Ed2Go Fall 2009 Course Descriptions:

Register for continuing education online courses at www.ed2go.com/dtcc. Starting dates for these Continuing Education online courses are: October 21, November 11, January 20, February 17, March 17, April 21, and May 19.

Durham Tech offers Ed2Go online noncredit, continuing education courses at an affordable cost of only $75; a few certification courses will cost $95. Because these courses are self-supporting, no tuition waivers or exemptions are allowed.

Note: All courses require Internet access, E-mail, Netscape or Internet Explorer Web browser, and Windows (except the Mac courses!). Some courses have additional software requirements as noted below.

• Creating the Inclusive Classroom: Strategies for Success: In this professional development course for teachers, you'll get the training you need to reach the diverse mix of students you face every day—learning proven strategies that turn diversity into opportunity. With students who have learning disabilities, neurobiological disorders, and physical challenges, the modern classroom requires an efficient and effective teacher who can prioritize under tight deadlines and be creative on demand. Learn how to be the kind of super teacher who can guide every student toward academic success.
  
  
• Get Asserive!: Are you tired of being intimidated and treated badly by others? Get the assertiveness training you need in order to be more confident and powerful with family members, friends, bosses, co-workers, professionals, service people, and even total strangers. Discover how you lose your power when you talk and what you can do to get it back. Learn how to deal with anger and criticism effectively. It's your turn to speak out!
  
  
• Guided Reading and Writing: Strategies for Maximum Student Achievement: Get the professional development training you need to improve student literacy as an accomplished teacher shares the secrets of turning guided reading strategies into opportunities for teaching writing. Find out how to harness the power of the total literacy framework. The road to literacy is also the road to ingenuity, invention, and imagination, and you'll soon learn how to take your students from groans to grins with creative lesson plans that really work!
  
  
• Ready, Set, Read: Learn what the newest research says about how children really learn to read and write and become a powerful guide to literacy development when you work with young children. Gain confidence in your ability to guide a child's literacy development, and take pleasure in seeing how even the littlest events can be really big steps in reading and writing success.
  
  
• Response to Intervention: Reading Strategies That Work: Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could be proactive in helping our struggling readers? Well, we can! In this six-week course, you'll learn response to intervention (RTI) strategies that ensure the struggling readers in your classroom get the help and education they need. RTI gives us a strategic plan to bring tiered interventions to our students, at their reading level and with their unique challenges in mind. Helping them with phonics, fluency, vocabulary mastery, comprehension, and writing, these intervention strategies tackle the toughest literacy problems with flexibility and creativity.
  
  
• Singapore Math Strategies: Model Drawing for Grades 1-6: In this professional development course for teachers, you'll get the training you need to start teaching model drawing, the powerful Singapore Math strategy that gives word problems a visual context. As a teacher, you know that many students groan when it's time to solve word problems. Why is that? Are the problems too difficult? Do students get lost trying to decipher the wording or figure out the computation? Do they simply not know which strategy to use? Actually, it's a combination of all these issues. Luckily, model drawing, a Singapore Math strategy for working word problems, will help your students start to enjoy math in a way they may never have before.
  
  
• Singapore Math: Number Sense and Computational Strategies: Do your students cringe when it's time to pull out their math books? For many students, basic math is a struggle. But for students and teachers in Singapore, math is much more intuitive. And Singaporean students have been top mathematics performers for over a decade! Using a layered curriculum founded on solid number sense and concrete, pictorial, and abstract computational strategies, Singaporean teachers make math purposeful, interesting, and relevant. In this teacher training course, you'll learn their secrets and come away knowing how to have meaningful math lessons in your classroom.
  
  
• Teaching ESL/EFL Reading: Did you realize that reading is one of the most important skills you can teach? It's truly at the core of the other language skills—listening, speaking, writing, and grammar. In this course, you'll learn how to show your students the value of reading and really motivate them to become strong readers. You'll also get to explore the ins and outs of intensive reading, extensive reading, reading comprehension, reading rate, and much more. The skill of reading not only gives your students what they need to be successful learners, but it also makes them more self-confident and eager to learn their whole life long.
  
  
• Teaching Grammar for ESL/EFL: Do you feel confident enough with your knowledge of English grammar to teach grammar to ESL/EFL students? In this course, you'll learn about the importance of teaching grammar to EFL and ESL students and develop a greater appreciation for the rules of grammar. Get ready to discover new teaching methods that will both engage and challenge your students!
  
  
• Practical Ideas for the Adult ESL/EFL Classroom: Learn ESL teaching strategies that will set your adult ESL/EFL students up for success! Over the next six weeks, you'll discover ways to teach ESL that create a meaningful and positive learning environment for your students. You'll get to know what motivates them and how you can tailor your ESL teaching methods to their needs. You'll also explore a wealth of activities you can use to help your students become more confident listeners, speakers, readers, and writers of English. By the end of this course, you'll be teaching ESL in a way that helps your students move skillfully from the classroom to the real world!
  
