Business, Career & Technology   

The class is a practical, research-based course designed to help individuals retired or within 5–10 years of retirement build a clear, actionable plan for life after work. The class blends financial planning, investment strategy, and advanced planning topics into a simple, structured framework that gives students clarity, confidence, and a roadmap to follow.

Students finish the course with a personalized understanding of their expenses, Medicare options, social security filing options, income sources, long-term risks, and actionable next steps. All participants receive a workbook, fill-in-the-blank tools, and access to class recordings. Online via Zoom.

Discover Voice-Over: commercials, audiobooks & animations

In what could be the most enlightening 2 hours you have ever spent, this class will show you how you can actually begin using your speaking voice for commercials, films, videos, and more. In this introductory class, you will learn about a unique, outside the box way to break into this creative, fulfilling, and potentially lucrative industry. Voice-overs can be managed on your own terms, on your own turf, in your own time, and with minimal overhead! Whether you choose to pursue voice-overs part-time or full-time, this could be the game changer you've been looking for. 

A practical, confidence‑building introduction to using AI effectively. Learn how prompts work, compare free tools, reduce hallucinations, protect your privacy, and use AI to support research, planning, creativity, and everyday tasks.

Learn to:

 • Identify how to write an effective prompt and apply them to get better results.

• Write clear, structured prompts that produce accurate, useful, and personalized responses

.• Compare major free-tier chatbots.

• Use AI tools for everyday tasks such as research, writing, planning, organizing, and creative projects

.• Privacy and safe data use when interacting with chatbots.

• Incorporate AI into daily routines with confidence while maintaining healthy skepticism

Everyone has a story. Have you always wanted to write your story? If you already have a body of work, a collection of essays, or even a memoir manuscript in hand, you will enjoy this class. Beginners are welcome too. Through writing exercises and prompts, you'll be able to dig deep into your story and make it universally important to the ones you love and the world. Wherever you are in your life or on your writing journey you will appreciate your fellow writer and having an experienced writer, teacher, and mentor. In this supportive classroom setting, you’ll share your writing and engage in constructive feedback with peers to improve your writing. Open to students 16 years of age and older.

Sarah Shepard graduated from the film school in Seattle under the tutelage of Stewert Stern, who wrote Rebel Without A Cause for screen, and Tom Skerritt Top Gun. She has a Masters of Fine Arts from Northwest Institute of Literary Arts. She has written a memoir and is currently working on a novel. She taught a memoir writing class at Pike Place Senior Center in Seattle for two years and memoir writing at Peninsula College in Port Angeles.

This course examines how modern artificial intelligence, especially generative systems and large language models, is reshaping learning, work, and everyday decision making. Students gain practical fluency with contemporary AI tools while learning to craft effective prompts, iterate on them, and evaluate outputs for accuracy and usefulness. Case studies and guided practice develop skills for responsible use in academic and professional settings, with attention to equity, bias, privacy, accessibility, governance, and environmental considerations. Open to all students; no prior programming or technical background required.

This course is asynchronous, non-credit, and taken with instructor support, but on your own time. Assignments are turned in using Canvas(LMS) which is free for Shoreline CE students and also a digital book platform. Textbook details TBA. No tests required! Course may also be taken for academic credit.

Clock Hours and Continuing Education Unit (CEU) Processing fee.This is NOT a course, it is an admnistrative fee.

You need to register for a credit or non-credit course through Shoreline College in order to recieve Continuing Education Units (CEU) or Clock Hours for your OSPI certification. Note that if you are enrolled in an ed2go online course, this processing fee is included in the cost as long as you register via the Teacher Specific Course page.

For more information, please review the information on the Continuing Education webpage:  Clock Hours | Shoreline Community College (https://www.shoreline.edu/continuing-ed/clock-hours.aspx). Email us with questions at: continuing-ed@shoreline.edu.