Dates: May, June, and July
Locations: CAC Labs, University Park
We know how busy you are during the fall and spring semesters that's why the Center for Academic Computing (CAC) created Summer-Fest, a series of free computing seminars taught over the summer, when you are likely to have a more flexible schedule.
Summer-Fest seminars, which range from beginner to expert level, are either hands-on or discussion style sessions. Many seminars are scheduled so that you can attend introductory, intermediate and advanced sessions successively. Summer-Fest takes place during the weeks of May 15 - 19, June 19 - 23, and July 17 - 21.
Review seminar descriptions, times, and dates, and register by following the link to Browse/Register for Seminarsat the CAC's training page at http://cac.psu.edu/training/ on the web.
Dates: June and July
Locations: Penn Stater, Room O, and 117 Wagner Building
Join the Center for Academic Computing Training Group for one or more of our All in a Day seminars. This series, open exclusively to Penn State faculty and staff, offers you concentrated instruction and opportunities to practice critical technology skills in these intensive six hour seminars.
Web Pages in a Day: Web 101 - Web 401:
Learn the basic and more advanced steps of building a Web page.
Popular Features in Microsoft Word:
Enhance your Microsoft Word skills.
Photoshop in a Day:
Learn to work with
digital images using this powerful Adobe graphics application.
A CAC Access Account is required to register for the seminars; the cost of each is $50.
Review seminar descriptions, times, and dates, and register by following the link to Browse/Register for Seminars at the CAC's training page at http://cac.psu.edu/training/ on the web.
Dates: 24 hours, 7 days a week
Locations: At http://cac.psu.edu/training/ on the web
Whether you're at your desk at work or at home in your pajamas, Web-based training gives you access to hands-on, interactive tutorials any time and anywhere you can get on-line. Choose from among the fifty titles currently available in the Quick and In-depth categories. Hundreds of new titles will be added to the site soon!
You will require an Access Account to log onto the In-depth tutorials. To access both sets of tutorials, follow the link to Web-Based Training and On-line Learning Resources at the CAC's training site at http://cac.psu.edu/training/ on the web.
If you do not already have a CAC Access Account, see http://cac.psu.edu/accounts/access.html for more information. If you have questions or need assistance, contact the CAC Accounts Office by phone at (814) 865-4772 or by e-mail (accounts@psu.edu).
Do you run a Web server, publish information, write programs, create graphics, design pages, or perhaps do it all, for a Penn State official Web site? At this one-day conference, you can participate in a variety of events designed to bring Penn State Web developers together to share and learn about innovative uses of the Web, applications for Web development, works in progress, security issues, and more. If you contribute to the Web as a manager, writer, editor, designer, programmer or server administrator for a University office, department, college or campus Web site, we invite you to attend. Registration is required, for further information please see http://cac.psu.edu/web2000.
Web 2000 will be held on June 20, 2000 from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Penn Stater Conference Center, University Park, PA. It is sponsored by the Center for Academic Computing.
LIAS on the Web at http://www.lias.psu.edu/ is the entrance to all Penn State's on-line library services. It continues to expand with more databases and is now even more user friendly. LIAS is available to everyone anywhere, although because of licensing requirements, some on-line databases are available only to Penn State students, faculty and staff. New features to the Web page include a button that lets users request or recall a book from any Penn State Library and have it delivered to their library; a function that lets users narrow their search results by publication date, language, specific library and more; and a library link that takes users to the home page of their local library (and to other libraries within the Penn State Libraries). Also new is a Detailed Search page that lets users combine multiple searches in one request making it possible for difficult searches to be performed with ease.
For two decades, Libraries' staff manually added titles to The CAT (the Libraries' online catalog) one title at a time. After conversion of about 800,000 titles from the former card catalog, staff now add about 100,000 current titles yearly to reflect new purchases. The CAT presently contains more than two million titles. The CAT received an added boost in 1999 when cataloging for more than 32,000 titles was added without human intervention. A new service developed by Library Computing Services enables large batches of cataloging information to be purchased from external sources and loaded directly into The CAT, leaving existing staff free to handle day-to-day cataloging. Through this new service, materials that have been in the Libraries' collections but are essentially undiscovered because they've never been cataloged are now visible in The CAT.
There is now a step-by-step, illustrated guide for using FrontPage 2000. This 24-page guide is written for new users of FrontPage and covers the basic features that are available for creating and editing a web page. Some of the major areas and topics that are discussed in this guide include:
The Screen: FrontPage screen and tool bars
Getting Started: Create and save a new page; set page color, default text color, and link colors
Formatting Text: Bold and italicize text; change font, font size, text color, and paragraph alignment; apply paragraph styles; create bulleted paragraphs
Links: Create a link to another web page, an e-mail link, and a bookmark (i.e. anchor)
Images: Insert images, horizontal rules, and background images
Tables: Create a table
View HTML: View HTML tags in Normal Editor View or in HTML Editor View
Preview Web Page: Preview web page within FrontPage or within browser
Carolyn Dudas, Multimedia and Computer Support Specialist at Penn State Erie, developed the guide. If you would like a copy of this guide, it is available as an Adobe PDF and may be downloaded from the following web site: http://www.pserie.psu.edu/compcntr/web.htm.
