THE LEARNING CENTER

Now Offering:
Course: Writing and Selling a Nonfiction Magazine Article
Teacher: Kelly Boyer Sagert
8 week course
Cost: $80.00
Writing (and then selling) a nonfiction magazine article can feel like such a mysterious and frustrating process. In this course, that process is broken down into manageable and easily understandable bits of information, so that you can target your audience, craft a query letter, and then write a winning article.

At the end of the course, each student should have one or more articles written in a magazine-style format, along with a corresponding list of potential markets for the completed work.

About the Teacher:
Kelly Boyer Sagert has sold over 1000 articles to newspapers, magazines, encyclopedias and online venues. She is the managing editor of Northern Ohio's Over the Back Fence, the magazine that profiles the art, history, intriguing people and fascinating places along Lake Erie's shores. Writer's Digest nominated this publication for their "Top 100 Award" in 1998 and 1999 and 2000, and Sagert also edits 4 trade magazines (Intercom, Realtor Review, Dateline and Builder), along with business directories and travel planners. She is the contributing editor to Southern Ohio's Over the Back Fence and she hosts a cable television show that shares the "story behind the story" of the magazine's intriguing articles.

Course: Creating Basic Web Sites 1 - Basic HTML
Teacher: Garrett DeBell
Cost: $40.00 - 4 weeks

This four week class covers the basic HTML that you will need to create and publish basic web sites for a bio, resume, synopsis of a book, lessons for a class, or even online publishing of a story or book. You will learn text formatting, lists, changing colors, and how to add backgrounds, images, hyperlinks, mail links, and counters. Even if you decide to use an HTML authoring program such as FrontPage you will need basic HTML to "tweak" the code.

This class has a library of lesson files on a class web site, a message board for Q and A, E-mail support, and live "office hours" in an online chat room.

On completing this course, each student should be able to hand code basic Web sites and have completed a real or practice Web site.

About the Teacher:
Garrett DeBell began using computers twenty years ago when DOS and WordPerfect were the standard. He began using the Internet with Lynx, the text based Web browser. He has been teaching online for over 4 years, teaching web publishing with basic and intermediate HTML as well as other Internet topics. He has also taught a wide range of HTML and Internet classes for two Bay Area training companies.

As an Internet Consultant, Garrett helps individuals and organizations learn to effectively use the power of the Internet. He stresses empowerment -- helping people create or revise their own websites and to incorporate mailing lists, newsgroups, and other Internet tools into an integrated Internet strategy.

Course: Getting Into Cyberprint                                                    Teacher: Betty S. Almond
Cost: $40.00 - 4 weeks

For the beginning writer, the cyber medium provides a clear and direct method for becoming a published writer. Not only can the beginner discover a huge market for their work, they can build that all important resume for later market submissions.

Course will explore methods for researching online sources. Understanding guidelines and online submission process. Building a network of sources, submitting to online markets and establishing your writing credentials.

Course lasts four weeks and is accompanied by a message board and teacher Q & A sessions weekly. On completing this course students should be ablt to submit and become a published author.

About the Teacher: 

A published author of poetry, short stories, newspaper articles and novels, Betty S. Almond blends the print medium with the cyber medium in building a career as an author.  Her agent was secured using cyber contact that resulted in the publication of her first novel.   Her poetry books were published in the print medium using cyber networking to secure a publisher. 

Author of Like A Promise, Walt and Emily, a co-authored poetry fiction, Southern Breezes, an anthology, and two new books to be published in 2001, she attributes her success to the cyber medium.

Five years of extensive online research, networking and e-mail contacts has given Mrs. Almond the know-how to guide others in the new methods of getting into the writing arena - cyber print.                                                                                                                                                                      

OSC will soon offer even more online education learning. Check back often to learn when to register for these other courses through the OSC Learning Center! 

MacKenzie Raye Van Cleef and Michael Osborn.
Title: Auto Care For Those Who Don't Know A Dip Stick From a Tire Pressure Gauge. And Doing It On A Writer's Budget.

MacKenzie Raye Van Cleef
Title: How to write, sell and promote your Inspirational Romance

Brandy Walton - Scrawletta
Title: Basics of Poetry

Liz Mitchell - Mitcheliz
Title: Building Better Business Skills

RobCherin
Title: Writing the Short Story

Garrett DeBell - GDBell
Tailored to Writers
Title: Internet Essentials for Business Self Study
          Creating Business Web Page 2 - Intermediate HTML*

*Prerequisite - Creating Business Web Page 1

Robert DeLena - Robert 873
Title: Universal Story

Robert A. DeLena and Ken Ristine (Robert873 and KenR1029)
Winning $$$ Through Proposal Writing

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