Orange Community Education & Recreation

Become part of the exciting trucking, freight logistics, and transportation industries as a licensed freight broker or as a freight broker agent. Freight broker training will help you learn the skills you need to be a successful Freight Broker/Agent. From licensing and operations to sales and marketing, you'll learn the basics of how to run a domestic freight brokerage or agency in the United States. Freight brokerage is a growing, service-based industry. As a freight agent or broker, you connect shippers and manufacturers with transportation companies and manage those shipments. Entrepreneur magazine has rated the freight brokerage business as one of the top home-based businesses to own, and a Wall Street Journal article cited freight brokering and logistics as the largest growing sector of the transportation industry. Written by freight brokerage specialists, this freight broker course will provide you with the knowledge and resources needed to break into the shipping industry. From transportation law, contracts, and insurance, to setting up and running your own business, this is the best online freight broker training available. For details and to register click here: Instructors: Jan & Jeff Roach Location: Online

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

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.

Discover Sign Language will teach you how to sign basic phrases and complete sentences and how to put it all together, allowing you to introduce yourself and start a conversation. Along the way, you will learn signs for colors, numbers, locations, family, and the activities you like to do. Throughout the course, you will learn by watching videos that demonstrate how to make the signs and how to incorporate facial expressions to communicate in this beautiful language. This course is taught using the best practices of the industry with a minimum of audio support. Throughout it, you will be immersed in silence, which will help you gain an understanding of the perspective of Deaf people and sign language. By the end of the course, when you meet a Deaf person, you will be ready to sign! Register and pay at Ed2go.com/orangecommed. Instructor: Erin Trimble