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The following sessions will be sponsored by the Library and ITS/Campus Computing March 14th-16th. Want to sign up? Please enter your name and contact information below. NAME: PHONE: EMAIL: Tuesday, March 14th -Excel Database -Maintaining Department Web Pages with Macromedia Contribute -What's New in Thunderbird Email: Overview and Q&A Session -Creating Online Tutorials with Macromedia Captivate -Accessing the Macalester Network with a Macintosh -What is Element K? Overview of this Self-Paced Online Training Tool Wednesday, March 15th -Moodle Workshop: Using the Assignments Module -Automatically Creating Citations and Bibliographies with RefWorks -Building Web Pages with the Nvu Web Editor -Basic Web Graphics with Adobe Photoshop -Google Unleashed! -OCS Web Conferencing with Windows Thursday, March 16th -Safe Computing -Creating Basic Web Pages with Dreamweaver MX -OCS WebMail: Overview of New Version -An Introduction to ArtSTOR -PowerPoint Animation -Dreamweaver MX Advanced Topics: Interactivity, Style Sheets & more Select the sessions that you would like to attend from the list below and then click the submit button at the bottom of the page.
Excel Database A database is a computerized record-keeping system. It is a tool for organizing, managing and retrieving information. Its overall purpose is to maintain information and to make that information available on demand. This hands-on session will show you how to set up a database and how to use the Excel data commands to manipulate the information. LIMIT: 8 PREREQUISITE: none LOCATION: Hum302 (PC classroom) INSTRUCTOR: Alexander
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Maintaining Department Web Pages with Macromedia Contribute Macromedia Contribute makes website maintenance easy. Contribute lets you publish to websites and easily and quickly make small revisions and updates helping to keep your department web site up-to-date. This hands-on session will introduce you to the basic features of the software and how to set it up to work with your department web pages. A copy of the Contribute software will be made available to campus departments by Campus Web Services after you've completed the training. LIMIT: 8 PREREQUISITE: none LOCATION: Lib BI Room INSTRUCTORS: Suelflow/Mollner
What's New in Thunderbird Email: Overview and Q&A Session Join us to learn about the latest features that are available in Thunderbird 1.5, the Macalester supported e-mail client. Bring any questions you may have for the Q&A session. LIMIT: none PREREQUISITE: none LOCATION: Hum302 (PC classroom) INSTRUCTOR: Harman/Dorer
Creating Online Tutorials with Macromedia Captivate Macromedia Captivate (formerly RoboDemo) is award-winning software that allows users to easily create online tutorials, demonstrations or simulations. It automatically records all onscreen actions and instantly creates an interactive Flash simulation. Point and click to add text captions, narration, and e-learning interactions without any programming knowledge. This hands-on session will introduce you to this powerful software and show you how to create basic e-learning resources. LIMIT: 8 PREREQUISITE: none LOCATION: Lib BI Room INSTRUCTORS: Joslin/Betsworth
Accessing the Macalester Network with a Macintosh For Macintosh users, accessing your files and other resources on the network is now easier than ever. In the past many Mac users avoided the Macalester network. Now with “native file access” you can easily access the various servers and their resources. Spend an hour becoming acquainted with Macalester’s network. We’ll show you how to upload and download files, locate course folders, access other servers, and how to share information. LIMIT: 8 PREREQUISITE: experience using Macintosh computer LOCATION: Hum304 (Mac classroom) INSTRUCTOR: Alexander
What is Element K? Overview of this Self-Paced Online Training Tool Element K offers online web-based training on a wide range of computer software and general computer skills topics through self-paced tutorials and instructor-facilitated online courses. It also provides access to a variety of other online training resources. Element K and its services are being made available to Macalester faculty, staff and student. This session will give you an overview of what's available and how you can sign up to get access to this training tool. LIMIT: none PREREQUISITE: none LOCATION: Lib BI Room INSTRUCTORS: Joslin
Moodle Workshop: Using the Assignments Module The Assignments Module in Moodle allows the teacher to specify a task that requires students to prepare digital content in any format and submit it by uploading it to the server. For example, assignments to submit may include essays, images, or PowerPoint presentations. We will examine the possibilities of the Assignments modules and work with a few examples. Other topics raised by workshop participants may also be addressed. No prior Moodle experience needed. LIMIT: 8 PREREQUISITE: none LOCATION: Hum302 (PC classroom) INSTRUCTORS: Nelson/AIAs
Automatically Creating Citations and Bibliographies with RefWorks Do you need to manage large numbers of citations with your research? Would you like to have access to and manage them with ease from any computer in the world? Using RefWorks, a resource made available by the library, you can make your life easier! In this session, we'll cover the basics of creating and managing a personal bibliographic database, importing citations from online resources and generating formatted bibliographies and papers. Even if you regularly work with EndNote, you can use RefWorks to gather citations whenever you are away from your main computer. LIMIT: 8 PREREQUISITE: none LOCATION: Lib BI Room INSTRUCTOR: Hillemann
