Discover the graceful and expressive language of sign language and learn to communicate with anyone, anywhere, just by using your hands! With this American Sign Language (ASL) course, you can unlock this rewarding ability and master communicating with Deaf people. Throughout your online sign language training course, you will learn to fingerspell the alphabet, sign colors, numbers, objects, and family members. You will acquire a wide range of useful, everyday vocabulary that will enable you to engage in meaningful conversations with members of the Deaf community. Using video demonstrations, you will understand how to form correct signs and incorporate facial expressions to communicate beautifully in sign language. This 6 week course is available 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. Choose your start date. Register and pay at www.ed2go.com/orangecommed.

Train for an in-demand healthcare career in medical billing and coding and prepare for industry certification. Our Medical Billing and Coding course will prepare you for success as you learn about legal, ethical, and regulatory concepts central to this field, including HIPAA compliance, official coding guidelines, and third-party payer requirements. You will come to understand all phases of the revenue cycle—from patient registration through medical coding, claims submission, reimbursement, and collections. You will have 12 months to complete this 370 hour course.. For more information and to register visit www.ed2go.com/orangecommed. Click on the bottom center of the page for Career Training. Resident / Nonresident $3,295

Prepare for a career as a pharmacy technician. This immersive course will train you to work as a pharmacy technician and prepare you for the Pharmacy Technician Certification Exam (PTCE®) to obtain the Certified Pharmacy Technician (CPhT) credential from the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB®). All textbooks, lab equipment and a certification exam voucher are included in the fee. Register and pay at www.ed2go.com/orangecommed. You will have 12 months to complete this 400 hour course. Click on the Advanced Career Training Catalog at the bottom center of the page. Orange Community Education & Recreation is approved by the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board to provide Pharmacy Technician training. $3295

Whether you speak some Spanish and need a refresher, or speak no Spanish, you will complete this course with the skills you will need to effectively communicate with your Spanish-speaking patients. You will also need to order an eBook for under $10, or the paperback book version of McGraw Hill’s Complete Medical Spanish, 3rd edition. OCE&R’s own Spanish instructor, Cristina, will teach.

Are you interested in dabbling in fiction writing? Think you might have a short story or a novel in you but don’t know where to start? If you answered yes, this introductory fiction writing class is for you. Designed specifically for those with little to no fiction writing experience who want to learn how to begin a fiction writing project, this class helps you find a pathway toward your fiction writing goals. You will learn the basic building blocks of story: character, plot and setting, as well as the different forms of fiction writing and some of the genres you might like to explore. You will also learn about researching avenues for marketing your work: online versus print magazines, self-publishing versus publishing with a traditional press. Whether you’ve never written a word of fiction, or haven’t written since high school or college, you will complete the course with the skills you need to get started on a new work of fiction (or to revive an old one that’s been sitting in your bottom drawer) as well as an outline for moving forward with your project, including goals for ultimately marketing. Instructor: Jacqueline Lipton Location: Online Asynchronous

Our instructor will take you through your project, step by step using the variety of woodworking tools available to you, including two lathes. You must purchase wood and supplies, no reclaimed, exotic or foreign lumber, please. For help with project details call Kurt at(216) 663-2744. Please be sure your project can be easily transported to and from class each week. Instructor: Kurt Klimko

Choose from more than 300 classes in languages, healthcare, bookkeeping, computer programs and more. You will register and pay at ed2go.com/orangecommed. Can't find what you are lookng for? Let us know and we can help;.

The course is designed to provide participants with a basic understanding of events which may require a person to need medical attention. Participants will learn how to recognize signs that someone is in danger, and how to react to the situation. Topics discussed will include: how to recognize when someone needs CPR, how to perform high quality CPR on an adult, child and infant, hands on practice with a trainer AED, how to help someone who is choking, etc. Participants will gain exposure and confidence in recognizing an emergency and how to react in emergency situations. Participants will get the opportunity to do hands-on practice of skills discussed in class. Successful completion of the class will make participants eligible to obtain their American Heart Association Heartsaver First Aid CPR AED card.

Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to see the 2024Tony Award winner for Best New Musical. In Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1967, Ponyboy Curtis, his best friend Johnny Cade and their Greaser family of ‘outsiders’ battle with their affluent rivals, the Socs. The Outsiders navigates the complexities of self-discovery as the Greasers dream about who they want to become in a world that may never accept them. With a dynamic original score, The Outsiders is a story of friendship, family, belonging…and the realization that there is still “lots of good in the world.” Includes Orchestra A seating, plus we’ll drop you off at the door. Board school transportation at 6:15 pm in the Pepper Pike Learning Center Parking lot. Registrations and refund requests are due on March 30.