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Pentalk Training Plan 2010

Are you interested in learning more IT skills?

If so Pentalk can help and have a series of short courses available.

If you are interested please contact the Pentalk Office to book a place or for more information.

Pentalk Training Plan 2010

Getting Started

Course	Modules	Duration	Notes
Full intro Course	What comes on the PC	4 Sessions	Introduction for a new user of a PC

Microsoft Office	Word	1 Session	Basic introduction to Microsoft office.
	Excel	1 Session
	PowerPoint	1 Session
	Publisher	1 Session

Simple Bookkeeping	Paper based	2 Session	The basics of bookkeeping. Online tax return, BCMS, EID etc.
	On Excel	1 Session
	Online forms	1 Session

Computer Maintenance

Course	Modules	Duration	Notes
Build your own PC	Build your own PC and get a good understanding of how a computer works	2 Sessions	Kits purchased through Pentalk.
Basic Maintenance, housekeeping and virus control	Essential maintenance to keep your PC healthy	1 Session	Installing internal hardware Backups, disk maintenance, updates etc.
Networking & Broadband Setup	How to set up broadband and network your computers together to share information	1 Session	Building a Small Office Network & how to setup a router

Internet

Course	Modules	Duration	Notes
Introduction & Setup	Internet Explorer & Email	1 Session	How to setup IE8 and surf the web. How to setup an account. Webmail and Outlook.
	Social network sites (Facebook, Twitter, Skype, Ebay	1 Session	How to use and setup options. Opening an account. Monitoring, buying and selling. Making audio and video calls.
	Web page design	2 Session	How to design and publish a basic website

Digital Photography

Course	Modules	Duration	Notes
Digital Photography	Beginner	1 Session	Taking Pictures
	Intermediate	1 Session	Taking Pictures
Photoshop Elements	Beginner	1 Session	Editing Pictures
	Intermediate	1 Session	Editing Pictures

Making Movies	Beginner	1 Session	Taking movie clips
	Intermediate	1 Session	Taking movie clips
Windows Movie Maker	Beginner	1 Session	Stitching clips together to make a movie.
	Intermediate	1 Session	Stitching clips together to make a movie.

Farm/Family History

Course	Modules	Duration	Notes
Farm/Family History		4 Session’s	How to research the history of your farm or family

Each session is 2.5 hours long one session per week.

Each course is 4 sessions long.

Each highly subsidised course costs £50 per person

Six people per course.

Phone Pentalk on 01768 840500 for further details.

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News articles in this section

In My Opinion - by Andrew Humphries OBE
The third in our series of opinion articles is by Andrew Humphries OBE. Few people have given longer or more important service to Newton Rigg for the benefit of the farming community. Now deeply involved in forming an International Commoners’ Federation to defend the rights of hill farmers, he gives his views to the Courier on the position and importance of Newton Rigg.

Pentalk Training Plan 2010
Pentalk Training Plan 2010 Are you interested in learning more IT skills? If so Pentalk can help and have a series of short courses available. If you are interested please contact the Pentalk Office to book a place or for more information.

In My Opinion...by Lord Inglewood of Hutton in the Forest
The current Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cumbria Professor Peter McCaffery is faced by a series of decisions which nobody would relish and responsibilities for which he is in no way to be blamed since he has only recently arrived in post. The decline of Newton Rigg is, in my view, one of the Cumbrian tragedies of the last quarter century. It has moved from being at or near 'top of class' to near extinction. Excellence in whatever sphere should always be promoted, and the tragedy is exacerbated by the potential it has to contribute to this area and to the country as a whole.

Pentalk gives independent advice !
EID Drop in Day Penrith Mart 26th January 10.00-4pm Pentalk will be giving independent advice on tag reading equipment and software. Ian Huyton has studied all the available kit and will be there to advise on value for money efficiency and other important aspects of getting your EID sorted.

Winter 2010 Photo Gallery
View the new images uploaded to our Winter 2010 Gallery Fell Ponies by Joyce Allison

Snow on video
Feeding Lleyn Sheep at Cragg Farm, New Hutton, Kendal, Cumbria on 6th January 2010. With all the fields covered in thick snow hay has to be taken to feed the sheep. View the video

Winter 2010 Gallery
View the new images uploaded to our Winter 2010 Gallery

YFC AGM Cancelled
The Young Farmers Northern District AGM which was to be held on Friday 8th January 2010 at the Greenhill Hotel, Red Dial, Wigton, has been CANCELLED due to the weather. It will be re-arranged at a later date.

New solution for treating minor roads in freezing conditions
A fleet of gritters and trucks have been out on Cumbria's minor roads in a massive effort to make hazardous icy roads safer in the current extreme winter conditions. The county council has received many requests from the public during the recent cold spell to provide additional road gritting, however as a result of a national shortage of rock salt it had to announce on Monday that it would be conserving dwindling rock salt stocks by only treating priority one and two routes - those chosen to maintain transport connections for as many communities as possible - with rock salt.

Winter 2010 Photo Gallery
Pentalk has launched a new Gallery Section to reflect on the Winter 2010 Take a look and see how Cumbria is looking!! To add your photographs please email them to david@pentalk.org and they will be added to the gallery. Please supply brief details of the photograph & your name.

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