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IOS18-Essentials for iPhones
with BoomerTECH Adventures, Mt. Desert Island Adult & Community Education
The September 2024 roll-out of Apple’s new operating system, iOS 18, brought 250+ new features and changes. In this course we will focus on the key features of interest to iPhone users, including Apple Intelligence which Apple labels as “AI for the rest of us”; useful and more powerful changes to Siri, addition of a new Passwords app, and upgrades to the Photos App, Control Center, Privacy and Security; and Accessibility. In addition we’ll show you how to get the most out of the Calendar, Calculator, Messages, and more. This course is appropriate for anyone using iOS 18 on their iPhones — iPhone 15 (Pro, Pro Max) and the iPhone 16 series.
BoomerTECH Adventures helps Boomers and Seniors create, connect, and contribute using today’s technology. These courses are fully asynchronous, online courses that students complete on their own time and at your own speed. Each course is a PDF booklet with information about the class, instructions on using the class, and the content of the class (videos and articles). The instructors provide personalized support for the class via email and/or online chat.
Leadership Development (for Gen Y) Certificate
with Constance Yates and William Draves, Five Town CSD Adult & Community Education
Especially geared for future leaders in the Gen Y generation (born 1980-1999), the certificate provides how-to practical information on advancing your leadership potential and making a difference in both the workplace and in society. Find out what it takes to become an effective leader. Discover your style of leadership. Discuss task completion, building relationships with your subordinates, becoming socially perceptive to changes in the workplace, utilizing your emotions in a positive and effective manner, and addressing challenging goals. Then learn the unspoken secrets that leaders know and the strategies they employ/exhibit for influencing others. Leadership skills are acquired and learned. You can become a leader if you know the do’s and don’ts; what to say, what not to say; what to do, what not to do. At the end of completing the three-course certificate, you will come away with a new understanding, a new toolbox of leadership skills, and the information to move your leadership development into high gear.
CEUs/ILUs: 4.8
Length (in hours): 48
Price in USD $395
Offered 4 times/year, call for dates.
Learning Styles Certificate
with Julie Coates and Kassia Dellabough, Five Town CSD Adult & Community Education
New research and information is coming out frequently now about how your learners - and you - learn. Here’s what we know. In the last century, you taught everyone equally by teaching them the same. But we know we each learn differently. So in this century, you teach everyone equally by teaching them differently. In this Certificate in Learning Styles, you get the most advanced information about the three most important and most prevalent characteristics you experience with your participants: generation, gender, and the autism spectrum. Your instructors are some of the foremost authorities in the world on these subjects. They write, and speak around North America, on learning styles.
CEUs/ILUs: 4.8
Length (in hours): 48
Price in USD $395
Offered 4 times/year, call for dates.
Management Certificate
with Sally Klauss and Joyce Odidison, Five Town CSD Adult & Community Education
Enhance your management skills through this program for supervisors, managers, and emerging leaders. Nothing creates success like a solid foundation. Discover the keys to effectively managing your employees. Find out how to create clear expectations, engage and motivate employees, and increase your effectiveness.
Then you will explore the principles of collaborative management and gain insight on how to expand your collaborative skills for the success of your team or organization.
Finally, get the keys to managing different generations in your workplace. Discover what motivates each generation at work, what incentives they respond to, and what messages they value.
CEUs/ILUs: 4.8
Length (in hours): 48
Offered 4 times/year, call for dates.
Management Certificate
with UGot Class, MSAD#1 Adult & Community Education
Enhance your management skills through this program for supervisors, managers, and emerging leaders. Nothing creates success like a solid foundation. Discover the keys for effectively managing your employees.
Find out how to create clear expectations, engage and motivate employees, and increase your effectiveness. Then you will explore the principles of collaborative management and gain insight on how to expand your collaborative skills for success of your team or organization. Finally, get the keys to manage different generations in your workplace. Discover what motivates each generation at work, what incentives they respond to, and what messages they value.
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Managing Remote Workers Certificate
with William Draves, Five Town CSD Adult & Community Education
Discover the keys to communicating with and managing remote workers, one of the fastest-growing sectors of the workforce.
Some 80% of employers are keeping some or many of their employees working from home part of the week. People working from home are 25% more productive than those who work in an office. Working from home is here to stay.
Tap into the experience of a CEO who has been managing remote workers for 22 years. He has pioneered the fundamental processes and procedures you won’t get anywhere else. And consulted with organizations around North America on managing remote workers.
Two one-month courses. Sessions start quarterly.
CEUs/ILUs: 3.2
Length (in hours): 32
Mastering Microsoft Excel Certificate
with Betsy Flanagan and Amy Klous, Five Town CSD Adult & Community Education
A must-have skill to succeed in business, whether an entrepreneur or a valued employee, is the ability to create, edit and manage spreadsheets. Microsoft Excel is the most used spreadsheet tool in the world.
Begin with learning how an Excel worksheet is constructed, populated with content, and edited for delivery. Discover how various menu items, commands, settings and processes affects the look of your Excel worksheets and workbooks.
Then, increase your efficiency by learning how to organize, display and calculate your data into useful information. Identify different types of data and how data can be best visually represented or formatted, by using different data tool techniques.
Finally, you’ll learn a variety of Excel’s most powerful features to analyze data quickly and easily. This Certificate will help you discover how to attractively visualize your data into meaningful information with confidence.
Students must have Microsoft Excel to complete this certificate.
CEUs/ILUs: 4.8
Length (in hours): 48
Mastering Video Marketing
with Rob Lee, Five Town CSD Adult & Community Education
Video marketing is the latest hot new marketing trend. Shoppers who viewed product videos were 144% more likely to add the product to their cart. Video with good SEO has a 53% higher chance of showing up on page one of Google searches. When done correctly, video can tell a story, and stories connect people. Video also leads to an emotion ‘trigger’ that plain text cannot do.
CEUs/ILUs: 3.2
Length (in hours): 32
Price in USD $395
Offered 4 times/year, call for dates.