December 17, 2001 [Number 221]     Printable version (379k PDF)

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CIT Computer Training Program—Fall Term Is Underway

Registration is still open for the CIT Training Program’s fall term of computer classes, which runs through January 2002. The term incorporates includes several new topics. Highlights include new interest groups for account sponsors and desktop support staff, a newly equipped wireless classroom, and a substantial number of new scientific offerings.

New Interest Groups

Account sponsors and alternates have quite a number of resources available. The new Account Sponsors Interest Group will meet regularly to provide a forum for discussions about sponsor or deregistration roles, responsibilities, as well as Web Sponsor. "Account Sponsor Orientation" classes are also available for both the South and Titan systems.

For people doing desktop support at NIH, an exciting new resource is available. A users’ group for desktop support meets regularly to exchange information and to keep staff up-to-date on desktop support issues. The meeting at the end of November will address "Issues in Wireless Support." The training program’s new wireless classroom will be used, and the group will examine many of the questions that can arise in maintaining users on a wireless network.

New Courses Being Offered

We are particularly pleased with the number of new scientific courses available. CIT’s Dr. Susan Chacko will present "Making Movies of Molecules," in which she will demonstrate the use of Web-available and other software to make movies in various formats, and will discuss the pros and cons of the different approaches.

Other new scientific courses include "Analysis of Kinetics Data," "mAdb Basic Informatics," "Simplifying Diffusion Calculations Where There Is Radial Symmetry," and "Tools for Genome Analysis."

A new collaboration between the CIT training program and the NIH Library brings classes on EndNotes 5, software that helps scientists manage references by creating libraries of references and formatting them to hundreds of journal styles.

Microsoft is offering a number of new courses that reflect new developments in their software—"Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2001," "Microsoft Content Management," and "Microsoft Visual Studio.Net."

You Asked, We Answered

The training program is now offering several new courses after numerous requests from users. Two classes have been added for people developing Web pages—"Introduction to Active Server Pages" and "Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets." These classes will take users beyond HTML into further options for Web page design.

Current FileMaker Pro users can acquire more advanced skills in "Intermediate FileMaker Pro 5 for the Mac," including how to create and use databases for organizing information.

Registration

Classes are available free-of-charge to NIH employees and other users of NIH computing facilities. The courses are offered to help individuals become more efficient and effective in their use of computing, networking, and information systems at NIH.

You can obtain full course information or register for classes online at the CIT training Web page. You are always welcome to give us a call at the TASC (301.594.6248) if you wish to discuss course registration, teaching a class, or other training issues.