Workshops are offered throughout the academic year by the Office of Information Technologies and are available to PSU faculty, staff, and students at no cost. To register for classes, send email to mluebke@pdx.edu with the class and date you would like to register for. Please contact the workshop instructor if you have any questions.
Need directions? Please refer to the building locations for more information about where the workshops are held.
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BI/Query
(Faculty & Staff) |
BI/Query is an end-user query tool application that allows for quick and convenient information retrieval from PSU's Banner data warehouse. The Office of Information Technologies offers the PSU Banner community monthly BI/Query training for decision- support, report generation and other information needs. The training consists to two half-day sessions. Level 1 covers query building, report generation and formatting as it relates to Banner Student data. Level 2 covers more detailed querying and includes the use of wild cards, ad-hoc drill downs, filtering results, super queries, sub queries and calculated attributes. Prerequisite: BI/Query classes are intended for both Macintosh and Windows users who currently have an Odin account and Banner access. Odin accounts can be obtained by calling User Support Services at 5-HELP. Please register early. Registration is limited to 24 individuals. |
Level 1 - Fri, 10/16/09 | 9 am - noon | NH 450 | Sandy Bowen |
| Level 2 - Fri, 10/23/09 | 9 am - noon | NH 450 | Sandy Bowen | ||
| Level 1 - Mon, 11/9/09 | 1 - 4 pm | NH 450 | Sandy Bowen | ||
| Level 2 - Mon, 11/16/09 | 1 - 4 pm | NH 450 | Sandy Bowen | ||
| Level 1 - Wed, 12/2/09 | 9 am - noon | NH 450 | Sandy Bowen | ||
| Level 2 - Wed, 12/9/09 | 9 am - noon | NH 450 | Sandy Bowen | ||
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BI/Query Lite
(Faculty & Staff) |
BI/Query Lite is the first hour of the Level 1 class, covering data warehouse basics and running pre-made reports. Students should register for the level they wish to attend. Level 1 participants may elect to attend only the first hour session. Prerequisite: See prerequisites listed above for BI/Query |
BI/Query Lite will be the first hour of class on 10/16, 11/9, and 12/2/09. | See above for times | NH 450 | Sandy Bowen |
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Intro to Word
(Open to students) |
Learn how to perform basic document creation, page layout, paragraph formatting and fonts. Explore document editing, inserting footnotes and endnotes and using the Proofing tools. Please register early. Registration is limited to 15 individuals. | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
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Preparing Your Poster for Printing in the IDSC (Faculty, Staff, & Graduate Students) |
This workshop will provide a basic overview of planning for a digital poster session. Topics will include gathering and preparing resources, layout and design of the poster in Adobe Illustrator, and preparing your files for printing on one of our wide-format printers in the IDSC. Please register early. Registration is limited to 15 individuals. | Wednesday, 10/14/09 |
2 - 3pm | BHB 225 | Durran Champie |
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Intro to Course Studio (Faculty, Grad Assistants & Staff) |
Course Studio is a new course management tool available as part of the portal: myPSU. It is a light-weight alternative to Blackboard, offering basic course communication tools such as email, announcements, chat, links, threaded conversations, and file/image storage. The tool is easily activated by the instructor for any course created in Banner. Come to this session to learn how to set-up a basic course homepage; upload files, links, and photos; and create emails, announcements, and threaded conversations. Also covered is a brief introduction to consolidated courses, a feature which allows instructors to link multiple course sections together. Note: to use myPSU Course Studio, instructors must complete the account synchronization process managed by the OAM system: http://oam.pdx.edu. Registration is limited to 23 individuals. | Monday, 9/21/09 | 1 - 3 pm | BHB 225 | Ellen Weeks |
| Friday, 10/9/09 | 3 - 5 pm | BHB 225 | Heather Gregg | ||
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Intro to Photoshop: Understanding Image Editing (Open to students) |
This workshop will cover the basics of image editing with Photoshop. This includes sizing, cropping, and rotating of images, as well as image "re-touching", and use of transparency. It is the goal of this workshop to give you a better understanding of the overall power Photoshop has to offer while teaching the basics at a beginner's level.
This class is a prerequisite for Photoshop for Photographers, Intro to Illustrator, and Intro to After Effects. Prerequisite: This class is held on Macs in BHB 225. Please make sure you have an ODIN login to log onto the lab computers. Registrants should be familiar with the Mac Operating System (OS). Please register early. Registration is limited to 15 individuals. NOTE: Although this workshop will be utilizing Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Mac, the techniques taught can easily be applied to other versions of Photoshop CS on both PCs and Macs. |
Monday, 11/9/09 | 10 am - 1 pm | BHB 225 | Steven Marcus & Anthony Sinclair |
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Intro to Illustrator (Open to students) |
Calling all graphic designers! This class is designed to teach you how to get the most out of making flyers, posters and others beautiful works of digital graphic design. This class is designed to teach you how to work with the Adobe Illustrator interface, and why it can be incredibly useful for making flyers, banners, posters, and more.
