OLLI at SOU NEWSFLASH
December 7, 2020
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Celebrate the Holiday Season with OLLI
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Staying home to stay safe this holiday season doesn't mean missing out on holiday cheer with our friends at OLLI. Your Member Services Committee is planning an all-OLLI party on Sunday, December 20, 4:00–6:00 pm. Mark your calendar now, and stay tuned for more information coming soon.
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Zoom Practice Partners Needed this Week
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Instructors are preparing to teach via Zoom next term and would like to hone their skills with live participants, AKA Zoom Practice Partners or ZPPs. ZPPs will have the double benefit of improving your own comfort with taking classes on Zoom, while helping OLLI instructors practice. Do you have 30 to 45 minutes you can spare to help out?
Here's the next opportunity to help an instructor practice:
If you are interested and available to be a Zoom Practice Partner for this session, click on the instructor’s email and let the instructor know you’d like to be a ZPP. The Zoom invitation link for that session will be emailed to you directly by the OLLI instructor.
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Winter Course Request Lottery Results
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If you participated in the course request lottery, notification of the classes in which you're enrolled and/or wait-listed have been sent out. When you've got your results in hand, click here to take another look at the OLLI winter catalog, and see what else you'd like to add when open registration begins on Monday, December 14. At that time, you may add as many classes as you like from the dozens of courses that will still be available.
As you review your schedule, please promptly drop any courses that you decide not to attend in order to open up space for others to attend. Just email the office at olli@sou.edu with "DROP" in the subject line and provide the name of the course(s) you wish to drop or call 541-552-6048.
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Reach Out to Prospective OLLI Instructors
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Do you know someone with a passion or expertise that they might enjoy sharing with an enthusiastic group of OLLI students? Invite them to consider teaching at OLLI. With classes online, OLLI instructors can be located anywhere in the world. Curriculum Committee members are available to discuss concepts and offer other support. And for anyone concerned about teaching remotely, OLLI makes a wide range of training, practice, and tech support options available for instructors. Click here to learn more. Spring courses proposals are due by December 31.
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Winter Break
OLLI offices will be closed for the Winter Break for the week of December 21–25. We'll reopen on Monday, December 28. Friday, January 1, is also a holiday.
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Be Savvy
Community Volunteer Network has just introduced Be Savvy, a website that provides Southern Oregon older adults with timely information during our COVID-19 world and beyond, including how to use and integrate technology for learning and entertainment, along with pertinent COVID-19 updates, articles of interest, fraud alerts and ways to be involved, connected and healthy.
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Lifelong Learning Opportunities
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2020 Century Summit, convened in collaboration with the Stanford Center on Longevity, will be held virtually on December 9th, 10th, 14th & 15th and will bring together top leaders in business, media, policy and research to discuss the implications of the 100-year life. Click here for more information and to register for a free ticket.
OLLI at University of Arizona welcomes members from other OLLIs to their upcoming free lectures. Advance registration is required.
Frank Figliuzzi: The FBI Way
Mr. Figliuzzi is a NBC News National Security Analyst, and former FBI Assistant Director for Counterintelligence.
Wednesday, December 9 at 12:00 pm PST / 1:00 pm MST
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Developing Long-Term Viable Stream Restoration:Main Steps, Considerations, and Lessons Learned from Australia, Mexico, and the U.S.
Monday, December 14 at 12:00 pm PST / 1:00 pm MST
Jackson County Library Services invites you to participate in Rogue Reads, a program to encourage everyone in Jackson County to read and discuss the same books. December 2020—February 2021. Click here to learn more about events and giveaways included in this program.
Are you interested in learning more about the ocean? Or missing snorkeling vacations? Click here to follow the adventures and live stream of the Nautilus as it maps the ocean floor in southern California.
If you need a little help mastering popular apps and games, TechBoomers.Com may offer the type of support you need. Click here to reach their home page.
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