A username and password are required to view these materials. Contact Nathan Smith at the Young Education Technology Center at (435) 797-1484 for access.
Here is a brief description of free trainings offered through YETC for this semester:
1) Collecting Data using Google Docs Forms - Have you ever wanted to invite a group of people to respond to questions via email? Do you wish that all the replies could automatically be assembled into a spreadsheet format, so you didn't have to copy and paste everything into a format that was useful to you? Through Google Docs, you can easily create a questionnaire or survey, then invite others to respond. All responses are assembled automatically into a Google Docs spreadsheet, which you can save to your computer as an Excel spreadsheet. USU students can access Google Docs through their AggieMail accounts.
Date: Monday, February 9
Time: 12:00-1:00 PM
Location: Education Computer Lab (The YETC) - EDUC 170
Instructor: Nathan Smith, Director of Technology for the Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services
Cost: Free to USU Students, Faculty, and Staff. If you'll RSVP to Nathan.Smith@usu.edu - handouts will be prepared for you. Come early - seating is limited to 23.
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2) Collaborating on Documents Using Google Docs - Have you ever needed to work collaboratively with a group on a document, a spreadsheet, or a presentation. Through Google Docs you can invite your group to make changes to a document, spreadsheet, or presentation you've created in Google Docs. All changes can be tracked (what was changed, and who changed it). USU students can access Google Docs through their AggieMail accounts.
Date: Wednesday, February 11
Time: 12:00-1:00 PM
Location: Education Computer Lab (The YETC) - EDUC 170
Instructor: Nathan Smith, Director of Technology for the Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services
Cost: Free to USU Students, Faculty, and Staff. If you'll RSVP to Nathan.Smith@usu.edu - handouts will be prepared for you. Come early - seating is limited to 23.
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3) Capturing Computer Screen Movies Using Jing - Have you ever needed to show someone how to do something on a computer, and ended up writing step by step instructions (a long, tedious process)? Have you wished you could just take a movie of what's happening on the computer screen and share that instead? With a free product, Jing, you can do that on both Macintosh and Windows computers. Join us for our demonstration, and we'll show you how to download, install, and use Jing.
Date: Monday, February 23
Time: 12:00-1:00 PM
Location: Education Computer Lab (The YETC) - EDUC 170
Instructor: Nathan Smith, Director of Technology for the Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services
Cost: Free to USU Students, Faculty, and Staff. If you'll RSVP to Nathan.Smith@usu.edu - handouts will be prepared for you. Come early - seating is limited to 23.
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4) Scanning Images and Changing them to PDF files with Searchable Text - Need to take a paper copy of text, scan it, and turn it into a PDF file with searchable text - or even editable text? Join us as we demonstrate how this can easily be done using Acrobat Professional.
Date: Wednesday, February 25
Time: 12:00-1:00 PM
Location: Education Computer Lab (The YETC) - EDUC 170
Instructor: Nathan Smith, Director of Technology for the Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services
Cost: Free to USU Students, Faculty, and Staff. If you'll RSVP to Nathan.Smith@usu.edu - handouts will be prepared for you. Come early - seating is limited to 23.
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5) Adding Audio or Video into a PDF Document - Make your PDF documents come alive with hyperlinks, audio, and video. Join us as we demonstrate how to do this in Acrobat Professional. Something like this would look great in your electronic portfolio!
Date: Monday, February 23
Time: 12:00-1:00 PM
Location: Education Computer Lab (The YETC) - EDUC 170
Instructor: Nathan Smith, Director of Technology for the Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services
Cost: Free to USU Students, Faculty, and Staff. If you'll RSVP to Nathan.Smith@usu.edu - handouts will be prepared for you. Come early - seating is limited to 23.
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6) Capturing Video on Your Computer - Come join us and learn how to get video from your VHS tapes, DVD-Videos, LaserDiscs, Cameras, Camcorders, or Streaming Web Video as computer video files. See some free tools you can download that will convert video from one format to another. Because seating is limited to five people, there will be three workshops (each the same content). Be sure to RSVP (see below).
Date: Wednesday, March 18
Time: 12:00-1:00 PM
1:00 - 2:00 PM
2:00 - 3:00 PM
Location: Education Computer Lab (The YETC) - EDUC 170
Instructor: Nathan Smith, Director of Technology for the Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services
Cost: Free to USU Students, Faculty, and Staff. If you'll RSVP to Nathan.Smith@usu.edu - handouts will be prepared for you. Come early - seating is limited to 5.
