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Come and use the first free public access computer lab in Cleveland Township. We run our computers on AT&T ADSL 6.0 wired with CAT 5. You may plug in or use your computer's wireless connection. We offer AT&T Wi-Fi.

Read our user policies before using the computers.

Help your neighbors, who want to learn how to use a computer. We have folks already using it to find jobs, set interviews, and complet on-line job applications. Others seek college opportunities, grants, and complete college applications. We help our local students and adults, who attend local schools and colleges, but without a computer or Internet access at home. Here you will find local self training, practice time on computers, and Internet access that can increase job skills and lower the failure and drop out rates. GCF (Goodwill Community Foundation) provides free computer software training to only 86 Johnston County residents after they found a computer and Internet access. Do you know someone who can't get to a GCF public access computer? We have 6 public access computers available, so send your 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. Public computers do not have protect users with Safe Eyes filtering software. Materials change regularly and GCF is already teaching Office 2007 classes. Go to its site and explore.

GCF Tutorials - A Typical Offering

  1. Computer Basics
  2. Windows 98
  3. Windows XP
  4. Internet Basics
  5. Email Basics
  6. Internet Safety
  7. Mozilla Firefox
  8. Office 2003
  9. Word 2003
  10. PowerPoint 2003
  11. Excel 2003
  12. Access 2003
  13. Office XP
  14. Word 2002 (XP)
  15. PowerPoint 2002 (XP)
  16. Excel 2002 (XP)
  17. Access 2002 (XP)
  18. Office 2000
  19. Word 2000
  20. PowerPoint 2000
  21. Excel 2000
  22. Access 2000
  23. Access 97
  24. Excel 97
  25. PowerPoint 97
  26. Word 97
  27. Windows 95
  28. OpenOffice.org: Writer
  29. OpenOffice.org: Calc
  30. OpenOffice.org: Impress
  31. Math Basics
  32. Money Basics
  33. Career Development
  34. Workplace Development
  35. Everyday Life

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

 

 

 

 

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