  
• Understanding Adolescents: To know your kids is to love them. In this course, an experienced social worker will help you gain a deep understanding and appreciation of your adolescent's development and behavior. You'll uncover the secrets of the adolescent mind and gain valuable information on how they think, how they feel, how their identities develop, and what steps you can take to ensure that you are well prepared to meet the needs of the teens in your life.
  
  
• Praxis I Preparation: Are you a prospective teacher who needs to pass the Praxis I Exam? If so, this is the course for you! You'll develop all the skills you need as we review and prepare for everything the test includes. You'll improve your reading, writing, and math skills so that you'll be ready to pass all three parts of the Praxis I. You'll learn useful test-taking strategies and get plenty of practice test questions. You'll even have the opportunity to take full-length practice tests.
  
  
• Ready, Set, Read: Learn what the newest research says about how children really learn to read and write and become a powerful guide to literacy development when you work with young children. Gain confidence in your ability to guide a child's literacy development, and take pleasure in seeing how even the littlest events can be really big steps in reading and writing success.
  
  
• Creating a Classroom Web Site: Learn how to create a classroom Web site in this fun, easy-to-understand course for teachers. In no time, you'll build a site with text, images, animations, tables, links, and more. Then you'll create a WebQuest and a blog to add to your site.
  
  
• Easy Classroom Podcasting Have you ever felt like you just can't reach your students? They speak the language of technology while you speak the language of, well, teachers. But what if there was a bridge between the two? In this professional training course for teachers, you'll learn how to make a podcast that creates a memorable learning experience for your students. You'll find their interest reignited when you start using their favorite formats: audio, images, and video. You won't even need an iPod or a big budget to harness the power of podcasting in your classroom.
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• An Introduction to Effectively Teaching for ESL/EFL: English language teachers enjoy a wide range of opportunities and face a daunting set of challenges. You teach more than a subject—you're teaching skills that will open up the entire world to your students! This course will show you innovative ways of teaching vocabulary and grammar, listening and speaking, and reading and writing. But more than that, it will give you a deeper understanding of who your students are and who you are as a teacher. So join us on this journey of becoming a more reflective and effective English language teacher!
  
  
• Guided Reading: Strategies for the Differentiated Classroom: Differentiated instruction tactics will help you understand how your students learn so you can teach in a way that makes sense to them. When you apply those tactics within the guided reading framework, which helps you lead students through new ways of approaching text, great things start to happen. The result is a classroom full of students who are able to negotiate increasingly challenging texts with unprecedented fluency.
  
  
• Spanish in the Classroom: Learn the essential Spanish for teachers so you can bridge the communication gap with your Spanish-speaking students and parents! Rest assured that that this course won't be your typical high school Spanish course. We've tossed out long vocabulary lists and complex grammar rules and replaced them with games and stories to make learning easy, painless, and even fun. In addition to basic greetings and general Spanish vocabulary, you'll master words and phrases that directly relate to the classroom, such as classroom objects, front-office receptions, action verbs and commands, study skills, registration, course names, school rules and discipline, and parent-teacher conference vocabulary. By the end of this course, you'll be well on your way to being a Spanish speaker and communicating effectively with the Spanish-speakers all around you.
  
  
• Teaching Students With Autism: Strategies for Success: Just 20 years ago, we didn't see students with autism in our classrooms. But today, we teach children with high-functioning autism and Asperger's Syndrome right alongside their neurotypical peers. Reaching and teaching these students requires a delicate balancing act: understanding how their brains are wired, helping them turn challenges into opportunities, and learning to enjoy the rich perspective they bring to the classroom.
  
  
• Working Successfully With Learning Disabled Students: Learn how to successfully meet the diverse needs of the learning disabled students in your classroom from an experienced special educator. We'll dissect the whole special education process, from working with individualized education programs (IEPs) to helping students struggling with reading comprehension, math skills, and writing. Empower yourself by discovering easy, practical, and creative strategies that you can use to help your struggling students to find their light bulb moments!
  
  
• Differentiated Instruction in the Classroom: Differentiated instruction (DI) is becoming a mainstay in classrooms across the country as educators are starting to see the ways that the traditional classroom setting limits their ability to reach diverse learners. Join us on this journey through 10 practical DI integration strategies! Count on at least three sample integration lessons on each strategy, and just think of all the ways that you can apply them to improve learning outcomes for your students.
  
