Saturday Seminars
VRCBVI offers approximately twenty Saturday classes a year on various technology related topics. Appropriate participants are adults with visual impairments and technology service providers. The following classes have been scheduled but will only be offered if a sufficient number of people sign up for the course. For detailed description of the classes, follow the class links. For further information about these classes and to register, click here.
Saturday Seminars: March 7, 2009 | April 4, 2009
March 7, 2009
- Beginning Excel with JAWS
- JAWS 9.1 in Vista with Microsoft Word 2007
- PAC Mate
- ZoomText 9.1 for Vista with Microsoft Word 2007
Beginning Excel with JAWS
On Saturday, March 7, 2009 the Virginia Rehabilitation Center for the Blind and Vision Impaired will offer training in Beginning Excel in VISTA for JAWS users. The class will meet from 9:00 to 3:00 in the VRCBVI Activities and Administration Building.
This seminar is designed for Beginning Excel users who are using VISTA and have prior experience with JAWS.
Seminar Costs: $25.00 (includes lunch and refreshments)
Registration Deadline: Feb. 20, 2009
Excel 2003 Topics will include:
- What is Excel?
- Navigating and Reading Worksheet Data
- Entering Data
- Widening Columns
- Editing Data
- Understanding Fills
- Understanding Simple Formulas
- Formatting Cells and Numbers
- Saving
- Printing
- Creating and Printing a Spreadsheet
For further information and to register for this class contact:
Carol D. Koger
VRCBVI
401 Azalea Avenue
Richmond, VA 23227
(804) 371-3326
carol.koger@dbvi.virginia.gov
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JAWS 9.1 in Vista with Microsoft Word 2007
On Saturday, March 7, 2009 the Virginia Rehabilitation Center for the Blind and Vision Impaired will offer training in JAWS with Microsoft Word. The class will meet from 9:00 to 3:00 in the VRCBVI Activities and Administration Building.
This seminar is designed for new JAWS users interested in learning to use Microsoft Office Word 2007.
Seminar Costs: $25.00 (includes lunch and refreshments).
Registration Deadline: Feb. 20, 2009
JAWS skills will include:
- JAWS Speech Adjustments: volume, rate, person, pitch, punctuation
- Typing Echo: character, word, both, none
- Reading: character, word, line, document
- Spell current word
- Reading Title Bar
- Reading Status Bar
- Defining, recognizing, and routing JAWS and PC cursors
Microsoft Word skills will include:
- Starting MS Word
- Opening an existing file
- Exploring cursor movements
- Editing a document
- Delete, Backspace, Select Text, Spell Check, Find, Replace
- Creating a document
- Margins, Alignment (right, left, center, full), Formatting Text (bold, italics, underline), Line Spacing, Selecting Text (cut, copy, paste), and Envelopes
- Save As versus Save
- Printing a document
- Closing a file
- Closing program
For further information and to register for this class contact:
Carol D. Koger
VRCBVI
401 Azalea Avenue
Richmond, VA 23227
(804) 371-3326
carol.koger@dbvi.virginia.gov
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PAC Mate
The Virginia Rehabilitation Center for the Blind and Vision Impaired and Freedom Scientific will offer PAC Mate training on Saturday, March 7, 2009 from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. in the VRCBVI Activities and Administration Building.
Prerequisites: Proficiency in Grade 1 Braille and keyboarding using either six-key Braille entry or qwerty keyboard
Seminar Costs: $25.00 (includes lunch and refreshments)
Registration Deadline: Feb. 20, 2009
Level I – Beginner skills will include:
- Moving through menus and opening menu items
- Getting help
- Setting voice commands
- Setting keyboard and reading commands
- Accessing the manual
- Creating new files in FS Edit
- Opening existing files in FS Edit
- Using reading commands in FS Edit
- Using editing commands in FS Edit
- Formatting text in FS Edit
- Saving files in FS Edit
- Using the spell checker in FS Edit
- Printing FS Edit files
- Calculating using FS Calc
- Setting and reading time and date
- Entering appointments in the calendar
- Retrieving appointments from the calendar
- Entering personal data in the address book
- Retrieving personal data from the address book
Level II – A demonstration of skills may be offered, depending on registrant skills. Level II skills would include:
- Creating files in Pocket Word
- Opening existing files in Pocket Word
- Editing files in Pocket Word
- Saving files in Pocket Word
- Using the spell checker in Pocket Word
- Cutting, copying, and pasting text in Pocket Word
- Deleting and renaming files
- Printing Pocket Word files
- Making folders
- Copying and moving files to specific folders
- Copying and moving files to specific drives
- Saving files in specific formats
- Saving files in specific folders
- Saving files to specific drives
- Using the standard calculator
For further information and to register for this class contact:
Carol D. Koger
VRCBVI
401 Azalea Avenue
Richmond, VA 23227
(804) 371-3326
carol.koger@dbvi.virginia.gov
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ZoomText 9.1 for Vista with Microsoft Word 2007
On Saturday, March 7, 2009, the Virginia Rehabilitation Center for the Blind and Vision Impaired will offer training in ZoomText with Microsoft Word. The class will meet from 9:00 to 3:00 in the VRCBVI Activities and Administration Building. This seminar is designed for new ZoomText users who have prior experience with word processing in a Windows environment.
