Ask The Experts
Bring your computer questions to a panel of volunteers who have background knowledge and just might have the answer to a nagging question about your computer or software program.

Back Up Your Computer
Learn how to ensure the safety of your computer data by keeping multiple copies of important files, photos and financial information. Learn the advantages/disadvantages of storing your data on flash drives, external hard drives,
and on-line services.

Burn, Baby, Burn
Discover how easy it is to copy and add files to a CD. This is a convenient way to store important digital files such as photographs, financial records, and research projects. Learn to rip music, transfer files, and make your own customized music CD with multiple artists.

Business Cards and Name Tags
Use a free software program from Avery Labels to design your own business cards or customized name tags for your next party.

Computer Security & Passwords
Learn how to protect your personal information on line and understand how imortant password creation is for your computer protection. Also understand how to secure your wireless connection.

DigitalCameras for Seniors
Bring your camera to this workshop and learn about the camera's menu, settings and memory chip. You will be shown how to set up the camera to obtain optimal use of its features, including tips for taking photos to be enlarged or emailed. Various lighting situations and other topics in the camera's Operating Manual will be explained. This workshop is the forerunner to another workshop "Personal Photo Management" in which you will venture out of the computer lab to take pictures of local interest. You then return to the lab for detailed instruction on how to download the photos to the computer, manipulate the images and save your photos in specific folders for easy retrieval.

Digital Download
Learn to transfer your photos from your camera, organize them into folders and save them onto your computer's hard drive, CD, or portable flash device.
1 Session 2 Hours

Email and Internet Bootcamp
Learn the basic requirements for browser and internet operations. Learn to use your e-mail program and tips to keep from obtaining viruses.
1 Session Workshop

Email and Secure Passwords
A workshop to learn how to obtain a free e-mail account and make sure you know how to create passwords that will stand the security test..
1 Session Workshop

E-mail Workshop and Attachments
In this advanced class, you will learn all about E-mail. The instructor will show you how to set up your e-mail account, add addresses to your contact list, send and receive e-mail, forward e-mails, and how to deal with attachments.
2 Sessions 3 Hours Each

Everything E-mail
Learn how to set up an e-mail account, organize addresses, attach documents & keep 'spam' out of your inbox in this two hour workshop.

Excel Address Book
Learn to create address labels from an excel address list.
4 Sessions 2 Hours Each or 1 Session Workshop

Excel - Basics
Learn to use a spreadsheet, formulae, database and table layout.
4 Sessions 2 Hours Each or 1 Session Workshop

Excel Charts and Graphs
This special workshop is for those students who have some knowledge working with Excel. You will be provided with the knowledge to move data from your work sheet and transfer it into a visual graph or chart.

Facebook and Other Social Media
This workshop will explain social networking, instruct how to set-up a Facebook account, create a customized profile page and teach how to safely connect and share information with others on social media sites.

File Management
Do you have difficulty finding a file or photo on your computer? You know you saved it somewhere, but now cannot locate it. In this course, learn how and where to save your data, how to copy it, move it, and delete it. Some computer experience is required.
4 Sessions 2 Hours Each

File Management Fundamentals
The last of 4 introduction to computers classes giving the student the basics of organizing your documents and photos.
1 Session Workshop

Free Windows Live Workshop
Spend an hour or two to learn what Windows Live offers the computer user. The program is free. It gives you e-mail and the ability to make movies from your photos and your videos. It also provides many basic photo editing tools and free off-site storage of photos for viewing of your photo albums by friends and relatives.