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7) Creating Mind Maps or Web Diagrams - Come join us as we demonstrate XMind, a free, open-source application for Macintosh, Windows, and Linux that creates web diagrams (also called mind-mapping). You know, a diagram that has the main topic at the center, with subtopics connecting to the main topic, and sub-sub-topics to the sub-topics. A great tool for brainstorming, organizing a research paper, etc.
Date: Friday, March 20
Time: 12:00-1:00 PM
Location: Education Computer Lab (The YETC) - EDUC 170
Instructor: Nathan Smith, Director of Technology for the Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services
Cost: Free to USU Students, Faculty, and Staff. If you'll RSVP to Nathan.Smith@usu.edu - handouts will be prepared for you. Come early - seating is limited to 23.
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8) Stellarium - A Free Planetarium Program - Come join us as we demonstrate Stellarium, a free, open-source planetarium application for Macintosh, Windows, and Linux. This program lets you add your location, and then you can see what the stars and constellations will look like for any time. Speed up time and watch them move across the sky! Click on a star, nebula, planetary body, etc., and get detailed information. It's database contains over 250 million stars. Get diagrams of eleven cultures constellations to appear in the sky. And more!
Date: Monday, March 23
Time: 12:00-1:00 PM
Location: Education Computer Lab (The YETC) - EDUC 170
Instructor: Nathan Smith, Director of Technology for the Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services
Cost: Free to USU Students, Faculty, and Staff. If you'll RSVP to Nathan.Smith@usu.edu - handouts will be prepared for you. Come early - seating is limited to 23.
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9) Celestia - A Free Solar System Simulation - Come join us as we demonstrate Celestia, a free solar system application for Macintosh and Windows. Uses detailed NASA images of all known solar objects in a realtime solar system simulation. Watch planets revolve, rotate. Watch two or more separate solar bodies in multiple windows at the same time. See orbits, click on stars to get more detailed information, zoom out of our galaxy and local cluster. This is an amazing learning tool.
Date: Wednesday, March 25
Time: 12:00-1:00 PM
Location: Education Computer Lab (The YETC) - EDUC 170
Instructor: Nathan Smith, Director of Technology for the Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services
Cost: Free to USU Students, Faculty, and Staff. If you'll RSVP to Nathan.Smith@usu.edu - handouts will be prepared for you. Come early - seating is limited to 23.
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10) Optimize and Protect your Windows Computer - Come join us as we demonstrate the free version of Advanced SystemCare. Advanced SystemCare will check your Windows (XP or Vista) computer for known malware, system registry problems, junk files taking up extra room, and more. Optomize your internet connection speed. All in one click. We'll show you how to download, install, and use the program.
Date: Friday, March 27
Time: 12:00-1:00 PM
Location: Education Computer Lab (The YETC) - EDUC 170
Instructor: Nathan Smith, Director of Technology for the Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services
Cost: Free to USU Students, Faculty, and Staff. If you'll RSVP to Nathan.Smith@usu.edu - handouts will be prepared for you. Come early - seating is limited to 23.
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11) Desktop Publishing With Adobe InDesign - Come join us for hands-on experience learning and using Adobe InDesign - a desktop standard for the publishing industry. Learn how to manipulate text and graphics. Two workshop sessions: Part 1 - Working with Text, and Part 2 - Working with graphics.
Date: Workshop 1 - working with text: Monday, March 30
Date: Workshop 2 - working with graphics: Wednesday, April 1
Date: Workshop 3 - work session - work on your own with help nearby: Friday, April 3
Time: 12:00-1:00 PM
Location: Education Computer Lab (The YETC) - EDUC 170
Instructor: Nathan Smith, Director of Technology for the Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services
Cost: Free to USU Students, Faculty, and Staff. If you'll RSVP to Nathan.Smith@usu.edu - handouts will be prepared for you. Come early - seating is limited to 23.
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12) Desktop Publishing with Microsoft Publisher - Come join us for hands-on experience learning and using Microsoft Publisher - a part of the Microsoft Office Professional Suite. Learn how to manipulate text and graphics.
