Technology Training Workshops

Our PantherTech technology training team offers a wide variety of free introductory technology workshops to all Georgia State students, staff, and faculty.

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Websites and Social Media
How to be a LinkedIn All Star | Course Details
In today’s world of social media, it’s more important than ever to ensure that your online profile and resume are fresh, current, and discoverable by your colleagues. Create a professional profile that puts your best foot forward and shows off your abilities and accomplishments.
Wordpress on sites.gsu.edu | Course Details
Need a personalized and professional web presence? Learn WordPress skills on EduBlogs, a WordPress instance customized for the Georgia State community. It’s free and easy-to-use; no coding necessary. Create photo galleries, host a blog, show off your academic portfolio, all free and easy at sites.gsu.edu
HTML & CSS 1: Getting Started | Course Details
HTML is the foundational grammar of the World Wide Web. Together with CSS, HTML provides the backbone for all web pages. In this class, we’ll introduce the core concepts of web design and HTML that are applicable across a wide array of disciplines and web-based endeavors. We’ll structure the workshop around the construction of a simple, three-page website.
HTML & CSS 2: Adding Style to Pages | Course Details
In this workshop, we’ll continue working with our simple, three-page website to explore various ways to add style and functionality to the page.
HTML & CSS 3: Page Layout | Course Details
In this session, we’ll explore various techniques used to lay out a page. We’ll start with a single-column layout and then use CSS to create distinct sections and columns.
Spreadsheets, Databases, and Research Tools
GIS 1: Georeference Digital Maps and Photos | Course Details
Do you have a map that you would like to use in ArcMap or even Google Earth? This workshop will teach you the steps involved in making a digitized map usable in ArcMap and Google Earth Pro.
GIS 2: Extracting Features from Digitized Maps | Course Details
Digitized maps often contain features and layers that you might want to extract for specific projects. This workshop will teach you how to create pinpoints, lines, and polygon GIS data from map images.
GIS 3: Intro to Creating Web Maps | Course Details
Does part of your research include site-specific locations? Would an interactive web map that includes photos of these locations help contextualize your research? Or are you interested in incorporating mapping into your class assignments? If so, this workshop will teach you how to create online maps that can display point locations with pop up text and images.
Excel: Getting Started | Course Details
This workshop will get you started with Microsoft’s powerful Excel spreadsheet software. We’ll cover features used in both the PC and Mac versions.
Excel: Formulas and Functions | Course Details
This workshop explores formulas, functions, and built-in tools that are useful when analyzing and extracting meaning from data. This class uses the Windows version of Excel, but there is significant overlap for Mac users.
Excel: Charts and Formatting | Course Details
This workshop introduces participants to formatting features in Excel, and how to utilize charts, Pivot Tables, Pivot Charts, and more to review and analyze your data. This class uses the Windows version of Excel but there is significant overlap for mac users.
Mixed Methods: General Overview | Course Details
This workshop is a general overview of mixed methods used in research. Mixed Methods Research Designs use a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods.
NVivo 1: Getting Started | Course Details
When undertaking qualitative research, it doesn’t take long for things to get messy. You can quickly find yourself buried under interview transcripts, photographs, videos, memos, web sites, articles and other texts. Nvivo is a powerful data collection and analysis tool for the qualitative researcher. In this 90-minute workshop for beginners, we’ll look at strategies for getting your data into the system, setting up preferences for how you want to work, organizational principles, and other tips and tricks.
NVivo 2: Exploring Your Data | Course Details
This workshop picks up where NVivo 1 leaves off and continues to explore ways to organize,analyze, and present your qualitative research data. The workshop also covers how to build queries to explore and analyze your coded data.
Networks 1: Social Networks and Analysis | Course Details
This workshop is the first of a two-part series on social network analysis. You will learn how to use social network analysis to examine the connections between individuals or groups both visually and through specific measurements.
Networks 2: Analyzing Ego Networks | Course Details
This workshop is the second of a two-part series on social network analysis. You will learn how to use social network analysis to examine the connections between individuals or groups both visually and through specific measurements.
Qualtrics Essentials: Getting Started | Course Details
This workshop will introduce you to the survey creation, distribution, and analysis tools available within Qualtrics.
SAS 1: Introduction to SAS | Course Details
This workshop is the first in a two-part series on SAS. SAS is a statistical software package that is widely used by scientists throughout the health sciences and demography for analysis of quantitative data ranging from simple descriptive analysis to complex statistical modeling.
SAS 2: Basic Data Analysis | Course Details
This workshop is the second in a two-part series on SAS. SAS is a statistical software package that is widely used by scientists throughout the health sciences and demography for analysis of quantitative data ranging from simple descriptive analysis to complex statistical modeling.
SPSS 1: Getting Started | Course Details
SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) is a powerful application that can read and analyze data as well as generate reports and graphs. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to define variables, enter data, import data from other types of files (such as text and Excel files), manipulate data (such as select cases and split files), find and replace data, format output (such as edit graphs), transfer output to a Word document, and analyze data.
SPSS 2: Analyzing Data | Course Details
In this second workshop in our SPSS series, you’ll learn how to conduct some basic tests of statistical significance, including cross-tabulation/chi-square, ANOVA, t-tests, correlation, and multiple regression.
Tableau 1: Getting Started | Course Details
Tableau Desktop is a powerful application that analyzes data in a simple interface with many advanced visualizations. Users can quickly view their data from many different perspectives without a great deal of fuss with syntax or dialog boxes that are common in data analytics.
Tableau 2: Data Visualization | Course Details
