Classes
The Lifetime Learning Center -- A Place Where You Can Sharpen Your Mind and Meet New Friends With Shared Interests!
We offer an abbreviated Summer schedule of daytime, non-credit college-level courses in a variety of topics including Shakespeare, ethics, literature gentle exercise and more. About 12 classes are offered in this Summer session. A full schedult of 30 or more classes a offered each quarter (Fall, Winter, and Spring). Summer classes are offered one day a week for four weeks.
The best way to get to know us is to visit a class. You are welcome to sit in on any class you are interested in - just drop by the office and introduce yourself before class!
Many of our instructors are retired academics. Others are current professionals and artists. All are volunteers who offer their time and expertise. Their reward is the satisfaction of teaching enthusiastic students.
You'll find we are one of the best bargains in continuing education in the Puget Sound region. Our goal is that no student be excluded by the cost of attending our classes. Check our Web Site at
https://lifetimelearningcenter.org/
for full class descriptions, fees and more information, or call us at (206) 949-8882.
We are conveniently located in Lake City at 3841 NE 123d (in the Lake City Presbyterian Church).
Lifetime Learning Center
3841 NE 123rd
Seattle, WA 98125
Seattle Public Library
The Seattle Public Library has Senior Computer Classes and Senior Internet Learning Classes. Please call Shelly Adatto at 206-386-4149 for more information on these free classes.
Free On Line Classes & Tutorials
Computer Subjects
There are many sites which feature beginners level tutorials, classes, and instructional material. Some of these are designed especially for Seniors.
WebSiteBuilders Lots of information including a free Internet tutorial.
CheekyMunkey Introduction to computers for seniors.
Bare Bones Tutorials on searching the Web.
Seniors Guide to Computers This Web site is for mature people who would like to feel more comfortable with computers and the Internet
Tutorials for beginners and seniors Includes extensive tutorials on Vista, MS Office 2007, etc.
Senior's Guide to Computer Basics Good introduction to the basics.
Bare Bones 101 A very basic web search tutorial.
And...If you want to put up your own web page:HTML Goodies A basic primer on HTML (Hypertext Markup Language).
Learn to Program HTML in 21 Minutes Part of Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing. Partly humorous, this one really shows how simple it can be!
Wired Tutorials (was WebMonkey) All aspects of Web design.
Arts & Sciences Subjects
MIT's Open Course Ware offers a wide variety of free classes. Some are syslabuse, some are class notes, some are videos of class sessions. Many of the courses do not have video lectures, but do have notes in PDF format along with tests and homework.
UC Berkeley class videos Wide variety of classroom videos -- very current. Probably the top public university in this country. Podcasts and webcasts of amazing professors lecturing. RSS feed updates.
Carnegie Mellon's Open Learning Carnegie Mellon is a private research university ranked equal with Berkeley. Though registration is not required they have a registered user mode that allows you to keep track of your scores and progress. Currently 11 courses are offered.
Utah State Open Course Ware SAme structure as MIT OCW with large available course listing.
Tufts University OCW Tufts University in Massachusetts has a very similar structure to MIT OCW with large available course listing.
Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health offers health based lecture notes and assigments. You'll find the JHSPH OCW website uses the same navigation structure as MIT OCW. The notes are formatted much more cleanly
Wikiversity.org From the creators of wikipedia, Wikiversity describes itself as being a community seeking to create and use learning materials and activities. Wikibooks is also incredibly powerful already containing everything from a detailed guide to learning French to Organic Chemistry and Nanotechnology
Education Portal (Now Study.com) There are many top universities that offer free courses online. This list ranks several of the best free university courses available for people who want to enhance their personal knowledge or advance in their current field.
To Find Computer classes in the Seattle areas- Try the following links:
Seattle Public Library Classes, many for adults.
King County Public Library Computer Classes, many for adults.
Additionally, you might contact any of the community centers in this following list. Many of them offer free access to Internet-connected computers and a number of them offer classes as well: Community Centers