Fundamentals - Computer Basics
Welcome to your first computer course. This course is designed for students with no computer experience. During each session, you will practice extensively using the mouse and the keyboard. You will gain familiarity with computer hardware, software, the Windows desktop, and the program windows. This is a fun course and you will learn not to be afraid of your computer.
This is the first of a five part series of "fundamentals." You can take any or all of the series.
1 Session Workshop 2 Hours

Fundamentals - Documents
Learn to write and edit documents, change font size and shape, understand the concept of copy and paste and properly save a document.
1 Session Workshop 2 Hours

Fundamentals - E-Mail
Obtain a free e-mail address, and understand the need for a "throwaway" e-mail address. Learn the basics of making folders, attaching pictures and documents.
1 Session Workshop 2 Hours

Fundamentals - File Management
A 2 hour workshop to learn to make folders, sort lists of documents and pictures and organize your file system on your windows 7 computer.
1 Session Workshop 2 Hours .

Fundamentals - Internet
Understand the difference between providers, browsers, and search engines. Protect yourself from viruses and spam. Have fun learning to surf the web and conduct research.
1 Session Workshop 2 Hours

Genealogy Introduction
Family history is more than just the names, dates, and places of our ancestors’ births, marriages, and deaths. The practice of gathering, organizing and reporting information about one’s ancestors and relatives has been greatly changed by the continuing development of powerful computers and software and by the increasing information available on the Internet.  Experience with computers and with the internet is required.
2 Sessions 2 Hours each

 Getting Ancestry Information from the US Census aka Getting the Most Out of the Census Using Ancestry.com
Using Ancestry.com, learn to use search indexes and search methods to find details of your families, background, languages, and migration across the US.
1 Session 2 Hours

Google Your Family History
Use Google to find Genealogy search sites that will yield the information about that long lost ancestor. Learn how to search and pinpoint details needed for a history lesson of your family.
1 Session 3 Hours

Holiday Letter, Labels and Address Lists
Create a festive holiday letter (with a customized border) using the basic features of Microsoft Word. Make your holiday card mailing easy by using address lists and merging them to create and print mailing labels.
1 Session 3 Hours

Internet Explorer 8
Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) is the latest browser developed by Microsoft (released 3/19/09). Security, ease of use, the 'favorites' bar, and many new features of this browser will be covered in the workshop.
1 Session Workshop 2 Hours

Internet Security, Viruses and Passwords
Learn what to do about cookies, viruses and passwords. Learn how to participate in on-line discussions. Learn some quick steps to make your searches easier.
1 Session Workshop 2 Hours

Know Your Digital Camera
Bring your digital camera to this workshop and learn about the camera's menu, settings and memory chip. You will be shown how to set up the camera to obtain optimal use of its features, including tips for taking photos to be enlarged or emailed. Various lighting situations and other topics in the camera's Operating Manual will be explained. This workshop is the forerunner to another workshop "Photo Composition" in which you will venture out of the computer lab to take pictures of local interest. You may then return to the lab for the "Organize Your Photos" workshop for detailed instruction on how to download the photos to the computer, manipulate the images and save your photos in specific folders for easy retrieval.

Learn Your Scanner
Eliminate the mystery of scanning pictures and documents and learn to save them to your computer.

Legacy Genealogy
Learn to search, locate, document and store your family tree information, using the newly-popular genealogy program Legacy.

Maintaining a Healthy Computer
Is your computer running slowly? Do you think your computer may have a ‘virus’? In this class, you will learn what is causing the problem and how to eliminate unwanted software, ‘cookies’, deleted files and other unused programs. Computer security will also be explained.  Routine maintenance procedures will be covered, along with a schedule of how often to perform these tasks.
1 Session 3 Hours

Microsoft Word (2007)-Introduction
This is the first of 4 workshops to give the student an introduction to setting up the Word environment, providing text basics, saving, and proofing a document.
1 Session Workshop 2 Hours This is the first in a series of 4 workshops. See Microsoft Word-Basics, Doing More and Advanced.

Microsoft Word-The Basics
The second of the 4 classes on Microsoft Word 2007.  In this class the student will learn printing, creating a new document, formatting text, as well as inserting clip art.
1 Session Workshop 2 Hours - This is the second in a series of 4 workshops. See Microsoft Word-Introduction, Doing More and Advanced.

