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Maximize Your iPad’s Potential

$40

with BoomerTech Adventures with Maine educators Jill Spencer, Chris Toy, and Ed Brazee, Lake Region & Fryeburg Area Adult Education

Learn to increase your capabilities to communicate, create, and connect by mastering your iPad’s features. This online, self-paced course covers navigating your iPad, its Camera and Photos apps, the options available in Settings, ways to communicate through writing and video, plus how to answer and make phone calls. Plus, you will learn about the apps that came already loaded on your iPad like the Calendar and Siri, your virtual assistant. It is important that you have the most current iOS update; but don’t worry—if you don’t know how, we will show you the steps. Finally, you will also learn about accessibility features that are helpful for folks with finger mobility, sight, or hearing difficulties.

Medical Office Specialist (FREE Info)

Free

with Academy of Medical Professions, Windham/Raymond Adult Education

Learn practical, real-world skills essential for success in the healthcare field. This all-inclusive course includes: Medical Terminology, Medical Front Office Skills, Electronic Medical Records Boot Camp, and Medical Billing. Upon completion of all courses, you will sit for your CMAA (Certified Medical Administrative Assistand) Certification exam through the National Healthcareer Association (NHA). Course fee includes national certification, all books, fees, and resume and job assistance.

Microsoft Excel
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Microsoft Excel

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with Andre Cormier, Franklin County Adult Education

Microsoft’s Excel is a powerful spreadsheet software to organize and manage data related to business operations. This course focuses on mastering the fundamental tasks performed in Excel, including data entry, basic formula calculations, and formatting and style operations. During the course, you will learn how to build a spreadsheet from scratch and gain a greater understanding of the most popular Excel commands and functions. This would be a 6 week offering, with 4 modules and a final project. 

Fee will be TBD

NEW! Conquer Your Photos App Chaos: Tame Your Mac Images

$40

with BoomerTech Adventures with Maine educators Jill Spencer, Chris Toy, and Ed Brazee, Lake Region & Fryeburg Area Adult Education

Many people have 1000 or more images stored in their Mac desktop/laptop Photos App. Frustration sets in when one tries to locate a picture or a video among the multitude of saved images.Understanding the built-in organization of the Mac Photos app is the first thing you will learn in this online, self-paced course. Next comes organizing your images and video into albums and folders in order to develop your own management system. Plus, you will learn how to tag people in photos and create shared albums which you can invite friends and family to view.

Non-Profit Administration Certificate
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Non-Profit Administration Certificate

$595

with UGot Class, MSAD#1 Adult & Community Education

Non-profits today need to be run like a business in many respects. You have competition, a need to generate income and a surplus, and staff need to be even more productive. Get the best training on revenue generation for nonprofits, and program evaluation for nonprofits, with our Certificate in NonProfit Administration.   You will come away with the latest best information from instructors who train people in nonprofits.

Click here for more information on start dates, specific course information and registration.

Podcasting
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Podcasting

$245

with Travis Allison, Five Town CSD Adult & Community Education

Businesses are turning to podcasting to grow their brand and connect with customers. People with a niche hobby are turning podcasts into a business. Podcasting is experiencing a rebirth as mobile devices are everywhere. The intimate nature of the audio medium allows potential clients to get to know who you are and determine if you are the kind of company with which they want to do business.  Learn how to take your business or hobby and turn it into a podcast.  This step-by-step class will take you from start to finish and cover the required elements needed to get your show online.  Come to class with your idea and end with your show online for all to hear.

CEUs/ILUs: 1.6

Length (in hours): 16

Price in USD $245

Offered 4 times/year, call for dates.

Podcasting

$245

with UGot Class, RSU 54/MSAD 54 Adult and Community Education

This is an aysychronous, online class.

Businesses are turning to podcasting to grow their brand and connect with customers. People with a niche hobby are turning podcasts into a business. Podcasting is experiencing a rebirth as mobile devices are everywhere. The intimate nature of the audio medium allows potential clients to get to know who you are and determine if you are the kind of company with which they want to do business. Learn how to take your business or hobby and turn it into a podcast. This step-by-step class will take you from start to finish and cover the required elements needed to get your show online. Come to class with your idea and end with your show online for all to hear.

ONE MONTH COURSE - Next starting date is September 3, 2024

CEUs/ILUs: 1.6

Project Management Certificate
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Project Management Certificate

$495

with Andy Stanhope, Five Town CSD Adult & Community Education

In today’s business environment, there is a need for good project management.  Project management provides visibility of project health to the business and the customer. 

Through continuous monitoring, early detection of variations to plan, schedule, and budget can be communicated to stakeholders for quick resolution, including project cancelation.  

Project management is one of the fastest paths to promotion by increasing your network through greater exposure.    

First, gain the skills, tools, and templates to confidently develop and maintain a project.  An overview of salaries, certification costs, education, and experience requirements are provided.     

Then acquire a well-rounded knowledge of the five Project Management Processes relating to the Project Management Body of Knowledge Guide. This basic information will assist you in learning the beginnings of Project Management, whether you are interested in project management, in a project management field, or in any line of work.    

Finally, learn the ten Project management Knowledge Areas and their support role and relationships to the five Project Management Processes.  

Classes must be taken in the following order:

  • - Introduction to Project Management
  • - Project Management Processes
  • - Project Management Knowledge Areas  

CEUs/ILUs: 4.8

Length (in hours): 48

 

Offered 4 times/year, call for dates.

 





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