This workshop teaches more advanced skills for those who have familiarity with the basics of importing data and constructing basic visualizations in Tableau.
Survey Design 1: General Overview | Course Details
This workshop is the first in a multiple part series of Survey Design. The focus of this workshop is to help researchers move from a general idea with a few hypotheses to developing survey questions. Questions covered will be closed- and open-ended and developed for different surveys (paper, telephone, online, and in person).
Survey Design 2: Generate and Design Surveys | Course Details
This workshop is the second in a multiple part series of Survey Design. The focus of this workshop is to help researchers move from a list of survey questions to generating and designing the survey tool.
Stata 1: Introduction to Stata | Course Details
This workshop is the first of a two-part series on Stata. Stata is a statistical software package that is widely used by scientists throughout the social sciences for analysis of quantitative data ranging from simple descriptive analysis to complex statistical modeling.
Stata 2: Data Analysis | Course Details
This workshop is the second in a two-part series on Stata. Stata is a statistical software package that is widely used by scientists throughout the social sciences for analysis of quantitative data ranging from simple descriptive analysis to complex statistical modeling.
Stata 3: Advanced Data Analysis | Course Details
This workshop is the third in a three-part series on Stata. Stata is a statistical software package. Stata is widely used by scientists throughout the social sciences for analysis of quantitative data ranging from simple descriptive analysis to complex statistical modeling.
Photography, Graphics & 3D Modeling
InDesign 1: Getting Started | Course Details
Learn the basics of InDesign, Adobe’s graphic design layout software. Create layouts using text, images, and other graphical elements for posters, flyers, brochures, booklets, and more.
Illustrator 1: Getting Started | Course Details
Interested in creating graphic art or a custom logo? Illustrator is your tool. In this workshop, we’ll introduce you to Adobe’s powerful vector art creation tool.
Illustrator 2: Advanced Techniques | Course Details
This course will introduce more tools and techniques used to create digital art, including how to use drawing tablets to create and edit in Illustrator.
Photography 1: Getting Started | Course Details
Get that great shot! Our digital photography workshop will cover the basics of shooting in manual on DSLR cameras. Understand how ISO, shutter speed, and aperture work together, so you can get better pictures more consistently.
Photoshop for Photography | Course Details
Take those great digital photos to the next level! Learn photo editing techniques to make your everyday shots good and your great shots better.
Photoshop for Photography 2: Advanced Techniques | Course Details
Building on topics covered in Photoshop for Photography 1, this course will introduce more tools and techniques used to create digital art
Photoshop for Graphic Design | Course Details
Adobe Photoshop is the standard for image editing and graphic creation. We’ll guide you through the complex Photoshop interface while we work with powerful image edits, shape creation and manipulation, and more.
After Effects 1: Getting Started | Course Details
After Effects allows users to animate, alter and create media in 2D and 3D space, using various built-in tools and third party plug-ins. Users will learn to use these tools, as well as how to control variables to adjust for aspects such as line of sight and angle of observation.
After Effects 2: Advanced Techniques | Course Details
Build up your knowledge about Adobe After Effects! Attend the second module to Adobe After Effects 1: Getting Started.
Programming
Java Coding 1: Getting Started | Course Details
Java is a general-purpose, object-oriented programming language that is widely used by programmers in fields ranging from Android application development to Big Data technologies.
Java Coding 2: Advanced Programming | Course Details
Java is a general-purpose, object-oriented programming language. Part 2 will build onto the knowledge from Part 1 by diving in a little bit further into Java.
Java Coding 3: The Next Level | Course Details
Part 3 will build onto the knowledge from Part 1 and 2 and touch base on Java’s object-oriented capabilities. We will work on more extensive projects that will allow you to prove your newfound knowledge in Java!
Python Scripting: Intro to Programming | Course Details
In this workshop, get started with programming in Python, an easy-to-understand syntax that is heavily used by programmers.
Python 2: Advanced Coding | Course Details
Part 2 uses the knowledge from Part 1 to build a project. We’ll introduce new topics to build a basic banking system project that makes use of these new skills.
BASH Scripting on Unix/Linux/Mac OSX | Course Details
This workshop will guide you through the first steps of becoming a BASH aficionado. No prior knowledge of programming is required, as this workshop is designed to help newbies and experienced users alike.
R Programming 1: Getting Started | Course Details
R has become the world-wide language for statistics, predictive analytics, and data visualization. It offers the widest range available of methodologies for understanding data, from the most basic to the most complex and bleeding edge.
Video Production & Editing
Video Production 1: Getting Started | Course Details
Learn the basics of visual storytelling and videography and get the shot you want. These skills work with high definition video cameras, DSLRs in video mode, or your smartphone. Come and get started!
Video Production 2: Lighting and Sound | Course Details
Enhance your visual storytelling through a deeper understanding of light and sound. We’ll go over tips for using lighting instruments and additional microphones for your production. These skills work with high definition video cameras, DSLRs in video mode, or your smartphone; and will help take your video to the next level.
Final Cut Pro X | Course Details
Final Cut Pro X is a Mac-based professional video editing tool. In this workshop, we’ll introduce you the basics you’ll need to get started.
Premiere Pro | Course Details
Adobe’s Premiere Pro is a professional-quality digital video editing solution that can be used in both Mac and Windows environments. This workshop will cover the basics so you can get started on your own projects right away.
Presentations
Next-Level Powerpoint | Course Details
We've all been forced to sit through really boring and ineffective presentations. PowerPoint doesn't have to be that way! We'll share and practice using design tips to help you transform your presentations from boring to brilliant. This class uses the Windows version of PowerPoint but there is significant overlap for mac users.
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Photography, Graphics & 3D Modeling

Programming

Video Production & Editing

Presentations

Online Training

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