  
• Integrating Technology in the K-5 Classroom: Join us for an exciting and fun-filled tour of the technology-friendly classroom. Educational technology is advancing at an astounding rate, offering today's busy teacher quick and easy solutions for more interactive lesson plans, exciting WebQuests, and challenging assignments. Discover the power and creativity that technology can bring to your classroom as we look at basic integration, subject-specific activities, and smart ways to make your integration seamless. Take your teaching to another level with these fun new ways to incorporate technology into your lesson plans.
  
  
• Microsoft Excel 2007 in the Classroom:
Learn the basics of Microsoft Excel 2007 in this professional development course for teachers, and get the training every teacher needs for using and teaching this powerful program effectively in the classroom. You'll master Excel terminology; how to use tabs; how to sort data; how to insert formulas for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; how to create colorful charts and graphs; and much more! Throughout the course, we'll explore standards-based lesson plans and activities that will allow you to pass your Excel knowledge on to your students, no matter what their grade level. By the end of this course, you'll have a solid understanding of the basic functions of Excel, and a wealth of ideas for integrating this powerful technology into your lesson plans across your curriculum.


• Microsoft Word 2007 in the Classroom: Mastering Microsoft Word can make you a more productive and creative teacher. You'll learn how to create, open, edit, and save documents, as well as how to create tabs, margins, and spacing. Then you'll make your classroom documents come to life. You'll add borders, clip art, and WordArt. You'll even insert shapes, pictures, tables, and complete a host of other exciting tasks that you can teach your students. As you get more familiar with this program, you'll find that it enhances your teaching in ways you didn't think possible, and you'll have a host of ideas for curriculum-related classroom projects.
  
  
• Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 in the Classroom: If you're an educator, this course will help you discover the exciting possibilities of using PowerPoint for--and with--your students. You'll master a variety of uses for PowerPoint in the classroom, and you'll be able to create compelling lessons and presentations filled with text, graphics, sound, and video. You'll be able to use PowerPoint templates or create your own dynamic presentations that will increase interest in any subject you teach.
  
  
• Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 in the Classroom: In this course for teachers, you'll learn how to motivate students and enrich lessons by bringing Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 into your classroom. You'll master a variety of uses for this MS Office program and come away able to develop lessons and presentations filled with text, graphics, sound, and video. You'll be able to use PowerPoint templates or create your own dynamic presentations that will increase interest in any subject you teach!
  
  
• Enhancing Language Development in Childhood: Follow your child's lead and have fun while enhancing language development! In this fun and user-friendly course for parents, teachers, and caregivers, you will discover how children learn to process language and how they become proficient speakers and thinkers.
  
  
• Using the Internet in the Classroom: Harness the power of the Internet to make your textbooks and lessons come alive! Teach your students how to locate and evaluate Internet resources. Improve the caliber and amount of discussion through the use of e-mail and discussion boards. The Internet can make teaching easier--this course will show you how.
  
  
• Guiding Kids on the Internet: Work the Web with your kids! This essential course for teachers, leaders, and parents will give you the confidence you need for helping children get the best from the Internet.
  
  
• Big Ideas in Little Books: Increase student performance on standards important to your district by learning how to develop your own work books, lab manuals, booklets, activity kits, visual aids, and manipulatives targeting those standards. The instructor--a former K-12 teacher who is also the author and developer of over 50 products for the educational market--will walk you step-by-step through the process of creating a wide variety of instructional materials. You'll also learn how to profit from your ideas by offering the products you develop for sale through catalogs, stores, and trade shows.
  
  
• Solving Classroom Discipline Problems:
Why do some teachers enjoy peaceful, orderly classrooms while other teachers face daily discipline battles? The answer is that many teachers have not been taught the secrets to solving discipline problems. This course reveals those secrets and presents a step-by-step approach to effective, positive classroom discipline. Teachers continually rate this course one of the most valuable they have ever taken.


• Survival Kit for New Teachers: Are you a new teacher who feels anxious about entering your first classroom? Whether you’re already teaching, a newly credentialed graduate, or a substitute looking to transition to full-time, this course will provide you with all the time-tested tools, tips, and tricks you need to make your early years in the classroom a breeze.
  
  
• Web 2.0: Blogs, Wikis, and Podcasts: In this course, you'll learn how to create your own blog, wiki, and audio and video podcast. Through hands-on activities in each lesson, you'll practice working with free Web 2.0 tools like Blogger, Wikispaces, and YouTube, and you'll explore opportunities to use tools like these for personal, business, educational, and political projects. You'll also learn tricks for promoting your Web 2.0 content and for driving visitors to your brand-new sites.
  
  

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• A to Z Grant Writing: A to Z Grantwriting is an invigorating and informative seminar specially created for executive directors, organizers, board members, community volunteers, development officers, and individuals who want to learn a 'bird's eye' view of the grantwriting process and learn how to: research and develop mutually beneficial relationships with potential funding sources, organize a grantwriting campaign and keep track of all funding sources, requests and donations, Prepare complete proposal packages, and dissolve crisis management and submit one hundred proposals a year in ten hours a week.
  
