Icons

Text boxes

Fonts

Text overflow

Inserting clip art

Design templates

Order of objects

Working with pictures

Printing

Borders and border art

Connecting text boxes

Views

New slide

Fonts

Selecting text and boxes

Moving slides

Playing the presentation

slide animation

Working with pictures

Printing

Print screen and cropping

Text boxes

Animation

Motion paths

Hyperlinks

As there are so many cameras on the market the first session will be spent looking at the functions on the different cameras that you have. You will then have some time to spend experimenting with these functions and finding out why they are used. Particularly flash, zoom and macros.

Session 2 will be spent looking at a variety of software that can be used on your computer to crop and edit your pictures

Sessions 3 and 4 will planned during week 2 depending on the needs of the group. The emphasis will be either using the pictures or practicing with the camera. Other devices could be looked at including digital photo frames.

Getting started

The edit line

Moving the cursor

Entering data

Editing data

Formatting cells

Formula

Bodmas

Printing

Functions

Graphs

Opening files

Saving files

Formatting

Alignment

Justification

Working with pictures

Text Boxes

Tables

Printing

Margins

Rulers

Tabs

Double line spacing

This course will help anyone who needs to construct business document templates for example:

Memos

Letters

Fax

Minutes

Agendas

Presentations

Leaflets

Flyers

Given enough interest, we could also incude logo design and then include this new logo on the documents

Log on

Word processing

Moving the mouse

Playing a CD

Printing

The Internet

Changing the volume

e-mail

Many people are starting to make their own videos. This course will help you choose a camcorder, decide on the software, where you want to view the finished video. Explaining DVD format. Incorporate sound or recoded music.

Digital and tape camcorders

Connecting to a computer

Software

Titles and credits

Recording

Play back

Sound

Trouble Shooting

Drawing

Painting

Editing images

Using colour

Software packages

Incorporating text

Fonts

Resizing

If you make hand made cards but want to have the inside printed using different fonts, colours, sizes, pictures, etc this is the course for you. There will also be the opportunity to use borders, shaddows and other effects for the front of the card if it was required.

Coloured lines

Shaddows and filling

Different fonts

Using colour

Printing explained

Landscape or portrait?

Ordering objects

Resizing

You will be using Dreamweaver to construct a 4 page website. You will be shown how to upload this site onto the Internet. If you have broadband at home you will also have web-space as part of this deal this course will show you how to access it and use it.

Planning

Design issues

Page construction

Linking pages

Inserting graphics

File sizes

Web space explained

Uploading the site

Excel 1 is ideal for use at home for simple accounting, making tables, maths homework etc. This course is designed for those that are using Excel at work to do more analysis with numbers or to find out what more Excel can do. Many of the techniques covered below would be more advanced than those covered by CLAIT and ECDL.

Drop down lists

If then statements

Nested if then statements

Pivot tables

Filters

Look-up tables

Count..if

Advanced formatting

Absolute cell references

Named Cells

Using the computer to play interactive games can be very simulating, educational and rewarding. Ok you don't believe it - come and find out.

The Wii

Flight simulators

Maths games

Suduko

Board games

Puzzles

Rock Band

Chess

Should we be worried? Some practical advice and ideas. Sharing sites and experiences.

Using credit cards

Holidays

Short breaks

Objects

Supermarkets

Hidden costs

Sharing experiences

A course designed for members of our elder community. It is a designed to be gereral, and for those who are not very confident. Some time will be put aside for specific questions and an explanation about our other courses so that delegates could choose new courses with the confidence that it/they will suitable for them.

internet

using word

using pictures

what to buy

Printing

You have got the basics. Now to recap your skills before having a go at more difficult projects like multi-page documents and complex designs.

Layering

Merging graphics

Using graphics

Complex publications

Printing

Design issues

Page numbering

Tables

Having managed the basics it is time to work on the impact of the site. People will not return to websites if they have a problem - too slow - no information - poor graphical impact - too many graphics poor colours, poor navigation. You will be shown how to avoid these things and how to produce your own graphical images.

Anchors

Navigation bars

Roll over buttons

Graphic construction

File sizes

Tables

With copyright issues if you are producing newsletters, flyers, web pages you need to be able to produce your own graphics. There are two types: bitmap (painting) and vector (drawing) you will be shown how to produce both types and will incorporate editing digital photographs. Some time will be spent on investigating file sizes.

Bitmap

Vector

Editing photographs

File types

File sizes

Graphics tablets

If you have not used e-mail - this is for you. This course will also explain and let youn practice many of the functions you will need to know about sending, recieving and organising your mail. If you have not got an e-mail address we will make one for you.

Using e-mail

Sending

Recieving

Broadband

Dial-up

Organising your mail

Deleting

Address Books

Access is Microsoft's database, this course will show you the basics of constructing a database using: tables, forms, queries and reports. There will be a small amount of data entry.

Tables

Forms

Queries

Reports

Access is Microsoft's database, this course will show you the more about constructing databases. There will be a small amount of data entry. Most of this course will dedicated to more advanced queries.

Tables

Forms

Queries

Reports

There are many maths games available free on the Internet and the school VLE. You will be able to use some of these and be shown how to find some yourself.

Internet

School VLE

Searching techniques

This will introduce you to hardware and software issues at a basic level. Do you know about virus checkers, cookies, dat files, how to put in more memory, temporary internet files.

Knowing a little about these things may mean you do not have to purchase a new machine if yours starts to run very slowly.

Virus Checking

Cookies

Tempory Internet files

Memory upgrade

Having practiced writing documents it is now time to do more with tabs, tables and rulers to find out other ways they can be used. Some time will also be spent finding out how to mailmerge and we will discuss other techniques you would like to be shown.

Tabs

Mail merge

Rulers

Tables

Every school must have place where students can access their school work from antwhere at any time. This is known as a Virtual Leanring Environment. Cowplain's is called Moodle. More and more resources are being placed on the Moodle for the children and within a few years this will be the only place where the material we be kept.

This course will show parents where the material is and how the students can access it. The help that it provides and the links from it to other sites. There is a huge amount of material here, this will give you help you need to support you children with their school and home work. You should never need to send requests into school for work if your child is off sick etc as it is all here!

Subjects

Links

Resources

Help

You will be able to practice your vector and bitmap production skills on a variety of software packages. Some of these will be free so you use something similar to what you have at home. So that you can continue working with these images you will need to provide a memory stick.

Some time will also be allocated incoorporting these graphics into other documents.

Bitmaps

Vectors

File sizes

Inserting in to other documents

Now you have the basics you are ready to customise your presentations and make them more proffessional. How much animation should be used? How do I put the logo in the same place on every page? How do I play the slide show without touching the computer? You will be able to do all these at the end of the 4 weeks.

Master slides

Automatic transition

Animation

Picture animation

We will cover the basics - no-one to play - never mind this course will also give you web sites where you can play others on-line free.

The basic moves

How to win

on-line sites

Sneaky moves

This is one of our most popular courses hence why it appears at the same time on a Thursday. The course will cover many of the basic skills required to fly and will also cover basic Navigation and map reading.

The course covers the syllabus for pilot training for NPPLs. Members on this course have nearly completed their first year and are intending carry on next year. There is plenty of room for new pilots!

This is a more general course where the delegates set the agenda. Almost anything goes here - trying new software, help with hints and tips. Ideal for beginners or those just getting started.