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Program Title: Word Processing I Description: Create, print & save letters, lists, envelopes, notes, invitations flyers. Move words & paragraphs around. Make words interesting: bold, underline, italics, centering. See why the words move, wrap or "don't fit." Change type styles, size, color; add bold, underline, italics. Print sideways ("landscape"); pick different margins, double-spacing. Spell check & thesaurus. Page numbering, headers & footers. Make forms using Tables. Program Length: 12 hours of 1-on-1 instruction, 24+ hours of practice recommended. Certificate Awarded: "Certificate of Completion" with Program Title, Class Hours & Practice Hours. Prerequisite: Skills on the level of Windows / Mac Basics plus High School/GED English; Ability to Benefit Test for individuals without HS diploma/GED. Program Cost: $900 total institutional charges. Funding / Payment: This program is not funded by state or federal financial assistance. It may be funded by Workers' Comp insurance company, or the individual. Program Title: Word Processing II Description: Newsletters, Pictures, Magazine Pages, Flyers: Make dull typing come alive. Put it into columns, add text boxes, graphic lines, WordArt, pictures and clipart, special typestyles and effects. Get images from Internet, scanner, digital cameras, etc. Sample document work: flyers, newsletters, magazine formats. Program Length: 12 hours of 1-on-1 instruction, 24+ hours of practice recommended. Certificate Awarded: "Certificate of Completion" with Program Title, Class Hours + Practice hours. Prerequisite: Skills on the level of WordProcessing I plus High School/GED English; Ability to Benefit Test for individuals without HS diploma/GED. Program Cost: $900 total institutional charges. Funding / Payment: This program is not funded by state or federal financial assistance. It may be funded by Workers' Comp insurance company, or the individual. Program Title: Speed Tricks Description: Fast Typing Tricks. Quick production tips; keyboard shortcuts, mouse tricks. Make your own automation with simple macros. Demonstration of Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Program Length: 3 hours of 1-on-1 instruction, 6+ hours of practice recommended. Certificate Awarded: "Certificate of Completion" with Program Title, Class Hours + Practice hours. Prerequisite: Skills on the level of our WordProcessing I, High School/GED Math; ABT test. Program Cost: $225 total institutional charges. Funding / Payment: This program is not funded by state or federal financial assistance. It may be funded by Workers' Comp insurance company, or the individual. Program Title: Talk, Don’t Type (Dragon NaturallySpeaking) Description: Use Dragon NaturallySpeaking to type and operate your computer by voice. Use a microphone headset to say words and numbers and see them typed into emails and apps like MS Word and Excel. Verbal commands to surf the Internet, search for any subject. Click links and pictures by saying them. Tell the computer to scroll up / down / through web pages. Tell computer to click and do other "mouse tasks." Mouse and keyboard still work whenever you want to do it the hard way. Program Length: 16 hours of 1-on-1 instruction, 32+ hours of practice recommended. Certificate Awarded: "Certificate of Completion" with Program Title, Class Hours + Practice hours. Prerequisite: Skills on the level of WordProcessing I plus High School/GED English; Ability to Benefit Test for individuals without HS diploma/GED. Program Cost: $1200 total charges. Funding / Payment: This program is not funded by state or federal financial assistance. It may be funded by Workers' Comp insurance company, or the individual. Program Title: Spreadsheet Basics Description: Use MS Excel, to work with numbers the easiest way. Simple budget for home or business. Add up or average amounts of money, miles, hours, clients. Use the main 8 easy formulas. Change the how numbers appear, with $ and % formats. Use speed tricks to copy numbers and text. Insert new columns and rows, change column widths. Fit the spreadsheet on the page. Print with or without gridlines. Instruction is 1-on-1, online or in person. Program Length: 8 hours of 1-on-1 instruction, 16+ hours of practice recommended. Certificate Awarded: "Certificate of Completion" with Program Title, Class Hours + Practice hours. Prerequisite: Skills on the level of our Windows / Mac Basics program, plus High School/GED Math; Ability to Benefit Test for individuals without HS diploma/GED. Program Cost: $680 total institutional charges. Funding / Payment: This program is not funded by state or federal financial assistance. It may be funded by Workers' Comp insurance company, or the individual. Program Title: Spreadsheet Intermediate Skills Description: Use MS Excel to make self-calculating invoices. Easy pie charts, line, column, & bar charts. Add colors, textures, pictures, grids, legends and labels to charts. Change fonts, shadings, lines, borders. Sort & filter lists of employees, departments, parts, miles, sales, clients. Track expenses over a year. How to use larger worksheet areas. Program Length: 8 hours of 1-on-1 instruction, 16+ hours of practice recommended. Certificate Awarded: "Certificate of Completion" with Program Title, Class Hours + Practice hours. Prerequisite: Skills on the level of our Spreadsheet Basics program, plus High School/GED Math; Ability to Benefit Test for individuals without HS diploma/GED. Program Cost: $680 total institutional charges. Funding / Payment: This program is not funded by state or federal financial assistance. It may be funded by Workers' Comp insurance company, or