During Fall and Spring semesters the Information Technology Division offers a variety of workshops to SPSU students free of charge. Please contact the IT Lab Manager (iris@spsu.edu) for more information about training workshops.

Workshops Fall 2007

Picture This! ­ Photoshop

October 16, 2007 - 12n - 2pm ­ H241

October 19, 2007 - 3pm -5pm ­ H241

The workshop introduces Photoshop features. You’ll learn how to manipulate and improve your images, whether acquired via scanner, from slides, digital cameras, the web, or elsewhere as you become familiar with important characteristics of digital images and appropriate scanning resolutions.

Dreamweaver - Tables vs. Cascading Style Sheets for Website Design

October 23, 2007 - 12n - 2pm - H241

October 26, 2007 - 3pm - 5pm - H241

This workshop will look at side-by-side comparisons of building a web site using tables to define the page structure and building a web site using cascading style sheets. We will discuss the differences between these two design methods as we step through the page design process.

Microsoft PowerPoint

October 29, 2007 - 3:30pm - 5:30pm - H241

November 2, 2007 - 3:30pm - 5:30pm - H241

Discover PowerPoint as you create a slide show. Incorporate clip art and change design templates. Run a slide show and add notes to a slide. Preview and save a PowerPoint presentation.

Sign-up Sheets are available at the Helpdesk (H-242)

or call 678-915-HELP (4357)

Past Workshops:

Digital Video Production

This workshop introduces Adobe Premiere and digital video editing. The workshop will cover basic video digitization, non-linear video editing and the production of short video clips for multimedia applications.

Show Me Visio

Business diagrams in Microsoft Visio help you visualize, document, and share ideas with attention-grabbing flowcharts, organization charts, office layouts, and more. In this course, you'll learn fundamental skills while creating several types of diagrams. As you create drawings, you will learn techniques to drag and manipulate Visio master shapes, create connections between shapes, and apply styles to shapes, text, and pages.

Picture This!

The workshop introduces Photoshop features. You’ll learn how to manipulate and improve your images, whether acquired via scanner, from slides, digital cameras, the web, or elsewhere as you become familiar with important characteristics of digital images and appropriate scanning resolutions.

Web Creations

Macromedia Dreamweaver will be used to create a simple web page. Dreamweaver is a web editor that combines visual layout tools and standard HTML text editing. Simple dhtml will also be covered.

PowerPoint – Beginning

Discover PowerPoint as you create a slide show and incorporate clip art into slides. Change design templates and use the Slide Master. Run a slide show and add notes to a slide. Preview and save a PowerPoint presentation.

PowerPoint – Beyond Basics

Topics will include, adding multimedia elements, using built-in drawing tools, and using action settings and hyperlinks. Prerequisite: Beginning MS PowerPoint or basic knowledge of PowerPoint

Get Connected!

This workshop will cover basic networking techniques. You will learn how to access any departmental drive share from anywhere on campus, share broadband connections for multiple machines, file and print sharing in windows among other various networking topics.