  
• Writing Effective Grant Proposals: Learn to prepare grant proposals that get solid results for your favorite organization or charity. Over $200 billion annually is available for worthy causes and most people don’t know how to prepare the application that will deliver needed funding. Avoid the mistakes that get applications for wonderful projects tossed into the wastebasket! Learn how to write professional proposals that actually succeed.
  
• Advanced Grant Proposal Writing: Do you know the best way to present information in a grant proposal? In this course, an experienced grantwriter will show you how to research and write winning proposals that get funded. Learn what to do--and, more importantly what not to do--on every part of your proposal. Gain a full understanding of the criteria funders use to determine whether your grant proposal gets funded or rejected. You'll become expert at ferreting out corporate, foundation, and government grantmakers, and you'll know how to tailor your responses to information found in the peer review criteria. You'll also discover a number of significant finishing touches that can give your project the edge over others. You'll know the best type of paper to use, which buzzwords to include, which fonts work best, and which types of graphics and formatting techniques will make your proposal more competitive.
  
  
• Becoming a Grant Writing Consultant: Good grant writing consultants are always in demand. Learn how you can use a basic knowledge of grant or proposal writing to become an expert in the red-hot grant consulting field. This is one field where your creative writing skills can touch thousands of people and literally make a difference in their quality of life.
  
  
• Get Grants!: Learn how to develop successful, fundable grants from experts whose proposals have garnered millions in funded projects. This course will give you the skills you'll need to prepare professional, competitive, and compelling grant proposals. You'll understand what funding agencies are looking for and how best to approach them. Your proposals will help you and your organization successfully Get Grants!
  

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• Going Green at the Workplace: Learn how to position your business as a responsible environmental leader in a world of green consumers and carbon-conscious regulators. Explore ways to save energy, save money, and save the environment by making your building's lighting, HVAC, and information systems more efficient. In addition, discover simple and cost-effective ways to reduce your carbon footprint by conserving water, using alternative transportation fuels and vehicles, and generating your own renewable energy on-site. Instructor led class offered each month, for 6 weeks.

• Speed Spanish: This powerful course teaches six easy recipes you can use to glue Spanish words together into sentences. With the powerful methods taught in this course, you'll be able to engage in conversational Spanish in no time. ¡Qué Bueno!
  
  
• Speed Spanish II: Gain comfort in Spanish-speaking situations by learning even more clever new recipes you can put to immediate use. Our Speed Spanish courses are unlike any other Spanish classes you may have ever taken. When you've completed both this course and its predecessor, you'll be well on your way to fluency.
  
  
• Speed Spanish III: Master your ability to speak, understand, and read Spanish by taking the final installment in our unique three-part Speed Spanish learning series. In this advanced-level course, you'll learn the final six recipes that will serve as templates to help you create any Spanish sentence you want.
  
  
  

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• Become a Physical Therapy Aide: Prepare for a rewarding career as a valued member of the physical therapy team while learning all about the human body, specific disorders, and the way physical therapists treat these disorders. You'll get training in physical therapy terminology and communication skills. And by the end of the course, you'll know the legal and ethical issues that are becoming increasingly important for every physical therapy aide to understand.
  
  
• Human Anatomy and Physiology: Human Anatomy and Physiology focuses on the structure and function of the human body. In this course, you'll gain an understanding of basic chemistry, the human cell, and the anatomy of the body's organ systems and the jobs that they do. You'll also learn how our organ systems work together to allow us to process sensations, think, communicate, grow, move, reproduce, and stay alive. In addition, we'll talk about different disorders, recent advances in medicine, and ways to take care of our bodies.
  
  
• Medical Terminology: A Word Association Approach: This course teaches medical terminology according to each body system. Multiple graphics, study tips and unusual facts make for a most enjoyable course.
  
  
• Medical Transcription: Take your first step toward a lucrative career as a medical transcriptionist! You'll learn how to transcribe the most common medical reports used in both inpatient and outpatient settings. We'll review a lot of the grammar you might have forgotten since high school and apply it to the reports. You'll have the opportunity to listen to real dictation and transcribe it on your computer using the same tools real transcriptionists use. We'll also look at how you can further your education to take advantage of the new job markets available to transcriptionists and position yourself for the future in this exciting field. By the end of the course, you'll know the basics of the major reports and key clinical points of major disease processes.

• Introduction to Microsoft PowerPoint 2007:
Learn how to use Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 to create impressive slide presentations filled with formatted text, images, video, audio, animation, charts, and hyperlinks. Find out how to save your presentations so you can share them with others over the Web or on CDs.