the individual. Program Title: Basic Internet Skills Description: Emails-- send and receive, attach documents, pictures and links. How the Internet works. Find information, news, film clips for business and personal communications. Navigating among websites. Use MapQuest, YouTube, eBay, Google, Google Earth, Facebook, other popular websites. Capture Internet pictures, text and links to documents. Viruses, spam, and pop-ups. Program Length: 7 hours of 1-on-1 instruction, 14+ hours of practice recommended. Certificate Awarded: "Certificate of Completion" with Program Title, Class Hours + Practice hours. Prerequisite: Skills on the level of our Windows / Mac Basics program. Program Cost: $525 total institutional charges. Funding / Payment: This program is not funded by state or federal financial assistance. It may be funded by Workers' Comp insurance company, or the individual. Program Title: Web Page Building Description: Build a web page for your business, employer, family or social group, school or personal interests. Use an easy website builder program to add pages, major and minor links, pictures, text boxes. Make words or pictures link to other pages or websites. Post pictures, products, films, music, documents, information of any kind. Program Length: 20 hours of 1-on-1 instruction, 20+ hours of practice recommended. Certificate Awarded: "Certificate of Completion" with Program Title, Class Hours + Practice hours. Prerequisite: Skills on the level of WordProcessing I, Pictures I, Basic Internet, High School/ GED English; Ability to Benefit Test for individuals without HS diploma/GED. Program Cost: $1500 total institutional charges. Funding / Payment: This program is not funded by state or federal financial assistance. It may be funded by Workers' Comp insurance company, or the individual. |
Workers injured on the job often receive $6,000 for online classes and a computer.
Workers who are injured on the job are entitled to special funds for classes and equipment such as computers, under California law. Many injured workers never learned computer skills and now need them. Others have learned older software, or haven't used the programs for a while, and just need to update or renew their skills. Since 1988 we have trained injured workers through worker's compensation plans. Our training has been funded by all major insurance companies. Our training is one-on-one. The teaching goes at your pace, and you can learn much more easily than in a classroom where 20 people are waiting to ask questions. We also teach speech-recognition, which lets you talk into your computer instead of typing. This is a great solution for people with injuries, or who don't want injuries. And yes, the keyboard and mouse still work. Frequently Asked Questions
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Pictures I – Get Pictures into Your Computer Description: Get pictures into your computer. Transfer pictures between computer and camera, iphone, CD or flash drive. Scan old pictures; capture Internet pix and screen shots of anything on computer screen. Add pix to documents, Facebook, emails, etc. Crop, change size, brightness, contrast. Enhance computer with picture or slide show. Program Length: 7 hours of 1-on-1 instruction, 14+ hours of practice recommended. Certificate Awarded: "Certificate of Completion" with Program Title, Class Hours + Practice hours. Prerequisite: Skills on the level of our Windows / Mac Basics program. Program Cost: $525 total institutional charges. Funding / Payment: This program is not funded by state or federal financial assistance. It may be funded by Workers' Comp insurance company, or the individual. Program Title: Pictures II – Mixing Pictures and Words Description: Add pictures to newsletters, reports, flyers. Move pictures, enlarge & shrink; reverse position of people in a picture; crop out anything; cut pictures into star, heart, or arrow shapes; increase color density, make colored pictures black and white, 1900s sepia look, colored tints. Add special art effects. Combine several pix into one. Put images behind the words in documents, invitations, flyers, tables. Program Length: 11 hours of 1-on-1 instruction, 22+ hours of practice recommended. Certificate Awarded: "Certificate of Completion" with Program Title, Class Hours + Practice hours. Prerequisite: Skills on the level of our WordProcessing I and Pictures I, plus High School/GED English; Ability to Benefit Test for individuals without HS diploma/GED. Program Cost: $825 total institutional charges. Funding / Payment: This program is not funded by state or federal financial assistance. It may be funded by Workers' Comp insurance company, or the individual. Program Title: PowerPoint – Pictures Slide Shows & Presentations Description: Put pictures into a presentation. Add or rearrange slides, add transitions and animations. Add music and video clips. Import text or numbers from MS Word & elsewhere. Run your presentation, save it as a show to send to other people. Put PowerPoint shows on YouTube, privately or publicly. Program Length: 8 hours of 1-on-1 instruction, 16+ hours of practice recommended. Certificate Awarded: "Certificate of Completion" with Program Title, Class Hours + Practice hours. Prerequisite: Skills on the level of our Windows / Mac Basics program. Program Cost: $600 total institutional charges. Funding / Payment: This program is not funded by state or federal financial assistance. It may be funded by Workers' Comp insurance company, or the individual. Program Title: Personal Computers Description: Basic PC / MAC concepts: hardware vs software. Storage in hard drives, CDs, DVDs, flash drives. Temporary memory vs