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Learn to draw and paint in a digital world. Express your artistic side with easy to use painting and drawing tools that work just like the real thing! Explore powerful and intuitive painting tools that let users of all levels work with a wide range of realistic media. Learn how to turn your digital artwork into paintings that you can hang. Recommended for anyone with the desire to paint in a digital medium. Example of digital art by David Hockney OUTLINE Week One – Introduction to d... [More]

This is an online course. To find out how our online courses work, please click here. Take your web design skills to new heights as you master advanced Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 techniques! You’ll get hands-on practice in using pure CSS layout and discover how to incorporate multimedia elements such as Flash video and audio. In addition, you’ll explore the use of XML and XSL. Whether you’re planning a career in web design, designing a website for your business, or developing sites as a ... [More]

This is an online course. To find out how our online courses work, please click here. Learn how to achieve top search engine positioning in this highly-interactive, six-week course. Discover how search engines work and how important events have shaped the entire Search Engine Optimization (SEO) industry. Learn which search engines are used the most frequently, and which ones you must absolutely get your site listed in. Master important HTML tags and understand how to use them effect... [More]

This is an online course. To find out how our online courses work, please click here. Want to build an attractive, sophisticated blog or Web site—without having to learn any special coding? WordPress is the answer you’re looking for! WordPress is one of the world’s most popular Web design tools because it’s free, it’s easy to use, and it produces professional results. In these lessons, you’ll get hands-on experience with this powerful tool as you create your own WordPress site and b... [More]

This is an online course. To find out how our online courses work, please click here. Mastering Microsoft Word can make you a more productive and creative teacher. You’ll learn how to create, open, edit, and save documents, as well as how to create tabs, margins, and spacing. Then you’ll make your classroom documents come to life. You’ll add borders, clip art, and WordArt. You’ll even insert shapes, pictures, tables, and complete a host of other exciting tasks that you can teach you... [More]

This is an online course. To find out how our online courses work, please click here. In this course, you’ll learn how to create, manage, and promote your own blog, wiki, and audio and video podcast. Each of these amazing Web 2.0 tools gives us a chance to interact, share ideas, and collaborate with others from home, at work, or in a classroom. You’ll begin by developing a plan for the content, setup, and long-term maintenance of a blog, and then you’ll use free blogging software to... [More]

This is an online course. To find out how our online courses work, please click here. Build upon your current knowledge of programming logic by writing Graphical User Interface (GUI) applications in the C# programming language. This course will show you how to write professional looking applications with many of the common GUI controls, such as buttons, labels, text boxes, check boxes, and radio buttons. You’ll also learn how to put menus and toolbars into your program to make them ... [More]

This is an online course. To find out how our online courses work, please click here. Deepen your understanding of the Java programming language, and start writing programs that are more sophisticated and professional. Learn how to save data permanently on a disk by writing it to a sequential data file. See how to read the file to get the data back and process it. Organize information using multiple classes in Java’s class hierarchy and inheritance. Explore some of the hundreds of c... [More]

This is an online course. To find out how our online courses work, please click here. Have you been using Excel 2003 to its fullest potential? Learn how to work faster and more productively. Discover how the Pivot Table and AutoFilter can help you rapidly create reports and analyses. Learn advanced graphing techniques and how to use functions to get Excel 2003 to perform complex math, make decisions, and look up values in a table. For more information or to enrol visit the link: Int... [More]

This is an online course. To find out how our online courses work, please click here. If you want to learn touch-typing or improve your existing typing skills, this is the perfect course for you! In these lessons, you’ll use the Keyboarding Pro 5 program, a typing tutorial designed for personal computers, to learn how to touch-type—that is, to type text you read from a printed page or a computer screen without looking at your keyboard. Using Keyboarding Pro’s built-in word processor... [More]