Do you wish you knew more about computers? Maybe you’d like to send e-mails to your family, but you don’t know how to set up an account. With more information moving online every day (did you know you can get almost every tax form the IRS publishes online?), everyone should have a good grasp of the computer basics: how to get started, send an e-mail, use Microsoft Office, browse the web, back up your data and troubleshoot basic problems. You could go online to learn how to do any of those things, but that doesn’t work for everyone, so the Sidney-Richland County Library and Dawson Community College will be offering a half-credit course in Computer Basics 101. This “Tech Tuesday” class will last eight hours and meet four times, Jan. 24, 26, 31 and Feb. 2 at 6:30 p.m. Anyone is welcome to attend, and the course is free. But if you want to receive credit from DCC, you must pay a credit registration fee.
Space for this course is limited, so please call the Library at 433-1917 to reserve a spot. If you want to receive credit from Dawson Community College, or if you have any questions about how the credit might apply to a program or continuing education requirements, please contact Mary Ann Vester at 406-377-9409 or [email protected].
Students will work together using the library’s laptop lab to learn the basics from a live instructor, and then submit their homework online through UniversalClass. UniversalClass is a collection of 500+ free online courses, available to any patron of the Library covering topics from computers to art to nutrition, and this course will guide you through using UniversalClass to interact with your professor, read lessons and submit assignments online. We will start with the basics of computer hardware, and progress to setting up an e-mail account, creating a document in Microsoft Word, and learning how to navigate websites to get and send information. By the end of the course, everyone should be ready to take more advanced courses through UniversalClass, and use a computer for basics like sending e-mail, saving and backing up files, and getting things done online (from shopping to income taxes to registering for Facebook). Everyone will earn 1 Continuing Education Unit through UniversalClass, and you can opt to receive credit through Dawson to put toward a degree or continuing education requirements. You do not have to have your own computer, but you will need a library card (which is free to anyone living in Richland County), and you must attend all four sessions to receive DCC credit. The first class is Jan. 24, so please reserve a space as soon as possible if you would like to attend. If you have any questions, you can contact the Library at 433-1917 or Dawson Community College at 406-377-9409 or [email protected]. You can also find more information about this and other Tech Tuesday programs at the Library website - http://www.richland.org/spl, and we’re also on Facebook!
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