storage. Computer keyboard, mouse. Open, look into a computer (video). Boot up, shut down correctly. Use apps. Program Length: 5 hours of 1-on-1 instruction, 10+ hours of practice recommended. Certificate Awarded: "Certificate of Completion" with Program Title, Class Hours + Practice hours. Prerequisite: Ability to communicate in English with the teacher. Program Cost: $375 total institutional charges. Funding / Payment: This program is not funded by state or federal financial assistance. It may be funded by Workers' Comp insurance company, or the individual. Program Title: Windows / MAC – Basics Description: Left click vs Right click. Open, close, move & resize windows. Work with menus, & dialog boxes. New desktop picture or slide show. Start apps for Internet, email, documents, CDs and DVDs. Play music or watch films on computer. Create desktop shortcut icons. Use several apps at once. Share text between emails and MS Word. Organize folders to keep documents, pictures, other items. Program Length: 3 hours of 1-on-1 instruction, 6+ hours of practice recommended. Certificate Awarded: "Certificate of Completion" with Program Title, Class Hours + Practice hours. Prerequisite: Ability to communicate in English with the teacher. Program Cost: $225 total institutional charges. Funding / Payment: This program is not funded by state or federal financial assistance. It may be funded by Workers' Comp insurance company, or the individual. Program Title: Windows / MAC – Intermediate Description: Create desktop icons, use and make folders with Windows Explorer; desktop, screen saver, color and sound changes; using several applications, transfer information between programs; Windows utilities and programs. Program Length: 5 hours of 1-on-1 instruction, 10+ hours of practice recommended. Certificate Awarded: "Certificate of Completion" with Program Title, Class Hours + Practice hours. Prerequisite: Skills on the level of our Windows / Mac Basics program. Program Cost: $375 total institutional charges. Funding / Payment: This program is not funded by state or federal financial assistance. It may be funded by Workers' Comp insurance company, or the individual. Program Title: English, Writing Skills Description: Make a better sentence or paragraph, report or business letter. Punctuation: When should I use a comma? a semi-colon, a colon or a dash? parenthesis or brackets? Does the space go before or after the period? Where to put quotation marks. When to use an apostrophe. Common mistakes: your vs you're, their vs there vs they're.. Single vs plural. Stop being tense about present tense and past tense. Whether you have 3 boats or 3 boat’s. Its versus it’s… Program Length: 7 hours of 1-on-1 instruction, 14+ hours of practice recommended. Certificate Awarded: "Certificate of Completion" with Program Title, Class Hours + Practice hours. Prerequisite: Skills on the level of our Windows / Mac Basics program Program Cost: $525 total institutional charges. Funding / Payment: This program is not funded by state or federal financial assistance. It may be funded by Workers' Comp insurance company, or the individual. Program Title: English, through Rosetta Stone Description: Assistance with English for people whose native language is not English. Rosetta Stone lets you use your computer to improve English speaking skills. Supervision by an English-speaking instructor, while using a microphone headset and the top-rated English language program on your own computer. Program Length: 10 hours of 1-on-1 instruction, 20+ hours of practice recommended. Certificate Awarded: "Certificate of Completion" with Program Title, Class Hours + Practice hours. Prerequisite: Skills on the level of our Windows / Mac Basics program. Program Cost: $750 total institutional charges. Funding / Payment: This program is not funded by state or federal financial assistance. It may be funded by Workers' Comp insurance company, or the individual. |
Workers who are injured on the job are entitled to special funds for classes and equipment such as computers, under California law.
Many injured workers never learned computer skills and now need them. Others have learned older software, or haven't used the programs for a while, and just need to update or renew their skills.
Since 1988 we have trained injured workers through worker's compensation plans. Our training has been funded by all major insurance companies.
Our training is one-on-one. The teaching goes at your pace, and you can learn much more easily than in a classroom where 20 people are waiting to ask questions.
We also teach speech-recognition, which lets you talk into your computer instead of typing. This is a great solution for people with injuries, or who don't want injuries. And yes, the keyboard and mouse still work.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Where is the class? Training is online, with your own teacher. You learn from your home or office!
- How many classes can I take? An injured worker can use their benefit to take a program of courses with us up to a maximum of $2450.
- Practice computer? We advise and help you to find good computer equipment with your training funds, at your favorite store.
- How often is my class? Classes are usually twice weekly, 2 hours each class.
- What will make me good at these skills? 1) Your wish to learn. 2) A patient teacher who wants you to do well. 3) A little practice between lessons!
- How will I show these skills on a job interview? Collect the documents you make in your classes. They will put to rest the question of "do you have experience." Your answer will be "Yes, look at these pages. Here is what I have already done. I can do the same for you."