We will be working with scanning and optimizing images into Illustrator, gradients, the Live Trace function, as well as going over how to manually trace an image or sketch. A lot of these images will be unique to what you'll be looking for, so participants are strongly encouraged to draw out something beforehand, or create something in Photoshop and bring that to the class. Prerequisite: Intro to Photoshop. This class is held on Macs in BHB 225. Please make sure you have an ODIN login to log onto the lab computers. Registrants should be familiar with the Mac Operating System (OS) and are encouraged to bring an existing sketch on white paper, or to bring a scrap piece of paper to draw or sketch on. Please register early. Registration is limited to 15 individuals. |
Friday, 11/13/09 | 1 - 4 pm | BHB 225 | Jason Sparks & Chris Ediger |
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Intro to InDesign (Open to students) |
TBA
This class is held on Macs in BHB 225. Please make sure you have an ODIN login to log onto the lab computers. Registrants should be familiar with the Mac Operating System (OS). Please register early. Registration is limited to 15 individuals. |
Friday, 11/20/09 | 3 - 5 pm | BHB 225 | Jason Sparks & Chris Ediger |
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Intro to Google SketchUp (Open to students) |
Students will investigate the tools in SketchUp, learning how to use the built-in tools to effectively work within a 3D model. Then, the instructor will create a small-to-medium scale 3D model, inviting the students to follow along. Finally, students will be invited to experiment and ask questions to help further their understanding of SketchUp and 3D modeling in general. No familiarity with MacOS or Google SketchUp is required to take this course. Please make sure you have an ODIN login to log onto the lab computers. Please register early. Registration is limited to 15 individuals. |
Thursday, 11/19/09 | 2 - 3:50 pm | BHB 225 | Joel Murphy |
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Intro to Paint.NET (Open to students) |
Paint.net is free image and photo editing software for Windows computers. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials and plugins.
Please make sure you have an ODIN login to log onto the lab computers. Please register early. Registration is limited to 20 individuals. |
Tues or Thurs 11/10 or 11/12/09 |
10 am - noon | NH 439 | Jeffery Wright |
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Intro to Audio Design (Open to students) |
This workshop with provide instruction on basic audio capturing/editing in Audacity. This includes capturing audio from an analog source to a digital file, removing/rearranging the contents of the audio, and noise reduction. This class is held on Macs in BHB 225. Please make sure you have an ODIN login to log onto the lab computers. Registrants should be familiar with the Mac Operating System (OS). Participants are encouraged to bring in a short (3-5 minute) audio clip. Please register early. Registration is limited to 15 individuals. |
Friday, 11/13/09 | 11 am - noon | BHB 225 | Colin Hill |
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Intro to iMovie (Open to students) |
Did you ever want to create your own movies and put them on DVD? Put your amateur filmmaking skills to good use by learning one of the quickest and easiest programs out there for video editing! This workshop will cover the basics of iMovie and iDVD, including capturing video, creating and deleting clips, basic transitions, and DVD creation. This workshop will set you on the path for stardom, and give you the skills necessary to have creative freedom with your digital movies. This class is a prerequisite for Intro to iDVD. Prerequisite: This class is held on Macs in BHB 225. Please make sure you have an ODIN login to log onto the lab computers. Registrants should be familiar with the Mac Operating System (OS). Participants are encouraged to bring a blank DVD-R and a short (3-5 minute) video along with the camera it was filmed on to practice video capturing. Please register early. Registration is limited to 15 individuals. |
Friday, 11/6/09 | 1 - 3 pm | BHB 225 | Leo Touza |
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Intro to iDVD (Open to students) |
Did you ever want to create your own movies and put them on DVD? Put your amateur filmmaking skills to good use by learning one of the quickest and easiest programs out there for video editing! This workshop will cover the basics of iDVD, including basic transitions and DVD creation. This workshop will set you on the path for stardom, and give you the skills necessary to have creative freedom with your digital movies.
Prerequisite: Intro to iMovie. This class is held on Macs in BHB 225. Please make sure you have an ODIN login to log onto the lab computers. Registrants should be familiar with the Mac Operating System (OS). Participants are encouraged to bring a blank DVD-R and a short (3-5 minute) video along with the camera it was filmed on to practice DVD creation. Please register early. Registration is limited to 15 individuals.
