Life Long Learning

4 life long learning lifelonglearning.WSd1.org intro to droneS - recreational & coMMercial uSe course t1 instructor: Matthew Johnson (M3 aerial Productions) Thinking of using a drone for business purposes or purchasing a drone for a birthday or Christmas gift, or just because? Take this course to learn the ins-and-outs of Drone usage. This course is spread over two 3-hour evenings and will cover some of the essential topics required to use drones both recreationally and commercially. Due to recent legislation by Transport Canada, there are many factors that pilots should be aware of before flying. Ask "why?" before you fly! The instructor pulls from his experiences and will outline steps that will lead to safe drone operations. These topics include, but are not limited to: Rules and regulations • Operating limitations and safety • considerations Communicating with Transport • Canada and NAV CANADA Systems familiarization, • maintenance, and battery preservation techniques Manual and autonomous flight • Data processing • System demonstrations • 2 thursdays, april 19 & 26 6 - 9 pm ›› $159 library, rockwood School introduction to coMPuter coding uSing SMall BaSic course t2 instructor: Brian dentry Coding is cool, but what does it mean and it is something you can actually do? Yes you can! Microsoft Small Basic puts the "fun" back into computer programming. A few of the interesting tidbits about Small Basic are: with a friendly development • environment that is very easy to master, it eases both kids and adults into a world of programming; Small Basic combines a friendly • environment with a very simple language and a rich and engaging set of libraries to make your programs and games "pop"; in a matter of a few lines of code, • you will be well on your way to creating your very own game; with a new and revolutionary • IntelliSense®, Small Basic makes writing code a breeze; now you can share your programs • with your friends - let them import your published programs and run them on their computer; and understanding coding - parents will • have something to share with their children. Small Basic is an OOP language: Object-oriented programming refers to a type of computer programming (software design) in which programmers define not only the data type of a data structure, but also the types of operations (functions) that can be applied to the data structure. NOTE: Bring your own laptop. Lab fee $30 payable to the instructor. 6 Wednesdays, april 4 - May 9 6:30 - 9:30 pm ›› $179 room 32, grant Park Buying or Selling on KiJiJi course t3 instructor: tina Strong Looking to downsize or declutter or saving on purchases - this course is for you. This workshop will show you the benefits of using Kijiji to buy and sell. 2 tuesdays, May 22 & 29 5:30 - 7:30 pm ›› $43 room 72, grant Park Social Media uSing the internet course t4 instructor: tina Strong Learn the 'ins and outs' of social media: setting up an account, privacy, uploading photos, adding and removing friends, navigating sites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Pre-requisite: computer skills/internet knowledge 5 tuesdays, april 10 - May 8 6:45 - 8:45 pm ›› $99 room 72, grant Park PuBliSher 2013 course t5 instructor: tina Strong A part of the Microsoft Office series, Publisher is an application that helps you create brochures, newsletters and pull tag flyers among the many benefits of desktop publishing. 6 thursdays, april 19 - May 24 5:30 - 7:30 pm ›› $119 room 72, grant Park hoW to uSe MicroSoft cloud Storage course t6 instructor: tina Strong Learn how to use storage online using the Microsoft Cloud Storage as part of your e-mail application using Outlook. com. You will learn how to save documents, photos and videos online in the Virtual Cloud. 2 Mondays, June 11 & 18 5:30 - 7:30 pm ›› $43 room 72, grant Park technology Visit our website lifelonglearning.wsd1.org

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