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Courses offer help Computers still confusing By fulie Frmman CM I hr Knutrald When it first started he never thought that it would continue. Hut more than one year later. Brian Emmen is stiil teaching members of the University faculty and staff how to use a computer. Despite the recent revolution In computer use by many of the University's offices and profes sional departments. Emmen, a business manager for the University Continuation Center, says his classes continue because most people still are ig . norant of. and sometimes frightened by. today’s ‘ new. technology. . ° His students come from every : department on campus and • have ranged from secretaries to Derrick Bell, former dean of the law school. Emmen says. And with the addition of some ad ■ vanced coifrsos to his basic pro grams. Emmen believes the flow will continue. His courses, offered through the Continuation Center and School of Business, include an introduction to. the Macintosh computer. Also offered are a beginning Lotus 1-2-3 and word processing class, which are both taught on the IHM personal computers in Gilbert Hall. Kmmen has added some more advanced courses to this list in recent months and hopes to begin teaching a data-based management program in the future. The idea to teach a course such as this occurred to Kmmen when he noticed a lot of computers around campus that were not being used. . “When the Physical Plant got its first personal computer, we were in a state of shock,“ says Lois Kagleton. an accountant in the office: ‘There.it was just sit* ting there, and all I could think was what do we do now?*' Kagleton, along with others at the Physical Plant, took a begin ning Lotus 1-2-3 course from Kmmen They were so impress ed with what the program could do, the plant botight it for their own IBM personal computers, • she says, “The course did not make us experts, but it did get us off the ground and started, !’ Kagleton _ says. "I really feel like we are Brian Emmen pulling ourselves into the 20th century now.” The courses ' are taught throughout the year by Emmen and are open to all University employees. The cost is $45 and includes all the software and equipment needed. For more information or to . register for.fall classes, call the Continuation Center. 686-4231. Teachers return to school By Julie Freeman ■' • IM Itu- Kowtld To honor torching excellence in .the fi«*lti« t»f ninth and science. the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Fducatloh are hosting a two- , week.'conference oh campus for some of the best high school teac'hers in. the Pacific Northwest. • -. A $143.000 grant from the : National Science Foundation is fallowing the University to put on'the program, which will give '• lit) . teachers in the areas of biology, chemistry, earth science, mathematics and ' physics a chance to update their, knowledge of science and ap- ' plied mathematics. "Even some of the best teachers don’t have time to keep ■ up with what is happening in their field.” says David' Sokoloff, a University physics professor in charge of. the program. The program will involve several lectures and workshops by University faculty and work in campus research labratories, .Sokoloff says. The group also will have the choice of taking a weekend field trip to the University’s Pine Mountain Observatory near Bend,' the Oregon institute of Marine Biology at Charleston, or several geological study sites, in the Oregon Cascades, he adds. Over. 600 teachers from Oregon, Washington. Idaho. California, and Nevada were nominated for the honor pro gram that began Sunday. An application process was used to . identify the final teachers who should attend the program and receive academic credit plus a cash stipend for their work on different projects. Sokoloff says The institute also will offer a science and math interchange session that will encourage maih. and science teachers to * meet and discuss problems of cooperation between these two fields of study. "It is'very rare when science and math teachers get together in this way.” Sokoloff says. Problems often occur when teaching science because ^students ' lack necessary math knowledge. And math classes often need to let the student . know that what they, learn can be applied tp something like science, he says. In. addition. Sokoloff says leadership workshops will be offered to try and teach the group skills that will help them share what they have learned with their colleagues. The program will continue after the summer with two follow-up conferences at the University in November and” January1. 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