Basic Needs Ministry/
Cleveland Township Emergency Food Pantry

Education

Help your neighbors, who want to learn how to use a computer. Help local students and adults attending local schools and colleges without a computer and Internet access at home. Help us provide local training, practice time on computers, and Internet access that can increase job skills and lower the failure and drop out rates. One day, we discovered GCF was providing free computer software training to 86 Johnston County residents, but only after they found a computer and Internet access. Do you know someone who can't get to a public access computer? We got 4 public access computers, so bring our neighbors in to learn with GCF and other software opportunities. After successfully completing a class, they can earn a certificate of completion and IACET accredited, Continuing Education Units. All computers protect users with Safe Eyes Ver. 5.1 filtering software.

GCF Tutorials

GCF Global Learning®: Offering free computer and life-skill training in English and Spanish. Take a free, beginning computer or life-skill class with a GCF Global Learning® Instructor. After successfully completing a class, you can earn a certificate of completion and IACET accredited, Continuing Education Units. Select between three class schedules.

  1. Access
  2. Excel
  3. Math Basics
  4. PowerPoint
  5. Word
For GCF Educators Practice Exercises

GCF assignments and quizzes can be a helpful resource for you as you teach workshops and classes. Browse through the list below to see all of the assignments and quizzes that GCF uses throughout our website.

  1. Access 2000
  2. Access 2002 (XP)
  3. Access 2003
  4. Career Development
  5. Computer Basics
  6. Email Basics
  7. Everyday Life
  8. Excel 2000
  9. Excel 2002 (XP)
  10. Excel 2003
  11. Internet Basics
  12. Internet Safety
  13. Math Basics
  14. Money Basics
  15. Mozilla Firefox
  16. Office 2000
  17. Office 2003
  18. Office XP
  19. OpenOffice.org: Writer
  20. OpenOffice.org: Calc
  21. Openoffice.Org: Impress
  22. Outlook 2003
  23. PowerPoint 2000
  24. PowerPoint 2002 (XP)
  25. PowerPoint 2003
  26. Publisher 2003
  27. Windows 98
  28. Windows XP
  29. Word 2000
  30. Word 2002 (XP)
  31. Word 2003
  32. Workplace Development
free-ed.net offers free education on the Internet.
  1. GED & College Prep - Prepare for your GED and get ready for a successful college career. This program is not a stroll in the park. There are 74 study units covering math, social studies, science, literature, and English grammar and composition. You will read three novels, two plays, and two non-fiction books. You are required to keep detailed learning journals, report on your progress at the end of each unit, and work on projects with your online classmates. You will be writing essays that are critiqued and archived at the school. For more information, read the Frequently Asked Questions. It is all free, from beginning to end. There are no hidden fees or requests for credit-card information. You must supply your own paper-and-pencil supplies and buy a GED-approved calculator (about $10). Free-ed will be helping you master the use of a Casio fx-260 Solar calculator. This is the same one that is issued to you during the math portion of the actual GED exams (you cannot take your own calculator into the exam room). It is available from all major electronics stores, and you can order it online from Amazon.Com.  The suggested retail price is $15.95, and the discount price is about $10. All of the necessary learning materials are provided online and free of charge. However, there is a big difference between textbooks and books that are required for the reading assignments. Some of the books for your reading assignments are also free and available online, but others are protected by copyrights and cannot be provided that way. In those few instances (4 books, to be exact) you will have to use your own copies, borrow them from a local library, or purchase them at a bookstore. But free-ed doesn't charge you anything, and doesn't try to sell you anything.
  2. Health Care Anatomy and physiology, medical terminology, dental assisting, nursing...
  3. Information Technology Computer programming, databases, office applications...
  4. Business, Marketing, and Economics Management, entrepreneurship, sales, economics...
  5. Building & Construction Building construction, plumbing, electrical, masonry...
  6. Electronics Basic DC/AC electronics, digital, Endless Examples and Exercises™ ...
  7. Mathematics It's all here, from basic arithmetic through calculus and differential equations.
  8. Science Astronomy, physics, earth sciences...

Software Available for Use at Basic Needs

  1. Adobe Flash 9 Active X
  2. Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition
  3. Adobe Reader 8.1.0
  4. Classical Library
  5. Copernic Agent Basic
  6. Google Earth
  7. Grammar Pro - Spanish
  8. Literature and the Language Arts
  9. Macromedia CourseBuilder
  10. Macromedia Dreamweaver MX Ver. 6.0
  11. Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004
  12. Macromedia Extension Manager
  13. Macromedia Fireworks MX
  14. Macromedia Fireworks MX 2004
  15. Macromedia Flash MX
  16. Macromedia Flash MX 2004
  17. Macromedia Free Hand Mx
  18. Macromedia Free Hand Mxa
  19. Macromedia Home Site
  20. Macromedia Studio MX 2002
  21. Macromedia Top Style 3 Lite
  23. Microsoft Clip Organizer
  24. Microsoft Desktop Search 3.0
  25. Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia 2004
  26. Microsoft Flash Player 7
  27. Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.05730.11
  28. Microsoft MapPoint 2002
  29. Microsoft Media Player 11
  30. Microsoft Office Access 2007
  31. Microsoft Office Excel 2007
  32. Microsoft Office Infopath 2007
  33. Microsoft Office Outlook Calendar Printing Assistant
  34. Microsoft Office Outlook 2007
  35. Microsoft Office Picture Manager
  36. Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007
  37. Microsoft Office Pro Plus 2007
  38. Microsoft Office Publisher 2007
  39. Microsoft Office Word 2007
  40. Microsoft Office Word Start Help
  41. Microsoft Picture It Photo Premium 9
  42. Microsoft Streets and Trips 2004
  43. Microsoft XP Professional - Service Pack 2
  44. Norton Internet Security 2007
  45. Picasa 2
  46. Safe Eyes 5.1
  47. Spanish Now Ver. 8
  48. Unitype - Spanish, Armenian, Belarussian