III: Layers and Masks

Learn how to work with some of Photoshop's most powerful tools and features. Explore the advanced use of layers, masks, and filters. Prepare and optimize images to be used on the web. Prerequisite: Photoshop I and II or equivalent experience.

Photoshop Topics: Create an Animated Image for Online Display

Learn how to use Photoshop and its companion software ImageReady to build an animated image for use on the Web, in Moodle, or in PowerPoint. Demonstrate complex processes with animation. Build eye-catching movement into your presentations. Prerequisite: Photoshop experience or Photoshop I.

Photoshop Topics: Preparing Images for the Web

Photoshop and its companion software ImageReady work together to prepare images, image maps, animation, and other design elements for publishing on the Web. Learn how to construct an image map, turn a background image into interactive buttons, and build an animated image from a Photoshop layered document. Optimize your images for maximum quality and minimum file size and loading time.

Photoshop Topics: Retouching and Repairing Images

Learn how to restore worn and damaged images. Remove cracks and scratches, dust and mold spots, tears, even people! Brighten faded images and correct colors. We'll show you before and after samples and demonstrate techniques for restoration. Prerequisite: Photoshop I or other digital image editing experience.

Podcasting 101

Audio recordings, mp3s, RSS feeds, aggregators...podcasting a mystery to you? Learn what podcasting is, why you may want to produce or consume podcasts, and how to get started. In this workshop you'll create a short podcast sample and learn what to do with your finished product so others can listen and subscribe.

PowerPoint Clinic

Joining the workforce soon and haven't a clue on how to put together a professional presentation? Have a class presentation to make and need some help with PowerPoint? Use this clinic to get some of your PowerPoint questions answered and learn some shortcuts and professional techniques. We'll show you how to import Excel graphs, pictures, animation, sound and video clips. You'll also see how to save your presentation so it will work on any computer. Some experience helpful but not required.

PowerPoint I: Introduction to PowerPoint

Create a PowerPoint presentation using images, sound, data, motion, color, hyperlinks, and animation. Learn how to create effective presentations using clip art, templates, electronic slide shows with graphics, sound and video. We will also discuss what makes an effective presentation and how to transfer your file to the presentation computer.

PowerPoint II: Adding Professional Polish

Learn design tips and techniques to add a professional touch to slide shows. Build and animate charts and multiple-image pages. Design an image map, link to sounds, videos, files, web sites, and CDs. Create animated sequences and graphs. Learn how to incorporate MIDI, .wav, and CD audio sounds into slide shows. Other topics will include advance techniques such as branching to other slide shows, hiding slides, and design strategies. Use the Master Slide function to build your own design template. Work with background effects and other art. Reuse slides in new presentations. Prerequisite: experience using PowerPoint.

PowerPoint III: Charts, Graphs, Objects

Learn to create, import, edit, link, and animate charts and graphs. Design charts to fit your presentation's color scheme. Build charts that use images as symbols. Import objects from other applications. Copy parts of PDF files into PowerPoint. Prerequisite: PowerPoint I and II or equivalent experience.

PowerPoint Topics: Put your Class in "Jeopardy"

Create an interactive "Jeopardy"-type game for a lively class review session. We'll give you a PowerPoint template and show you how to use it to duplicate the "Jeopardy" experience in your class.

Protecting and Accessing Your Lafayette Data from Anywhere

You know how to navigate Lafayette's computer network, manage your networked files, access public lab computers and network resources; but do you know how the Lafayette network works and how you can adjust network settings on your own computer to help streamline your work? Did you know that you can get to your network files through any web browser, that you can share your files with others, and that you may be able to recover network files that you wish you hadn't deleted? In this workshop, you will learn about these and other resources on the Lafayette network and how to use them to your best advantage.

Publisher: Introduction to Microsoft Publisher

Microsoft Publisher is a versatile program that can help you create printed greeting cards, calendars, invitations, posters, and newsletters. Learn what Publisher can do for you and how to customize Publisher to make it do what you want it to do. (PC only.)

Recording Audio and Creating Podcasts

Have you ever wanted to record an interview or lecture, keep an audio journal, or record your band? If so, you're in luck because in this workshop we will demonstrate how to use the portable audio kits available from the Skillman circulation desk. We also will learn to make minor edits to audio files using the free software Audacity and then learn to post audio content to a Web page or to iTunes U at Lafayette.

RSS Feeds

Spent your morning surfing to find updates on your favorite news and blog sites? Interested in keeping up with the latest news in your field but don't have enough time to search through it all? Free up some time and make your life a little easier with RSS. Learn about RSS and how it has changed the information world. We will explore what options are available to access RSS feeds (readers or aggregators), how to subscribe and read feeds, and how you can begin to create your own feeds.

Saving, Compressing, and Transporting Files

Learn about accessing and using your "H drive", managing zipped files, USB-storage devices (USB keys, flash memory, etc), and CD creation software. Learn about the types of CDs, CD drives, and formatting and burning CDs. Transport your PowerPoint files without losing your fonts, sounds, and linked files.

