During Fall and Spring semesters the Information Technology Division offers a variety of workshops to SPSU students free of charge. Please contact the IT Labs Manager for more information about training workshops.

Workshops Spring 2009

Coloring in Photoshop Feb 20th, 3:00 PM - 5:00PM: H262 Dave will discuss various methods of using layers, gradients, and the select tool to change the way you spress yourself in Adobe PhotoShop. The workshop will consist of 45 minutes of tutorial and lecture followed by 1 hour of assisted lab in H262. Bring a scan of your own sketch or use one of Dave's. There are 30 seats available for this workshop, first come first served.

More Workshops are being planned, if you have a request or an idea for a workshop please contact Dave in the H242 Lab or by email

Sign-up Sheets are available at the Helpdesk (H-242)

or call 678-915-HELP (4357)

Past Workshops:

Digital Video Production

This workshop introduces Adobe Premiere and digital video editing. The workshop will cover basic video digitization, non-linear video editing and the production of short video clips for multimedia applications.

Show Me Visio

Business diagrams in Microsoft Visio help you visualize, document, and share ideas with attention-grabbing flowcharts, organization charts, office layouts, and more. In this course, you'll learn fundamental skills while creating several types of diagrams. As you create drawings, you will learn techniques to drag and manipulate Visio master shapes, create connections between shapes, and apply styles to shapes, text, and pages.

Picture This!

The workshop introduces Photoshop features. You’ll learn how to manipulate and improve your images, whether acquired via scanner, from slides, digital cameras, the web, or elsewhere as you become familiar with important characteristics of digital images and appropriate scanning resolutions.

Web Creations

Macromedia Dreamweaver will be used to create a simple web page. Dreamweaver is a web editor that combines visual layout tools and standard HTML text editing. Simple dhtml will also be covered.

PowerPoint – Beginning

Discover PowerPoint as you create a slide show and incorporate clip art into slides. Change design templates and use the Slide Master. Run a slide show and add notes to a slide. Preview and save a PowerPoint presentation.

PowerPoint – Beyond Basics

Topics will include, adding multimedia elements, using built-in drawing tools, and using action settings and hyperlinks. Prerequisite: Beginning MS PowerPoint or basic knowledge of PowerPoint

Get Connected!

This workshop will cover basic networking techniques. You will learn how to access any departmental drive share from anywhere on campus, share broadband connections for multiple machines, file and print sharing in windows among other various networking topics.