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CLASS DESCRIPTIONS:
LIMIT 10 PARTICIPANTS PER CLASS

Course:  Ohio Career Information Systems Computer Lab

Ohio Career Information System (OCIS) is an Internet-based delivery system for accurate, comprehensive, current, and relevant occupational, post-secondary school and financial aid information. OCIS contains the latest national, Ohio and local labor market data and projections.
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OCIS Website

LearningExpress Library
LearningExpress Library offers students and adults unlimited, 24/7, access to targeted skill-building interactive courses in math, reading, and writing, as well as hundreds of online interactive practice tests that prepare them for several types of exams including grade school achievement tests, the SAT, GED, U.S. Citizenship, and civil service positions.  Complete answer explanations accompany each response so that patrons understand why a particular answer is correct or incorrect. 

All practice tests include instant diagnostic score reports that help patrons to target those skill areas that need the most attention.  To help students master the SAT and recently added essay, instant score reports provide immediate feedback on how well they performed in each of five writing skill areas.  LearningExpress Library can be accessed from any web-enabled computer in the library, computer lab, office, or home. 

A valid Library card and PIN are required for the LearningExpress and OCIS labs.

http://www.learnatest.com/LEL/index.cfm/

LearningExpress Library
Friday May 8 - 2:00 p.m.
Thursday May 14 - 5:30 p.m.
Wednesday May 20 - 2:00 p.m.
Friday June 5 - 2:00 p.m.
Thursday June 18 - 5:30 p.m.

Yahoo! E-Mail Basics and G-Mail Basics
E-mail addresses are necessary for applying for jobs or benefits online, or sending messages, documents or pictures online.  These classes provide step-by-step directions for getting and using Yahoo! E-mail or G-Mail; reading, composing and deleting messages; creating folders; working with attachments; and spam protection.

Yahoo! E-mail Advanced (Basic required)
Yahoo! E-Mail provides added benefits beyond just e-mail.  Learn how to use Yahoo!’s calendar, notes, My Yahoo! Homepage, and photo sharing option, Flickr

TBA

G-mail Advanced (Basic required)
G-mail provides added benefits beyond just
 e-mail.  Learn how to use Google’s calendar, documents, I-page and photo sharing option, Picassa.

TBA

Creating Your Resume
Step-by-step directions for formatting, creating and saving a professional resume.  Class participants are urged to bring or purchase a flash drive or other storage device for saving their work.

Creating Your Resume
TBA

Job Hunting Overview
This is an introduction to websites for posting resumes and searching for work in online newspapers and local, state and federal websites.  Students taking this class must have a working e-mail address

Job Hunting Overview
TBA

Basic Photo Sharing
Learn the basics of sharing your own pictures on the Internet, whether with just family and friends or the whole world!  You will learn about several different photo sharing web sites, create a Flickr account, and post photos to the web.  You need to have a free Yahoo! E-mail account to attend this class.

Basic Photo Sharing
TBA

Intro to Microsoft Office 2007
This course covers the basics of where items are located on the toolbars for Word and Excel.

Intro to Microsoft Office 2007
Monday, May 11 - 2:00 p.m.
Monday, May 11 - 5:30 p.m.

Basic Microsoft Word 2007
This course covers creating a document from a blank page and a template.

Basic Microsoft Word 2007
Monday, May 18 - 2:00 p.m.
Monday, May 18 - 5:30 p.m.

Intermediate Microsoft Word 2007
This course covers more complex features in Microsoft Word 2007. (MS Basic required)

Intermediate Microsoft Word 2007
Monday, May 18 - 3:00 p.m.
Monday, May 18 - 6:30 p.m.

Basic Microsoft Excel 2007
This course covers creating a spreadsheet from a blank page and a template.

Basic Microsoft Excel 2007
Monday, May 4 - 2:00 p.m.
Monday, May 4 - 5:30 p.m.
Monday, June 1- 2:00 p.m.
Monday, June 1 - 5:30 p.m.

Intermediate Microsoft Excel 2007
This course covers more complex features in Microsoft Excel 2007. (Basic is required)

Intermediate Microsoft Excel 2007
Monday, June 1- 3:00 p.m.
Monday, June 1 - 6:30 p.m.