• Introduction to Microsoft PowerPoint 2003: Learn how to use Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 to create impressive slide presentations formatted with filled with formatted text, images, video, audio, animation, charts, and links to the Web. You'll also learn how to save your presentations in HTML so they can be shared with others over the Web, and you’ll discover some of the exciting new features exclusive to PowerPoint 2003, such as the Package-for-CD feature, the Research task pane, and the updated PowerPoint Viewer.
  
  

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• LSAT Preparation - Part 1: Law school entrance procedures, law school survival techniques, test-taking techniques, analytical reasoning, and drafting diagrams are discussed in Course 1 of this two-course series.
  
  
• LSAT Preparation - Part 2: Reading comprehension, logical reasoning, techniques for quick elimination of incorrect answers, explanations of correct answers, and proven approaches for selecting the correct answer are discussed in Course 2 of this two-course series.
  
  
• SAT/ACT Preparation - Part 1: This course will prepare you to take the verbal question types on both the ACT and the SAT. The course will prepare you for the reading, English, and science sections of the ACT and the critical reading and writing sections of the SAT. You'll refresh your knowledge of verbal topics and learn techniques that can help you relieve test-taking anxiety.
  
  
• SAT/ACT Preparation - Part 2: This course will prepare you to fly through the math questions on both the ACT and the SAT. You’ll refresh your knowledge of math subjects and learn techniques to help you move through the tests more quickly. We'll review arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and statistics as well as the Student Produced Response questions on the SAT. We'll practice techniques and approaches using similar exam questions and fully explain and interpret the correct and incorrect answers.
  

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• Introduction to Visual Basic 2008: Creating a Windows application ordinarily requires you to write lengthy and complex code. But Visual Basic 2008 relieves you of this task. It enables you to create an application and its components literally with the click of a button or menu item. It even writes all of the necessary code to get the application started for you. You can view and fine-tune the code, but it spares you a lot of the grunt work.
  
  
• Introduction to Phython 2.5 Programming: Learn the fundamentals of computer programming in Python to create basic programming structures like decisions and loops. You'll then move on to more advanced topics such as object-oriented programming with classes and exceptions, and later unique Python data structures such as tuples and dictionaries. You'll even learn how to create Python programs with graphical elements that range from simple circles and squares to graphical user interface objects like buttons and labels. Whether you're interested in writing simple scripts, full programs, or graphical user interfaces in Python, this course will give you the foundation you need.
  
  
• Introduction to PHP and MySQL: Learn how to create an interactive Web site, allowing visitors to post and retrieve information provided by you or your site's visitors. You'll see how to use the PHP programming language to generate dynamic Web sites that automatically change as your data changes. You'll also learn how to use the popular MySQL database server with PHP to store and retrieve data over the Web.
  
  
• Intermediate to PHP and MySQL:
Learn the fundamentals of computer programming in Python to create basic programming structures like decisions and loops. You'll then move on to more advanced topics such as object-oriented programming with classes and exceptions, and later unique Python data structures such as tuples and dictionaries. You'll even learn how to create Python programs with graphical elements that range from simple circles and squares to graphical user interface objects like buttons and labels. Whether you're interested in writing simple scripts, full programs, or graphical user interfaces in Python, this course will give you the foundation you need.


• Introduction to ASP.Net: Learn how to create exciting, interactive, and professional Web sites with ASP.NET. In this hands-on course, you'll begin by adding the power of interactive controls to your Web pages, and you'll discover how you can use style sheets to give every Web page you create the same clean and consistent look and feel. You'll find out how to connect to a database and put the information it contains on public display. Then, you'll develop a true community-based Web site that allows users to register, log in, create and update profiles, and post messages to a forum. You'll also explore the issue of Web security, and learn some simple things you can do to secure your site against some common attacks.
  
  
• Introduction to Java Programming: If you want to learn computer programming but don't have any prior experience, you'll enjoy a tour of Java, one of the most widely used computer languages in the world. It’s a breeze to learn in a friendly and supportive environment. Start with the basics of program design and go on to write your own programs and integrate input and output, calculations, decision making, and loops. Build your knowledge and confidence with easy-to-understand examples and plenty of skill-building exercises. So whether you just want to try it out to see if you like it or plan on doing more with Java, this is a great place to start!
  
  
• Intermediate Java Programming:Deepen your understanding of the Java programming language, and start writing programs that are more sophisticated and professional. You'll learn about reading and writing data files, organizing information with multiple classes in Java's class hierarchy, and creating GUI applications using tools like windows, menus, buttons, text boxes, check boxes, scrolling, and more.
  
