The Career Education Center also offers computer classes
customized for elementary school students.
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CLASS PRICES START AT $50
Introduction to Computers
(Beginning Microsoft Word)
This course is designed to introduce the student to computers. Creating documents, editing text, and formatting documents is covered. Formatting tasks include: changing fonts, indenting paragraphs, adjusting margins, creating headers and footers, creating bulleted and numbered paragraphs, and adjusting line spacing. Students are introduced to the following tasks in the Windows operating system: starting and shutting down windows, opening and closing menus, starting and exiting programs; maximizing, restoring, and minimizing windows, switching applications using the task bar; using dialog boxes, programs, and property sheets; arranging windows; manipulating the Desktop.
Four Two-Hour Instructional Classes
This course teaches productivity tools in Word at an intermediate level. Skills learned include creating newspaper style columns; inserting graphic images on a page; sizing, resizing, and positioning graphics, and text in a document; adding objects to a document; creating and editing style and copying between document windows. Other tools covered include creating tables, sorting and calculating in tables; using auto correct and auto text.
Four Two-Hour Instructional Classes
Beginning Excel
A course designed to introduce the student to basic spreadsheet design techniques. Tasks include: selecting cells; opening, saving, printing and closing a workbook; entering labels, values, formulas, and functions; making corrections; formatting the workbook; copying data; using function wizard.
Four Two-Hour Instructional Classes
Microsoft Powerpoint
This course is designed to teach the student the productivity tools of PowerPoint in the Windows environment. Major concepts covered include: creating presentations; understanding the toolbars; using templates; inserting clipart; inserting graphs, tables, and spreadsheets into presentations; working with organization charts; creating and modifying color schemes; creating original drawings on slides; adding builds, sound files, and timing to slides; creating transition and animation effects.
Four Two-Hour Instructional Classes
Computer Keyboarding I for Kids
This course is designed to introduce the student to alphabetic, numeric, and selected symbol keys “by touch” using proper techniques. It also introduces basic formatting and editing techniques.
Three Two-Hour Instructional Classes
Computer Keyboarding II for Kids
This course is designed to improve the student's keyboarding skills; to teach the student to format business letters, memorandums, and reports, and to prepare the student for writing and formatting research papers. Furthermore, this course teaches students how to apply basic language arts skills via proofreading and revising documents.
Three Two-Hour Instructional Classes
Computer Keyboarding III for Kids
This course is designed to improve the students' keyboarding skills. Students will learn to key 55 wpm and above with good accuracy. Students will learn to create two-page unbound reports with references and report documentation, including footnotes and endnotes. The students will learn to key resumes and cover letters using different formats.
Three Two-Hour Instructional Classes
Visual Basic Programming I
Learn to manipulate forms. Learn to use command buttons, checkboxes, and option buttons in Visual Basic. Learn to use the show and hide methods, if…then…else statements, and / or statements, define variables, MDI forms, create a menu bar, modal dialog boxes, the unload command, a combo box, a setup program and generate a dependency file.
Three One-and-One-Half-Hour Instructional Classes
Visual Basic Programming II
Learn to use and understand select…case statements, for…next loops, do…loops, strings, the Mid$ Function, disk file operations, the open, close, and write statements, printer operations, the printer object, menu editor, menu control properties, menu control coding, timer event procedure, pop up menus, the MsgBox Function, arrays, the array function, errors, error handling, writing to the windows registry, customizing your application, using RegEdit, writing your own subprocedures.
Three One-and-One-Half-Hour Instructional Classes
Building a Computer
In this course students will be exposed to the inner workings of computer systems. Students will learn about: motherboards, floppy drives, hard drives, modems, EIDE cables, SCSI cables, USB ports, processors, CMOS settings/battery, power supply, and internal fans.
Three Two-Hour Instructional Classes
Web Design I
In this course students will use Netscape Composer to build web pages. This software allows the student to use a word processor type of interface to click and create simple and effective web pages. The course objectives include: An introduction to the internet; formatting text; creating hyperlinks to Email addresses; using web page graphics; using graphic images with hyperlinks; arranging text in lists; and arranging elements in tables.
Three Two-Hour Instructional Classes
Web Design II
Students will learn basic Web Site Design using HTML coding language. The course objectives include: An introduction to the Internet and HTML page; formatting text; creating hyperlinks to E-mail addresses; using web page graphics; using graphic images with hyperlinks; arranging text in lists; arranging text in tables; creating reply forms; working with frames; publishing your website.
Three Two-Hour Instructional Classes
Windows Movie Maker
In this course, students will learn how to edit, augment and polish your videos with ease. You will be able to turn unedited video from a digital camera into your own multimedia masterpiece, and distribute it in a wide array of formats. Students will learn to capture video from a digital camcorder; split, combine, and trim video clips, add music and sound to your videos, and to use video effects and transitions, narrate and add titles to your movie, format your movie for the best viewing experience.
Three Two-Hour Instructional Classes
