Classes are free to BVCC members; you may become a member of BVCC on-line.
You must pre-register for each training session separately listed below by signing up at a preceding General Meeting; or by contacting Education Chair Jill Doll at edu@bvcomputerclub.org or texting her at 320-828-3413. Supply class title, your name, phone number, and email contact information. If by email or text, you should follow-up if a confirmation response is not received within 24 hours. Contact information is used to send a class reminder, or to advise should it be necessary to cancel or reschedule the class.
Recordings, Movies and More, Part 1 has been scheduled for Wednesday, October 2, 9am - 11am. With recording and streaming becoming necessary and popular in today’s computer world, video recording and editing programs have become very expensive. This class introduces a powerful FREE opensource recording-streaming program for all your needs. You will learn to: download, install and configure the OBS Studio program to run or stop with a single keystroke; create Scenes (jobs) for different recording scenarios; link all input sources to Scenes; save recorded output file automatically to a folder of your choice. Instructor Pete Opland.
TIME CHANGE Recordings, Movies and More, Part 2 has been scheduled for Wednesday, October 9, 8am - 10am. Once you start making your own video recordings, you will find a need to edit videos. This class shows how to use the free opensource, multi-platform program Shotcut for video editing. Included topics: combining video files, trimming videos, using the timeline, detaching audio, adding text, keyframes, filters, and various special effects (FX). Instructor Pete Opland.
Basic Computing, Part 1 has been scheduled for Wednesday, October 30, 9am - 11am. This will introduce the hardware components, and Operating System, and program software used to make up a computer. This will include basic hard drives, the motherboards, different types of storage, processors, EEPROMS, HDD’s, DVD’s, USB FDD’s. We will cover how the Operating System uses and controls the hardware and the special program used for maintaining hard drives. Instructor Pete Opland.
Basic Computing, Part 2 has been scheduled for Wednesday, November 6, 9am - 11am. This will introduce MS Office programs (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook) and how to configure and use them. We will explain what an email client is and how it melds into our everyday computing. We will explore the ins and out of the address book and how to safeguard our contacts using One Drive. Instructor Pete Opland. We will use and explore:
Basic Computing, Part 3 has been scheduled for Wednesday, November 13, 9am - 11am. Our home networks are growing at a rapid rate (TV’s, refrigerators, security cameras, movie theaters, doorbell cameras, PCs, and printers among the few). We will talk about the concepts of a home LAN (local area network) and the devices attached, and how and why a SOHO (small office-home office) smart switch will connect all your devices together. One of the most important features of the home LAN network is the home file server. You will learn how you to convert an old PC into a useful home file server at a very low cost! We will delve into setting up and using a network printer, setting up a folder and program for scanning docs, and saving outside the user profile. Instructor Pete Opland.