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Friday, 11/6/09 | 3 - 4 pm | BHB 225 | Leo Touza |
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Intro to Premiere (Open to students) |
This workshop is designed to make you fully proficient with one of the world's leading nonlinear digital video editing systems, Adobe Premiere Pro. Compatible with both PCs and Macs, this program will turn your work from amateur to professional- with some practice, of course. We will be covering the basics of digital video editing, including reviewing some key concepts for the class, such as creating/importing/deleting clips and subclips, basic transitions, titling and exporting for use on Adobe Encore DVD. If you like working with Final Cut Pro or iMovie, you'll love Adobe Premiere and it's integration with the entire Adobe suite, including After Effects and Photoshop! |
Friday, 11/20/09 | 12 - 2:50 pm | BHB 225 | Leo Touza |
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Navigating Office 2007 (Open to students) |
An overview of the differences between Office 2003 and Office 2007 for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Experience with Office 2000 or later required. Please register early. Registration is limited to 20 individuals. | Thursday, 10/15/09 | 2 - 3:50 pm | NH 439 | Joel Murphy |
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Intro to PowerPoint (Open to students) |
This introductory workshop covers basic PowerPoint concepts. Some of the topics included are:
Please register early. Registration is limited to 20 individuals. |
Tuesday, 11/3/09 | 10 am - noon | NH 439 | Max Oxman |
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Intro to Excel
(Open to students) |
An introduction to the basic use of Microsoft Excel and the concepts of a spreadsheet. The class covers entering and editing data in a spreadsheet, formatting, sorting and filtering, and basic formulas and functions.Please register early. Registration is limited to 20 individuals. |
Mon/Wed/Fri 10/12, 10/14, & 10/16/09 |
10 am - noon | NH 437 | Nate Henry |
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Intermediate Excel
(Open to students) |
This class covers intermediate Microsoft Excel topics including formulas and functions, charts, pivot reports, and data handling. Please register early. Registration is limited to 20 individuals. |
Mon/Wed/Fri 10/19, 10/21, & 10/23/09 |
1 - 3 pm | NH 439 | Jerrod Thomas |
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Intro to Access
(Open to students) |
An introduction to database design and application development using Microsoft Access. The class covers basic techniques to create tables, forms, queries, and reports. Prerequisite: must be familiar with using Microsoft Windows and other Microsoft Office applications such as Word, Excel, and/or PowerPoint.Please register early. Registration is limited to 20 individuals. |
Mon/Wed/Fri 11/2, 11/4, & 11/6/09 |
10 am - noon | NH 437 | Nate Henry |
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Web Development 101
(Open to students) |
Introduction to Web Design covers basic concepts about the internet and web page creation. Some of the topics included are:
This class is a prerequisite for Intro to Dreamweaver. Prerequisite: This class is held on Macs in BHB 225. Please make sure you have an ODIN login to log onto the lab computers. Registrants should be familiar with the Mac Operating System (OS) and web browser applications such as Safari, Firefox, and/or Internet Explorer. Please register early. Registration is limited to 15 individuals. |
Wednesday, 10/28/09
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1 - 3 pm | BHB 225 | Judith Terui |
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Intro to Dreamweaver
(Open to students) |
Dreamweaver is a software tool that helps you create effective web pages without having to do any programming. This session will provide basic information to new users of the Dreamweaver application, allowing for hands-on practice to build and manage a useful web site. We will study some basics about site architecture, or how a series of web pages are organized, and how to format a web page effectively. Learn just how easy it can be to put up a web page or site in no time at all! Prerequisite: Web Development 101. This class is held on Macs in BHB 225.Please make sure you have an ODIN login to log onto the lab computers. Registrants should be familiar with the Mac Operating System (OS) and web browser applications such as Safari, Firefox, and/or Internet Explorer. Please register early. Registration is limited to 15 individuals. |
**Rescheduled** |
1 - 4 pm | BHB 225 | Robert Bermond & Joel Murphy |
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Intro to Windows
(Open to students) |
An introduction to the Windows operating system and basic computing practices. This information includes logging in, desktop familiarity, file management, anti-virus maintenance. Please register early. Registration is limited to 20 individuals. |
Tues/Thurs 10/6 & 10/8/09 |
2 - 4 pm | NH 439 | Kirby Broderick |
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Intro to Webmail
(Open to students) |
An introduction to webmail. This includes checking, composing, sending, adding attachments to emails, and setting the vacation message. Please register early. Registration is limited to 20 individuals. |
Tues/Thurs 10/20 & 10/22/09 |
2 - 4 pm | NH 439 | Kirby Broderick |
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Security Awareness Q & A
(Open to students) |
Drop-in monthly sessions regarding a variety of security topics. Open to faculty, staff, and students. No registration is required; please do not contact HRC for this class. |
Second Thursday of the month.
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1 - 2 pm | SMSU 236 | Craig Schiller |
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BHB
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The Broadway Housing Building, 625 SW Jackson Street, 2nd Floor. Enter on SW Jackson or SW Sixth. Located inside BHB 226 lab. |
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NH
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Neuberger Hall, 724 SW Harrison, 4th Floor |
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CH
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Cramer Hall, 1721 SW Broadway, 3rd Floor |
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SMSU
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Smith Memorial Student Union, 1825 SW Broadway, 2nd Floor |
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