We are now entering the month of March during which we will hold gand look forward to seven Open Labs in the Center. Open Labs are those sessions when we have several Coaches on hand to answer your questions and help you with problems you are having with your computer. For those of you are just getting started in the computer world, we will show you how to use a conventional keyboard and mouse when working with a computer. We have two great programs that will help you to get up and running with both a keyboard and a mouse. Ask one of our coaches about them.

We have two training courses that we expect to conduct sometime in March. The first is an introduction to the hardware involved in a typical computer system and how to use a keyboard and mouse to perform various tasks. The second course, Introduction to Windows XP,will introduce you to the various facets of the Windows operating system. We have not yet set firm dates for these two courses. When we firm up the dates for these courses we will post the dates on two websites, www.computerctr.org and www.leisureline.org.

We also plan to offer what we refer to as �Dropin Classes.� These are sessions where all you have to do is �drop in on the scheduled day for the course. These sessions are free � the only cost might be a small fee for a handout covering the subject of the day. Here are a few of those Dropins we expect to hold in the near future. In no particular order the sessions are Spreadsheets, Hardware Technology, Cut-Copy-Paste, Fundamentals, and one session I jokingly refer to as �I Hate My Mouse � What Can I Do? This latter one will introduce you to the many alternative keystrokes that you can use instead of using the mouse.