Workshops, Seminars & Conferences
The Appalachian Regional Development Institute (ARDI) offers a wide variety of dynamic computer seminars at our state-of-the-art training facility. We can also provide custom training at a location of your choice.
Strengthen Your Bottom Line...
By educating your staff or yourself at our seminars, your business or organization benefits from more efficient, productive and cost-effective computer use.
Course Offerings: Regular and Customized
Our one-day seminars on Microsoft Office Applications (Word, Excel, Access, Power Point, Outlook) and Microsoft Networks help you perform office tasks more proficiently and easily. We have a variety of scheduled courses at various levels, including new courses in Quickbooks accounting and Dreamweaver web development. We also offer customized courses at a time of your choosing if we have a sufficient number of students. Let us know your needs.
Microsoft Office Certification Track (New)
We now offer courses that prepare students for Microsoft Office certification exams. This is a great benefit for both employees and employers. With a globally recognized Microsoft certification, employees can show proof of their higher skill level and thus qualify for a new job or a better position and employers can feel confident that employees have achieved a certain standard of proficiency. Scroll down for listing of classes, dates, and links to class descriptions.
Web Development Courses
The Web Development seminar shows you how to design and implement a web site with Macromedia Dreamweaver. It's possible to develop a site using only a text editor and an image editor. However, Dreamweaver allows you to more intuitively and quickly build pages and manage them by providing a graphical interface and quick access to frequently used tools. It also satisfies the needs of those who prefer to work directly with code, allowing you to manually edit pages and programming while benefiting from a more automated approach. In short, the Dreamweaver seminar will make your web development easier and more productive.
Computer Literacy Courses
These courses are designed for the computer user whose comfort level is low and fear of computers is high! Afraid of "deleting everything on your harddrive" if you click that button? Think everyone knows more about computers than you do? Can't figure out how to open that email attachment? If so, then these classes are for you.
Instructors
Lee Ryan, BA Lawrence University, MA San Diego State University, Microsoft Certified Professional, brings 16 years hands-on experience with PC training and programming to his dynamic teaching sessions. He is the author of eight software course manuals and two books. Since 1993, Mr. Ryan has specialized in Microsoft Office, Visual Basic, databases and Web application development and training for business, education and government. His clients include: ARDI, ASU, Karu Architecture, US Buildings, Blue Ridge Cancer Coalition, Alpine Collections, US Army War College, Shared Medical Systems, Wells Fargo, Siemens, US Air Force, Prince George's County Government and NASA.
Kinney Baughman has been a lecturer at Appalachian State University for 14 years. He has taught Navigating the Internet, an introduction to the internet, and Electronic Commerce, a more advanced course that concentrates on designing interactive web sites. He serves as the Director, Information Technology Instruction and Research for the Appalachian Regional Development Institute. In that capacity he serves as webmaster, technical consultant and training advisor. Mr. Baughman completed his undergraduate work at Appalachian and earned an MA in Philosophy from the University of Georgia.