Training & Tutorials
The Office of Information Technologies hosts training workshops throughout the academic year on a variety of topics. Below are our most current offerings.
Training Tracks
Thank you for another excellent semester! Please check back soon for training workshops to be offered this summer!
Campus Skills
- 21st Century Learning
21st Century Learning: New Communities, New Content, New Conversations is an evocative session that will examine some of the trends in teaching and learning in active education environments - and look to understand how we can offer new, exciting information transfer systems to our students.
All faculty and staff are welcome to attend this unique opportunity brought to you by OIT and Apple.
- Availability:
- May 14 (W) from 10:30 am - 11:30 am
- Location: Litrenta (Toll SG-10)
- Instructor: Dr. Barry Adams
Barry has worked for Apple since 1987 in a variety of positions but always within the company!s education division. After serving as a field sales executive he quickly moved into a newly created position as an Education Technology Consultant. This industry-first position afforded Barry an opportunity to use his extensive training in education with education policy makers throughout the nation. After holding this post for a number of years, he was again promoted to another industry-first job, Director of Strategic Alliances working under the tutelage of Dr. David Dwyer, Apple!s noted education researcher and author of the ACOT program (Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow) Barry's stimulating presentations and workshops have been chosen by state conferences, national and international organizations as models for understanding the changing nature of education. Dr. Adams holds academic titles through the doctorate in Psychology, Counseling and Educational Administration. He was a member of several university and college faculties in Iowa, North Carolina, and Georgia. He culminated his academic growth as a Dean at two colleges where he authored two books on future trends in education. After leaving education in the early eighties, he formed a small company in the Research Triangle Park of North Carolina to build and distribute interactive laser discs for business and industry clients.
He lives in Roxboro NC with his wife of thirty years (also an Apple employee) and is now “empty-nested” with two college graduated children.
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- Adobe Design Center - Audition
Find support, tips, troublehsooting and tutorials for Adobe's consumer level audio application.
- Apple iLife Tutorials - GarageBand
Watch Apple's video training for their consumer level audio application. (GarageBand is already on your Mac.)
- Apple iLife Tutorials - iTunes
Video tutorials for the world's most popular digital jukebox software.
- Current TV Training Modules
Current TV's ultra slick training modules help you create audio for broadcast-worthy videos.
- Adobe Design Center - Acrobat
Adobe guides you through any topic related to Acrobat, the standard for creating PDF documents.
- Adobe Design Center - Illustrator
The Illustrator community shares its collective insight on using Adobe's vector graphic software, Illustrator.
- Adobe Design Center - InDesign
Professional page layout explained by the experts. Ask a question or browse hundreds of articles and tutorials.
- Apple iLife Tutorials - iPhoto
Apple's intuitive photo organization and manipulation tool is explained in easy to follow video modules.
- Studio Lighting.net Lighting Tutorials
Let the pros teach you everything you need to know about lighting for photos and video.
- Adobe Design Center - After Effects
Training and techniques are shared by the entire community of After Effects users.
- Adobe Design Center - Encore DVD
Adobe's powerful DVD creation tool is explained by its power users in discussion boards and training documents.
- Adobe Design Center - Premiere Pro
Learn more about this pioneering video editing application - now cross platform again for the first time in years.
- Animation Meat
Learn more about the art of animation. While specifically for analog animators, the principles taught here of shot framing are very useful for digital storytellers. Great storyboard templates, too.
- Apple iLife Tutorials - iDVD
Task-oriented video modules for Apple's easy to use DVD authoring software. The perfect tool for sharing your iMovie projects.
- Apple iLife Tutorials - iMovie HD
iMovie lets anyone unleash their inner filmmaker. Let Apple guide you through capturing, editing and sharing a project with these helpful videos.
- Current TV Training Modules
With tutorials on everything from lighting and framing to editing and publishing, Current TV has you covered.
- Izzy Video Tutorials & Tips
Israel Hyman, professional imaging artist, guides you through the world of digital video production with his simple tutorials.
- Studio Lighting.net Lighting Tutorials
Let the pros teach you everything you need to know about lighting for photos and video.
- Adobe Design Center - Device Central
Mobile phones are the next home of computing. Adobe will teach you about this innovative mobile content creation tool.
- Adobe Design Center - Dreamweaver
A wealth of information and support for Adobe's powerful web production package, Dreamweaver.
- Adobe Design Center - Flash
Top Flash users provide their insight on using Flash for animation and so much more.
- Animation Meat
Learn more about the art of animation. While specifically for analog animators, the principles taught here of shot framing are very useful for digital storytellers. Great storyboard templates, too.
- gotoAndLearn Tutorials
An archive of full downloadable video tutorials that will help you add interactivity to any web endeavor.
- Microsoft E-Learning Applications & Systems
A training resource provided through the MEEC or Microsoft licensing in Maryland. This updated site provides training on topics ranging from the Windows operating system to Microsoft Office and more.
This instruction sheet will get you started. Contact Gene Sheehan if you have difficulties with activation.
- Microsoft Enterprise Learning Library (MELL)
An older resource, the MELL training may or may not be supported by your computer. However, the training for Office 2003 is still very useful for many users.
- Maple Training
Online video training for Maple mathematics software provided by MapleSoft.
- SPSS Training
Training opportunities offered for SPSS statistics software including seminars and web-based training.