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''It is this author's opinion that opposed to the United Church's online cafe, true success for the growth of the United Church of Canada requires a growth from the "inside-out". In other words, each church needs to develop its own shareable online database (catering to each church's unique needs) to meet and excel most of today's challenges (both manual and technical). Then church resources can easily be accessed to help solve unique and specialised problems.''

Aimed primarily for '''Westminster congregation members and staff'''. In the future, other general user computer-related courses may incur a charge.

Since these sessions are designed to teach "users" and "teachers", these initial sessions will be '''free'''<br />(i.e. no charge).

Members will be asked to participate (based on availability). Members must agree to commit to the full duration of each course (each course is estimated to last 6 weeks). The purpose for this "commitment" is to allow the members to become familiar with the computer lab in order to maximise its benefits.

Candidates should be informed that '''although free, each course would have an approx value of $70-$80, and a higher value of $250 at a community college level''' (not to mention of the costs and time incurred of developing an effective and customized curriculum for Westminster United Church) . Each student must understand that '''excellent attendance is absolutely essential to not only gain skills, but help out the church to achieve its goals''' by applying skills that are learned in these courses (especially the first 2 courses).

Click on each link for a full subject outline of each course:

* [ [[Westminster Lab (Multimedia & Composition)]] ]

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Appropriate time must be given during the <u>'''P'''</u>lanning stage to identify and understand the needs of the student, as well as the content to teach. After the planning stage, then the developer must focus on the course delivery or <u>'''I'''</u>mplementation (including lesson plans, evaluation, etc.). Finally, the course developer needs to <u>'''E'''</u>valuate the effectiveness of the lesson in terms of implementation (perhaps planning) in order to provide feedback (improvement) for future course sessions.

An initial course '''(Intro / Basics)''' will be run for the first 6 weeks, followed by '''(Intro /Basics) and (Curriculum Design Tools)''' run (in parallel) during the following 6 weeks, followed by (Curriculum Design Tools) and (Multimedia & Composition) run (in parallel) during the final 6 weeks.