Red Rock Central Community Education in cooperation with Marshall Adult Basic Education (ABE), are offering computer classes to improve your workplace skills. FREE!

Student may take up to 30 hours of computer classes during the 2007-2008 school year for the purpose of gaining skills leading to employability. Self-employed? Starting a new business? Or you need to sharpen some skills for your current job? Then these classes are for you! And if you need more than the 30 hours, you may pay for additional time. If you took these classes last fall from us, we need to count those hours. You may take thirty hours this school year. The instructors will have a background in the program(s) that you are studying, but you will be working on your own at your own pace, with a tutorial. The instructor will be there to help you through any part that you don’t understand.

We will be offering these classes at the Red Rock Central Elementary School in Jeffers at this time, as the high school lab has been updated to the 2007 Microsoft Office Suite, and the tutorials are not ready at this time. (But do watch for an article when we are ready to offer these classes.)

The computer lab will be open 5 hours per week for 6 weeks, this spring. You may drop in whenever it is convenient and it fits your schedule. You simply sign in and work. When you are done, you sign out, stating what you were working on. If you have a computer at home and take the time to practice your new skills your learning will be greatly increased, and you will move along at a greater speed.

Programs that are available will be:

Windows XP-operating system;

Keyboarding-improve your typing skills

Microsoft Word-word processing

Microsoft Excel-spreadsheet

Microsoft Access-database management

Microsoft Publisher-desktop publisher

Microsoft PowerPoint-presentations

Microsoft Internet Explorer-using the internet

Microsoft Internet Outlook Express-using email

Quick books (limited access)

And possibly other instruction available upon request

The program will begin on Tuesday, March 4th, from 4:00-6:30 PM. and on Thursday, March 6^th from 6:30-9:00 PM. Then classes will be held each Tuesday night and Thursday night thereafter at the above times, through April 10^th. Sharon Musegades will be the instructor at the Jeffers site.

Pre-registration is required, please call the RRC High School office at 752-7361. You will be asked to state your course choices so that materials can be prepared for you. The first night of class you will fill out a brief questionnaire/application.

Questions? Interested? More information is available by calling Red Rock Central Schools: (507)752-7361. Talk to Sue Redman, Community Education Director.