Building Web Pages with the Nvu Web Editor Need to put together web pages? Nvu (pronounced N-view, for a "new view") is the campus supported web editor. Nvu makes it easy to prepare your pages by using toolbars and menus to insert the HTML code for you. LIMIT: 8 PREREQUISITE: none LOCATION: Hum302 (PC classroom) INSTRUCTOR: Alexander
Google Unleashed! Do you routinely use Google to search the web? Do you consider yourself a savvy Googler? Are you familiar with all of the tools that Google has available? Do you know why so many students are using Google Scholar? This session will give you an overview of the "world of Google" including Google Scholar, the Google Toolbar, Google Desktop and wide variety of other fun tools made available through Google. LIMIT: none PREREQUISITE: none LOCATION: Lib BI Room INSTRUCTORS: Hillemann/Mollner/Collins
Basic Web Graphics with Adobe Photoshop (ends at 4:15pm) This hands-on session will introduce you to many of the tools available within Photoshop and will focus on using this program to create graphics such as banners and buttons for web pages. LIMIT: 8 PREREQUISITE: none LOCATION: Lib BI Room INSTRUCTOR: Joslin
OCS Web Conferencing with Windows (ends at 3:45pm) OCS Web Conferencing is a powerful collaborative web conferencing tool that allows you to create private or public online conferences with another person or multiple people anywhere in the world; present over the web your desktop, a slideshow, or a particular application; record the entire session to a file; chat privately or publicly with other users in the conference in a chat window;and draw on an electronic whiteboard, simultaneously with other user. Anyone with an OCS account at Macalester can create a conference with any other user, anywhere in the world, at any time. Anyone outside of Macalester can join the conferences, but can't create them. This session will give you an overview of this powerful tool. LIMIT: none PREREQUISITE: none LOCATION: Hum302 (PC classroom) INSTRUCTOR: Alexander
Safe Computing (ends at 11:00am) A computer with a virus is never a good thing, especially around final exams or when you have a deadline. Learn how to protect the health of your computer on a daily basis by learning safe computing techniques. Virus protection, operating system patches, backing up and more will be covered. LIMIT: none PREREQUISITE: none LOCATION: Hum302 (PC classroom) INSTRUCTOR: Fines
Creating Basic Web Pages with Dreamweaver MX Dreamweaver has everything you need to develop great Web pages. This hands-on session will introduce you to the visual layout and text-editing tools available in Dreamweaver MX. We'll explore the Dreamweaver interface and learn how to create basic web pages by adding content such as text and images, create links and get an overall introduction to this powerful and intuitive Web software package. LIMIT: 8 PREREQUISITE: none LOCATION: Lib BI Room INSTRUCTORS: Joslin
OCS WebMail: Overview of New Version The new version of OCS Webmail is coming soon. Join us for an overview of this latest version. Such features as the familiar three-pane look found in so many email packages is now available which allows easier movement between your inbox, messages and other mail folders. LIMIT: none PREREQUISITE: none LOCATION: Hum302 (PC classroom) INSTRUCTOR: Harman/Dorer
An Introduction to ArtSTOR ArtSTOR is a resource which includes a large library of approximately 300,000 digital images and descriptive data. This resource documents artistic traditions across many times and cultures and embraces architecture, archaeology, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as many other forms of visual culture. This session will give you a basic introduction to the ArtSTOR resource, an overview of the image collections available, an explanation of how to download and use the off-line viewing tool and will cover how faculty can use this resource with their students in the classroom. LIMIT: 8 PREREQUISITE: none LOCATION: Lib BI Room INSTRUCTORS: Beccone
PowerPoint Animation Animation effects give motion to text, pictures and other content on your slides. Besides adding action, they help you guide audience focus, emphasize important points, transition between slides and maximize slide space by moving things on and off. The most common use of animation is the transitions between slides and the use of bulleted items appearing one by one. These are present animation schemes. This class will move beyond the built-in animation and focus on customizing animation. Also, PowerPoint’s photo album feature will be introduced. LIMIT: 8 PREREQUISITE: experience using Powerpoint LOCATION: Hum302 (PC classroom) INSTRUCTOR: Alexander
Dreamweaver MX Advanced Topics: Interactivity, Style Sheets & more In this hands-on session we'll go beyond the basics and learn how to add user interactivity and style sheets to web pages using Dreamweaver. Specific topics covered in this class include creating interactive web forms, adding navigation tools for your site, role over effects, image maps, and working with style sheets. . LIMIT: none PREREQUISITE: none LOCATION: Lib BI Room INSTRUCTORS: Joslin
An email confirming your registration will be sent to you within 24 hours. A reminder email will also be sent as a courtesy on Monday, March 13th (the first day of Spring Break week).
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