Famous Southern Shaolin Kung Fu system of five animals and five elements. Incorporating movement, breath and application. Interesting, fun, challenging with many benefits including strength, coordination, flexibility and a calm mind. Through popular demand Rod McShane has agreed to hold this class again in Term2. Covering some of the basics of Qi Gong it will also explore new techniques and applications.
What can you do with all your old photographs, marriage, birth, death certificates, family diaries, schoolrecords, newspaper clippings, family members service records and all that family material that lays around collecting dust in drawers around home? Why not turn all that memorabilia into a family history book that can now become your Family Bible to be passed on as a gift to your family to treasure?
How to Publish a Family History Book will commence at the North Shore Community Centre from 22 July – 9 September 2021 commencing at 3.30 p.m. A laptop computer and a good working knowledge of your computer will be an advantage in creating a Family History Book.
This interactive course touches lightly on the history of Australian literature from colonial times to the present. Along with the consideration of well known poets such as Paterson and Lawson, some lesser known and/or more subversive writers will be encountered. We will also consider the role of the historical context of the texts studied through the application of new historicism and other postmodern literary theories. Although this sounds a bit heavy, the object is also to form new friendships and to have fun.
How to publish your own book online and to booksellers and outlets. Paperback and ebook. We’ll start with your manuscript – this class looks at the DIY editing, DIY proofing, DIY formatting for ebook, fonts and DIY layout/formatting for paperback, copyright, barcodes, DIY cover design, submission to printing and distribution services, getting YOUR BOOK into your hands and out on sale. Not an agent in sight. Minimal costs. No commercial software. No garage stacked with your big print run. No risk.
This is not a writing class. And we won’t be considering structural overhauls to any storyline or plot. But picky with grammar? Pedantic with punctuation? Fussy on layout? Certainly!
What’s a font, a widow, bleed, a drop-cap? An Oxford comma, an ISBN, an em-dash, the verso, a serif, a dialog tag? You have no manuscript ready (yet)? You could still do this publishing class, just using a public-domain text, and preparing “your” book text up to ready-to-publish.
This class suits a fiction/novel/memoir type manuscript with chapters. A few images Maybe — like the Author photo? But NOT a complex layout like an instruction manual with diagrams, or photo book or recipe book.
Learn how to get beyond the first three frets. Based on the major scale we’ll learn how to play chords all along the fret-board, transpose keys with ease, play lead-licks and more.
This is not a sing-a-long but a course to improve your playing technique and develop variety in your music.
With a little regular practice you can evolve from a three-chord strummer to a competent player and get the most out of your uke.
This is a fun course for musicians and those who want to be musicians. The course adopts a step-by-step approach to cater especially for beginners.
This course is based on the publication “Guide to Genetic Testing and Genetic Genealogy” by Blaine Bettinger, and will include investigation of genetic genealogy basics and common misconceptions. This course is heavily weighted towards genealogy with little emphasis placed on the scientific aspects of DNA or genetic engineering.
A one term course with a duration of 8 weeks and divided into two parts. The first 6 weeks will be based on tutorials, followed by 2 weeks of workshops where members will have the opportunity to practise what they have learnt in the tutorials.
Members are asked to bring their laptops/iPads or any other electronic device to class particularly for the workshops as these segments will be hands-on.
An additional class which will be held on Friday mornings for this popular new sport. Pickleball is a paddle sport that combines elements of badminton, tennis and table tennis. The sport shares features of other racquet sports, the dimension and layout of a badminton court, and a net and rules somewhat similar to tennis, with several modifications. Pickleball is a fast growing sport especially among the over 50s age group.
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The MASS system is the central database where Tutors can manage classes and activities.
EDIT COURSES
Go to the Tutor Login page. Login to the website using your membership number and password.
