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Tue 16 Nov 2010 – Fri 19 Nov 2010

Tuesday 16 November 2010

09:30	Cisco CCNA for IT Supporters: Module 2 - LAN Switching and Wireless (7 of 11) Finished 09:30 - 13:00 Balfour Macintosh Room The Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) programme is open to University IT Supporters. It covers network technology, protocols and theory at deeper levels reflective of university practices. There is a fee to attend this course. You will learn the basics of routing, switching, and advanced technologies to acquire the skills required to provide a robust and secure network in your institution's and it prepares you for CCNA certification. We offer this program as instructor led with remote access to the curriculum and an online networks laboratory called NETLAB. There is a mix of lecture, demonstrations and a heavy emphasis on practical activities using live lab equipment and a simulation package. Further details and pricing information are available. This is the second module of four modules in the CCNA programme. 1. Networking Fundamentals 2. LAN Switching and Wireless 3. Routing Protocols and Concepts 4. Accessing the WAN
	Web Authoring: DreamWeaver Introduction (Level 4) Finished 09:30 - 13:00 Balfour Macintosh Room Macromedia Dreamweaver is a powerful web creation tool that allows non-technical people to produce professional websites. This course provides a practical introduction for those that wish to use Dreamweaver to create web-pages and manage websites. It focuses on building a small website.
	C: Introduction for Those New to Programming (1 of 3) Finished 09:30 - 13:00 Titan Teaching Room 1 A course in basic C programming intended for beginners to programming only. The aim of the course is to get everyone to the stage of being able to write small utility programs in C for carrying out simple calculations and data manipulation.
14:00	Module 12: Designing Surveys (2 of 4) Finished 14:00 - 15:30 8 Mill Lane, Lecture Room 1 This module is part of the Social Science Research Methods Course programme which is a shared platform for providing research students with a broad range of quantitative and qualitative research methods skills that are relevant across the social sciences. This module aims to provide students with an overview of survey methods, uses and limitations; to introduce students to the practicalities of design and use of surveys; to examine complexities of question and answer process; to examine practicalities of survey sampling and response.
	Module 2: SPSS and Descriptive Statistics (Series 3) (2 of 4) Finished 14:00 - 16:00 Titan Teaching Room 2 This module is part of the Social Science Research Methods Course programme which is a shared platform for providing research students with a broad range of quantitative and qualitative research methods skills that are relevant across the social sciences. This module is essential for the statistical methods modules, which follow.
	Module 2: SPSS and Descriptive Statistics (Series 2) (2 of 4) Finished 14:00 - 16:00 Titan Teaching Room 1 This module is part of the Social Science Research Methods Course programme which is a shared platform for providing research students with a broad range of quantitative and qualitative research methods skills that are relevant across the social sciences. This module is essential for the statistical methods modules, which follow.
	Module 2: SPSS and Descriptive Statistics for Judge Students (2 of 4) Finished 14:00 - 17:00 Judge Business School, Computer Room This module is part of the Social Science Research Methods Course programme which is a shared platform for providing research students with a broad range of quantitative and qualitative research methods skills that are relevant across the social sciences. This module is essential for the statistical methods modules.
14:15	Stata for Regression Analysis (1 of 2) Finished 14:15 - 17:00 Phoenix Teaching Room This course is for new users who have learnt how to get data into Stata, and know how to operate basic syntax having completed the Basics course or through self-study with the student version or manuals. Emphasis will be on examples of running applied analyses of regression models for continuous, binary and ordinal outcomes using standard Stata procedures. Guidance will also be provided on further addons that may be of interest.
	LaTeX (Text processing): Introduction (1 of 2) Finished 14:15 - 16:00 Cockcroft Lecture Theatre LaTeX is a powerful document description language built on top of TeX. It is available on Unix, Windows and Macintoshes. It can be used for the presentation of plain text (including accented characters and letters outside the English alphabet), the typesetting of mathematics, the generation of tables, and producing simple diagrams. It is particularly suited for the writing of theses, papers and technical documents.
16:00	Module 7: Regression and binary and categorical outcomes (2 of 4) Finished 16:00 - 18:00 Titan Teaching Room 2 Module is designed to teach students how to analyse different types of data using SPSS; including outputs, conducting diagnostic tests, calculating effect sizes and make predictions.