  
• Introduction to Visual Basic.Net: Visual Basic .NET is the most widely used programming language and development tool for creating Windows applications. The Visual Basic .NET programming language is very easy to learn, and the Visual Basic .NET development environment enables you to rapidly build Windows applications with little more than a few clicks of your mouse. By the end of this course, you will be writing your own sophisticated Windows applications. You'll also understand event-driven and object-oriented programming concepts that will help you master both Visual Basic .NET and other programming languages.
  
  
• Intermediate Visual Basic.NET: Gain in-demand skills writing sophisticated Windows programs that access and modify business databases and implement Structured Query Language. This course will be ideal if you are a Visual Basic .NET programmer and you want to upgrade your programming skills or prepare yourself for a new and exciting line of work.
  
  
• Introduction to C++ Programming: Learn how to program in C++, even if you have no prior programming experience! Create programs for Microsoft Windows using Borland C++ Builder. Learn Object-Oriented techniques, how to create windows and forms, and how to program in a step-by-step nature. This course is ideal whether you're an enthusiast, a business person hoping to advance your career, or someone who already knows how to program but wants to move ahead to C++ and Object-Oriented Programming.
  
  
• Introduction to C# Programming: Learn the fundamentals of computer programming with the hot new C# programming language. You'll begin with an exploration of input/output operations, decision making, looping, and object oriented programming principles. Then, you'll gain hands-on experience using sequential data files, and you'll build your very own Graphical User Interface (GUI) application. Learn to program the right way: by using a state-of-the-art language to build impressive and professional-looking applications on your schedule and on your very own computer.
  
  
• Intermediate C# Programmer: Build upon your current knowledge of programming logic by writing Graphical User Interface applications in the C# programming language. Learn how to write applications with menus, toolbars, and files, and find out how to interact with databases and write SQL queries.
  
  
• Introduction to Perl Programming: Learn Perl, a powerful and easy-to-use scripting language used on PCs, servers, and on the Internet for a wide range of programming problems. Perl is as capable - and often as fast - as C, C++, and Java, but is easier to learn and does not require the sort of software development tools and environments required by those languages. Perl is also more portable and supported on a greater variety of computers than many other computing languages. Perl programming skills are especially valuable for Web developers, software developers, and system administrators.
  
  

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• Introduction to Microsoft Excel 2007:
Discover dozens of shortcuts and tricks for setting up fully formatted worksheets quickly and efficiently. Learn the secrets behind writing powerful formulas, using functions, sorting and analyzing data, creating custom charts, creating 3-dimensional workbooks, building links, and creating macros and custom toolbar buttons.


• Intermediate Microsoft Excel 2007: Learn how to work faster and more productively by using many of Excel 2003's powerful features, such as the PivotTable, Solver, and AutoFilter. Build worksheets with decision-making capabilities, and learn to use advanced graphing techniques.
  
  
• Advanced Microsoft Excel 2007: Master advanced Excel features that most users don't even know exist. In this practical, hands-on course, you'll discover how to use scenarios and data tables to quickly perform multiple what-if analyses. You'll discover a variety of advanced techniques for PivotTables, like creating calculated fields and calculated items, as well as how to restore the "Classic PivotTable Style" drag-and-drop functionality. You'll see how to use validation to protect the integrity of your worksheets from other, less experienced users. You'll become adept at consolidating and importing data from other sources, and you'll master the art of conditional formatting to highlight duplicate entries and other common worksheet problems. Impress your coworkers by learning how to add functional and eye-catching controls to any worksheet, and find out how to nest one function inside another to accomplish just about anything MS Excel has to offer!
  
  
• Introduction to Microsoft Excel 2003: Discover dozens of shortcuts and tricks for setting up fully formatted worksheets quickly and efficiently. Learn the secrets behind writing powerful formulas, using functions, sorting and analyzing data, creating custom charts, creating 3-dimensional workbooks, building links, and creating macros and custom toolbar buttons.
  
  
• Intermediate Microsoft Excel 2003: Learn how to work faster and more productively by using many of Excel 2003's powerful features, such as the PivotTable, Solver, and AutoFilter. Build worksheets with decision-making capabilities, and learn to use advanced graphing techniques.
  
  
• Advanced Microsoft Excel 2003: Maximize your investment in Microsoft Excel by learning advanced techniques that most users don't even know exist. In this practical, hands-on course, you'll learn how to use scenarios and data tables to quickly perform multiple what-if analyses. You'll discover a variety of advanced pivot table techniques, like creating calculated fields and calculated items. You'll be able to use validation to protect the integrity of your worksheets from other, less experienced users. You'll become adept at consolidating and importing data, and you'll master the art of conditional formatting to highlight duplicate entries and other common worksheet problems. Impress your coworkers by learning how to add functional and eye-catching controls to any worksheet, and find out how to nest one function inside another to accomplish just about anything Excel has to offer.
  
