Now you can see all of the presentations that you may have missed or couldn’t afford online. What a deal!
See these presentations at MacWorld Encore.
Exciting news!!! We have finished connecting our server and all of our workstations at the ROP Pleasant Hill Training Center. We will be open for classes beginning tomorrow, January 29, 2008 at 12:15 p.m. The 4:15 p.m. class will also resume tomorrow - YAY!
The room is beautiful, clean and very spacious. All of the computers have had a new keyboard and mouse installed. I will be starting to install Adobe Design Premium on all of our workstations tomorrow — this may take several days to complete. We still have boxes to unpack, but we can get those put away during the week.
Our new address is:
399 Taylor Blvd., Ste. 110
Pleasant Hill, CA 94523
We are in the first building when you enter the parking lot. Please park in the first, upper parking lot to the left and walk down the stairs to the classroom (there are signs posted for the classroom in the window). If you are not able to walk down stairs, please park in 2nd lot to the left; but do not park in the spaces closest to the building as they are reserved for other tenants.
Telephone: 925-609-7108
Fax: 925-609-7290
We hit a minor snag with our phone lines today; they should be installed tomorrow. If you need to reach me, please email rwood ‘at’ cccoe.k12.ca.us - I may not respond right away. We do not currently have Internet access in the classroom; our network manager has the awful cold that’s going around and was out ill today. He should be in tomorrow before class to install our router.
We will need to be sure to scan ALL Flash/USB drives for viruses before any files are opened - please remove portable applications from your Flash drives with the exception of Firefox before you come to school. Also, please remember that there is no food or drink allowed in the classroom; especially with brand new carpet!
A big thank you to all of my students for your patience; you are the BEST! Thanks to all of the people who made our new classroom possible!
Looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow!
Robin
Good news, our move to the Pleasant Hill Executive Park is on schedule. We hope that we will have classes running in Pleasant Hill as early as next Tuesday, January 29, 2008. Please check here for further updates. I will post on Monday evening or Tuesday morning to let you all know if we get all of the computers installed and class is open for business.
Our new address is:
399 Taylor Blvd., Ste. 110
Pleasant Hill, CA 94523
Telephone: 925-609-7108
Fax: 925-609-7290
Phone lines will be installed 1/28/08.
Thanks for your patience.
Please direct all questions to rwood ‘at’ cccoe.k12.ca.us
See you all soon.
Robin Wood
ROP Instructor
I went over to the new classroom today and it’s looking FABULOUS!!!!!!!! It seems so spacious! Here is a photo.
OK, here is one more.
My iPhone photos really don’t do the room justice.
I have a little slide presentation with more photos to show tomorrow at the OneStop. If you can’t make it to the OneStop you can watch it at http://www.robinsblog.com/PHTrainingCenter.wmv it’s over 15mb, so dial up users beware. I’m also going to try and get over to the new classroom tomorrow morning to take some video.
It looks like everything is on schedule and I am very hopeful that we will be holding classes at the Pleasant Hill Training Center by 2/1. I will send out an email as soon as we have a firm date, but in case I don’t have your correct email please keep reading here for updates.
I wanted to post our schedule for the next week.
Thursday, 1/16/08 - Antioch
Friday, 1/17/08 - MacWorld - There will be no class in Antioch
Monday, 1/21/08 - Holiday - No school
Tuesday, 1/22/08 - Antioch
Wednesday, 1/23/08 - County Office of Education, Pleasant Hill
Thursday, 1/24/08 - Antioch
Friday, 1/25/08 - OneStop Center, Concord
MacWorld was much larger this year than last; there were about 100 more exhibitors this year. With registration being so time consuming, it was difficult to see the entire show. We have permission to attend MacWorld again this Friday, 1/19/08. There will be no class in Antioch.
We went to MacWorld today and I think I saw about a third of it and I want more……I would like to go back on Friday to see the rest, what do you all think?
We will attend MacWorld at Moscone Center in San Francisco as a class on Tuesday, January 15, 2008. The hours for MacWorld on Tuesday are 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. I plan to arrive at 11:00 a.m. and will be in the registration area. If I don’t see you there, I hope to see you somewhere in the Expo.
There will not be a regular class meeting on 1/15/08. If you cannot attend MacWorld, please work from home or conduct job search.
For additional information on the MacWorld Expo visit the official MacWorld Expo site.
Thanks!
There have been some adjustments to our class calendar for the month of January. Please see the updated calendar for new locations. On days that we meet at Prospects High we will start class at 12:30 p.m.
PSPad Editor is a feature rich text editor that can be used to write XHTML and it will install and run on a Flash drive. PSPad integrates well with TopStyle Lite CSS editor (download link) which can also be installed to a Flash drive.
If you’re looking for additional portable applications try The Portable Freeware Collection or Pendriveapps.com. I picked up Opera portable and Wink, a great screen capture utility at Pendriveapps.com. There are also lists of portable applications at Quate News Net, Makeuseof.com and tinyapps.org.
Remember you can use Google to search for additional applications that you can install on your portable device. Try searching +”application name” +portable.