Online Creative eLearning - Training Resources

The Free-Lance Writing Toolkit ...creative approach to help the learner design, implement, and practice his/her objective to become a successful free-lance writer. Using an easy to remember six-step approach, the learner will be able to build a reputation as a successful free-lance writer. This approach is invaluable to the learner as he/she becomes immersed in the process of acquiring and developing the "tools" or  more...

Effective Business Presentations Using Flash This comprehensive, interactive, instructor-led 10 lesson course is designed for beginning level Flash users who wish to apply the power of Flash to business presentations, product demonstrations and other business-oriented marketing concepts. This course is designed for beginner level Flash users who wish to apply the power of Flash to business presentations and product demonstrations. Even if  more...

Flash I: Mastering the Tools ...your own CD's, Web sites, etc. You will be amazed at the creative power that will be unleashed from within you! The teacher of this course has over 20 years of teaching, animation and Web site/CD creation experience. You will also be provided with six comprehensive and expertly designed online units, followed by a comprehensive learning project. Through this learning project, practical  more...

Writing Your Life Story Record the events and people of your life. This course is designed to help the beginning writer to combine facts, any records (pertinent for sharing, and recording) and memories together in a fashion that is both enjoyable and easy to read.  more...

Writing Great Copy for Magazines During this course, students explore various aspects of writing for magazines. Students explore various aspects of, and techniques needed to write for magazines. During the course, students will also identify their key interests and how they can focus those interests into marketable pieces of writing.  more...

Managing Meetings Managing Meetings will help you to shape the way your team communicates and works together. It will equip you with techniques to make the best of any challenging people and situations you might encounter, and it will help you to build high performing teams that are flexible, creative and light on their feet. Managing Meetings Managing Meetings will help you to shape the way your team communicates  more...

Working With Digital Pictures Level 2 ...l look at advanced camera features, lenses, automatic and creative controls, accessories, and basic color concepts. Using a camera, students will also zoom, record dates and times, and use red-eye reduction. Then, using Adobe Photoshop Elements, students learn how to brighten images, lighten shadows, work with color saturation, remove color, work in layers, use the clone tool, rotate images,  more...

Time Management Using Microsoft Outlook 2002 ...eloping a system of organization, identifying priorities, creative problem solving, and timing teamwork. The course is designed to show students how to use the tools of Microsoft Outlook 2002, such as the Journal, tasks, notes, reminders, Calendar, and Rules Wizard, to plan their time, and offers tips on how to use other time management tools, such as paper-based products, hand-held devices,  more...

Short Story Secrets ...Once your idea is on paper, what is the next phase in the creative process? Structure, development, voice, texture and point of view are some of the issues a short story writer must consider when revising his/her work. This workshop will focus on helping the writer proceed from first draft towards finished product through exercises, posted lectures and feedback from the instructor, and through  more...

Revive Your Writing! Bring your tired sentences, your terminally ill passive verbs, and your ailing descriptors. Bring your tired sentences, your terminally ill passive verbs, and your ailing descriptors. Through this course, we`ll work on reviving your writing! We`ll use adjective adrenaline to pump up your text. Take a dose of verb vaccine and watch them spring to life. At the end of this course, your sentences  more...

Poetry Writing For Dreamers and Non-Dreamers One-on-one mentorship. This course teaches the craft of poetry writing resulting in publication and ISBN(see full description). This course focuses on the art of poetry on two levels, one as a craft and one as a concept. Basic structure and form are taught along with the encouragement to use only those formats supporting the poet`s vision and intent. Students will work on a one-to-one mentoring  more...

Poetry For Profit and Play This course is designed to help the inexperienced poet write for profit or pleasure. This course is primarily designed to help the inexperienced poet write for profit or pleasure. Students learn basic forms of poetry such as: metrical, sonnet, rhyme, haiku and free verse. They are then given exercises designed to help them learn the various forms. Each student hands in samples of their work and  more...

Learn to Be Your Own Editor This course helps students learn basic editing techniques. Through this course, students explore basic editing techniques. These techiques can be used to edit their own work or as a starting point for potential editing employment.  more...