  

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• Introduction to Microsoft Access 2007:
Learn how Microsoft's powerful and award-winning database can help you manage, store, search, analyze, and display important business, personal, or scientific data. You'll gain practical, hands-on experience with tables, relationships, custom data entry forms, queries, mailing labels, macros, and more. Increase productivity, reduce data entry errors, conduct comprehensive searches, and produce handsome and professionally formatted reports.


• Introduction to Microsoft Access 2003: Learn how to use this powerful and award-winning database to store, locate, print, and automate access to just about any type of important information.
  
  
• Intermediate Microsoft Access 2003: Learn how to create real-world business databases using Microsoft Access 2003. Master the secrets of making the computer--not people--do all the work. Create tables, queries, forms, reports, and macros for managing contacts, products, orders, invoices, and receipts. Pull all the pieces together with a single, easy-to-use switchboard.
  
  
• Intermediate Microsoft Access 2007: In this course, you'll master the tools and techniques required to create user-friendly Access 2007 databases. You'll learn to design one-to-many and many-to-many databases and create queries, forms, and reports to reflect those relationships. You'll find out how to create a switchboard form, change database settings, and use macros to make a database easy and intuitive enough for even a computer novice to use.
  
  
• Introduction to Database Development: A number of powerful tools are available to help you build databases and database applications. However, if you do not apply a systematic, structured approach to the use of those tools, you will probably produce systems that fail to meet user needs. Many projects bog down or are never completed for lack of a disciplined approach to development. This course will guide you step-by-step through all the phases of a system development project to guarantee that the resulting product will not only work as it was designed to work, but also that the design truly responds to user needs
  
  
• Introduction to SQL: Learn the key concepts of Structured Query Language (SQL) and gain a solid working knowledge of this powerful and universal database programming language. You'll learn the basic structure of relational databases, how to read and write simple and complex SQL statements, and advanced data manipulation techniques.
  
  
• Introduction to Oracle: Learn how to use the Oracle database management system to plan, organize, and manage your data. This course will introduce you to the Structured Query Language (SQL), Oracle's SQL*Plus, and other valuable tools used to develop, manage, and reference an Oracle database. You will learn how to create an Oracle database, build various database objects for the database, and write simple SQL statements that access the data from the database.
  
  
• Intermediate Oracle: Gain hands-on experience with Oracle's PL/SQL programming language, with expert assistance from an IT veteran. PL/SQL is Oracle's procedural language extension to Structured Query Language (SQL). This course will give you the skills you need to write powerful and flexible programs using that language. You'll learn the building blocks and core features of PL/SQL, and you'll begin building fully functional PL/SQL programs with procedures, packages, debugging routines, database structures, triggers, and cursor processing.
  

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• Introduction to Dreamweaver CS3:
Learn Adobe Dreamweaver from a Web design pro, and get the training you need to develop first-class Web sites! Master the techniques for producing fully functioning sites, learning how to insert and format text, images, hyperlinks, tables, and a variety of media formats. Discover the secrets of effective page layout—secrets that ensure your sites reach and impress your audience.


• Intermediate Dreamweaver CS3:
Take your Adobe Dreamweaver skills to the next level under the tutelage of a proven Web development expert. Examine Pure CSS layout and learn how to incorporate multimedia elements such as Flash video and audio. Discover the uses of XML and XSL.


• Introduction to Dreamweaver 8: Learn to harness the power of this industry-standard Web design program from a Silicon Alley veteran. Master the basics of document creation and how to insert and format text, images, hyperlinks, tables, multimedia files, and other types of Web page content.
  
  
• Introduction to Microsoft FrontPage 2003: Learn the essentials of Microsoft’s popular Web site-building software. You'll begin with an introduction to basic Web design principles, and you'll explore the interface and features of the FrontPage program. Then, you'll learn how to manipulate words and images to create a site worthy of publishing to the Internet. By the end of the course, you'll be armed with all the knowledge you need to create an attractive, well-designed, and functional Web site.
  

• Introduction to InDesign CS3: In this class you'll get hands-on desktop publishing training and come away knowing how to use this popular page layout software to design and create professional quality letterhead, business cards, brochures, PDF files that play movies, and more. Whether you're a business owner, employee, student, softball coach, or service club member, you need to communicate with others. See the many ways in which Adobe InDesign CS3 can you help design slick, colorful, and useful content. We'll develop a wide range of publications for Natalie's Nautical Emporium, a fictional business. Starting with her logo design in Lesson 1, you'll see how to design multiple types of publications incorporating the same colors, look, and feel for a professional business presentation. By the end of the course, you'll know all about designing documents, as well as numerous ways to work smarter, not harder.
  
