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CAR Conference: Mini-Boot Camp Schedule

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For CAR beginners, special morning panels will be coordinated with hands-on classes in the afternoon. The combination will give participants a mini-boot camp experience with plenty of opportunity to apply what they learn to reporting and writing news stories. Beginners' track participants are automatically signed up for the following classes, following the IRE and NICAR boot camp curriculum. This will offer 10 hours of hands-on instruction in Internet, spreadsheets and database management. The 36 participants will be divided into two teams: Red Team and Green Team.


Friday
Time Panel or Hands-On Class
8:30 a.m. How best to use this conference
9-10:10 a.m. Internet 101: Effective searching and best sites
10:20-11:30 a.m. Internet 102: Advanced searching, the invisible Web, and downloading data
11:40-12:50 p.m. Using CAR for criminal justice stories

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CAR in broadcast
2-3:10 p.m. Excel 1: Performing simple calculations and sorting
3:20-4:30 p.m. Excel 2: Calculating ratios and rates
4:40-5:50 p.m. Importing data into Excel
Saturday
Time Panel or Hands-On Class
9-10:10 a.m. Using CAR for education coverage
10:20-11:30 a.m. Covering nonprofits with CAR
11:40 a.m.-12:50 p.m. Writing and editing CAR
2-3:10 p.m. Moving into Access: An introduction to filtering
3:20-4:30 p.m. Access 2: Summarizing databases with counting and summing
4:40-5:50 p.m. Access 3: How to join tables, matching information from file to another
6-7:20 p.m. OPEN LAB for mini-boot camps: A session on finding, downloading and importing data (limited seating available; students might have to share computer time)
Sunday
Time Panel or Hands-On Class
9-10:10 a.m. Build your own database: The ins and outs of how to structure and maintain a database you create.
10:20-11:30 a.m. A final Q&A session, exercise, and how to take it all home.