Click on View Courses from menu on left hand side
Click on your category from the drop down box
Click on your course from the menu listing and all the details of your course will appear To edit any details of your course click on the box “Edit Course” at the bottom of the page On the next page you can change any details like max enrolments or course details
When finished making changes click on the “Save” button at the bottom of the page
If you do not click on the “Save” button no changes will occur
You can make changes to your course at any time
ACCEPTING WAIT LISTED MEMBERS
Login to the website using your membership number and password
Click on View Courses from menu on left hand side
Click on your category from the drop down box
Click on your course from the menu listing and all the details of your course will appear To edit any details of your course click on the box “Edit Course” at the bottom of the page On the next page you increase max enrolments by number of wait listed people you are accepting
When finished making changes click on the “Save” button at the bottom of the page
If you do not click on the “Save” button no changes will occur
Click on Reports on the left hand side menu
Click on Enrolments at the top of the page
Go the section containing “List Enrolments” and select your course from the drop down box Tick the box “Include wait listed” them click on the box “List Enrolments”
Next you will see a report of all your enrolments and those wait listed
Click on “Wait” for those members you want to accept and you and the member will receive an email accepting them into your course
DELETING A MEMBER FROM THE COURSE
Login to the website using your membership number and password
Click on Reports on the left hand side menu
Click on Enrolments at the top of the page
Go the section containing “List Enrolments” and select your course from the drop down box
Click on List Enrolments’. Next you will see a report of all your enrolments
Click on “Delete” for those members you to wish delete from your course and the member will receive an email deleting them from your course
PRINT ENROLMENT LIST Login to the website using your membership number and password Click on “Reports” on the left hand side menu
Click on “Enrolments” at the top of the page Go the section containing “List Enrolments” and select your course from the drop down box Click on the box “List Enrolments” The next report you see will be all members enrolled in your course
On the right hand side at the top of the report is a box “Print” Click on this and you will be able to print this report for your use. Contact details for course members will be shown PRINT ATTENDANCE LIST Login to the website using your membership number and password Click on Reports on the left hand side menu
Click on Enrolments at the top of the page Go the section containing “Attendance List” and select your course from the drop down box In box Select course dates you can put in start of term date and end of term date (This will change each year) You can modify your printout by ticking “Choose a Sort Order” and select either surname/first name/member number whatever suits your needs If you only print the attendance list at start of the term then you can tick the box “extra horizontal lines” and add as many lines as you wish to enable you to add names for members that join after term start.
Click on “Attendance List” The next report you see will be all members enrolled in your course in boxes with dates of your course
On the right hand side at the top of the report is a box “Print”. Click on this and you will be able to print this report for your use. This can be used as a roll to mark attendance of members
EMERGENCY CONTACTS
Login to website using your membership number and password Click on Reports on the left hand side menu
Click on Enrolments at the top of the page Go the section containing “List Enrolments” and select your course from the drop down box Tick the box Show Emergency Contacts then Click on the box “List Enrolments” The next report you see will be all members enrolled in your course On the right hand side at the top of the report is a box “Print” Click on this and you will be able to print this report for your use. Contact details for course members will be shown as well as emergency contact details.
Grant Matthews, U3A Systems Administrator
updated 7/8/19
There are a number of major events and some pressing issues that U3A SC needs to address in 2021, ones requiring some input from members. Here are the ones being planned at present.
I Age Well Expo 2021:
Several key enterprises had to be set aside this year, such as our annual Trivia afternoon, and the I Age Well Expo. However, the news is that the Expo will return bigger and better in August 2021. Nambour Show Grounds will be the venue, and we have been offered the use of an entire hall, to promote both courses and various performing classes, like International Dances and Ukulele and Hand Chimes.
The Strategic Plan Mid-term Review 2021:
It seems churlish to blame the Covid 19 virus that we managed to keep at bay on the borders of our state, on the postponing of such a major undertaking as the Strategic Plan Mid-term Review. However, with the best will in the world, it was impossible to go ahead with planning. It will again be the hot topic in the New Year of 2021, and again, we will be looking for enthusiastic participants to give us their energy, their enthusiasm, and their ideas for U3A Sunshine Coast’s future developments.
To Hub or not to Hub 2021:
Our former Grants Officer, Margaret Thomson, put a considerable amount of energy into exploring the concept of a U3A Hub based in Caloundra. Under Covid limitations, Communication Officer John Armstrong is developing this idea into an online hub.
An emerging issue is that it may be time to consider separating into smaller groups, like Noosa, for example a Northern and a Southern U3A Sunshine Coast.
Just within our own Management Committee, we are very much more aware of the expense and time involved in travelling to meetings.
Life Memberships for our AGM 2021:
At our postponed AGM in August, we ratified our first 6, of only 25 possible Life Members, Ian R. Wilson, Jim Hales, John D. Cooper, Mara Miller, Patricia Barry, and Myra Timmerman. If you have someone in mind, a favourite long time tutor or volunteer, whom you believe has contributed outstanding service to the organisation, you have until February to 2021 to nominate them. Life Membership nomination forms are available on our U3A website and again, awards will be presented at April’s proposed AGM.
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| Monthly Newsletter from U3A Sunshine Coast September – 2020 Edition |
| John D. Cooper – From Rabbi to U3A Co-founder Founding member of U3A Sunshine Coast, and one of our new Life Members, was one of the four course convenors at Tea, Talk and Tutors when more than forty 3rd Agers at Moffatt Beach joined U3A Sunshine Coast?s first mini-courses. John?s story is one of emigration, discovery and enterprise in community work, with U3A at its centre..
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 | President’s Report – September 2020 When other U3As have found their activities curtailed or stopped, U3A-SC?has managed to keep going for the entire term. A very big ?thank you? to our volunteer tutors, who have been helping to keep us safe with active Covid-19 prevention plans. We also have new leaders in our office with Jennifer Strike appointed ‘Office Coordinator and Karen Martin as ‘Project Officer”. Please read the President’s full report here:
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 | New course in Creative Writing Interested in exploring creative writing? This new course (Course Code: 20WRI303) will provide?the?tools for you to begin a project of your own. Introducing the basics of story structure, writing styles, narrative viewpoint, characterisation, setting/place and dialogue, the course will be?practical with?in-class exercises and examples.?To enrol or to find out more?please go to the U3A website u3asunshine.org.au or phone the office 5430 1123.
