Friday, April 22, 2011

Registration-Next Tuesday, April 26 9am

Next Tuesday morning, April 26th at 9am - Registration for the next series at Southern Artery - Series #50 -will be held bright & early at the Southern Artery offices, so mark your calendar and pass the word...

Series #50, will be an (11) week series and begin the week of May 9th and continues thru all of July. During this series no classes will be held:
  • Monday, May 30th, Memorial Day
  • Monday thru Friday, July 4th-8th, July Holiday Vacation
If you know someone who might enjoy our classes invite them to join us and feel free to share the blog address with them:

All of our classes are 90 minutes long and we have classes for everyone at every level

Our Morning Classes are Monday thru Wednesday 9am and 10:30am
  • BEGINNER - Monday 9am & 10:30am: Covers the Basics of the Computer, including hardware, 4 different types of software (operating system, application, browser and drivers), keyboard and mouse skills – when to left & right click and much more...
  • INTERMEDIATE 1 - Tuesday 9am & 10:30am: Covers the Basics of the Internet, including the parts of a web address, how to surf the Internet, hyperlinks, using email and the parts of an email address, working with email attachments and much more
  • INTERMEDIATE 2 - Wednesday 9am: Covers the Basics of Word Processing using Microsoft Word – setting up a document, margins, font styles and sizes, inserting photos, clip art and word art, highlighting, copy and pasting and much more
  • INTERMEDIATE 3 - Wednesday 10:30am: Covers the Basic of using Microsoft EXCEL - Spreadsheets for List and Data Management, setting up a workbook & worksheet, entering data and numbers, margins, font styles & sizes, basics of formula's and sorting the information different ways, and much more...

Our Afternoon Classes are Monday & Tuesday, 1pm and Wednesday & Thursday, 1pm and 2:30pm:

  • ADVANCED: Every series our focus changes, but all afternoon classes use all of the basic skills that you have learned in our morning classes and we build on those and also introduce many of the new programs and technologies available...
Series #50 (May 9th thru July 27th, 2011) some of the topics our Afternoon Classes will be reviewing so that we can create a "coffee table book" with our text, text & photos or just digital photos and we will also be spending a few weeks exploring the internet and all that's new including Facebook & Twiter and some great new websites...
  • Reviewing lots of Word Basics including the how to's of copy & paste and saving documents to our computer files & flash drives
  • Scanning & editing photos and information to save for use in our books
  • We'll discuss the difference between Walgreens & Blurb's Booksmart so you can decide which works best for you to create your book
  • We will then create a book, which many of us are finding a great inexpensive option to having photos developed & putting them in photo books...
  • We will learn how easy it is to share photo's online with family & friends
  • And spend some time on the Internet, learning a little more about Social Networking: Blogging, Twitter & Facebook and some great new fun websites...
Our afternoon class topics vary every series and each and every students input on what they want to learn is a critical part of how the topics for every series are chosen..

Topics we've worked on: emailing; cloud computing, using flash drives, memory cards & portable hard drives; computer maintenance; working with music including downloading from iTunes, creating CD’s, other special projects using word processing skills, such as creating iron-on transfers, note cards, invitations, mailing lists, mail merges for holiday mailings, excel list management, power point slide shows, using Picasa Photo Editing and Windows Movie Maker; Skype for making free phone calls worldwide, using webcams for video phone calls on Skype; working with digital cameras and photos, including scanning and editing photos and photo projects such as creating and publishing books, making slide shows or movies and much much more…

So join us and remember to bring a friend - it's important to keep every class full so that the computer class program continues... And as always we welcome your suggestions for class topics you would like us to be teaching - these are your classes - so speak up!!!

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