Fantastic Photo Finishes-Organize & Edit Images with Your iPhone/iPad Photos App

This is a natural follow-up to "Taking Awesome Pictures with your iPhoneiPad," but is a stand-alone course as well. The focus here is on editing images as well as knowing how to organize images and video on iPhones or iPads. Other areas of focus include using the “For You” section (ready-made slide shows), creating, using, and sharing albums, and search.

Begins: Upon Registration

Registration: $24.99

Location: Online - You view class at your convenience! The instructors provide personalized support for the class via email and/or online chat.

Class access available until June 30, 2021

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.

In this course, students will learn how to make their Mac computer (laptop or desktop) hum! Areas of focus include: Mac features, choosing the best browser, using Spotlight Search, learning how to use the Finder and App Store, understanding the keyboard, and learning the icons that define a Mac computer. These are all essential elements that students will learn.

Location: Online - You view class at your convenience! The instructors provide personalized support for the class via email and/or online chat

Begins: Upon Registration

Registration: $24.99 

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.

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Taking Awesome Pictures With Your iPhone/iPad Camera

This is a step-by-step guide to taking beautiful photos, appropriate for novice photographers and anyone who wants to significantly upgrade their photography skills. Students will learn to take photos, portraits, slo-motion, panos, and more. Also students will learn about camera settings for proper focus and exposure, High Dynamic Range, and picture composition.

Begins: Upon Registration

Registration: $24.99

Location: Online - You view class at your convenience! The instructors provide personalized support for the class via email and/or online chat.

Class access available until June 30, 2021

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.

Online Cooking with Chris Toy

Join best-selling cookbook author and cooking instructor Chris Toy, as he shows you step by step the secrets to some of his favorite recipes: Five Seasons Wok Roasted Whole Chicken, Wonton Soup, Stir-Fried Hoisin Pork, Egg Rolls and more! Start and finish in your own time! Students will have access to all the videos and Chris’s new cookbook. Get started by viewing all the recipes and online videos. Decide what you’d like to try first, then make a shopping list. Practice, eat, repeat as often as you like.

Upon registration, students will be sent links to access instructional videos as well as Chris’s phone and email information for personalized support.

Registration: $24.99 Includes a copy of Chris’s new cookbook, a $16.95 value!

Class access available until July 31, 2021

It is safe to say that the vast majority of iPhone users rarely use more than a fraction of the features available to them. In this course, students will learn to use their iPhones to the best possible advantage. Here are some of the critical features we’ll cover: Apple ID and password; structure of the iPhone (buttons and how they work); best apps to have and how to get them; how to text, phone, FaceTime, and email; using the Control Center; master- ing Settings; updating operating systems; using key apps; understanding the apps that come with your iPhone and more.

Begins: Upon Registration

Registration: $24.99

Location: Online - You view class at your convenience! The instructors provide personalized support for the class via email and/or online chat.

Class access available until June 30, 2021

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.

A 6 week course designed to provide practical steps for aspiring fiction writers. The course will focus on specific aspects of the writing process including: setting, character development, dialogue, theme, plot and outlining. It's geared toward beginners or experienced writers who need that extra spark of encouragement or help getting the process started.

Class meets Live Online by Zoom

Begins: Monday, January 11, 2021

6 weeks, 6-7 PM

From the Instructor:

I am a local author with 3 works of Maine-based fiction published. I have been a freelance writer and fiction writer for over 20 years in various job positions and career opportunities. I have my degree in English literature. My fourth novel is slated to be published Spring 2021.

In this workshop, you will learn basic embroidery stitches, patching, darning, sashiko stitching patterns and more! Alone or combined, apply these techniques to mend or embellish your tattered garments, quilts and other textiles. The most sustainable option is the one you already own! Materials List: embroidery hoop, embroidery floss, sewing thread, needle variety pack, scrap fabric, scissors, water soluble marker (optional)

Instructor: Ashley Arnett-Shipley

Online Videos - Learn at your own pace. Students will have access to videos for 6 months after registration.

Begins: Upon Registration

Instructor will also schedule a one-on-one Zoom meeting with each registrant. 

Instructor has a BFA in Textile Design, and teaches with the Kansas City Textile Arts Center.  www.kctextileartscenter.com

Registered Maine Guide training through blended learning, using an online textbook and 10 live weekly online sessions. Focus is on learning how to guide the specialties of Recreation, Fishing, Hunting, Sea Kayaking, or Tidewater Fishing.

Course will not include needed to test for Registered Maine Guide: $55 fingerprint background check, First Aid and CPR certificate, and $100/specialty IF&W test application fee. Students need access to a computer/tablet with audio and video capabilities a printer, and a 2 degree baseplate compass.

Instructor: Alice Bean Andrenyak

Online Live - Zoom

10 Tuesdays, 7-10 pm

Begins: January 19, 2021 (No class Feb. 16, 2021)

Cost: $500

Instructor has been a teacher in public education, adult education, online education, as well as non-profit organizations since 1968. Alice is a Master Maine Guide who is a former Guide's Board Examiner with over 20 years actively guiding in Maine. 

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