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The Cajun Clickers Computer Club has many Special Interest Groups (SIG) covering a wide range of topics for beginnign computer users to advanced computer users.  Our most popular SIGs we are listing here.  The Cajun Clickers Education Committee prepares a calendar each month of workshops that members volunteer to lead at our offices.  What makes a workshop that meets from time to time, into a SIG is when it meets regularly, and usually has the same group of members who attend every meeting.  SIGs are designed to cover more than just the basics and surface level information which most of our workshops are designed for, SIGs go deep into the inner workings of their own topic. 

Please also visit our Education Calendar for the most up to date SIGs, their meeting topics, meeting times and other education opportunities available for Cajun Clickers Computer Club Members.

Any questions about the Cajun Clickers Education Program should be sent to education@clickers.org.

**Even if you are not a member you can attend one workshop or SIG meeting. If you would like to attend more meetings we require that you join.  Membership is $45.00, an excellent deal.

Corel Draw SIG

  • About: CorelDraw is a very powerful graphics design/desktop publishing program than can be used by both the professional graphic designers and the home PC novice alike. It can be used to design posters, newsletters, business cards, stationary, photo album pages, calendars -- just to mention a few. The first 30-60 minutes of each SIG meeting are devoted to learning the basic tools of CorelDraw. The second half of each SIG is devoted to a specific graphic design function. All meetings are held in the computer lab to provide hands-on realism for the participant. This SIG is for INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED CorelDRAW users. Students must attend at least three "Intro to CorelDRAW" workshops before signing up for the CorelDRAW SIG. It is highly recommended that Students in this SIG have CorelDRAW on their home or office PC.
     
  • Meeting Times: The schedule for the Corel Draw SIG can be found on the Education Calendar.
     
  • SIG Leader: Roger Carlyle

Digital Scrapbooking SIG ~ Digital Scrapbooking SIG's Webpage

  • About: Are you interested in scrapbooking? Whether you want to use your computer to assist you in creating scrapbook pages, or use your computer to create all-digital scrapbooks, we can help with ideas and techniques. Our very active special interest group has monthly meetings and an active mailing list. If you're interested, come to one of our SIG meetings — we usually meet on the third Saturday of each month.
     
  • Meeting Times: The schedule for the Digital Scrapbooking SIG can be found on the Education Calendar.
     
  • SIG Leader: Marty Ducote

Digital Video SIG ~ Digital Video SIG's Website

  • About: Are you interested in digital video? Do you want to make your own DVDs and VCDs, or learn how to edit your video on your computer? Trying to decide which camcorder is best? Would you like to learn more about different camera shots? Or how to light your video? Do you have old VHS tapes you'd like to convert to DVD? Each month we will discuss a different aspect of video on your computer. If you are interested in any aspect of video, this SIG is for you! We will cover a different topic each month, and also have an open question and answer session.
     
  • Meeting Times: The schedule for the Digital Video SIG can be found on the Education Calendar.
     
  • SIG Leader: Walter Scott

Family Tree Maker Brainstorming

  • About: Interested in Genealogy? Family Tree Maker is one of the most popular software packages for storing that mountain of genealogy data you collect. Meet with other users to learn some tips and tricks for making the most of Family Tree Maker, and to have all your questions about Family Tree Maker answered. For beginners through advanced computer users.
     
  • Meeting Times: The schedule for the Family Tree Maker Brainstorming group can be found on the Education Calendar.
     
  • SIG Leader: Howard Merrill

FrontPage SIG

  • About:  The Web Design and FrontPage Special Interest Group is one of Clickers' newest SIG's. In this SIG, we focus on creating web pages and web sites using Microsoft FrontPage 2003. We will be critiquing the websites created by the SIG members and other web sites, too. We will review design considerations, FrontPage capabilities, FrontPage Extensions on web hosting companies, and talk about hosting on free versus paid hosting services.
     
  • Meeting Times: The schedule for the FrontPage SIG can be found on the Education Calendar.
     
  • SIG Leaders: Larry Braud

Hardware Repair SIG

  • About: The repair SIG meets the second Saturday and the forth Saturday of each month.  Hidden away in their own corner of the Cajun Clickers offices they turn the spare parts room into working systems and provide working computers to local schools and volunteer organizations.  The Repair SIG sponsors the quarterly Computer Optimization day.  If you like to tinker with the inside of your computer, or you want to get down and dirty with installing operating systems on computers, or just anything having to do with the CPU unit, this group can put you to work for a few hours.
     
  • Meeting Times: The schedule for the Repair SIG can be found on the Education Calendar although it generally meets the 2nd and 4th Saturday of every month.
     
  • SIG Leaders: Ed Walker and Russ Williams

Linux SIG ~ Linux SIG's Webpage and Linux SIG's Wiki

  • About: Linux is a free operating system, licensed under the GNU Public License. It is becoming increasingly popular both with businesses and home users. The source code is freely available to anyone who wants. If you want to find out more about installing and using Linux, this SIG is for you. Everyone is welcome, from beginners to advanced users, although beginners to computing may be somewhat overwhelmed.  This SIG is conducted in conjunction with the Baton Rouge Linux Users Group. 
     
  • Meeting Times: The schedule for the Linux SIG can be found on the Education Calendar. The Linux SIG generally meets the first and third Mondays of every month in the Computer Lab at the Cajun Clickers Office.
     
  • SIG Leader: Ed Richards, Joe Zachary & Will Hill

Microsoft Windows SIG ~ Windows SIG's Website

  • About: The Windows XP SIG has now been renamed the Windows SIG.  We will go over Windows from Desktop to DOS (yes, it's still there). Bring questions, and problems. We will have a demonstration the first hour and Q&A the second.
     
  • Meeting Times: The schedule for the Microsoft Windows SIG can be found on the Education Calendar.  It generally meets on the 1st Saturday of the month.
     
  • SIG Leaders: Larry Braud and Terry Stockdale

Quickbooks SIG

  • About: Quickbooks is the best-selling business accounting package from Intuit, the makers of Quicken. This SIG meets monthly to learn more about the features of Quick Books and to answer questions from users. Anyone who uses QuickBooks will benefit from this session.
     
  • Meeting Times: The schedule for the Quickbooks SIG can be found on the Education Calendar.
     
  • SIG Leader: Gary J. Garrety, CPA, MBA

Web Design SIG

  • About: In the Web Design Special Interest Group (SIG) we focus on effective design of web pages and web sites. Sometimes, we critique the websites created by the SIG members and other sites, too. Other typical discussions include design considerations, user friendliness, targeting the audience, FrontPage capabilities and FrontPage Extensions at web hosting companies, writing and tweaking HTML and CSS code, and hosting at free versus paid hosting services, and more. There is plenty of opportunity for question and answer.
     
  • Meeting Times: The Web Design SiG meets on the third Saturday of each month in the Computer Lab. The current schedule can be found on the Education Calendar
     
  • SIG Leader:  Terry Stockdale (website)
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Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70815
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