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Courses
Updated 10th March 2007
Software Training
Future courses at Knustonhall,
Northamptonshire. * Why not come along and enjoy a pleasant
stay in a stately home while you learn?
The course fees include your accomodation and all
meals and beverages. The food is delicious and prepared
and cooked from fresh ingredients every day. Even the
biscuits and cakes are freshly baked just for you...
* Payment
and booking for these courses must be made directly
with Knuston Hall. Tel: 01933 312104 www.knustonhall.org.uk
- Web Design for Beginners
*
Starting with the very basics, this course will show you how to design a simple yet very effective web site. Your site will load quickly and be easy for your visitors to navigate, consist of multiple pages, images, simple animation and hyperlinks.
If you have access to the Internet through an ISP
(Internet Service Provider), you should have free web
space available to you. Why not use this to promote
your business, hobbies, clubs or societies, or just
use it as an easy way to keep friends and family up
to date with all your news?
March 2007 - Friday 23rd to Sunday 25th
* Updated
content! This course is now FULL.
Whether you're new to Word, or have a basic knowledge, this course will take you through all the basic skills and a bit beyond.
You will learn how to set out your documents, format
text, cut and paste, add pictures, borders and backgrounds,
create labels and envelopes, check spelling and grammar
and much more besides.
This course covers most of the
requirements of the ECDL Word module.
April 2007 - Wednesday 11th
- Excel - Basics and Beyond
Whether you're new to Excel, or have a basic knowledge,
this course will take you through all the basic skills
and a bit beyond.
You will learn how to set up an Excel
spreadsheet, input data and work with simple formulas
and functions. You will produce graphs and charts to
show your results in a visual format, and use shortcuts
for carrying out calculations, link
worksheets together and much more.
This course covers
most of the requirements of the ECDL Excel module.
April 2007 - Thursday 12th
This course is designed for those who are new to using
the Internet and Email or those of you who wish to
explore further the opportunities offered by the world
wide web.
The course will show participants how to
search for information, buy online, keep in contact
with loved ones across the miles and much, much more...
April 2007 - Friday 13th
- Powerpoint - Extend Your Skills
This course is designed for those who have used PowerPoint
before, but who wish to extend their skills and knowledge
to take full advantage of the opportunities offered
by this program.
Participants will be given a quick
revision of the basics, and will then cover areas such
as advanced drawing, adding sound and voice narration,
video, custom shows, using hyperlinks
and much, much more...
May 2007 - Thursday 3rd
- Digital Photography for Beginners *
This course is a fun and exciting introduction for complete beginners to digital photography and those of you who wish to improve the quality and composition of your photographs. The majority of your time will be spent on practical activities and photo shoots, which cover the basics of digital photography, but with an emphasis on clever picture composition and a focus on taking great pictures.
You will also discover how a digital camera works
and what all those confusing parts actually do, how
to edit and improve your photographs, and some of the
best ways to share your memories with family and friends
and lots, lot more… So why not jump aboard and join us for a ride on the Digital Darkroom Express?
May 2007 - Friday 18th to Sunday 20th
* Early
booking advised due to the popularity of this course!
- Digital Photography for Beginners *
This course is a fun and exciting introduction for complete beginners to digital photography and those of you who wish to improve the quality and composition of your photographs. The majority of your time will be spent on practical activities and photo shoots, which cover the basics of digital photography, but with an emphasis on clever picture composition and a focus on taking great pictures.
You will also discover how a digital camera works
and what all those confusing parts actually do, how
to edit and improve your photographs, and some of the
best ways to share your memories with family and friends
and lots, lot more… So why not jump aboard and join us for a ride on the Digital Darkroom Express?
June 2007 - Friday 15th to Sunday 17th
* Early
booking advised due to the popularity of this course!
- Digital Presentation Techniques for Photographers *
Do you have lots of photographs stored on CD or thrown
into a box? How often do you look at them? Starting
with the very basics, you will discover how to preserve
those treasured memories of your loved ones forever
using Paintshop Pro, one of the world's best selling
image-editing programs.
Digital Presentation Techniques are easy to learn,
lots and lots of fun and very addictive. We will combine
photos, memorabilia and stories together and present
your photographic memories in a new format. This course
is suitable for beginners to Paintshop Pro, who will
leave with a completed masterpiece of their very own…
July 2007 - Monday 16th to
Wednesday 18th
* Early
booking advised due to the popularity of this course!
- So You've Never Touched a Computer?
Escape from the phone, the kids and the goldfish for
a day and enjoy a relaxed and informative session at
Knuston Hall to discover whether computers
are for you!
If you have never
touched a computer before or have only a very
slight understanding of IT, then this is the course
for you.
You will
be guided through bits and bytes and see something
of the World Wide Web. There will be lots of
time to try things out at your own pace.
August 2007 - Monday 6th
- Powerpoint - Basics and Beyond
Whether you're new to PowerPoint, or have a basic
knowledge, this course will take you through all the
basic skills and a bit beyond.
You will learn how to
create slides, add text, pictures and special effects
including animation, set up and run your presentation
and much, much more...
This course covers the
requirements of the ECDL Presentation module.
August 2007 - Tuesday 7th
- Publisher - Basics and Beyond
Whether you're new to Publisher, or have a basic knowledge,
this course will take you through all the basic skills
and a bit beyond.
You will learn how to set out your
documents, format text, cut and paste, add pictures,
borders and backgrounds, use templates to create cards,
newsletters, etc., and much, much more...
August 2007 - Wednesday 8th
- Digital Photography for Beginners *
This course is a fun and exciting introduction for
complete beginners to digital photography and those
of you who wish to improve the quality and composition
of your photographs. The majority of your time will
be spent on practical activities and photo shoots,
which cover the basics of digital photography, but
with an emphasis on clever picture composition and
a focus on taking great pictures.
You will also discover how a digital camera works
and what all those confusing parts actually do, how
to edit and improve your photographs, and some of the
best ways to share your memories with family and friends
and lots, lot more… So why not jump aboard and
join us for a ride on the Digital Darkroom Express?
August 2007 - Friday 24th to Sunday 26th
* Early
booking advised due to the popularity of this course!
- Improve Your Digital Photographs with PaintShop
Pro *
Starting with the very basics, you will learn how
to optimise your digital images and improve your digital
photography using Paintshop Pro, one of the world's
best selling image-editing programs.
You will learn
how to edit and improve your photographs, adjust the
colour balance, improve an image in shadow or with
flash bounce, colour a black and white photo, create
drawings from photographs, add special effects and
lots, lot more…
September 2007 - Friday 7th to Sunday 9th
* Early
booking advised due to the popularity of this course!
- Web Design for Beginners
*
Starting with the very basics, this course will show you how to design a simple yet very effective web site. Your site will load quickly and be easy for your visitors to navigate, consist of multiple pages, images, simple animation and hyperlinks.
If you have access to the Internet through an ISP
(Internet Service Provider), you should have free web
space available to you. Why not use this to promote
your business, hobbies, clubs or societies, or just
use it as an easy way to keep friends and family up
to date with all your news?
September 2007 - Friday 21st to Sunday 23rd
* Updated
content!
If you would like to sign up for any of our courses
at Knustonhall, please click HERE
to go the Knuston Hall website or telephone 01933
312104.
Numbers are restricted and places are booked
very quickly...
Course fees include meals and accomodation where applicable
and all beverages and tuition.
For bespoke training please contact us.
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