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JobSight One-Stop Coordinator Janie Hackney (standing at left) assisted
participants in the inaugural Computer ABCs workshop at the Middlesboro
Campus of Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College. The free
workshop was also held at the Bell County JobSight located at Bell-Whitley
C.A.A. in Pineville.
Jennifer Thacker, manager of EKCEP's JobSight workforce network (standing
at left) helped a participant get comfortable using a computer at the
Computer ABCs workshop at the Middlesboro Campus of Southeast Kentucky
Community and Technical College. Participants in the free workshop got
hands-on training in basic computer operation.
Instructor Molly Jones (standing) helped lead the Computer ABCs workshop
at the Bell County JobSight at Bell-Whitley C.A.A. in Pineville. Charlotte
Garland (seated in background at left) also helped lead the workshop at
the JobSight. The free workshops were created by EKCEP for use in the
JobSight network to allow absolute beginners a way to learn the basics
of computer operation through a combination of classroom work and hands-on
training.
Instructor Marcia Hembree (standing in background) helped lead the Computer
ABCs workshop at the Middlesboro Campus of Southeast Kentucky Community
and Technical College. Additional instructors there included Millard Robbins,
Virginia Strouth, and Misty Lindsey.
[June 2006]
A “full house” of people eager to learn the basics of computer
use took part in each of the inaugural sessions of the JobSight workforce
network’s “Computer ABCs” workshop in Middlesboro and
Pineville.
“We’re extremely pleased with the turnout, and glad that
Bell County residents decided to take advantage of this opportunity,”
Jennifer
Thacker, manager of the JobSight one-stop network, said. Thacker
and Janie
Hackney, JobSight one-stop coordinator, were on hand to help participants
as they received an introduction to basic computer terms, equipment,
and operations.
The free three-hour workshops were held simultaneously at the Bell
County JobSight at Bell-Whitley
C.A.A. in Pineville and the Middlesboro Campus of Southeast
Kentucky Community and Technical College on June 29 and 30. The
workshops were led by instructors Molly Jones and Charlotte Garland
at the JobSight and Patty Burnside, Marcia Hembree, Millard Robbins,
Virginia Strouth, and Misty Lindsey at the community college.
Topics covered by the Computer ABCs workshop included: purchasing,
installing, and maintaining a computer; basic computer operations;
system software vs. application software; how to store information;
printers and printing; using the internet; security, computer viruses
and “spam”; e-mail; and buying and selling on-line.
Thacker said the workshop helps absolute beginners who sometimes have
never touched a computer before learn how to buy, set up, and operate
one.
“Everything from banking and shopping to correspondence can be
done with a computer now,” Thacker said. “With more and
more activities going strictly on-line every day, it’s important
for people to be comfortable using computers, and Computer ABCs helps
them reach that point.
“JobSight is glad to provide that opportunity through its partnership
with Bell-Whitley C.A.A., Southeast
Kentucky Community and Technical College, and Kentucky
Adult Education,” Thacker added.
The JobSight network is administered by the Eastern Kentucky Concentrated Employment Program, Inc. (EKCEP). In addition to the Bell County JobSight, EKCEP operates JobSight full service workforce centers in Clay, Perry and Pike counties and nearly 70 affiliate sites and access points which make JobSight services available throughout 23 counties in eastern Kentucky. JobSight provides access to over a dozen state and federal employment and training programs and services for job seekers and employers.