  
• Introduction to Microsoft Visio 2007: Get the training you need to create professional-looking flowcharts and diagrams using one of the most popular flowcharting programs on the market, Microsoft Visio 2007. Follow along as a seasoned industry professional leads you through easy-to-follow projects and exercises that teach you how to design diagrams based on industry standards and best practices. You'll learn how to use Visio's many features and functions to make your diagrams pop.
  
• Introduction to Illustrator CS3:
Adobe Illustrator CS3 is the program of choice for many graphic and visual artists. It allows you to draw and manipulate artwork, add special effects, apply color, and much, much more. This program also sets the industry standard for creating vector images, which you can resize without loss of quality. Whether you're looking to do a little more with your art or to design professionally, this class will give you the Illustrator training you need!


• Introduction to Photoshop CS3: If you're a photographer, a graphic artist, or you just want to alter your old family photos, Adobe Photoshop is the program you most need to learn. This hands-on, project-oriented course is filled with detailed, step-by-step instructions you'll have no trouble following as you learn how to edit photos, create basic paintings, and prepare your images for printing. Discover how to improve photographs by removing flaws, correcting poor exposure, or adding new elements using the newest techniques Photoshop CS3 has to offer. You’ll even learn how much fun it can be to paint again without the usual mess. And, best of all, you won't need any prior artistic ability or Photoshop experience to take this course.
  
  
• Intermediate Photoshop CS3:
Learn the secrets of professional image editing from a 2006-2007 nominee to the Photoshop Hall of Fame. This course, for the student who already knows the Photoshop toolset, explores new and better ways to create images and edit photos. Students will explore the sophisticated layers features that allow users to combine images in amazing ways.


• Creating Web Graphics with Photoshop CS3:
Learn how to use Photoshop to create and save graphics for the Web. You'll create these graphics for a Web site of your choice as you develop a Web page lesson-by-lesson, from idea to Internet.


• Introduction to Flash 8: Learn how to create exciting interactive animations from a working Flash designer and author with more than a decade of experience in Flash development. Discover how to create animations, build online applications, manage photos, integrate video, and upload your very own Flash presentations to a Web site.
  
  

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• Introduction to CSS and XHTML: Learn how to design, create, and post your very own site on the Internet's World Wide Web. Discover low-cost marketing techniques and search engine strategies.
  
  
• Intermediate CSS and XHTML:
Take your CSS and XHTML skills to the next level and learn how to create professional-quality Web sites. Find out the methods the pros use to quickly build effective sites that are easy to maintain and modify. Discover the tools and techniques that ensure you have total creative control over every aspect of a site.


• Creating Web Pages: Learn how to create state-of-the-art Web sites using modern CSS and XHTML techniques. Take your existing HTML skills to the next level and start building sites like the pros.
  
  
• Creating Web Pages II: Are you using HTML to its fullest potential? In this hands-on course, you'll become adept at using color, tables, and frames to give your Web pages a more polished and professional look, improved navigation, and more organization. Beef up the fun factor with audio and interactive forms, and learn how to save hours of time and effort with Cascading Style Sheets.
  
  
• Introduction to Illustrator CS3: In this course, you'll learn how to draw and trace with the Pen tool, use the new and amazing Recolor Artwork command, enhance your project with color, and bring your projects to life with interesting type. And with each lesson, you'll get an assignment that challenges both your creativity and your growing Illustrator skills. The course is appropriate for those just getting started with Illustrator and those looking to update their skills by mastering this version of the program.
  
  

• Introduction to Microsoft Publisher 2007: In this hands-on, project-oriented class for beginners, you'll learn how to design, create, and publish a wide variety of stunning documents using Microsoft Publisher 2007. If you're looking for a quick, easy, and inexpensive way to produce professional brochures, newsletters, flyers, or even a Web site, Microsoft Publisher 2007 is your solution! This affordable and functionality-packed program can take you to levels of design expertise you never dreamed possible.
  
  
• Introduction to Microsoft Word 2007: Learn how to create and modify documents in Word 2007, the most popular word-processing program available.
  
  
• Intermediate Microsoft Word 2007: Microsoft Word 2007 is a powerful and popular program, yet most people use only a fraction of its features. In this course, you'll learn Microsoft Word's more advanced features, which can make writing easier, faster, and more fun. You'll discover how to create an index, a list of figures, tables of contents, do desktop publishing, perform a mail merge, and use timesaving macros. By the end of the course, you'll know how to use Word both to save lots of time and to set your creativity free!
  
  
• Introduction to Microsoft Word 2003: Learn how to create and modify documents in Word 2003, the most popular word-processing program available.
  
  
• Intermediate Microsoft Word 2003: Learn how to create and modify documents in Word 2003, the most popular word-processing program available.
  
  
• Advanced Word 2003: Learn how to build time-saving macros, customize your toolbars, create shortcut keys, crank out form letters and mailing labels, perform queries, and much more.
  

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