ALL COURSES USE WINDOWS XP

HALF - DAY COURSES
Short training sessions for those who want to get started with computers or expand their skills. Each module in this section involves attendance
on 2 consecutive Tuesday mornings or afternoons.

COMPUTERS FOR ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS
An introduction to the machinery (hardware), and the most common uses (software) of computers at home and work. Play with Word Processing and Spreadsheets, have fun with Graphics and peep into the world of the Internet!

LOVE YOUR SCANNER!
Explore the mysteries of the scanner in the first of two half-day courses. Use your scanner as a photocopier, scan photographs and save them in the right format for E-mailing, scan text for editing with text recognition software, get the printer and scanner working together.
Learn how to repair old photographs, enhance new ones and combine several images in a composition.

INTERNET & E-MAIL
An introduction to the Internet. Learn the basic skills for using a Web Browser to do research and go shopping. This short course shows you how to conduct effective searches using Search Engines, how to save interesting Websites as 'Favourites' and how to delete unnecessary files that have been downloaded while surfing the Internet. An introduction to using e-mail for almost instant communication. Learn about inboxes, outboxes, drafts, sent items and deleted items. Learn how to tell if you've successfully sent a message. Organise your messages into folders and apply filters to incoming mail. Understand the message window, send new mail,address your messages to more than one person and save them to send later. Attach files to your messages and avoid the danger of viruses when reading attached files that have been sent to you. Make use of an address book facility.

BUYING & SELLING ON THE INTERNET WITH eBAY
Find out all about trading on the Internet with eBAY. By the end of this short course learners will be set up with a trading account and have an insight into its use. A small commission fee is required for activating a Pay Pal account and credit cards are required for on-line registration.

WORD PROCESSING WITH MICROSOFT WORD
Control Word's infuriating little habits - bullets, numbers, indenting. Set AutoCorrect the way you like it. Customise toolbars and use boxes, tabs and columns the easy way!
Find out about templates for letter headings, invoices etc. Get to grips with Mail merge and storing addresses. Discover the wonders of tables instead of tabs and tidy up long documents the easy way.

DESKTOP PUBLISHING
Create stylish brochures, leaflets and business cards, using Microsoft Publisher's advanced features. Copy, modify and integrate pictures with text; size and position them precisely; personalise them with Mailmerge. Use columns, tabs and tables - many time-saving shortcuts and tips.

MICROSOFT POWERPOINT
Discover the uses of this creative software for developing computerised presentations for delivery to an audience via laptop and digital data projector. Learn all about designing slides, with or without the aid of the Slide Wizard. Discover how to format text so that it will appear on demand or automatically at prescribed intervals. Add logos and pictures to slides. Create dazzling displays and add a sound track.

GETTING STARTED WITH SKYPE
What is Skype? Skype is mainly a piece of free software that lets you make 'phone calls' using a microphone and speakers, or a headset, using your computer, over the internet to anyone else who has the Skype software installed. It's basically real-time voice chat instead of text messaging. That makes it very attractive to people who call long-distance, especially overseas, where international phone calls can be very expensive. Why pay around £1 per minute to chat with someone in Europe when you can talk for 20 minutes for free with Skype? Talk, listen, watch, read, and write to anyone, anywhere in the world without worrying about cost, distance or time.

KEEP YOUR COMPUTER HEALTHY
Learn how to keep your computer working as efficiently as possible. Are you storing files you don't need? Do you know about computer viruses, firewalls and spyware? Is your computer adequately protected? Do you make regular back-ups of all your work? If not you could lose everything in the twinkling of a powercut. Come along and find out how to give your computer the regular care it needs.

Half Day Courses run from 9.30 am - 12.30 pm or 1.30 pm - 4.30 pm
Comprehensive notes are supplied with each course.
Coffee and biscuits included.

EVENING COURSES
Courses run over 3 x 3 or 4 x 3 hourly sessions on Tuesday evenings

ICT EVENING WORKSHOPS
Want to learn about QuickBooks computerised accounts or IT for farm admin? Or maybe you're a complete beginner or just need to learn a particular skill - word processing, spreadsheets or e-mailing. In this informal series of computer workshops our experienced tutor will give each learner individual tasks, according to ability and need, assessing progress and giving one-to-one assistance as required.

WRITE ALL ABOUT IT!!! And earn yourself extra income...
Do you have the germ of an idea for a newspaper or magazine article, or perhaps a series of articles? There's a massive market for well written articles for magazines and newspapers, and editors are always pleased to look at material from freelance authors. Could your PC and digital camera earn you lots of money??? Two thousand words and a few digital images could earn you £300.

This course will challenge you to transform an idea into a well written article worthy of publication and payment. You'll be guided and supported by an experienced tutor and will learn through the progress of fellow course members. It's likely a follow-up course will run, to check on progress and do any necessary fine-tuning before sending off to an editor. Why not give it a go?!

Evening Courses run from 6.oo pm - 9.00 pm
Comprehensive notes are supplied with each course.
Coffee and biscuits included.

ONE-DAY COURSES
Longer intensive training sessions for those who want fast easy learning.

