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Thu 25 Oct 2012 – Wed 31 Oct 2012

Thursday 25 October 2012

09:00	Soccer Skills 4 (2 of 2) Finished 09:00 - 16:00 Meeting Room 9 Would you like to play like Beckham, then this is the course for you!
	Soccer Skills 3 (2 of 2) Finished 09:00 - 16:00 Meeting Room 11 Would you like to play like Beckham, then this is the course for you!
09:30	Advanced Ballroom Dancing 4 Finished 09:30 - 17:00 Meeting Room2 Would you like to be able to dance like they do on 'Strictly'? If so then this is the course for you!
	Email: Managing Your Messages and Saving Time Finished 09:30 - 12:30 Phoenix Teaching Room This course is aimed at people who are using Hermes (or other cam.ac.uk mail servers) and who want to manage and take control of their email because it is taking up too much of their time. It will cover valuable tips and techniques for managing email effectively. The practical part will be self-paced: participants can select which exercises to do using either Hermes Webmail and/or Outlook. There will also be ample opportunity to ask questions.
	Web Authoring: Introduction to HTML (Level 1) Finished 09:30 - 13:00 Titan Teaching Room 1, New Museums Site This is a practical-based course for people new to writing Web pages. Only the basics of HTML (hypertext markup language) will be covered, but there are other courses for those wishing to extend their knowledge. By the end of the course participants will have created three personal linked web pages.
	Unix: Introduction to the Command Line Interface (1 of 2) Finished 09:30 - 13:00 Room GL.04 (CMS, Wilberforce Road) « Description not available »
14:15	Illustrator: The Basics Finished 14:15 - 17:00 Balfour Macintosh Room Illustrator is a professional graphical illustration package available on Mac and PC platform.
	Program Design: How Computers Handle Numbers Finished 14:15 - 17:00 Hopkinson Lecture Theatre This course is part of the Scientific Computing series. This could be called "Computer Arithmetic Uncovered". It will describe how computers store and process integers and floating point numbers, and also the exceptions that might arise and what they mean. The intent is to explain how modern computers handle numbers, and how to get reliable answers for a reasonable amount of effort.

Friday 26 October 2012

09:15	Soccer Skills 2 (1 of 2) Finished 09:15 - 10:15 Meeting Room 11 Would you like to play like Beckham, then this is the course for you!
09:30	Unix: Introduction to the Command Line Interface (2 of 2) Finished 09:30 - 13:00 Room GL.04 (CMS, Wilberforce Road) « Description not available »
	Excel 2007: Further Use Finished 09:30 - 13:00 Phoenix Teaching Room This hands-on course is a follow up from the Excel 2007 Introduction course.
	Web Authoring: Beyond the Basics (Level 2) Finished 09:30 - 13:00 Titan Teaching Room 1, New Museums Site This follows on from the Introduction to HTML and is a practical-based course.
14:15	Python: Introduction for Absolute Beginners (3 of 3) Finished 14:15 - 17:00 Phoenix Teaching Room This course is part of the Scientific Computing series. This course is aimed at those new to programming and provides an introduction to programming using Python, focussing on scientific programming. This course is probably unsuitable for those with significant programming experience. By the end of this course, attendees should be able to write simple Python programs and to understand more complex Python programs written by others. As this course is part of the Scientific Computing series, the examples chosen are of most relevance to scientific programming.
	Word 2007: Moving from Word 2003 to Word 2007 Finished 14:15 - 17:00 Titan Teaching Room 2 This course examines the differences between Word 2003 and Word 2007 with a view to using the new version as your default word-processor.
	Mathematica: Basics (2 of 2) Finished 14:15 - 17:00 Titan Teaching Room 1, New Museums Site This course is part of the Scientific Computing series. Mathematica is a software package for numerical computation, symbolic manipulation and the production of graphics from mathematical functions and data. This course is for beginners and new users of the package and describes basic concepts and use of Mathematica.