Wednesday 17 November 2010

09:00	New User Payables Finished 09:00 - 13:00 Greenwich House: Training Room 1 During the course you will: Process Suppliers' Invoices on the system Match invoices to Purchase Orders and deal with any discrepancies Process Suppliers' Credit notes on the system Process Invoices received from another department Query and extract basic information from the system Become aware of the month-end reports available to you
09:30	Stata for Regression Analysis (2 of 2) Finished 09:30 - 13:00 Phoenix Teaching Room This course is for new users who have learnt how to get data into Stata, and know how to operate basic syntax having completed the Basics course or through self-study with the student version or manuals. Emphasis will be on examples of running applied analyses of regression models for continuous, binary and ordinal outcomes using standard Stata procedures. Guidance will also be provided on further addons that may be of interest.
	C: Introduction for Those New to Programming (2 of 3) Finished 09:30 - 13:00 Titan Teaching Room 1 A course in basic C programming intended for beginners to programming only. The aim of the course is to get everyone to the stage of being able to write small utility programs in C for carrying out simple calculations and data manipulation.
10:00	Module 18: Researching Organisations (3 of 3) Finished 10:00 - 12:00 8 Mill Lane Lecture Room 4 This module is part of the Social Science Research Methods Course programme which is a shared platform for providing research students with a broad range of quantitative and qualitative research
14:00	Module 17 Conversation and Discourse Analaysis (2 of 4) Finished 14:00 - 15:30 8 Mill Lane, Lecture Room 1 This module is part of the Social Science Research Methods Course programme which is a shared platform for providing research students with a broad range of quantitative and qualitative research
14:15	LaTeX (Text processing): Introduction (2 of 2) Finished 14:15 - 16:00 Cockcroft Lecture Theatre LaTeX is a powerful document description language built on top of TeX. It is available on Unix, Windows and Macintoshes. It can be used for the presentation of plain text (including accented characters and letters outside the English alphabet), the typesetting of mathematics, the generation of tables, and producing simple diagrams. It is particularly suited for the writing of theses, papers and technical documents.
	Photoshop: Further Techniques Finished 14:15 - 17:00 Balfour Macintosh Room Following on from the "Photoshop: Basic Techniques" course, this course covers some of the more advanced feature of Adobe Photoshop, the popular image manipulation and editing tool for graphics and design professionals. The course will explore some of the more advanced features of Photoshop. Techniques will be explained and demonstrated, and participants will then be given the opportunity to practice these for themselves.
	Unix: Simple Shell Scripting for Scientists (2 of 3) Finished 14:15 - 17:00 Titan Teaching Room 1 This course is part of the Scientific Computing series. No previous experience of shell scripting is required for this course; however some knowledge of the interactive use of the bash shell is a prerequisite (see Simple Shell Scripting for Scientists: Prerequisites for details). This course introduces shell scripting in bash for scientific computing tasks. Day one introduces very basic shell scripts in bash which process the command line in a simple fashion. Day two covers how to write more advanced shell scripts in bash. Day three covers how to make one's shell scripts more robust. At the end of each day one or more exercises are set. It is VERY IMPORTANT that attendees attempt these exercises before the next day of the course. Attendees should make sure that they have allowed themselves sufficient study time for these exercises between each day of the course.

Thursday 18 November 2010

09:30	C: Introduction for Those New to Programming (3 of 3) Finished 09:30 - 13:00 Titan Teaching Room 1 A course in basic C programming intended for beginners to programming only. The aim of the course is to get everyone to the stage of being able to write small utility programs in C for carrying out simple calculations and data manipulation.
10:30	LaTeX Follow-up Practical Using Texshop on a Macintosh Finished 10:30 - 12:30 Balfour Macintosh Room This follow-up practical gives those who have attended the LaTeX Introduction an opportunity to do exercises under supervision.
14:15	InDesign (Desktop Publishing): Getting Started Finished 14:15 - 17:00 Balfour Macintosh Room InDesign is a desktop publishing package available for both Macs and PCs which is used to build up a publication from ready-prepared text, images and graphics in the same way as QuarkXpress and PageMaker. Participants use pre-written text and scanned-in pictures to assemble and produce a double-sided, two-column newsletter using InDesign.

Friday 19 November 2010

09:15	SPSS (Statistical Package): Basic Part 2 Finished 09:15 - 12:15 Titan Teaching Room 2 SPSS is a powerful general purpose statistical package with high quality graphics and tabulation facilities, and a reputation for being relatively user-friendly. This session follows on from Part 1 and covers useful techniques and tricks. It is strongly recommended for anyone likely to use SPSS for any but the very simplest analysis of the very simplest data.
09:30	Web Authoring: Web Graphics (Level 3) Finished 09:30 - 12:30 Titan Teaching Room 1 The rendering time for web pages is dominated by the graphics on the page. This course teaches methods of preparing graphics so minimise information loss and maximise transfer and rendering efficiency. There is an opportuinity to try the methods using PhotoShop.
14:15	Word 2007: Mastering Dissertations and Theses (Level 3) Finished 14:15 - 17:00 Cockcroft Lecture Theatre This course is a task-focused version of the "Mastering Advanced Features" course. It is designed to give a overview of the advanced features of Microsoft Word 2007 that are most relevant to producing dissertations, theses and other long documents.
	Unix: Simple Shell Scripting for Scientists (3 of 3) Finished 14:15 - 17:00 Titan Teaching Room 1 This course is part of the Scientific Computing series. No previous experience of shell scripting is required for this course; however some knowledge of the interactive use of the bash shell is a prerequisite (see Simple Shell Scripting for Scientists: Prerequisites for details). This course introduces shell scripting in bash for scientific computing tasks. Day one introduces very basic shell scripts in bash which process the command line in a simple fashion. Day two covers how to write more advanced shell scripts in bash. Day three covers how to make one's shell scripts more robust. At the end of each day one or more exercises are set. It is VERY IMPORTANT that attendees attempt these exercises before the next day of the course. Attendees should make sure that they have allowed themselves sufficient study time for these exercises between each day of the course.