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Thank you, Mark From: 'Kliphton Miller' via VIPhone [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] Sent: Monday, August 20, 2018 4:51 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Schedule of Free Training Courses Now Available - Please Read Hi everyone, first off, please share this with others, as I’ll explain later on in the message. Many of you may remember, or may have taken, the iPad training course I offered this past spring. I was really humbled and appreciative of all the positive feedback from that course, and I felt that the response to it was overwhelming. I’m now excited to announce that I will be offering more free training courses for 2018-19 training season. In this email I will specify and explain what I am offering, I will provide course dates, and I’ll provide a bit of other general info. I know some of these dates are a good ways off yet, but as I’ll explain, there are benefits to planning now. First off, I’ll be offering four major courses over the next year. They are as follows: Replacing Your Traditional TV with Apple TV: four sessions, one session per week, beginning Tuesday, October 2, 2018 Living the Connected Digital Life: Four sessions, one session per week, beginning Tuesday, October 30, 2018 Learn VOiceover In and Out: eight sessions, two per week, beginning Tuesday, January 22, 2019 Learning Voiceover In and Out, Section B: Eight Sessions, two per week, beginning Tuesday, February 19, 2019 IPad for All Computing: 12 Sessions, two per week, beginning Tuesday, April 16, 2019 The courses which have two days per week will be held on Tuesdays and Thursdays. All courses will be held in the afternoon, with exact start times to be decided. Plan on somewhere around 2PM or 2:30 PM Eastern. Sessions will last for two hours. As with prior courses, each course is completely free and is available to everyone, sighted and non sighted alike. As before, courses will be held in Zoom, with an accompanying set of materials, offered as iTunes U courses, with the exception of the Apple TV and Connected Digital Life courses, which will require only small handouts rather than complete iTunes U courses. I’ll provide descriptions of each course below. What I’d love is if people would start sharing this entire email with your friends, family, co-workers, etc, and on any other relevant lists you may belong to. Additionally, please let me know which courses interest you. You can reply to this message with any questions, or you can email me off list to simply express interest in any courses. Now for some general descriptions: The Apple TV course was sort of requested by several participants in this year’s iPad course. It will be designed to offer participants an overview of what the Apple TV can do and how to use it. We will then get into various options for making the Apple TV your complete living room device, cutting the cord, streaming, etc. what about local channels? How about sports? What does it cost? How many people can watch at the same time? On and on. We’ll answer all the questions we can, with a particular emphasis on Voiceover use as well. You do not need to own an Apple TV to benefit from this course. Even if you are just mildly interested in it and want to explore what’s out there, we’d love for you to join. The Connected Digital Life will explore in-depth how to make all your devices work for you no matter where you are. We will spend lots of time on all the iCloud features and services, such as iCloud Photo Library, iTunes in the CLoud, iCloud Drive, and many more. We’ll discuss iCloud Keychain for password and credit card autofill, Apple Pay, continuity, multiple devices together, HomeKit and home automation devices, and much more. Anyone with an iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Apple TV, Apple Watch, HomePod, Mac, or any combination of these devices should benefit from this course. The Voiceover In and Out course is something I believe many are looking for. You’ll notice I’m offering two sections. This is because I intentionally want to keep enrollment small and look at the students to best Taylor the course to individual needs. This will be perfect for anyone who has never used an Apple device and wants to learn about it, or anyone who has just gotten their first Apple device. Additionally, those who have been using Apple products for years but want further Voiceover help will also benefit. Finally, if you struggle with certain gestures, fingering, or just want advance tips and tricks, this course is for you as well. Note that as of right now, this course will primarily focus on Apple iOS including iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch, TVOS, Watch OS, and HomePod. Though we wil indeed explore keyboard commands and Braille displays, our primary mode of using these devices will be gestures. My most recent certifications are on the iOS side of things, and that’s what I use, so I’d prefer to not do Mac OS for now. Finally, for the iPad course. You’ll notice I’ve renamed it. You’ll also notice that it’s longer than the one we did this past spring - 12 sessions instead of 8. This is because I really want to go deeper. We will be spending minimal time on learning Voiceover. If you want that, choose both this iPad course as well as the Voiceover course. In this course, we’ll do what we did last time, except much more involved. Instead of just talking for a short time about Messages, we’ll practice sending and receiving messages, use screen effects and iMessage apps, attach photos, record audio messages, and more. Instead of just discussing the calendar, we’ll create test events, modify events, use features like travel time, shared calendars, and much more. We’ll actually create short movies in Apple Clips, view a Keynote presentation together, and we will spend one whole session on file management and two entire sessions on nothing but Pages. This course is for everyone, though having an iPad is strongly suggested, though you will be able to complete most of the course on your phone. We will have a prerequisite this time though - a strong familiarity with Voiceover. If you do not feel comfortable with Voiceover but would like to take this course, just also take the Voiceover In and Out course, and you’ll be fine. Even if you took the 2018 iPad course, you may wish to take the 2019 one, as it will as I’ve stated, go much deeper. Again, please rely with questions, and please let me know which courses you’d like to take, and please share. Even though some of these are quite a ways off in the calendar yet, please start letting me know what you’d like, because creating course materials and course structure wil be much better the more time I have. Shortly I will respond to those who have actually chosen specific courses, and I’ll keep in touch with you from now through the start of the courses. Thanks again, and I look forward to hearing from you. Take care. Reply off list at kliph...@icloud.com My groups Beta tester for apple products? come help squash the bugs: https://groups.io/g/public-beta-users Have a braille display? Come teach and learn with others https://groups.io/g/braille-display-users User of IOS, TVOS, MacOS, and watchOS? That’s all we discuss in only apple talk and support. Beginners, experienced and medium range users, come subscribe here. only-apple-tns+subscr...@groups.io Oats is looking forward to having you! -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. 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