Ideas Party >> Computer Courses

It came up towards the end of Tuesdays get together that some people had questions regarding tutorials for using computers. There are lots of tutorials at these sites, and no doubt links to further tutorials if people were to spend some time looking through.

http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm#tutorials
http://word.mvps.org/Tutorials/index.htm

Also Weltec runs free computing courses www.weltec.ac.nz/freecomp.htm or
phone 0800 935 832

– Julia


Hewlett Packard offers free online courses on their web site http://www.hp.com
Click on "Small and Medium Sizes Businesses", then on "Free online classes".
Their courses cover a wide area, starting from "Building web applications with PHP and MySQL" over "Business etiquette" to "Advanced Adobe Photoshop".
All you have to do ist register. Just check it out.

Waikato University offers some free computer courses, too:
http://www.wintec.ac.nz/index.asp?PageID=2145823773

Seems you have to be there at least part of the time:
Launch Yourself into the Knowledge Economy with Waikato Institute of
Technology, School of Business and Administration Self Paced Applied
Computer Education. Improve your skills in:
Keyboarding
Word
Excel
PowerPoint
Publisher
Internet and Email
Learn at your own speed, at the weekend. Come to a session at Wintec
and enroll. Sessions are every day 10-12, 1-3 Monday to Friday,
Wednesday night 5-7 and Saturday 9-1pm in F Block at Wintec.

– Rebecca