ISD 279 - Osseo Area Schools Community Education

Unlock the power of ChatGPT and revolutionize the way you interact with AI! In this exciting course designed specifically for adults, you'll dive into the world of ChatGPT and discover how to harness its potential to streamline your daily tasks, boost creativity, and expand your knowledge. Through hands-on exercises and engaging discussions, you'll learn to master ChatGPT's features, transforming the way you communicate, write, and problem-solve. Whether you're a professional looking to enhance your productivity or simply curious about the latest AI advancements, this course will provide you with the skills and confidence to make ChatGPT your personal AI assistant. Get ready to embark on a fun and transformative journey that will open up a world of possibilities!

Class takes place on Zoom a free online software. You will receive instructions on how to access the class prior to it starting. Please have a current email on file with us. If you need to cancel and you have already been sent a link for the class, you will not receive a refund. You may contact us about transferring your enrollment to another participant. Embark on an armchair tour of this ancient land. After first viewing the Biblical Mt. Ararat from its capital city, Yerevan, you’ll explore Areni Cave where archeologists have unearthed a 6,000 year-old wine press and an array of fermenting vats and storage pots. Follow the trail of prehistoric standing stones, Armenia’s Stonehenge, marching across the mountaintop, visit a pagan temple complex, and a monastery carved into a mountain with holy water seeping through its rocky walls. And, you'll learn the truth about the holocaust perpetrated by the Ottoman Turks in 1915 in which 1.5 million Armenians lost their lives.

Class takes place on Zoom a free online software. You will receive instructions on how to access the class prior to it starting. Please have a current email on file with us. If you need to cancel and you have already been sent a link for the class, you will not receive a refund. You may contact us about transferring your enrollment to another participant. Twenty years ago, my husband and I celebrated the most wonderous Christmas of our lives in Krakow, Poland as we joined our son and his family for the holiday. We visited the medieval Market Square, alive with Christmas, Santa Claus, and Ronald McDonald; rode in a carriage to Wawal castle and met its fire-breathing dragon, Smok; and took a one-horse open sleigh ride over the river and thru the forested hills of the Carpathian Mountains. Let me share this storybook memory with you.

Class takes place on Zoom a free online software. You will receive instructions on how to access the class prior to it starting. Please have a current email on file with us. If you need to cancel and you have already been sent a link for the class, you will not receive a refund. You may contact us about transferring your enrollment to another participant. Experience history with a paranormal twist on an armchair tour through Ireland. Ireland is famous for its “thin places,” a membrane or a thin layer between worlds that cross over each other. From pagan times to present, Ireland’s dark history has been recorded in its abbeys and churches, forts and castles, jails and graveyards by those who lived during those turbulent times and often perished because of them. Their ghosts are eyewitnesses to this history. Sometimes, they are the history.

Class takes place on Zoom a free online software. You will receive instructions on how to access the class prior to it starting. Please have a current email on file with us. If you need to cancel and you have already been sent a link for the class, you will not receive a refund. You may contact us about transferring your enrollment to another participant. In honor of Veterans’ Day, learn the stories of some of the 72 Minnesota men who have been awarded the Medal of Honor, dating from the Civil War to the Vietnam Conflict. Meet the Schoolmaster who took his students to war, dooming their hometown to oblivion; a Hungarian Freedom Fighter who signed up to fight Commies in Vietnam; the Anoka hometown hero who smothered a grenade and lived to tell the tale, and a host of other brave men who fought and died for their country.

Class takes place on Zoom a free online software. You will receive instructions on how to access the class prior to it starting. Please have a current email on file with us. If you need to cancel and you have already been sent a link for the class, you will not receive a refund. You may contact us about transferring your enrollment to another participant. This is the story of two men - one a writer, the other a warlord, who lived in different countries in different centuries, and how their lives intertwined to create the most memorable villain of all time—Count Dracula. In 1897 Bram Stoker’s novel, Dracula, launched an entire genre of literature and film about vampires. Join him as we track Dracula from a crypt in Dublin, to the ruins of Whitby Abbey in England, to castles in Romania once frequented by Vlad Tepes, aka “Vlad the Impaler.”

Class takes place on Zoom a free online software. You will receive instructions on how to access the class prior to it starting. Please have a current email on file with us. If you need to cancel and you have already been sent a link for the class, you will not receive a refund. You may contact us about transferring your enrollment to another participant. Travel along the Silk Road as we visit the ancient cities of Uzbekistan. Begin and end in Tashkent, the capital city, that has reinvented itself after a century of Soviet occupation. Next stop will be Samarkand, a city of mosques and madrassa, built in the 15th century by Temur Amir, 14th Century conqueror and modern-day hero of the Uzbeks. Then, you’ll join the throngs of holiday-goers for the Goldbroidery Festival in the timeless city of Bukhara to enjoy song, dance, and shopping for treasures.

Experience wedding dance favorites including waltz, swing and slow dance. It doesn't mater if you are a beginner or want to brush up on your steps for an upcoming wedding, this class is for everyone. Wedding couples, family and friends are most welcome to join us. If possible, please wear shoes without rubber soles. Couples only; please. Carol Brecht-Wiles has been making dance fun for more than 20 years in a number of dance studios and class venues.