Continuing Education at Brown College

When: December 6 and 7, 13 and 14, 2003

Where: Brown College, 1740 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, GA

What: See form below and reverse side for course listings.

Hours: 8:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Cost: $79 each session ($69 for RPRs). Includes lunch. Courses are not preapproved by NCRA; approval fee for RPRs is $25, payable to NCRA.

CE Credits: .5 CE Units by NCRA, 5 CE Credits by State (per session)

Registration: You can register two ways: Click here, print and mail this form, or call (404) 876-1227 locally or
(800) 849-0703 to pay by credit card.

(To cancel, notify College in writing at least 3 days prior to session for a
full refund.)

 

Courses Offered

caseCATalyst4 - It's a One-Time Setup/Part 1. You'll learn about page layout and include files, and even create a few of your own. You'll set up AutoInclude definitions in your personal dictionary to quickly insert your page layout and include files into your transcript. This is a hands-on workshop. The instructor will be available to move around the room and work one-on-one with attendees. Bring your laptop, writer, a hard copy of a short, complete transcript containing the page layout style you commonly use, the title page, appearance page, certificate page, jurat/errata sheet, reporter disclosure, and all the parenthetical entries you'd like to create. Space is limited, so please come early to set up. Instructor: Donna Crane

caseCATalyst4 - Operation Organization/Part 2. From the Read Notes function to backing up the job, you'll create a transcript using an organized transcription production process. This is a hands-on workshop. Bring your laptop, writer, and a blank diskette. Operation Organization is a continuation of It's a One-Time Setup. If you don't plan to attend Part 1, be sure to have a page layout and include files created before attending Part 2. Space is limited, so please come early to set up. Instructor: Donna Crane

Microsoft Mastery - If you use only a few of your computer's vast arsenal of functions and aren't all that efficient with the ones you do use, this course is for you. Beginning with Outlook Express, you'll learn how to create, archive, and delete (really delete) e-mails; use Outlook's calendar and reminder functions; create, move, copy, and edit Microsoft Word documents; use writing tools and template wizards, headers and footers; find and replace; manage files and folders on the desktop; print, copy, move, and share data; create a simple worksheet in Excel, as well as format data, create graphs, and print in Excel. Plus, you'll visit some nifty Web sites that are indispensable to reporters. Instructor: Wayne Shamp

Reporters' Revenge - For years, you've been attending seminars where the instructor asked you questions about punctuation and made you complete worksheets to show how much you'd learned. Now's your chance for revenge. Bring your own punctuation questions and problems and throw them at him -- and maybe at some of the other reporters too -- to see how they would handle them. And just in case you don't come prepared with any questions in advance, Art will have plenty of his own to keep you occupied. He'll also cover some of the more offbeat areas of reporting, such as vulgarities, made-up words, nonstandard plurals, and the use of sic. Instructor: Art Cochran

Tricky Transcripts 2003 - As all reporters know, there's the punctuation you learn in school, and then there's the punctuation you have to sort of make up as you go through a difficult transcript. This seminar will present a series of difficult transcripts involving various punctuation problems for the class to discuss and offer suggestions for solving. You're invited to bring tricky transcripts from your own work or questions involving repetitive problems you've never been quite sure how to handle. (Note: This is a new course, not a repeat of the Tricky Transcripts course offered several years ago.) Instructor: Art Cochran

Instructors

Donna Crane attended court reporting school at Brown College of Court Reporting in Atlanta, Georgia, and has been an instructor at Brown College for three years. She currently conducts workshops and training sessions as a certified independent training agent for Stenograph, L.L.C.

Wayne Shamp graduated from Stenotype Institute in 1994 and has worked as a reporter in Jacksonville and Savannah. He also worked for a Fortune 500 insurance company and learned Microsoft software via training classes for six years. For the past two years, Wayne has been an instructor at Brown College, where he teaches CAT systems, Phoenix Theory, and Microsoft-related courses. In May of 2003, he was a technology instructor at the continuing education seminar for the Georgia Shorthand Reporters Association, where he gave classes in Excel, Word, and Microsoft Outlook.

Art Cochran taught grammar and punctuation at Brown College for 14 years before retiring in the summer of 2003. But once a teacher, always a teacher. He plans to continue conducting seminars and workshops for reporters and to stay active in the field as a transcript proofreader.