New Classes offered by Tech Training

Presentation Skills for Techies — Friday, March 27, 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM

Fee: $220 (STAP funds apply!)

Enhance your technical presentations to engage your audience and create more impact. Learn how to simplify complex topics with stories or visuals, and get valuable insights with coaching.

This workshop uses video feedback to allow participants to practice and see the results right away. Learn key principles for effective presentations, and get insights related to their strengths and potential areas of improvements.

As a result you will have:

Increased awareness of your strengths and how to leverage them in your presentations
Increased awareness of areas of improvements, and guidance on how you can improve
A broad range of presentation concepts and techniques that can help you simplify your technical presentation and make it user friendly
Plenty of practice so you feel more at ease presenting to your audiences
An action plan to help you continue to practice and take your presentations to the next level

Pierre Khawand, People | OnTheGo Instructor Pierre Khawand has more than fifteen years of experience in the software industry. He founded People-OnTheGo in 2001 to enable business professionals to communicate and collaborate more effectively using leading edge technologies.

He leads many of the Webinars provided by Tech Training, along with the Accomplishing More With Less in the Technology World workshop.

Introduction to OneNote — Wednesday, April 8, 9 AM - 12 PM

Fee: $220 (STAP funds apply!)

Thinking about getting organized?

If you're like most people who use Microsoft Office — programs like Excel, Word, and Outlook — you've probably seen the OneNote program and wondered what it does.

This class provides an overview of OneNote, a powerful tool to organize all of your digital information, and sync across multiple devices. You will learn how to set up, capture, store, and share OneNote notebooks.

Class outline/topics:

Setting up OneNote
Overview of OneNote application options
- Desktop, Web App, Mobile Apps
Navigating the desktop OneNote environment
Creating notebooks, sections, and pages
Convert handwritten notes, documents, and drawings
Using the incredibly powerful OneNote search
Adding external content to OneNote pages

Introduction to OneNote. A three-hour, hands-on class for people who want to start getting organized.

Ted Horsch, Instructor Instructor Ted Horsch worked in operations management in the semiconductor industry beginning in the mid-1990s. He used MS Excel extensively for the next 10 years, grinding out one project after another for a variety of Silicon Valley manufacturers and sales organizations before retiring in 2006.

Once retired he began a second career teaching, writing and developing curricula for the Microsoft Office suite and various other computer software application products. He currently teaches Excel, Word, and OneNote classes for Technology Training.