Course notes for Microsoft Excel 2007

Good evening, everyone.
I have just posted some course notes for Microsoft Excel 2007 to the Course Notes page.
At the moment, there are instructions about entering data into a spreadsheet, navigating inside a spreadsheet with Jaws, creating formulae, and using basic functions like “SUM” and “COUNTIF.”
More should follow soon.

More course notes added

Good evening, everyone.
Today I posted course notes for Skype.
As usual, you can find them on the Course Notes page, or under the “Pages” heading on the right side of the main blog page.
I’m hoping to post some preliminary notes for Microsoft Excel 2007 soon, probably by the end of this week. Please watch for an announcement when they’ve been posted to the blog.

On-line course notes

Good evening, everyone.
In preparation for the 2008 training course that will start next month in Penang, I have decided to post all of the course notes to the blog.
At the moment, there are notes for three topics:

• Common Windows tasks,
• Internet Explorer 7, and
• Microsoft Word 2007.

I shall post the notes for the remaining topics over the next few weeks.
You can access the course notes from the Course Notes page, or you can find links to them on the right side of the main blog page under the “Pages” heading.

More on training topics for the 2008 workshop

Good evening, everyone.
Since my last post about the 2008 training schedule, the topics and dates have now been finalized.
The Penang part of the course will start on Wednesday the 30th of July, and end on Thursday the 21st of August.
The trainees will probably arrive in Penang on Monday the 28th of July, and we shall all travel to Japan together on Saturday the 23rd of August.
Regarding the training topics, we hope to cover the following:

• Microsoft Word 2007 (beginner to advanced)
• Microsoft Excel 2007 (beginner to intermediate)
• Microsoft Powerpoint 2007 (beginner to intermediate)
• Browsing the web with Internet Explorer
• E-mail with Windows Mail
• Instant messaging and voice-chatting with Skype
• Burning, ripping and playing music (we haven’t decided on the software application yet)
• How to make a blog
• How to make a podcast
• How to use the free screen reader NVDA
• How to use other free and open-source software, like Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird
• Computer security with AVG antivirus and a firewall (again, we haven’t yet decided which firewall to use).

Of course, we will also cover using Microsoft Windows Vista and how to get the most out of Jaws for Windows.
Please watch this space for more details as they become available.

Ubuntu Version 8.4 has been released

Good evening, everyone.
In April, a new version of the Ubuntu Linux distribution was released.
This version includes many accessibility improvements, and is definitely worth installing.
There is an excellent audio tutorial by Darragh Ó Héiligh about how to install Ubuntu version 8.4 with speech. However, there are many other useful walk-throughs and tutorials on his site, so I’d definitely encourage you to take a look.