Date: Monday, April 6
Time: 12:00-1:00 PM
Location: Education Computer Lab (The YETC) - EDUC 170
Instructor: Nathan Smith, Director of Technology for the Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services
Cost: Free to USU Students, Faculty, and Staff. If you'll RSVP to Nathan.Smith@usu.edu - handouts will be prepared for you. Come early - seating is limited to 23.
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13) Working with Audio using the Free Audacity Audio Editor - Come join us for hands-on experience recording and editing audio. Audacity is a powerful, yet free, audio editor with the ability to work with, blend and merge multiple audio tracks. It has many filters for adjusting and tweaking audio recordings so they end up sounding just the way you want them. A great podcasting tool!
Date: Wednesday, April 8
Time: 12:00-1:30 PM
Location: Education Computer Lab (The YETC) - EDUC 170
Instructor: Nathan Smith, Director of Technology for the Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services
Cost: Free to USU Students, Faculty, and Staff. If you'll RSVP to Nathan.Smith@usu.edu - handouts will be prepared for you. Come early - seating is limited to 23.
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14) Working with Streaming Video - Have you ever wanted to save a video stream (say, from YouTube) so you could use it at your school where social networking sites are blocked? Or add to a PowerPoint presentation? Let us show you how!
Date: Friday, April 10
Time: 12:00-1:00 PM
Location: Education Computer Lab (The YETC) - EDUC 170
Instructor: Nathan Smith, Director of Technology for the Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services
Cost: Free to USU Students, Faculty, and Staff. If you'll RSVP to Nathan.Smith@usu.edu - handouts will be prepared for you. Come early - seating is limited to 23.
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15) CoolIris Image and YouTube Video Search - Come join us for a demonstration of a browser addon that let's you search for images and videos in a very unique and exciting way!
Date: Wednesday, April 15
Time: 12:00-1:00 PM
Location: Education Computer Lab (The YETC) - EDUC 170
Instructor: Nathan Smith, Director of Technology for the Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services
Cost: Free to USU Students, Faculty, and Staff. If you'll RSVP to Nathan.Smith@usu.edu - handouts will be prepared for you. Come early - seating is limited to 23.
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16) Electronic Portfolio Skills - Come to this open, walk-in help session, where you can get help and consultation on putting your electronic portfolio together. Hands-on session. No presentation. One-on-one help with questions you need answered. Want to add video, audio, PowerPoint presentations, PDF files, and more??? This work session is for you to get your questions answered and work on your portfolio. Please bring items you wish to add to your portfolio to the session.
Date: Friday, April 17
Time: 7:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Location: Education Computer Lab (The YETC) - EDUC 170
Instructor: Nathan Smith, Director of Technology for the Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services
Cost: Free to USU Students, Faculty, and Staff. Walk in.
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17) Excel Basic Training - Are you wanting to learn how to use a spreadsheet effectively? Are you trying to pass the CIL exams? This series of workshops is for you. Attend this three workshop series of Excel training. Each workshop builds on the skills learned in the prior workshop, so be sure to attend all three!
Date: Workshop 1 - Friday, February 20
Date: Workshop 2 - Friday, February 27
Date: Workshop 3 - Friday, March 6
Time: 12:30-1:30 PM
Location: Education Computer Lab (The YETC) - EDUC 170
Instructor: Jairo Valesquez, Assistant Manager, YETC
Cost: Free to USU Students, Faculty, and Staff. If you'll RSVP to Nathan.Smith@usu.edu - handouts will be prepared for you. Come early - seating is limited to 23.
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18) Basic Video Editing on the Macintosh - Are you wanting to learn how to import, edit, and manipulate video using iMovie and iDVD. This workshop is for you. Come join us and learn!
Date: Monday, April 20 - Workshop 1 - iMovie 1 - getting video into the computer
Date: Wednesday, April 22 - Workshop 2 - iMovie 2 - editing video and making your movie
Date: Friday, April 24 - Workshop 3 - iMovie 3 - getting your video out of the computer (DVD, YouTube, etc.)
Time: 12:00-1:00 PM
Location: Education Computer Lab (The YETC) - EDUC 170
Instructor: Nathan Smith, Director of Technology for the Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services
Cost: Free to USU Students, Faculty, and Staff. If you'll RSVP to Nathan.Smith@usu.edu - handouts will be prepared for you. Come early - seating is limited to 23.
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