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U-M to offer digital tool kit workshops

The University of Michigan (U-M) School of Information has announced that it will be offering Digital Tool Kit courses-2 1/2-- day workshops throughout the months of May, June, and July-- to help you acquire new IT skills.

Topics include information architecture, usability methods in Web site

design, HTML and XML, databases and the Web, and Perl and CGI programming. Practitioners and U-M faculty teach the workshops. The courses may be taken to earn continuing education units or simply for enrichment. Participants may also earn certification as a "Professional Web Site Developer" or a "Complex Web Site Developer" by choosing from predefined groups of courses.

Each course is $495, or $395 for individuals from academic or nonprofit institutions. For further information, call 734/647-- 7650 or visit the Web page at http://si.umich.edu/dtk.

Source: University of Michigan School of Information, Ann Arbor, MI, 734/763-2285; http://si.umich.edu.

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