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The Professional Development Center

The mission of the Professional Development Center is to provide faculty, staff, and the broader Winston-Salem community with professional, personal, and civic enrichment opportunities through education focused on management training, interpersonal skills, academic and administrative software, general technical skills, and a myriad of special interest topics.

The Professional Development Center web site was created to connect you to professional and personal development events and opportunities campus-wide. Please see our General Courses page for a general list of upcoming opportunities.

Featured Classes:

Dreamweaver: Fundamentals
July 23rd, 2008
9:00am-12:00pm

Learn to design and build a basic website. This class covers organizing and defining a website, creating basic pages, adding text, creating hyperlinks, and publishing a website. Topics include:   Designing a Website The Dreamweaver environment Defining a website . . .

  • Open to: Community, Faculty, Staff
Working Smarter Using Technology to Your Advantage
July 30th, 2008
9:00am-12:00pm

Learn to make your workplace more technology-friendly by making the most of computers, telephones, e-mail, contact management applications, and scheduling software. This class covers email etiquette, communicating with your IT department, and using technology to work smarter and not harder. Topics . . .

  • Open to: Alumni, Community, Faculty, Family of Faculty/Staff, Graduate Students, Staff
MS Access: Beyond Basic Forms
August 06th, 2008
9:00am-12:00pm

Learn to design and format complex forms. This class covers creating forms without the wizard, advanced formatting techniques, and incorporating subforms for more efficient data entry. Topics include: Creating a form from scratch Understanding controls and control types Viewing and changing . . .

  • Open to: Alumni, Community, Faculty, Family of Faculty/Staff, Staff
Dreamweaver: Page Layout Techniques
August 06th, 2008
1:30pm-4:30pm

Learn to lay out webpage content using tables and templates. This class covers using tables for page layout, inserting images, and creating and using templates. Topics include:   Creating tables Modifying tables Using tables for page layout Inserting images . . .

  • Open to: Alumni, Community, Faculty, Family of Faculty/Staff, Graduate Students, Staff
Imaging for Publication
September 23rd, 2008
2:00pm-3:00pm

Working with the images for book and periodical publication requires some special knowledge and preparation. Issues addressed will be: file types, resolution, changing color to black and white, adding in image notations, "FPO", image management, file naming, image transfer methods and . . .

  • Open to: Faculty