Microsoft Word (2007)-Doing More
This is the third class of the 4 Word classes where the student will learn how to use templates, work with lists, and learn line and paragraph spacing.
1 Session Workshop 2 Hours - This is the third in a series of 4 workshops. See Microsoft Word-Introduction, Basics and Advanced.

Microsoft Word (2007)-Advanced
This is the fourth class where the student will learn to modify page layouts, work with pictures, work with tables, and apply styles and themes.
1 Session Workshop 2 Hours - This is the fourth in a series of 4 workshops. See Microsoft Word-Introduction, Basics, and Doing More.

Microsoft Word (2007) - Mail Merge
This is an additional workshop to the Microsoft Word series where the student will learn to use mail merge, utilizing an Excel data source, to create labels and envelopes.
1 Session Workshop 2 Hours - This is an additional workshop to the Word series. See Microsoft Word-Introduction, Basics, Doing More and Advanced.

Mini File Management Workshop
In this two hour workshop, learn how to make new folders, assign names to files & organize your computer so you can easily retrieve all your documents & photos.

On Line Photo Scrapbook
Have fun with your photos. Learn to easily upload your photos and create scrapbooks, calendars, posters, coffee mugs and other fun things for you, your family and friends. Once the final product is printed, it can either be shipped to your home or picked up at any Walgreen's store.

Organize Your Photos
Using Windows 7, download your pictures from your camera chip and sort them into folders that you can find easily.
1 Session Workshop

Personal Photo Management Windows 7
Using Windows 7, download your pictures from your camera chip and sort them into folders that you can find easily.

Photo Composition
A discussion and tips on how to prevent over and under exposure, understand proper layout of scenes and portrait pictures.
1 Session 2 Hours

Photo Composition Review - Free
In this two-hour workshop, recent students of Photo Composition are invited to return to the computer lab with their photos. The instructor will review the photos with the students and determine how well the topics covered in the Composition workshop were followed. Time will be set aside to edit and enhance the photos.
1 Session 2 Hours

Photo Editing I and II
These two workshops will build on the tools available to repair, crop and turn that not quite perfect photo into a masterpiece for viewing. Editing 2 requires the student to have completed the Editing 1 class.
1 Session 2 Hours

Photo File Management-Windows 7
Learn to transfer your photos from your camera, organize them into folders and save them onto your computer's hard drive, CD, or portable flash device.
1 Session 2 Hours

Photoshop Album
Learn how easy it is to use Photoshop Album to make special albums for friends and family.
1 Session 2 Hours

Photoshop Elements
This class will start with the basics of Photoshop Elements (version 10), a program to edit your photos. Learn to download and organize your photos. Know how to eliminate red eye and correct the exposure and colors in your photos. This is a must for the digital photo enthusiast. The intermediate class is a continuation of the beginning class.
4 Sessions 2 Hours each

Photoshop Elements-Bring Your Own Photos (Intermediate Workshop)
In this workshop for intermediate Photoshop Elements students, their personal photos will be improved upon using the tools covered in prior PSE classes. Open only to previous Photoshop Elements students or permission of instructor.

Photoshop Elements Organizer
Learn to download your pictures, tag, name and create albums for viewing within the Organizer section of Photoshop Elements.
One session workshop.

Photoshop Elements Slideshow Workshop
Arrange your pictures and add music to create a slideshow for a professional presentation of your latest trip or event..

Photoshop Quick Fixes
Learn some of the ways you can use Photoshop Elements to quickly fix some of those photo imperfections.

Photo Editing 1 and 2
These two workshops will build on the tools available to repair, crop, and turn that not quite perfect phot into a masterpiece for viewing. Editing 2 requires the student to have completed the Editiing 1 class.

Portable Digital Music
Learn how to download, organize & make playlists for your iPod or MP3 player.

