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February 28, 2006
Open Enrollment at Carroll Tech
Did your new year resolutions include learning to more effectively use your computer? Should it have? Starting the second week in March, the Carroll Center for the Blind Carroll Tech distance learning project will be offering its complete series of online courses either as instructor lead or self-paced or both. If you use JAWS, Window-Eyes, ZoomText or MAGic, you will find something new to learn and use.
Learn to use Excel to keep your records; Outlook to email with your friends and co-workers; PowerPoint to create presentations for school or the office; and the Duxbury Braille Translator to convert print documents into braille.
Thanks to the generosity of our funders, individuals pay only $100.00 for each course and schools, rehabilitation agencies and employers can arrange for either single user or group user packages for their students, clients or employees.
Registration is now open and classes start soon. If you work best when there is a schedule of dates and times for lessons, take an instructor lead course. If you need to have the flexibility of completing several lessons in a single week and then no lessons during the next week or cannot attend an on-line audio chat during the work day, you should register at carrolltech.org for a self-paced course. In either case, now is the time to make your plans to take a Carroll Tech course and continue your education in the use of accessible computer technology.
The following is a listing of the courses now available:
- Introduction To Excel With JAWS, Instructor Lead and Self-Paced
- Introduction To Excel With MAGic, Instructor Lead and Self-Paced
- Introduction To Excel With ZoomText, Instructor Lead and Self-Paced
- Introduction To Outlook With JAWS, Instructor Lead and Self-Paced
- Introduction To PowerPoint With JAWS, Instructor Lead and Self-Paced
- Intermediate Excel With JAWS 6.x and has value for 7.x, Self-Paced Only
- Windows for TVIs: Achieving Mouselessness, Self-Paced Only
- Using The Duxbury Braille Translator, Instructor Lead and Self-Paced
- Using Accessible Graphing Calculator, Self-Paced Only
- Using TGD Pro, Self-Paced Only
- Online Public Access Catalog, Self-Paced Only
Read the syllabus for the class you are interested in and get details about how to register.
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February 21, 2006
CSUN's 21st Annual International Conference
California State University, Northridge Center on Disabilities' 21st Annual International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference (CSUN) is a comprehensive, international conference, where technologies across all ages; disabilities; levels of education and training; employment; and independent living are addressed.
Date:
March 20 – 25
Location:
Los Angeles, California
Details:
http://www.csun.edu/cod/conf/index.htm
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Multiple Perspectives On Access Inclusion & Disability Annual Conference
The organizing theme for the sixth annual conference will be "Personal Perspectives & Social Impact: The Stories We Tell." The goal is to encourage presenters and participants to reflect on how personal experiences create and transform social, cultural, and legal realities. A look into what the psychologist Theodore Sarbin referred to as "the storied nature of human conduct."
Date:
April 17 & 18, 2006
Location:
The Ohio State University, Columbus Ohio
Details:
http://ada.osu.edu/conferences/2006program.htm
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February 14, 2006
Job Accommodation Network's Audio/Web Training
The Job Accommodation Network (JAN) announces a series of audio conferences on accommodation, compliance, and disability employment law.
Audio Conference: Disability Etiquette in the Workplace
Date: Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Time: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. EST
Trainers: Jana Copeland, Training Coordinator, Rocky Mountain ADA & IT Center with Tracie Saab and Eddie Whidden, JAN Consultants.
Fees: Registration for participants is $25 per phone line.
Additional Information: http://www.jan.wvu.edu/teleconf/Teleconf.htm
This is for you if you interested in recruiting qualified applicants with disabilities and looking for common sense strategies for effectively interacting with applicants, employees, and coworkers with disabilities.
Posted by Nancy at 04:57 PM | Comments (0)
February 13, 2006
Employ-Ability Job Fair 2006 For People with Disabilities
The State of Ohio Rehabilitation Service Commission and
Wright State University present:
Employ-Ability Job Fair 2006 For People with Disabilities.
Wednesday March 8, 2006
9 a.m. to 12 noon
Wright State University, Student Union Bldg.,
Multi-Purpose Room
Bring your resume!
No cost, no pre-registration required, mock interviews offered
For more information contact
Ms. Holly Brown-Wright at 937 775 5680
or Ms. Derry McCurdy at 937 904 3228
The Ohio Rehabilitation Services Commission
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