UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL („.)KLAHOMA
THURSDAY
The Student Voice Since 1903
DECEMBER 2, 1999
photo by Landon Salyer
You'd better watch out... Santa and Mrs. Claus reads `Twas the Night Before Christmas" to local Edmond children on Monday night after the lighting of Old North, which was part of UCO's Winter Glow ceremony. The campus Christmas decorations were officially lit at 6:30 p.m. as part the ceremony. Santa was portrayed by Liberal Arts Dean Clif' Warren and Mrs. Claus was Dr. Roberta Sloan, chair of UCO' s Theatre Arts Department.
New training center offers free computer classes
By Trent Dugas
and that would be word processing, spreadsheets, database, Staff `ricer Internet, e-mail and those types of e Information things," Rolfe said. Technology Department "That money will also pay for Tiis offering free computer some training booklets and helps courses for faculty, staff and fund the software we buy to put students. The classes include together the booklet. Microsoft programs such as Word, "The rest of it is out of the IT Access, Excel and PowerPoint. (information technology) budget The classes are held in the and we've done that by cutting Administration Building in the corners elsewhere." newly developed training center She said before the training which is equipped with computers. room was built, they had to hold Cynthia Rolfe, chief technology classes in other computer labs officer, said the training center is around campus. still under construction with more "We have had it (computer computer equipment needed. training) about a year and a half Rolfe said part of the budget for but we just completed executive the training center is coming from training venture at the Information Technology's budget administration building and now and from grants. that we have a training room that "We did get a grant from serves the entire campus we can Southwestern Bell to do training schedule more classes," she said. for instructors and we are doing "We had to rely on labs in the what we call productivity training different colleges and although the
—Staff photo by Chieko Hara Sandra Franklin, technology training supervisor, helps Misha Mowdy, Student Health Center employee, during a computer training class on Tuesday morning,
colleges were extremely by either mail or on the web-site at cooperative for letting us use it, the http://libweb.ucok.edu:10020/itl. first priority were student classes." She said the training in The classes are on a sign-up Information Technology's basis, Rolfe said, that can be done computer classes are different than
academic classes. "In training you don't get all the theory and the education that goes with it, you get the hands on, `here's what you do to achieve these results,'" Rolfe said. The classes offer "desk-side assistance," Rolfe said. This service allows trained assistants to give one-on-one help if the student has problems specific to the student's needs. "Technology training is fairly new at UCO's campus," she said. "We felt like it was important enough to be able to offer this service campus-wide because we want people to know the latest software standard that is set for the campus." Rolfe said the classes fill up fast and enrollment allows only 20 students, so quick registration is advised. For more information, call Cynthia Rolfe at 974-2688.