Portable Storage Devices
Learn all the various ways to save & transfer files and folders from your computer to portable external devices; i.e. flash drive, jump drive, CD, DVD or external hard drive. You no longer have to 'take your laptop' with you--just download the necessary information to a portable storage device.

Power Point
This class provides the student with the knowledge required to design presentations from your computer.   It teaches the techniques to provide varied backgrounds, create text slides, insert pictures and clip art to your slide show and automatically set the timing of the slide.
4 Sessions 2 Hours each

Preventing ID Theft On the Internet
This workshop will cover how to recognize internet scams, keep your personal data secure and how to select 'safe' passwords' for all your online activities.

Printers and Scanners
In this workshop, you will be shown how to use your printer and scanner. A demonstration will be given as to how to scan an image to your computer, save it as a file, and then send it in an e-mail. Various printers and their features will be covered; also, tips for what to look for when purchasing a printer or scanner will be identified.

Quicken aka Take Control of your Checkbook
Explore the ease of using Quicken to balance your personal checkbook.

Research on the Internet
Learn the secrets of finding information to research a subject. Narrow the subject requests to pinpoint your specific subject, and eliminate much of the information that doesn't apply to your 'search.' Learn to use the various search engines that have a connection to your search request.

Right Click with Your Mouse
Explore the properties of the mouse and customize it for your personal use. Discover how using the right mouse button can make a variety of tasks easier and faster.

Share Your Photos
Learn to send photos as an attachment, as a part of your e-mail or as an album or collage. Learn to make and store albums off site, then send links to friends and relatives who are the only priviledged ones to view them.

Shopping & Travel Planning on the Internet
During this two-hour workshop, you will learn how to search and locate specific items, visit user-friendly websites, become aware of ‘security’ issues & where to find  ‘promo’ codes & ‘discount’ coupons to make your shopping and travel planning on the Internet cost-effective. Time is set aside at the end of the workshop for any questions you may have.
1 Session 2 Hours

Speed Up Your Computer aka Clean Up Your Computer
Learn to remove unnecessary programs and files from your computer, defrag your hard disk and streamline your configuration. May also include internet security.

Spreadsheet Overview-See Excel

Stay inTouch with "Skype" aka Skype Workshop
In this workshop, you will learn how to select a Skype sign-in name, download the free software, install a webcam & place 'free' video calls. Stay connected with family & friends when you can't be there in person.

Stay Secure on the Internet
The new security features of Windows 7 will be explained in this workshop. You will learn how to stay current with update alerts and keep your computer secure.

Surfing the Internet
Learn the basics of research on the internet, how to find informative websites regarding medical, travel and other resources.

Travel Planning on the Internet
Learn how to search the internet for the best airline fares, car rentals & hotel accommodations. Helpful websites will be visited.

Travel Postcard Montage
During this two-session class, you will learn how to create a 'template' of your own design to create a postcard montage using a number of your personal photos. Some prior experience using photoshop Elements or a similar software program is helpful.

Windows 7 Control Panel
This workshop will allow you to locate and use the many Windows 7 operating system configuration needs. There are 45 individual tools that allow you to control every aspect of Windows 7.

Windows 7 Desktop
Learn to add gadgets (Clocks, Calendars, Sticky Notes) to your desktop. Gain the ability to manage multiple windows so you can focus on important programs and files. Make your desktop shine with your own personal touch.

Windows Live Movie Maker Workshop
In this workshop, you will learn how to create a 'digital' movie (slideshow) with photos of family or friends, add your favorite music to the 'movie' and burn it to a CD. The software used to create the movie is a free download.

Windows Live Photo Editor
Using the new Windows Live software program, learn to edit your photos, remove 'red eye', crop pictures to enhance your images, and adjust the color saturation of the picture to reflect true lighting.

Worthwhile Websites
This workshop will explore how to find informative websites, such as medical, travel and retail issues. Knowing HOW to effectively search the web saves time. Students will be given the listing of websites covered in the workshop to take home.
1 Session 2-3 Hours