1314 Columbia Ave., Franklin, TN
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Williamson County Public Library
1314 Columbia Ave., Franklin, TN |
Contact the Reference Department at 595-1243 for further information.
Computer classes are now being offered at the Williamson County Public Library. Classes meet in the computer lab (2nd floor). Each class is offered for one week and each session lasts approximately 90 minutes. Registrations are made for only one session of each class. Classes are limited to not more than ten attendees and no less than five. An alternate list with five names is made for each class. Cancellations should be made at least 24 hours in advance to allow staff adequate time to fill vacancies from the alternate list.
Registration for the classes listed below will open on Monday, May 5, and close on Monday, May 19. No registrations will be taken before the posted registration date. Registrations are only accepted in person or by telephone, 595-1243, during normal library hours. No email or voicemail registrations are accepted.
Classes listed below will be held on Tuesday mornings from 10:00 to 11:30 am in the Computer Lab at the Main library in Franklin
Specific computer classes offered include:
| Introduction to the Computer | May 27 |
| Introduction to the Internet | June 3 |
| Searching the Internet | June 10 |
| Introduction Microsoft Word | June 17 |
| Intermediate Microsoft Word | June 24 |
| Introduction to Yahoo! E-mail | July 1 |
| Beginner's Microsoft Excel | July 8 |
| Introduction to PowerPoint | July 15 |
Your Electronic Library
Also available at the Main Library are classes featuring your "Electronic Library." Every third Tuesday of the month, from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m., the Reference Department offers tutorials on the use of your online library account and WCPL's two eBook and digital audio book databases, R.E.A.D.S. and NetLibrary.Preparation:
Participants need to be familiar with the keyboard, have some experience using the mouse, know how to open and close a program, and how to find and use the menu and scroll bars. A mouse tutorial is available for public use at the library. In addition, there are several websites available that offer instruction on the use of a mouse and keyboard.
| From Michigan's Library Network Cooperative: | New User Tutorial |
| From California's Palm Beach County Library System: |
Mousing Around Mousercise Mouse Practice Games |
| From Arizona's Mesa Public Library: | Computer Mouse and Keyboard Tutorial |
| General online tutorial from "Goodtyping": | Goodtyping.com |
There are also several good basic hands-on computer literacy websites. If you would like to work through and practice some computer basics before attending one of our classes, try Jan's Illustrated Computer Literacy 101. This is an illustrated computer literacy course, including Computer Basics, Working with Windows, Working with Words (word processing), Working with Numbers (spreadsheets), Working with the Web (Browser Basics & HTML Basics). If you would like to familiarize yourself with basic computer and windows terminology before trying one of these tutorials or before attending one of our classes, this author has prepared a very helpful Glossary of alphabetically arranged computer terms and phrases. If you don't see the word or phrase that you are looking for, use your browser's "Find" command to search for it within this glossary.
In addition, these tutorials are also available
in Spanish by clicking on the word "Español" in the top right corner
of the first page of each lesson. If the Spanish text does not
immediately appear or if your receive an page error, click on the "Refresh"
button located in the horizontal toolbar at the top of your screen.
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IIntroduction to Microsoft Excel |
This class will show participants how to recognize and create a basic spreadsheet; basic formatting (alignment, numbers, font style and size); sorting your spreadsheet; printing and saving your work. *Prerequisites: "Introduction to the Computer" or equivalent skills; experience with Microsoft Word is preferred. |
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IIntroduction to PowerPoint |
This class will show participants how to create a PowerPoint slide show, how to change the slide background and colors and how to add clip art and sounds to their presentations. *Prerequisites: "Introduction to the Computer" or equivalent skills, experience with Microsoft Word is preferred. |
Williamson County Public Library System
Learn the basics of using your computer in a fun class! This class is for
persons with limited experience and use of computers. Participants will
learn: the basic components of a computer, the parts of the Windows
operating system, computer terminology, how to use a disk drive, how to
start and close a program, and how to save to a disk.
This
class focuses on the use of e-mail with particular attention paid to free
world-wide web based e-mail. Participants will learn to compose,
send, read, forward, and delete messages; how to set up folders and use the
address book feature, and will learn e-mail terminology and etiquette.
Even though the class uses Yahoo! mail, the information can be applied to other
e-mail programs. *Prerequisites: "Introduction to the
Computer" or the equivalent skills and "Introduction to the Internet" or the
equivalent skills. Note: Participants will need to visit
the library before the class and set up a Yahoo! E-mail account in order to do
the class exercises.
This
class is for people with limited experience using word processing software.
Participants will learn the basic MS Word
tools, how to type a paper or letter using Word, how to save documents to a
disk, basic formatting commands including setting margins, selecting and
modifying text, cutting and pasting text, and how to open and save documents.
Participants will also learn multiple ways of completing particular tasks
using MS Word. This is not a typing or keyboarding class.
*Prerequisites: "Introduction to the Computer" or the equivalent skills.