Seminar Costs: $25.00 (includes lunch and refreshments).
Registration Deadline: Feb. 20, 2009
ZoomText skills will include:
- Activating / Deactivating the program
- User Interface
- DocReader
- App Reader
- Zoom Windows
- Key Commands
Microsoft Word skills will include:
- Starting MS Word
- Opening an existing file
- Exploring cursor movements
- Editing a document
- Delete, Backspace, Select Text, Spell Check, Find, Replace
- Creating a document
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Margins, Alignment (right, left, center, full), Formatting Text (bold, italics, underline), Line Spacing, Selecting Text (cut, copy, paste), and Envelopes
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- Save As versus Save
- Printing a document
- Closing a file
- Closing program
For further information and to register for this class contact:
Carol D. Koger
VRCBVI
401 Azalea Avenue
Richmond, VA 23227
(804) 371-3326
carol.koger@dbvi.virginia.gov
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April 4, 2009
BRAILLENOTE BT & VOICEMAIL BT
On Saturday, April 4, 2009 the Virginia Rehabilitation Center for the Blind and Vision Impaired and Integration Technologies Group, Inc. will offer Beginner Level BrailleNote and VoiceNote training. Instruction will be provided from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. in the VRCBVI Activities and Administration Building.
Prerequisites: Proficiency in Grade 1 Braille
Seminar Costs: $25.00 (includes lunch and refreshments)
Registration Deadline: March 20, 2009Level I – Beginner skills will include:
- Time, Date
- Set voice commands
- Electronic User Manual
- Open new or existing file commands
- Write file commands
- Read file commands
- Edit commands
- Print commands
- Basic calculator commands
- Braille display thumb key commands
- Braille display options
Level II – A demonstration of intermediate skills may be provided depending on registrant skills and interests. Level II skills would include:
- Format commands
- File manager menu options
- Address Book
- Book Reader
- Planner
- File menu commands
- Copy files
- Spell checker file
- Disk drive commands
- Scientific calculator functions
For further information and to register for this class contact:
Carol D. Koger
VRCBVI
401 Azalea Avenue
Richmond, VA 23227
(804) 371-3326
carol.koger@dbvi.virginia.gov
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DUXBURY BRAILLE TRANSLATOR
The Virginia Rehabilitation Center for the Blind and Vision Impaired will offer Duxbury Braille Translator 10.3 training on Saturday, April 4, 2009 in the VRCBVI Activities and Administration Building. Participants can sign up for either the 9:00 to 11:30 session or the 12:30 to 3:00 session.
Prerequisites:
- Ability to independently operate a computer in Windows using vision or JAWS voice
- Proficiency in Grade II Braille
Seminar Costs: $20.00 (includes lunch and refreshments)
Registration Deadline: March 20, 2009Skills will include:
- Keying in a document in MS Word to be brailled
- Editing a document in MS Word in preparation for brailling
- Opening a Word document in Duxbury
- Exploring layout, document and global settings
- Checking and if necessary editing the Duxbury print document
- Saving the Duxbury print document
- Translating the Duxbury print document to a Duxbury braille document
- Checking and if necessary editing the Duxbury braille document
- Saving the Duxbury braille document
- Choosing the braille embosser from Duxbury
- Setting up the braille embosser to receive the Duxbury braille document
- Embossing the Duxbury braille document
- Checking the braille copy for formatting and accuracy
For further information and to register for this class contact:
Carol D. Koger
VRCBVI
401 Azalea Avenue
Richmond, VA 23227
(804) 371-3326
carol.koger@dbvi.virginia.gov
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INTERNET and E-MAIL via ZoomText 9
On Saturday, April 4, 2009 the Virginia Rehabilitation Center for the Blind and Vision Impaired will offer training in accessing the Internet and E-mail with ZoomText. The class will meet from 9:00 to 3:00 in the VRCBVI Activities and Administration Building.
This seminar is designed for new Internet users who have prior experience with ZoomText.
Seminar Costs: $25.00 (includes lunch and refreshments)
Registration Deadline: March 20, 2009
Internet Topics will include:
- Basic Internet Concepts
- Navigating and Reading Web Pages
- Using Links
- Searches
- Saving Sites as a Favorite
E-mail Topics will include:
- Reading Messages
- Sending Messages
- Replying and Forwarding Messages
- Saving and Deleting Messages
- Composing Messages
For further information and to register for this class contact:
Carol D. Koger
VRCBVI
401 Azalea Avenue
Richmond, VA 23227
(804) 371-3326
carol.koger@dbvi.virginia.gov
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