Wallingford Adult Education
Technology News
SPRING 2010
Register Now for Spring 2010 Classes
Wallingford Adult Education is now taking registrations for Spring 2010 General Interest Courses. We offer boating, trips, dining, computers, knitting, yoga, kayaking, financial management and more!
Please visit us at www.wallingfordadulted.org to review our Spring Brochure. Visitors can print out a registration form from our site, and either mail or fax it in.
Spring 2010 Computer Instruction At The Learning Center
- Weekly GED prep classes Tuesday mornings. Increased number of students (currently 22) accessing McGraw Hill Interactive GED prep software.
- Weekly ABE/EDP class using Merit software grammar, vocabulary and writing software.
- Workforce Preparation Computer Instruction Tues/Thurs evenings January 26 – mid February.
o 3 rehabilitated laptops added to our laptop cart - total 9 available for student use.
o Office 2007 roll out – we are preparing to transition from Office 2003 to Office 2007 on all laptops and desktops over the next year.
Annual CAACE (CT Adult and Continuing Education) Conference: WAE will be offering a presentation on “Transitioning from Microsoft Word 2003 to Word 2007.” March 25 – 26, 2010 at Water’s Edge Resort in Old Saybrook.
Please contact Pam Andersen using the contact information below if you are interesting in borrowing any of the items in our resource center.
The following materials are available for student loan:
· Software tutorials on CD (“Professor Teaches Office XP” – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, Publisher and FrontPage 2002)
· Portable flash drives (some with pre-loaded free anti-virus and anti-adware programs)
· New Computer Texts available for loan – “Transitioning to Windows Vista” – “Plain & Simple Microsoft Office 2007” in addition to: Office 2003, Excel 2003, Century 21 Plus, PowerPoint, Access
Contact Technology Coordinator to borrow:
- “The Writer” Keyboard appliance
- IBM Thinkpad laptops
- Digital cameras with rechargeable batteries
Pamela Andersen
Technology Coordinator
Wallingford Adult Education
(203) 294-3906 phone
Pandersen@wallingford.k12.ct.us
www.wallingfordadulted.org