Saturday 27 October 2012

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Soccer Skills 2 (2 of 2) Finished 09:00 - 16:00 Meeting Room 11

Would you like to play like Beckham, then this is the course for you!

Monday 29 October 2012

09:15	SPSS (Statistical Package): Basic Part 1 Finished 09:15 - 12:15 Titan Teaching Room 2 SPSS is a powerful general purpose statistical package with high quality graphics and tabulation facilities, and a reputation for being relatively user-friendly. This course is for beginners and fairly new users of the package. Basic concepts and use of SPSS will be introduced. The main aim of the course is to give participants a foundation and some background. However statistical techniques are not covered (see note below).
09:30	Cisco CCNA for IT Supporters: Module 2 - LAN Switching and Wireless (7 of 11) Finished 09:30 - 13:00 Balfour Macintosh Room The Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) programme is open to University IT Supporters. It covers network technology, protocols and theory at deeper levels reflective of university practices. There is a fee to attend this course. You will learn the basics of routing, switching, and advanced technologies to acquire the skills required to provide a robust and secure network in your institution's and it prepares you for CCNA certification. We offer this program as instructor led with remote access to the curriculum and an online networks laboratory called NETLAB. There is a mix of lecture, demonstrations and a heavy emphasis on practical activities using live lab equipment and a simulation package. Further details and pricing information are available. This is the second module of four modules in the CCNA programme. 1. Networking Fundamentals 2. LAN Switching and Wireless 3. Routing Protocols and Concepts 4. Accessing the WAN
14:15	LaTeX (Text processing): Introduction (1 of 2) Finished 14:15 - 16:00 Cockcroft Lecture Theatre LaTeX is a powerful document description language built on top of TeX. It is available on Unix, Windows and Macintoshes. It can be used for the presentation of plain text (including accented characters and letters outside the English alphabet), the typesetting of mathematics, the generation of tables, and producing simple diagrams. It is particularly suited for the writing of theses, papers and technical documents.

Tuesday 30 October 2012

09:30	Access 2007 (Database Package): Fast Track Finished 09:30 - 13:00 Titan Teaching Room 1, New Museums Site This is a fast paced and shortened version of the 2-session Access 2007 Introduction course and thus is more suitable for those who are quick learners. This course will be taught using Access 2007 on PCs (Windows XP) - note that this version is quite different from previous version.
	Web Authoring: DreamWeaver Introduction (Level 4) Finished 09:30 - 13:00 Phoenix Teaching Room Macromedia Dreamweaver is a powerful web creation tool that allows non-technical people to produce professional websites. This course provides a practical introduction for those that wish to use Dreamweaver to create web-pages and manage websites. It focuses on building a small website.
14:15	LaTeX (Text processing): Introduction (2 of 2) Finished 14:15 - 16:00 Cockcroft Lecture Theatre LaTeX is a powerful document description language built on top of TeX. It is available on Unix, Windows and Macintoshes. It can be used for the presentation of plain text (including accented characters and letters outside the English alphabet), the typesetting of mathematics, the generation of tables, and producing simple diagrams. It is particularly suited for the writing of theses, papers and technical documents.

Wednesday 31 October 2012

09:30	How to Have an Influence Finished 09:30 - 17:00 Meeting Room2 Would you like to have more influence? Then this course is for you.
14:15	Stata (Statistical Package): Introduction (1 of 2) Finished 14:15 - 17:00 Phoenix Teaching Room Stata is a powerful general purpose statistical package. This course is for beginners and fairly new users of the package. Basic concepts and use of Stata will be introduced. The main aim of the course is to give participants a foundation and some background. However statistical techniques are not covered (see note below). The first session looks at an overview of the Stata system and getting data into Stata format and the second looks at reporting, graphing and analyses. It is strongly recommended for anyone likely to use Stata for any but the very simplest analysis of the very simplest data.
	Web Authoring: Cascading Style Sheets and Tables (Level 3) Finished 14:15 - 16:30 Titan Teaching Room 2 This hands-on course will introduce cascading style sheets (CSS) and tables and show how they can (and should) be used effectively when creating web pages.