Scanning Images, Slides, and Text

Put a scanner to work for you by digitizing images and text. Turn paper manuscripts into editable text. Learn how to make small images bigger and better. No Experience necessary.

Smart Classrooms

An introduction to the smart classroom technology installed on campus in over 75% of classrooms and 15% of lab spaces. Learn how to use the equipment, get tips on how to use it more effectively and also learn about the resources available to support your use of classroom technology. The program includes ample time for you to ask questions and try the equipment.

SoundTrack

Soundtrack lets you build professional-quality musical arrangements using prerecorded audio files and rhythmic patterns, called loops, that you can extend to fill any amount of time. You'll learn to combine and arrange loops in the Soundtrack Timeline, add effects and other non-repeating audio, and mix your music in stereo. Export the final mix to a standard audio file that can be played on any multimedia-equipped computer or imported into Final Cut Pro. Previous experience with Mac's GarageBand helpful but not required. (Mac only.)

Update Your Lafayette Web Page

Is your Lafayette personal or departmental web page a little out of date? Need to make updates but not sure how to begin? In this hands-on session you'll learn how to access your files on the server, and have time and assistance for making updates.

Video and Audio Conferencing

Learn how video and audio-conferencing can enhance your classes by bringing distant experts to your classroom or by taking your students on virtual field trips. Many colleges and universities, museums, and other institutions now have campus videoconferencing facilities, but for those who don't, audio conferencing using Lafayette's state-of-the-art equipment is an excellent alternative. Try out the equipment, take part in both types of conferences, and learn how to use the equipment to best advantage.

Web Design Day

Spend the day working with Dreamweaver to revise or build your personal or departmental web site. The morning session will give you basic command of the program as well as incorporate some best practices for web accessibility. The afternoon session will continue with more advanced techniques for using style sheets and making your site more accessible to search engines as well a your users. This session will be hands-on and you will have time to work on your own sites.

Word Clinic: Beyond Basics

You're probably comfortable using Word for your class papers and basic tasks. Join us for this clinic where we'll go beyond the basics to examine some more advanced features. Learn to use the collaborative editing tools, create forms that can be filled out and submitted electronically, and learn how to merge documents to create professional customized letters, envelopes, and labels. Some experience helpful but not required.

Word Clinic: Formatting Your Resume

Come brush up on your Microsoft Word skills. This clinic will show you some things you may not know about formatting and style such as adjusting line and letter spacing, setting tabs, turning off or using AutoFormatting, and setting styles. Please bring the content for your resume as we will spend the time working on formatting and style issues.

Word I: The Basics

Learn or review the essential features of this powerful word-processing application. Practice using grammar and spelling tools, time-saving editing shortcuts, file and folder management, cut and paste techniques, search and replace, print options, and working with multiple documents. Insert symbols and special characters. Learn formatting techniques such as fonts, indents, margins, bullets and numbering, page numbering, headers, footers, and more. No experience necessary.

Word II: Beyond Basics

In this workshop, we'll go beyond the basics to examine some of Word's more advanced features. Learn to use the collaborative editing tools, create forms that can be filled out and submitted electronically, password-protect your files. We'll talk about using styles, advanced pagination, and other ways that Word can help you save time and produce professional-looking documents. Some experience helpful but not required.

Word Topics: Collaborative Editing Tools

Learn to use Microsoft Word's Track Changes editing tool to edit student papers, add commentary, and review past drafts. Use it to track changes in documents created in collaboration with multiple authors and editors. Compare documents and trace versions. Prerequisite: Microsoft Word I or equivalent experience.

Word Topics: Merging Documents

Automate list processing by using Microsoft Word to merge list and form documents. Word makes it easy for you to compare documents and merge parts from each into a single document. Learn to merge a mailing list with document forms to create personalized letters, mailing labels, envelopes, and group email messages. Integrate data from other sources (e.g., Excel, Access, or other comma-delimited data) with your Word form to produce a membership directory, catalog, or other publication. Prerequisite: Microsoft Word I or equivalent experience.

Word Topics: Using Styles

Learn to create consistent, well-formatted documents using Styles in Microsoft Word. Styles are simply formatting instructions Word uses to display your document. We'll examine default styles, how to modify them, and how to create your own styles for documents. Also learn to save styles as templates. Microsoft Word I or equivalent experience preferred.

Word Topics: Using Track Changes

Learn to use Microsoft Word's Track Changes tool to edit student papers, add commentary, review past drafts. Use it to track changes in documents created in collaboration with multiple authors and editors.

Wordpress

Learn how to easily create Web sites or convert your existing personal, research, organization or department website into the new content management system, WordPress.

Wordpress work session

Use this time to work on your site in WordPress. Instructional technologists will be availble to assist you during this time.