Just Write! Keeping a Journal It`s never too late.Get started recording your life. This course provides opportunities for participants to grow through regular journal writing. Identify and develop your personal journal style. Keep a record of your life. Learn skills that produce a rewarding journaling experience. The class provides a varied assortment of resources and strategies that will enrich your journal. Participants  more...

How to Get an Accent in a Month: A Brief Study of Southern Literature This course examines characters, scenes and plots involved with Southern regional literature. This course examines different forms of Southern literature: the characters, scenes and plots involved with this type of regional literature. By examining short stories by several different Southern authors, students will gain appreciation of this style of writing, learn how to recognize key style  more...

How to Write Your Life Story Bring memories and facts of the past together for current and future generations This program is designed with helping the beginning writer to aptly combine the facts, any records (pertinent for sharing, recording) and memories together in a fashion that is both enjoyable and easy to read. Emphasis of this course is to write with clarity, continuity and in a manner that bring the events and  more...

How to Write Short, Short Fiction This course explores writing short fiction pieces. During this course, students explore different aspects of short fiction and also sources for publication.  more...

How to Write a Good Mystery Writing the mystery novel. This course is designed to acquaint writers with the elements that make a good mystery. This course is designed to acquaint writers with the elements that make a good mystery.  more...

How To Master Time Management ...ion, identifying priorities, setting and achieving goals, creative problem solving, scheduling/managing a small project, and timing teamwork. While this course focuses on teaching time management techniques to help people at work, it does not exclude way to manage one`s time outside work. One of the exciting aspects of this course is that it combines the best of the old and new theories of  more...

How to Beat Writers Block A program for the beginning and "blocked" writer who needs a jump-start. Through journal exercises, freefalling, modelling and "stream of consciousness" work, the writer learns to abandon the structures which have restrained their talent, and take on the craft from a whole new perspective.  more...

From Beans to Brew: Creating Characters This course explores how to create believable and lifelike characters. Explore character development from birth to death. This course explores how to create believable and lifelike characters. Students will utilize hands-on techniques to explore their own lives and the lives of those around them for inspiration and details. Armed with these ideas, students will then create new characters or add  more...

Getting More From Books: Intro to Literary Analysis This course makes reading more fun and more meaningful by teaching basic literary analysis. It`s easy to skim through a novel -- but getting involved in the book can teach you more about yourself, your world, and the human experience! Whether you like dense novels or "just for fun" fiction, this course will help you get more out of the books you read. All it takes is a curious mind. You`ll learn  more...

Enter the Net--Writing for Online Media Write for online publications! This course involves internet research and submission to online publications. This course will help you determine your interests, how to write articles, fiction, or poetry for the online media, write the actual submission, and submit that to a researched publication.  more...

Discover the Benefits of Self-Publishing! If you are considering self-publishing your book, this course will provide you with a systematic approach for accomplishing that task. You will learn how to format your manuscript so that it is ready for the printers; how to register your copyright, get your ISBN number, Library of Congress Number, and EAN; identify binding and paper options, and how to market your book and sell it. Course  more...

Creative Writing Brush-up ...creative writing skills. This course is an instructor-led course. Students are to submit their work directly to the instructor for review and applicable feedback commentary. The instructor for this course is Dezra Lehr-Guthrie. Ms. Lehr-Guthrie is freely accessible to her students via email at . This course will refresh you in characterization, plots, symbolism and perspective. This course  more...

Beat Writer`s Block with Journaling A program for the beginning and "blocked" writer who needs a jump-start. Through journal exercises, freefalling, modeling and "stream of consciousness" work, the writer learns to abandon the structures which have restrained their talent, and take on the craft from a whole new perspective.  more...

Adobe PhotoShop CS ...s. Harold?s expertise in software programs includes Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign), FinalCut Pro, Dreamweaver, Microsoft Office, and Front Page 2002. His career has included corporate training in a variety of computer skills and applications; computer lab training; database projects; Web site design, development and management; television production; work as a  more...

Adobe PhotoShop CS to CS2 Upgrade ...s. Harold?s expertise in software programs includes Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign), FinalCut Pro, Dreamweaver, Microsoft Office, and Front Page 2002. His career has included corporate training in a variety of computer skills and applications; computer lab training; database projects; Web site design, development and management; television production; work as a  more...

Adobe Photoshop CS3: Advanced Adobe Photoshop CS3: Advanced Ranging from casual hobbyists to the most seasoned professionals, our users quickly learn new software applications and broaden their knowledge of programs currently used. Narrated in an entertaining format by industry experts and leading authors, our video-based software training titles are critical tools for anyone wanting to learn tips, techniques, and best  more...

Adobe Flash CS3 Professional: Essentials Adobe Flash CS3 Professional: Essentials Ranging from casual hobbyists to the most seasoned professionals, our users quickly learn new software applications and broaden their knowledge of programs currently used. Narrated in an entertaining format by industry experts and leading authors, our video-based software training titles are critical tools for anyone wanting to learn tips, techniques, and  more...

Adobe Encore CS3: Essentials ...ded with Adobe Premiere? Pro CS3. Explore the rich set of creative tools for DVD and Blu-ray Disc authoring and SWF export to the web. Now that Premiere Pro is back on the Mac, you can use Encore CS3 on both Intel? based Mac and Windows? systems. See how Encore CS3 is the right choice for easy production of full-featured, menu-driven DVD and Blu-ray projects, on disc and the web The student  more...

Adobe CS3 Design: Workflow Adobe CS3 Design: Workflow Ranging from casual hobbyists to the most seasoned professionals, our users quickly learn new software applications and broaden their knowledge of programs currently used. Narrated in an entertaining format by industry experts and leading authors, our video-based software training titles are critical tools for anyone wanting to learn tips, techniques, and best practices  more...

Crafting the Crime Novel This course will explore the craft of writing a crime novel using facts and real terminology.  more...

Traditional Literature Fantasy and Realism Explores folktale formulae and types, compares fables, myths, legends, tall tales, and epics, and differentiates between fantasy and science fiction.  more...

Importing and Tracing Images and Applying Effects in Illustrator CS3 ...ther applications and combine them with vector artwork in creative ways. Once in Illustrator CS3, vector and bitmap images can be enhanced, altered, or completely changed using the special effects and filters that are built into the application. This course shows you how to place, link, and embed files from other applications into Illustrator CS3. It demonstrates the Live Trace and Live Paint  more...

Your Time and You ...find that the morning is the best time for them to handle creative tasks or difficult problems; others prefer to rise and work late--these people probably prefer to tackle only easy, routine tasks in the morning. Our personalities also play a significant role in the way we handle tasks and manage time. You are probably already doing certain things well, but there will inevitably be areas that  more...

Developing Excellent Time Management Habits ...s a real danger that we end up being reactive rather than creative, and spend all our time responding to what we have been sent, rather than initiating new ideas. To avoid this, you need to develop techniques for handling paperwork, telephone calls, and e-mails to maximize their value, and minimize their disruptive potential. Technology makes it possible for us to be more efficient--get more  more...

Managing the Creative Elements of Brands ... out? This course is designed to help you analyze all the creative elements of a brand in order to help you build your company's brand equity. The first lesson in this course demonstrates how your brand can make a great impression on consumers. The next lesson shows you how to brand your products with the perfect name and logo. This course enables you to determine if a jingle, slogan, or  more...

Writing the Marketing Plan Creative Strategy You've completed the first part of your marketing plan. Now it's time to write about your marketing tactics. You'll discover just how to match your product with your target market, determining exactly what the competitive advantages of your particular product are. Then you'll explore the price-setting strategies that will help make your product a success.  more...

The Foundations of Creativity and Innovation ...ore and more organizations encourage employees to propose creative and innovative ideas in the workplace, it's imperative that you understand the foundations of creativity and innovation, how creative thought happens, and what is needed to stimulate it further.This course begins with definitions and an exploration of the science of creativity, including biological and psychological  more...

Generating Creative and Innovative Ideas ...s creativity within everyone's grasp? Are people innately creative, or is this a skill that some learn, and others don't?If you have ever watched children at play, it's easy to conclude that all people start at the same level, with the same creative ability. Perhaps they lose their "creative toolboxes" with the self-consciousness of adolescence, or as other demands compete for  more...

Evaluating Creative and Innovative Ideas Proposing ideas is just the first step to innovation. But for every thousand ideas you generate, only one may have what it takes to make a real difference in your organization. Many great ideas will remain just that--ideas. Unless they have true commercial potential, or offer real advantages, they are destined to remain in the mental "incubator."To determine which ideas are worthy of further  more...

Implementing Creative and Innovative Ideas ...creative idea only truly becomes an innovation when it is implemented successfully in the organization.After all, what's an idea without execution? Execution is crucial if the idea is to start making or saving money.The process of implementing creative ideas is what makes great ideas become brilliant ideas. But this success is never immediate. On the contrary, even the greatest ideas demand  more...

Writing with Intention Whether you're preparing a brief e-mail response, a business letter, a performance review, a multi-page proposal, or a presentation to a prime customer, you know that having a job means having to write. But if you're not a trained writer, how do you begin? The writing process actually starts before you pick up a pen or place your fingers on a keyboard. It begins with defining what you are writing,  more...

Writing to Reach the Audience Business writing is effective only when it informs or prompts the reader in the manner you, the author, desire. Whether your intended reading audience consists of one person or fifty, those readers will determine what kind of content you include and how you present it. If you were writing instructions for a child on how to answer the phone, it would sound very different from the same instructions  more...

Decision Making Implementation and Evaluation ...? Not really. Your decision, no matter how considered and creative, won't walk out on its own two legs and implement itself. It's time to nurture your decided course of action and then evaluate its effectiveness. This course will help you do just that. And you'll do it in a way that will better ensure the success of your present decision and those decisions yet to come. After all, no decision  more...

Problem Solving Generating Alternatives When faced with any problem, it's tempting, especially in today's frenzied business atmosphere, to either take the easiest route or rely on the old tried-and-true methods. But how many times have you taken a certain action and realized afterward that you had more options than you realized? Now more than ever, today's business world is complex and multifaceted. As a positive result of that  more...

Elements of Project Human Resource Management ...creative project solutions on time and within budget, they must select and manage a team of experienced and competent professionals who can meet the challenge. This requires that project managers understand the Project Human Resource Management processes of planning, selecting, developing, and managing a project team. Such an understanding enables project managers to lead the project team to  more...

Analyzing Workplace War Zones ...and foster creativity. Sometimes the same discussions and creative thoughts that help the team can also bring about conflict. Nobody is perfect and not everyone is going to get along. It's important that teams identify and target any problems before they escalate. At the end of this course you'll have the skills needed to recognize why teams stop working, identify why battles begin, learn how  more...

Effective Team-building Strategies For a team to succeed, its members must want to win. Specifically, each team member must place the team's goals ahead of his own goals so that the team may be victorious. Team motivation can come from a variety of sources, the most usual of which is the team leader. But what if your team leader doesn't have the necessary leadership skills? Or what if she does, but she applies them ineffectively?  more...

Recruiting for the 21st Century Strategies "We'll just stick an ad in the paper, and we'll fill the slot. Right?" You don't sound so sure--and with good reason. The old ways of recruiting no longer make the grade. With unemployment hovering below 5 percent, innovative companies and human resources professionals are turning to online recruiting and other creative techniques to locate quality talent. This course investigates those  more...

Being a Knowledge Activist You. You're the one it starts with or the one who helps it to succeed. Knowledge management can never flourish in a company without people like you--the activists. You know your company, the people, and the potential. And one more thing. You care. You want your company to succeed and your cohorts to have a creative, successful environment within which to work. That's why you've chosen to learn  more...

Managing the Expert - Developing a Successful Environment Managing the Expert: Developing a Successful Environment explains management strategies, incentive programs, and the challenges of maximizing experts' creative potential. It identifies the processes for designing and implementing expert-appropriate incentive programs, managing renegade creativity, and managing barriers to expert creativity.  more...

Paint Shop Pro 9 Enhancing Your Images ...tion, you'll learn how to apply effects to add unique and creative effects to your photos. Moreover, you'll learn about using the brush, paint, and art media tools to enhance your photos. Finally, you'll learn about erasing and cloning parts of photos. Learn To: Apply effects to photos. Add picture frames to photos. Combine two photos into a single photo. Audience: This  more...

Creativity Innovation Thinking Creatively ...Creatively, you will learn to meet the demands of creative thinking in the workplace. This program will help you develop your creative thinking skills and allow you to practice using the creative thinking process. Learn To Identify the stages of the creative process. Recognize techniques that will enhance creativity.  more...

Creativity Innovation Increasing Personal Creativity ...ity; incorporate innocence, intuition, and adventure into creative thinking; and use creativity to generate ideas and solve problems. The program describes exercises that can be used to prepare the mind and body for creative thinking and explains the most common ways creativity is incorporated into problem solving. Learn To Select exercises that can be done to  more...

Creativity Innovation Fostering a Ceative Environment ...Creative Environment offers the student information required to recruit and retain creative individuals, perform a creativity audit, and to communicate with creative people. In addition, the program explains creative rhythm and gives suggestions for implementing a creative culture. Learn To Recognize the factors that attract creative individuals to a company.  more...

Creativity Innovation Promoting Team Creativity ...ivity offers the student information required to organize creative teams, conduct effective team sessions, and avoid roadblocks to team creativity. The program covers activities that can be used to increase creativity in a team and describes the creative problem-solving process. Learn To Demonstrate characteristics of a successful creative team.  more...

Recruiting Retention Internet Recruiting ... Follow the guidelines for building a creative posting. Follow the guidelines for refining the posting. Simulation Overview: In this simulation you will meet with Customer Service directors Terry Jones and Caroline Harris, who are looking to fill Customer Service representative positions. They both have  more...

Business Problem Solving The Problem Solving Process In Business Problem Solving: The Problem-Solving Process, you will learn the three phases of the problem-solving process and how to complete each phase. The program also gives you several processes for generating solution options and a method for prioritizing problems. By applying the information in this program, you will be able to identify a problem's root causes, develop and implement an  more...

Business Problem Solving Critical Thinking Info Analysis ...he program gives you a process for thinking logically and creatively. Additionally, the program provides you with processes and guidelines for both quantitative and qualitative analysis techniques. By applying the information in this program, you will be able to analyze the reasoning and conclusions of others, perform both qualitative and quantitative analyses, and develop your creative  more...

Essentials of Management Negotiating Skills ...g tactics. Learn To Use creative problem solving when negotiating. Explore different options for win-win solutions. Identify positional bargaining tactics. Close the deal successfully. Audience This course is for managers, supervisors, sales people, and others who need to  more...

Conducting Meetings Managing a Meeting ... making in a meeting, as well as techniques for fostering creative thinking and for managing conflict among meeting participants. Learn To Lead meeting discussions through a logical sequence of activities to arrive at well-informed and well-thought-out decisions. Recognize when a meeting's participants cease thinking independently  more...

Change Management Managing Change Change Management: Managing Change will help you develop the skills to proactively address change and meet the challenges of transition in the workplace. You will practice your skills as you work with various employees to overcome the problems encountered when making changes in your organization. Learn To Identify the different levels of change.  more...

Managing the Expert Developing a Successful Environment ...ntive programs, and the challenges of maximizing experts' creative potential. It identifies the processes for designing and implementing expert-appropriate incentive programs, managing renegade creativity, and managing barriers to expert creativity. Learn To Provide feedback during a performance evaluation. Follow the guidelines for  more...

Creativity and Innovation Series The Creativity and Innovation Series includes the following courses: Creativity and Innovation: Thinking Creatively Creativity and Innovation: Increasing Personal Creativity Creativity and Innovation: Fostering a Creative Environment Creativity and Innovation: Promoting Team Creativity To review individual course descriptions, please return to the previous page and select the desired  more...

Organizational Behavior Organizational Group Dynamics ...n Manager for the Division, you are assembling bright and creative individuals from a variety of departments to form a brainstorming team. Its purpose is to generate ideas in a non-critical environment. You've chosen Amy and Josh to spearhead the group and have invited them to your office to coach them as leaders. Unit 2: Organizational Processes (0.5 - 1 hour) Match  more...