CIT Training Courses Available in Spring Term

The CIT Training Program continues efforts to provide the NIH staff with new knowledge and skills that can be used in their work. Many existing courses are being updated, and more than 30 new subjects will be presented. As always, classes are available free-of-charge to NIH staff. Course descriptions and registration are available on the CIT training Web page.

New Classes

Internet Resources—Three new classes join the growing list of courses available to developers.

• "Introduction to Flash MX" will focus of the basics of this Macromedia application. Students will create a Flash web site using drawing tools, animation techniques, compound objects, timelines, layers and masks.


• "Building Rich Internet Applications using Flash MX 2004" is designed for developers wishing to use built-in components, their behaviors, and ActionScript to quickly become proficient in building applications.


• For NIH staff that have a basic knowledge of Eclipse, a new class "Eclipse Tutorial: Usage, Tips, Tricks and Advanced Features," is available. Eclipse is open source coding platform for integration of tools.

Personal Computers—This semester brings a variety of new courses, ranging from application classes to certification preparation.

• Two new courses on e-mail have been developed. The first course "Save Your Time – Learn How to Manage Email" will help you more efficiently clean out, organize, and reduce e-mail. The other course is "How to Get the Most out of Outlook 2002" and will discuss the NIH policy on e-mail as well as features to use it more effectively.


• For anyone looking forward to Office 2003, the course titled "Practical Applications of Microsoft Office in a Business Environment" will cover the technologies within this package and how it integrates with Sharepoint and Project 2003.


• Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) certification preparation courses will focus on Microsoft Word 2002 Expert, Microsoft Excel 2002 Expert, Microsoft PowerPoint 2002, and Microsoft Outlook 2002. These courses are geared towards the IT professional looking to pursue the Office Specialist certification.

General Seminars—With a growing demand on protecting technology, CIT brings four new courses to its schedule.

• "How to Perform an IT Risk Assessment" and "How to Write an IT Security Plan" will further explain the Certification & Accreditation process.


• "Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) 101" will focus on a basic understanding of cryptography and how public key cryptography is used in securing e-mail, digitally signing documents, enabling strong user authentication, and implementing PKI at the NIH and HHS-wide.


• Bob Todd will teach "Security Penetration Testing, a Practical Overview." This course will cover penetration testing and analysis methodology (PTAM) with a description of the tools and techniques used.


• "Basic Skills for Managing Projects with Teamwork.com" looks at valuable resources in developing and maintaining a basic project plan using Teamwork.com.

Statistics—Students will have the opportunity to attend new courses on statistical packages and general statistics.

• Dr. Terry Cox of NEI is following up his "Statistical Analysis with R" with a new class titled "Statistical Graphics in R." R is a free, open-source language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. This course will focus on creating statistical graphics for publication or presentations.


• The SAS Institute will be bringing "Statistics I: Introduction to ANOVA, Regression and Logistic Regression." Students will learn how to construct graphs to analyze data, construct confidence intervals, and apply multiple comparison techniques. This course is intended for current users of SAS/STAT.

Seminars for Scientists—Many new scientific classes should generate strong interest.

• Dr. James Malley of CIT has expanded his course offerings with a new 2-part Modern Data Analysis course. In addition to the "Elements of Modern Data Analysis," he will be teaching "Elements of Modern Data Analysis II." This new course will review common problems in data analysis, and introduce new methods for model fitting, validation, and searching for structure in data.


• MathWorks will present two courses on MATLAB. "MATLAB Fundamentals and Programming Techniques" will provide NIH staff with a comprehensive understanding of MATLAB as a programming language. "MATLAB for Image Processing" will focus on the Image Processing Toolbox.


• Dr. Gary Daubresse, Silicon Genetics, will be offering several seminars on Microarray Analysis in GeneSpring. In addition to his popular, "GeneSpring Overview," he has added "Importing Data & Creating Experiments," "Data Normalization," "Defining and Interpreting Your Experiments," "Quality Control & Clustering Tools," and "Statistical Analysis Tools."


• Dr. Raphel Irizarry of John Hopkins University will discuss "The Bioconductor Project: Open-Source Statistical Software for the Analysis of Microarray Data." This project produces an open source software framework that assists biologists and statisticians working in bioinformatics.


• New genetics courses include: "NCBI's GenBank Quick Start," "Cluster Analysis: Hierarchical & Partioning Methods for High Dimensional Gene Expression Data with Partek Pro," and "Browsing Genomes with the UCSC Genome Project."


• "Homology Modeling Advances and Applications" will discuss basic and advanced concepts of homology modeling.


• The previous AFNI (Analysis of Functional NeuroImaging) courses will be combined and expanded into two multi-day seminars: "AFNI Bootcamp" and "Cortical Surface Bootcamp."

Grants—New grants courses can be added throughout the term, so let us know what you would like to have offered.

• "Hands On ECB Early Concurrence Workshop" will focus on creating ad hoc and batch queries, creating assignment panels, managing the voting process and processing their completed Early Concurrence applications. All of the ECB class has been extensively updated.

Register for Classes

All classes in the CIT program are offered free of charge to NIH staff to help you in your work at NIH. You can read course descriptions and register on the CIT training Web page or call the Training Program at 301-594-6248.

Note: This list does not currently include our selection of Self Study materials.