Technology@Wooster

The Department of Instructional Technology will conduct the following training sessions for faculty members. No registration is required. Attendees should meet the facilitator in Taylor 205 at the indicated date and time. Faculty members will shortly receive via campus mail a document containing a description of each offering. Questions should be directed to Jon Breitenbucher via email at jbreitenbuch@wooster.edu or via phone at x2207.

• Moodle (course management system)
  August 15, 11:00 a.m.
  August 16, 1:00 p.m.
  August 21, 11:00 a.m.
  August 22, 1:00 p.m.
  August 23, 1:00 p.m.
  August 28, 4:00 p.m.
  September 5, 4:00 p.m.
   
• Intro to Classroom Technology Demo Room
  August 29, 4:00 p.m.
  September 4, 4:00 p.m.
   
• Web Tools
  August 30, 4:00 p.m.
  September 19, 4:00 p.m.
   
• Working with Digital Images
  September 6, 4:00 p.m.
  September 12, 4:00 p.m.
   
• Working with Digital Audio
  September 11, 4:00 p.m.
  September 20, 4:00 p.m.
   
• Working with Digital Video
  September 13, 4:00 p.m.
  September 18, 4:00 p.m.
   

IT is pleased to offer a short training course on Microsoft Excel. This course will meet twice, between 9:00 and noon on both July 30 and 31. All College employees are eligible to participate. Enrollment is limited to 15. To register email Mary Schantz at mschantz@wooster.edu prior to July 27.

This course covers intermediate topics. These include:

IT is pleased to offer short introductory and intermediate courses on Microsoft Excel 2003. Each course is conducted in an on-campus computer lab and meets for two three hour sessions.

The introductory course will meet from 9:00 until noon on Tuesday, March 6 and Thursday, March 8. Topics to be covered include:

Creating Workbooks
Modifying Worksheets
Formatting Worksheets
Printing Worksheets
Working with Formulas
Working with Basic Functions
Enhancing Worksheets
Using Templates, Styles, Worksheet Backgrounds and AutoFormats
Finding and Replacing Data

The intermediate course will meet from 9:00 until noon on Tuesday, April 10 and Thursday, April 12. Topics to be covered include:

Working with Multiple Worksheets
Adjusting the Screen Display
Working with Advanced Functions
Using Advanced Formatting Features
Using Advanced Print Options
Filtering Data and Using Comments
Naming Worksheet Ranges and Formulas
Working with Charts
Protecting Data
Using Basic Integration and Web Features

All College employees are eligible to participate. Enrollment is limited. To register, contact Mary Schantz at x2039 or at mschantz@wooster.edu. Consult the IT blog for information on future training opportunities.

This semester Instructional Technology will offer training on Dreamweaver, iMovie, iDVD, flatbed scanning, and Audacity. These sessions will be held in Taylor 205 from 4:00 to 5:00, Monday through Thursday each week and will begin at a very basic level. As the semester progresses the sessions are expected to include more advanced topics. The schedule for these training sessions will be

What will you be able to learn at these sessions? You will learn how to create a simple Web page and how to manage a Web site; how to import, storyboard, and edit digital video and burn it to a DVD; how to scan photos at appropriate resolutions and scan documents to multi-page PDFs; and how to create an audio project using a number of different sound tracks. Again this may change as users become more advanced. Please direct any questions about these sessions to Jon Breitenbucher at x2207 or at jbreitenbuch@wooster.edu.

This semester faculty members wishing to work on projects in a quieter, more private setting than the instructional technology lab will be able to work in Taylor 211 on Thursday afternoons. They will also be able to get one-on-one help from Jon as he will be holding instructional technology hours in Taylor 211 from 1-5 on Thursdays for the 2007 Spring Semester. The space is equipped with three stations for doing anything from video editing to slide scanning. No appointment is necessary but if you want to send him an e-mail indicating you will be there, feel free to do so.

IT is pleased to offer a short training course on Microsoft Excel 2003. This course will meet for two three hour sessions- -9:00 until noon on Tuesday, February 6 and Thursday, February 8. All College employees are eligible to participate. Enrollment is limited to 15. To register contact Mary Schantz at x2039 or at mschantz@wooster.edu.

This course covers intermediate topics, extending the introductory course offered earlier. Topics to be covered include:

IT expects to offer both the introductory and intermediate Excel training courses again before the end of the current academic year.

IT is pleased to offer a short training course on Microsoft Excel 2003. The course will meet for two three hour sessions- -9:00 until noon on Monday, January 8 and Wednesday, January 10. All College employees are eligible to participate. Enrollment is limited to 18. To register contact Linda McNeil at x2252 or at lmcneil@wooster.edu.

Topics to be covered include:

It expects to offer this course again before the end of the academic year. An intermediate course of Excel is also planned. It will also consist of two three hour sessions. Dates will be posted on the blog as they become available.

Topics expected to be covered in the intermediate course include: