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Elevate your computing skills and increase your design capacity.
Presentations - A Design and Communications Workshop - Conscious Computing Basics
Increase your computer literacy and refine your capacity as a visual storyteller using presentation software.
During these four live sessions you will be guided through activities and exercises that build skills and essential understanding of design software.
In this hands-on environment you will build the technical skills, and gain the computing basics that can help you grow confidently and consciously in your communications.
From navigating menus and programs, to saving, sharing and collaborating, this course takes no small skill for granted.
With downloadable glossaries, tips and guides every course participant will receive resources to reference and keep. Session recordings will be accessible for six months after the course. Course participants also receive a bonus half hour of personalized troubleshooting with their instructor. Scheduling begins after the last live session.
Artists, researchers, entrepreneurs, students and anyone interested in creating presentations of any kind will benefit from this thoughtful introduction to designs that inspire.
Led by Mariette Papic, this course provides real world examples from presentations designed in collaboration with other MUE instructors. These behind-the-scenes design stories will help illustrate the unique communications challenges and surprising opportunities we all face when designing for the enrichment of others.
During these four live sessions you will be guided through activities and exercises that build skills and essential understanding of design software.
In this hands-on environment you will build the technical skills, and gain the computing basics that can help you grow confidently and consciously in your communications.
From navigating menus and programs, to saving, sharing and collaborating, this course takes no small skill for granted.
With downloadable glossaries, tips and guides every course participant will receive resources to reference and keep. Session recordings will be accessible for six months after the course. Course participants also receive a bonus half hour of personalized troubleshooting with their instructor. Scheduling begins after the last live session.
Artists, researchers, entrepreneurs, students and anyone interested in creating presentations of any kind will benefit from this thoughtful introduction to designs that inspire.
Led by Mariette Papic, this course provides real world examples from presentations designed in collaboration with other MUE instructors. These behind-the-scenes design stories will help illustrate the unique communications challenges and surprising opportunities we all face when designing for the enrichment of others.
Increase your skills by mastering computer basics.
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Create Elevating Graphics
We will build practical skills for our daily use, improving our understanding of file creation, storage, organization, and sharing. We will define and automate tasks involved in creating new documents and presentations, examining the role of styles and types of formatting. -
Establish Visual Design Habits
In every workshop session we will cover tips for improving our productivity, and for easily creating signature looks. We will explore easy time management and useful tools for maintaining visual continuity. Learn from actual examples of MUE presentations, to help you build similar looks. -
Increase Efficiency
We will learn how to use and apply styles, and how to use keyboard and software shortcuts. Together we will explore preferences and settings, identifying opportunities available for working with templates.
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Why should I take this course?
Do you have a project you might like to realize? Is there a photo book, pitch deck or social media content you might envision? Whatever your visual storytelling goals, this course offers essential foundations.
Many of us learn to perform tasks on computers before we understand their workings. With little to no formal training we often find ourselves lacking in the language and foundations that provide us with the computing confidence we desire.
• Beginners - Our computing basics workshop is an experience of confidence building exercises and is perfect for workplace beginners or to refresh your business skills.
• Beginners - Our computing basics workshop is an experience of confidence building exercises and is perfect for workplace beginners or to refresh your business skills.
• Intermediate - This workshop is a chance to refresh skills, engage in lively conversations, and refine best practices in your presentations.
• Consciousness-based course design – The consciousness-based approach to computer design provides us with self-awareness, helping us make healthier and more inspired choices that help us communicate our message effectively to diverse audiences.
Mariette Papic
Mariette brings 20+ years of computing experience to this workshop. As a core member of the MUE staff many of you know Mariette's work as a designer and producer of popular consciousness-based courses, including The Journey of Enlightenment with Ann Purcell and Writing from Within with Elizabeth Taggart. As a technologist and artist Mariette has conducted workshops for universities, corporations and in her personalized coaching services.
As a writer Mariette has focused on the intersection of emergent technologies and their role in the arts. She has had her essays and interviews published by museums, galleries, and in periodicals. She has conducted workshops for at-risk youth through Leave Out Violence, US, and in the Republic of Mali as part of Andy Lin's Other Worlds project, developing a photography program for their indigenous-language pedagogy, which reaches over 200 satellite programs throughout the Sahel.
Mariette is a Core Steward of the Design Science Studio community, an educational incubator fiscally sponsored by the Buckminster Fuller Institute, and a lead trainer of their AI model, gAIa. Mariette serves as the Director of Outreach, Information and Inspiration for Maharishi University of Enlightenment.
As a writer Mariette has focused on the intersection of emergent technologies and their role in the arts. She has had her essays and interviews published by museums, galleries, and in periodicals. She has conducted workshops for at-risk youth through Leave Out Violence, US, and in the Republic of Mali as part of Andy Lin's Other Worlds project, developing a photography program for their indigenous-language pedagogy, which reaches over 200 satellite programs throughout the Sahel.
Mariette is a Core Steward of the Design Science Studio community, an educational incubator fiscally sponsored by the Buckminster Fuller Institute, and a lead trainer of their AI model, gAIa. Mariette serves as the Director of Outreach, Information and Inspiration for Maharishi University of Enlightenment.
Conscious Computing Basics
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Lesson series
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4 sessions
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Level: All levels
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Live, and On-demand
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Video time: 90 minutes each session.
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Exercises: To be completed during class time.
Course overview
History, knowledge and pattern recognition are all part of creating a successful computing environment. Learn these patterns and grow your communications capacity.
Certification included
Certificates are awarded for this course. Course participants are encouraged to watch the videos, complete the exercises and submit their survey answers to receive an MUE Online Certificate.
