INTERMEDIATE COMPUTER APPLICATIONS

AUGUST – OCTOBER 2009

INTERMEDIATE COMPUTER APPLICATIONS
This course is aimed at people who have done the Beginners’ Course or who already have reasonable experience of using their computer. Includes: data entry, editing, formatting, inserting tables and graphics and printing documents. Windows Explorer – Creating, moving, copying, renaming and deleting folders. Microsoft Word 2007 - Formatting documents, Working with tabs, Mail merge. Microsoft Excel 2007 - Using absolute & relative addresses, Formatting worksheets, Working with charts. Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 - Creating Slides, Formatting Slides, Applying Slide Transitions, Applying Slide Animations, Inserting Objects into Slides.
10 weeks @ 2 hours per week from Tuesday 11th August 12.00pm – 02.00pm €100pp

Basic Introduction to Computer Applications Course
Basic Course Content includes – Access a word processing system/package, enter text, edit text by inserting/deleting characters, words, sentences and paragraphs, load an existing file, format text, enhance text, edit blocks of text, within the document, use a spell checker, use clipart save files within the system. Access a spreadsheet system/package, enter text, edit text, open an existing file, format text, enter various formulae…sum, min, max, average, etc, Internet & E-mail.
8 weeks from Tuesday 6th October 2009 (12 - 2pm) for 8 weeks. This course is suitable for absolute beginners. €100pp

Digital Photography / Windows Movie Maker Course
Upload photos to Windows Photo Gallery, Creating Tags, Organise pictures, Enhance and adjust photos, Put photos in a slideshow and put them to music etc...
You can use Windows Movie Maker to capture audio and video to your computer from a digital video camera, and then use the captured content in your movies. You can also import existing audio, video, or still pictures into Windows Movie Maker to use in the movies you create. After editing the audio and video content in Windows Movie Maker, which can include adding titles, video transitions, or effects, you can then save your final movie and share it with your friends and family. (If you have digital camera please bring it to class with you along with its USB connection. If you don’t have one there will be one in class anyway.)
8 weeks from Thursday 3rd September 2009 1-3pm €60pp

Adobe Photoshop Course
So what exactly can you do with Photoshop? Well, like any image-editing program, you can use Photoshop to "alter" images like photos, downloaded icons, or scanned artwork. Altering an image includes doing such things as changing the colours within an image, modifying the size and scale of an image, or putting one picture "within" another. Alteration also includes technical modifications such as changing the mode of image compression from one type to another, or changing the number of bits used per pixel. But, aside from altering images, Photoshop has a vast array of tools that help you "create" images from scratch. On the web, you will often need to make custom icons, buttons, lines, balls or text art. Photoshop makes all of this excessively easy and fun.
10 weeks from Friday 4th September 2009 09.30am – 11.30am €100pp



Andrew MaddenProject Co-Ordinator
Community ICT Project
Macro Community Recource Centre1 Green StreetDublin 7Tel: 01 873 7035Mobile:0868208658
http://www.communityict.ie/