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. The participants will
be required to conduct regional
workshops for fellow teachers
in and around their own school
districts in the spring.
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