The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at the University of Rhode Island

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Wed, January 4

210 Flagg Rd., Room 201

Kingston Campus

Introduction to Social Networking Part I-Getting Started with Facebook

Are you interested in social networking, but don’t know where to begin? Are you curious about Facebook and wonder why it’s so popular? Would you like to join the social networking phenomenon? This hands-on workshop will introduce you to the basics of social networking, get you into Facebook for some hands-on learning, and generate plenty of discussion about the advantages and disadvantages of this popular website. You will be guided through Facebook account set-up, creating a Facebook profile, selecting privacy settings and connecting with friends. Everything you need to know to get started! Members are encouraged to bring a laptop if available.

Denise Levesque Robbin is an avid Facebook user, is currently the Facebook administrator for the YMCA of Greater Providence, South County branch as well as the social media consultant for the Church of the Ascension in Wakefield. She has both a bachelors and masters degree from URI and has experience teaching in the RI public schools as well as numerous entrepreneurial endeavors.

The Changing Face of Sports in America

Ken Bell, ABC6 Sports Director, will be speaking on "The Changing Face of Sports in America". Ken will share his personal experience over his 42 years in sports casting and there will be a time for questions and answers.

Ken Bell graduated from the University of Colorado with a major in Communications and Theater. He began his career as a sportscaster in 1969 as a freshman in college. He worked in Denver, Cedar Rapids, Milwaukee, and at Channel 10 and Channel 6 in Providence. He is in his 29th year as Sports Director at ABC6.

210 Flagg Rd.,

Room 201

KingstonCampus

$10.00 per member

Back Injury Prevention Class

This lecture will be a back injury prevention class.  It will discuss how to prevent the most common back injuries beginning with how to get out of bed properly, two foods that may hurt your back, how to get in and out of the car, 2 ways to lift properly, how many pillows to sleep with, how big they should be, the two best ways to sleep and the one way to avoid as well as how to do preventative exercises that take no more than 2 minutes a day to keep your spine healthy.  The lecture will have handouts to take home as well as a question and answer time at the end of the lecture.  Attendees may be asked to demonstrate the home exercises so dress comfortably.

Dr. Jay Korsen, Owner/operator of Back to Health Chiropractic, has been a Chiropractor since 1992. Back To Health Chiropractic offers affordable chiropractic care in a state of the art office. 

Kingston Campus $10.00 per member

Literature of the Holocaust

Literature can be defined as the imaginative depiction and transformation of human experience by the writer's artistic vision and skill. But how is it possible to depict and transform the Holocaust's unique human experience of absolute evil and atrocity into the sublimity of art? Survivors have written "After Auschwitz to write a poem is barbaric", and "A novel about Auschwitz is either not a novel or is not about Auschwitz." Holocaust literature must create a new definition of tragedy. Yet, in fact, there is a significant body of superb poetry and narrative inspired by the Holocaust which serves to illuminate that human experience and to distinguish the personal and the individual from the mass of the anonymous millions which defy comprehension. This lecture will offer a brief summary of the Holocaust’s events and stages, and proceed to examine a few powerful examples of that literature. Ample time will be reserved for questions and discussions.

Sheldon Grebstein was the founding director of Education for the Holocaust and Human Rights Education Center in Westchester, NY and served in this position for 13 years. It was his responsibility to create and administer programs, events, and materials which would encourage and enable teachers to incorporate the Holocaust as a subject in their schools’ curriculum. In his position with the center, programs were also offered to students and the community at large.