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.

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Learn how to transcribe the most common medical reports used in both inpatient and outpatient settings. This course contains grammar review, as well as important clinical knowledge of major disease processes that are essential to enhancing your skills as a medical documentation specialist.

This is a 6 week class - Start dates are September 11 or October 16.

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

In our basic course on “hidden gems,” we explored: tracking, slide to type, customizing your control center, and accessing the built-in scanner among other cool features. In this level 2 course, we delve into the additional secrets of our iPhones and iPads. Learn how to set up helpful widgets, control text size, choose an interesting Siri sidekick, access important privacy features, and more. You’ll definitely increase your understanding of the intricacies of your iPhone and/or iPad at the conclusion of this course.

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Open Enrollment - take it when you want! These classes are online/videos, on demand so once you register for it, you can watch it as much as you'd like!

In our basic “Hidden Gems” course, we explored tracking, slide to type, customizing your control center, and accessing the built-in scanner…among other cool features. In this MORE Hidden Gems course we delve into the additional secrets of our iPhones and iPads. Learn how to set up helpful widgets, control text size, choose an interesting Siri sidekick, access important privacy features, and more. You’ll definitely increase your understanding of the intricacies of your iPhone and /or iPad by the end of this course. This course includes 8 videos: Course overview, edit “For You” slideshows, privacy/security features, quickly start a video recording, Siri sidekick, use folders to organize photos, change text size, and learn the magic of widgets. Other course resources include supplementary videos, articles, and tip sheets. You will have access to BoomerTECH Adventures email for support before, during, and after the class. The course package contains all the materials you need: Tips for Getting Started, summaries of each of the instructional videos, and a list of all course resources (videos and printed articles). All resources are accessible from the course booklet. Students will need a strong internet connection and a Mac computer, iPad, or iPhone to access videos and articles.

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.

YOU CAN SIGN UP FOR CLASS ANYTIME DURING THE SEMESTER!

Earn certificates in the areas that are important to you for daily life, employment or higher education. Choose the lessons and assessments you want to learn: basic computer skills, internet basics, Windows 10, Microsoft Word Office 2016, Excel, Mac OS, Using Email, Google Docs, Power Point, Your Digital Footprint, Supporting K-12 Learning, and/or Information Literacy.

Free to eligible adult education students or $70 for non

BoomerTECH Adventures Courses (BTA) - Self-Paced and Virtual Contact: Orono Adult Education Office for more information 207-866-4119/jsantos@rsu26.org

BoomerTECH Adventures courses are developed by Jill Spencer, Ed Brazee and Chris Toy, all Maine educators. All of our courses contain multiple videos which are self-paced. Students complete courses on their own time and at their own speed. Each course is a PDF booklet with information about the class, instructions for taking the class, and the content of the class (videos and articles accessible from direct links). The three instructors (Jill Spencer, Chris Toy and Ed Brazee) provide personalizedsupport for the class via email, phone, and Zoom.

Introduction to Mac Basics  -  Introduction to iPhone Basics  -  Cooking With BoomerTECH  -  iPhone/iPad Vision Accessibility Features  -  Introduction to Zoom Basics  -  Create & Deliver Online Zoom Courses  -  15 iPhone/iPad Vision Accessibility Features  -  Conquer Your Mac Photos App: Edit Your Images  -  Hidden Gems Lurking on Your iPhone & iPad #1  -  More Hidden Gems Lurking in Your iPhone/iPad #2  -  Adventures Digital Tools for the Beginning Memoir Writer  -  Conquer Your Photos App Chaos: Tame Your Mac Images  -  Unlock Safari’s Secrets on Your Mac in Just Five Lessons  -  Take Fabulous Photos of the Flora and Fauna in Your World  -  Unlock Safari’s Secrets on Your iPhone in Just Five Lessons 

Cost: $40 each class