Computer Classes

In an effort to further expand the Main South resident workforce skill base, the Main South CDC implemented a computer lab in 2002 to offer adult evening classes.   In the past six years, approximately 500 individuals have completed a basic computer course at the Main South CDC, including fourteen who completed the course this fall.  Another cycle of classes is scheduled to start in January 2009.  The Main South CDC operates this computer training class with the assistance of a Clark University work-study student who is hired as the Instructor to teach the class in English and Spanish.  The Basic I and II computer classes offer guidance in most Microsoft Office programs, mainly Microsoft Word, and teach basic internet skills.  The class incorporates students of all levels regardless of previous computing experience. Classes run for six weeks at a time meeting once and a week, ending in a cumulative exam that measures the instructor’s competency for teaching and how much information the students have retained.  These classes have become an integral component of the Main South CDC’s Workforce Development Training Center, providing members of the community with vital skills to live and work in such a technologically driven era.