SPREADSHEETS USING MICROSOFT EXCEL
Work efficiently with workbooks and worksheets. Learn how to work with cells, columns and rows; enter data (text, numbers & times); resizing, repeating/deleting information; display/hide cells; entering and using formulae; changing the size, font, colour or other text format. Insert, remove, resize charts and graphs on your worksheet.EST GROUP: Personal or business Spreadsheet users.

DATABASES USING MICROSOFT ACCESS
Create and design your own database without using a wizard. Create tables in a datasheet; edit, delete and move fields. Create tables in Design View. Learn about Primary Keys and relationships. Create forms and reports. Learn about filtering methods in a table, query or form. Construct multiple criteria queries.

AN INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL CAMERAS
Have you just acquired a digital camera, or even had one for some time but do not feel confident in using its varied features and capabilities. Learn the basics of digital camera work. Find the way round your camera, so that you can exploit the technology to the maximum.

DIGITAL CAMERAS AT INTERMEDIATE LEVEL
You know how to use your digital camera, but have not explored its full capabilities, nor the editing software supplied with the equipment. Discover more about your camera's features and dip into the world of image editing with Adobe Photoshop, to prove that "all may not be as it appears".

DIGITAL CAMERA WORKSHOP
In this course you will cover the aspects of a digital camera that will let you get the most from your digital camera, and make the best impact of your subject (flash, white-balance, macro etc). We will also cover the linking of different shots and subjects for effect. We will go outside to photograph a number of images which can then be used in the course outlined below.

MAKING A DVD PRESENTATION OF YOUR IMAGES
This course will show you how to create a DVD or Web presentation using your own images. Using Pinnacle Studio 9 we will learn about importing images onto the computer and then create a stunning presentation with your own images. We will add titles, sound, sound effects and video effects and then output the final presentation so that it can be played on a home DVD player or even on a web page.

DIGITAL VIDEO DAY WORKSHOP
An introduction into shooting a short film with a digital video camera. The elements covered in this day workshop are: the camera, storyboarding, types of shot, linking shoots and then putting this information to use by using your video camera to produce sets of video clips which would be ready for editing and producing a short 5 minute film. The course also includes getting your footage onto the computer and the computer requirements for digital video editing.

AN INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL VIDEO EDITING
The elements covered will include: creating titles and credits, linking footage, editing shots and scenes, video effects, adding sound tracks and effects and then copying to a DVD or other types of media. It will also include computer requirements for digital video editing.

Students must bring their own footage suitable to produce a short (under 5 minute) film.

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP
(Beginners/Intermediate/Advanced/Materclass/Guru/Super Guru)
Using this top of the range image-editing programme, learn how to restore old photographs, make the most of scanned images and use artistic effects. Topics covered include; brightness, contrast and tone; image modes and file sizes; tools; rubber stamping and alternatives; painting tools and lighting effects. There are six course levels: Beginners, Intermediate, Advanced, Masterclass, Guru and Super Guru.

CREATE YOUR OWN WEBSITE USING DREAMWEAVER
Introduction/Intermediate/Advanced
In these one day courses, course members will learn how to design and build a website for fun, family or business use. You will find out how to add backgrounds, photographs, graphics and hyperlinks. Discussions will cover registering domain names and choosing web space. Members will also learn about search engines and registration of your site to get it noticed. You will find out how to update your website and keep it current. Visiting both good and poorly designed sites will provide lots of ideas. Come to the Website for Business day if you wish to use your site for business purposes.

WEB GRAPHICS
Create professional looking, fast loading buttons, banners, animations, logos, text and backgrounds with Adobe Photoshop. Produce a set of graphics to take away for use on an existing site or save until later. Basic computer skills required but no knowledge of Photoshop needed. A must for those attending Dreamweaver courses.

CREATE A WEBSITE FOR BUSINESS ALL IN A DAY
Using free web-design software you will create a website to promote your business. Put simple webpages together with text, images and links. Learn how to do well on search engines, get a domain name and publish your site by the end of the day for all the world to see.

BUSINESS WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT
For those who have been on a previous course or who already have a website but need to continue with its development working in a small tutored group.

PROMOTING YOUR WEBSITE
For those who already have their own website, but are dissatisfied with the number of visitors -learn the secrets of optimising and promoting your site to do well on search engines and directories. Save yourself £1,000 per year by learning the techniques used by professional search engine optimisers.

Day Courses run from 9.15 am - 4.30 pm.
Comprehensive notes are supplied with each course.
Coffee, tea and biscuits are provided, but please bring your own lunch.

WORKSHOP SERIES

FAMILY HISTORY WORKSHOP
A course held over 4 days
In recent years Family History research has been transformed by the exciting addition of the Internet. There are now many new opportunities for researchers to examine the vast and varied Family History websites to find vital clues about their ancestors and to link up with other researchers.

Join this workshop to experience working with both traditional and modern research techniques, looking at original archives and documents to underpin new searches.

Without working in isolation, access the colossal amount of web-based information and discover how to collaborate with others whilest locating primary data. No previous experience of research techniques is required but a little knowledge of the Internet is necessary.

This 4-day course runs from 10.00 am - 3.30 pm.