Events Bulletin

Learning

WebCT in a Week
Learn about WebCT, an important tool for Web-based learning: structuring online course, writing for the Web, working with tools for communication and collaboration, building quizzes and tests, adding files, managing grading and assignments, and other issues. Division of Information Technology offers free classes to faculty, instructional staff and teaching assistants. Jan. 7-11, 9 a.m.-noon; Jan. 7-11, 1-4 p.m.; Jan. 14-18, 9 a.m.-noon. Registration is required. Information: http://wiscinfo.doit.wisc.edu/webct/training/facstaff-train.htm.

Practical Healing Workshop
Saturday, Dec. 1, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Einstein Room, Union South. Free.

Information: Marcin Jakubowski, 256-6068, mjakubow@students.wisc.edu.

Professionals guide hands-on learning in tai chi and chi gong, relaxation, rapid stress and pain release, herbs, reflexology, digestion, homeopathy, Reiki, bio photonics. Sponsored by UW Sustainability Forum, Sustain Dane, Gandhi Network.

QuarkXPress: Intro
Monday, Dec. 3, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m.

2122 Vilas. Fee: $239.

Instructor: Ellen Tyler.

Learn how to build boxes for text or graphics and create layouts for ads, flyers, brochures and newsletters. We cover typography, graphic manipulation, text wrap, the new text-on-a-path and Bezier drawing tools, box-linking, master pages and templates. Information: 262-6130.

Consumer-Level Digital Cameras
Thursday, Nov. 29, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

209 Pyle Center. Fee: $199.

Instructor: Michael Kienitz.

Digital cameras enable photographers to bypass film and processing, and to view and store images directly on their computers. Working hands-on, explore the advantages and limitations of consumer-level cameras, and learn how to get the best results from them. Topics include size, resolution, image enhancement in the computer and output. You must provide your own digital camera. Information: 262-6130.

Evening French Classes
Evening classes start in January. Beginning I, Beginning II and Intermediate classes. Taught in an informal atmosphere, participants learn conversation for social and cultural situations. The instructor also explains basic French structures and gives tips for travelers. Information: 262-4873.

Advanced Business French
Thursdays, Jan. 31-April 11, 4 to 5:30 p.m.

Grainger Hall. Fee: $325 plus instructional materials. Earn advanced business French certificate. Course focuses on oral and written communications in French, business situations, and the business practices and institutions in French-speaking countries. Weekly classes are supplemented by individual study with the instructor. The class is limited to 25. Information: 262-4873. Register: 262-2451.

Online Marathon Training Class
Online class that starts Jan. 23 helps preparation for the Mad City Marathon on May 26. Class is offered through the Department of Kinesiology. For information, call 262-2551.

Internet Short Courses
Six-week Internet courses begin the second Wednesday of each month and are appropriate for university staff and general public. Fifty courses available. Complete description and registration for each course at: http://www.ed2go.com/cme/courses.html. Registration link is at bottom of course description.

Professional Development and Applied Studies
Human Services Administration: online classes. Information: 262-2352, http://www.dcs.wisc.edu/pda/online/hsl.htm.

Competitive Swimming Edge
Mondays and Wednesdays, 5:15-6:30 p.m.

UW Sports Medicine Masters Swim focuses on technique and interval training that will help increase the swimmer’s speed in the pool. All strokes will be emphasized as well as proper turns and starts. UWSM is for advanced swimmers needing minimal stroke work who want to remain competitive. Information: 263-7936.

Masters Swimming for Triathletes
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6-7:15 a.m., or Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6:40-7:55 p.m.

Class will focus on freestyle, the stroke most triathletes use when competing. Other strokes will be incorporated, but the focus of the course is to improve the swimming portion of a triathlon. Information: 263-7936.

Etc.

Campus Tours
Prospective student visits: Information session followed by tour, Monday-Friday. Reservations and schedule: 262-3318. Walking tour for visitors: Monday-Friday, 3 p.m., and Saturday-Sunday, noon, no reservations necessary. All tours leave from the Red Gym. 263-2400, visitor@redgym.wisc.edu.

Wisconsin Union Travel Center
On-campus guide to work, study and travel abroad. Memorial Union, Monday-Friday, 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. 262-6200; travlcnt@vms2.macc.wisc.edu.

Morgridge Center
Find a volunteer opportunity suiting schedule and interests. Red Gym, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday. Information: 263-2432.