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 | New Vice-Chancellor is Aged Care specialist Professor Helen Bartlett has commenced her tenure as?Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of the Sunshine Coast. Professor Bartlett brings to USC extensive international experience and as a?research specialist in health and aged care, Professor Bartlett?s career includes inaugural Director at the Australasian Centre on Ageing at the University of Queensland, the Oxford Centre for Health Care Research and Development and the Oxford Dementia Centre at Oxford Brookes University. (Photo: USC) |
 | New discussion group chronicles the 20th Century A new Discussion Group?will examine? historical events from the 20th Century and examine their influence in shaping the world. A?brief will be sent out prior to each class summarising the? events of the period and outline points for discussion and debate. Members of the class will be able to contribute to the conversation,?conducted in a respectful, non-judgemental and informative manner. More?details??are on the U3A website u3asunshine.org.au or phone the office on 5430 1123. (Course Code: 20DSG310) |
 | USC to conduct Covid-19 Clinical Trials If you would like to participate in upcoming COVID-19 research at? USC Clinical Trials then please register your interest now if you are over 18 years old and in generally good health. Contact USC Clinical Trials at our Sunshine Coast or Moreton Bay locations. Participants will be reimbursed for their time.
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 | Travel Chat update The Caloundra Travel Chat group resumed in early August after the Covid shutdown,?with six enjoyable presentations this term.?Our new Venue in the CWA hall in Caloundra (opposite IGA & PO) has proved to be very popular indeed.?Our numbers may have been restricted but our larger venue means we can all safely socially distance. Please click below to find out more about our programme.
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 | SLSC to conduct water-safe course for Seniors Surf Lifesaving Sunshine Coast have developed a new program to help educate our seniors on water skills, staying safe in and around water, basic first aid, CPR and DRSABCD. There’s also swim technique for those who would like to begin lap or squad swimming or just want to fine tune their current skills.
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 | Hand Chimes group needs music stands The Hand Chimes group?would very much like to keep meeting over the holidays and they are working to meet this request.?They are also asking for assistance but way of?a wood working group who could make tabletop music stands for the group. If anyone can assist the Chimes group with the music stands please contact Wendy Turton at?wrturton@hotmail.com. |
 | Lecture Series programme for Term 4 Lyn Lovell has advised the Lecture Series programme for all four venues that will be open during Term 4: Caloundra, Mudjimba, Maleny and Nambour. Please click the link below to view and download the programme.
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 | Ian R. Wilson – Life Member via Special Delivery Ian R. Wilson wasn’t able to attend the Annual General Meeting at North Shore Community Centre to be presented with his Life Member badge and Certificate, owing to self-isolating at home, but his badge and certificate were hand-delivered by President Glyni Cumming. Ian has had 30-year association with U3A Sunshine Coast as a Tutor in Geography and as a staunch supporter of U3A. |
 | Lecture Group finds a new Captain Lyn Lovell has advised that Ruth Flechtner?has graciously volunteered to act as Captain. The lecture group will restart in term 4 at 1pm on Wednesdays at the CWA Hall, 17 Kalinga Street, Caloundra.? |
 | The Golfer’s Dream – a Hole in One On?3rd September at Maroochy River Golf Club U3A Golf Class Tutor Graham Whyte achieved ?The Golfers Dream?, a hole in one on the Par 3, 12th Hole. With his 7 wood he landed the ball 3 metres beyond a green side bunker 5 metres from the hole. It released and rolled forward 5 metres into the cup. He and his partners did not realise the ball had gone into the hole.??Graham has been playing golf since 1963 and this was his first ?Ace?. When asked what he thought about his achievement, Graham was stuck for words. All he could say was, ?SURPRISED?. Congratulations Graham. . |
 | Keep those story leads rolling in… Thank you to those members who sent in story leads for this edition of eVoice. All contributions are appreciated, and please send more material for the October?edition. Email to:?communication@u3asunshine.org.auJohn Armstrong Editor |
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| Monthly Newsletter from U3A Sunshine Coast June 2020 Edition |?Click here to view in web browser |
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| Council funds printer/photocopier for U3A?office After many years, U3A Sunshine Coast’s photocopier reached its use-by date but our Grants Officer, Margaret Thomson, with Vice President John St Smith,?recently applied for and received a grant from the Sunshine Coast Regional Council to buy a new machine. |
| President’s Report – June 2020 President Glyni has some important information in this month’s message to members, including a start date for back to normal attendance classes. Here are the highlights:
Please read the President’s full report here:
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 | Job Vacancy – U3A Facebook Editor Our Facebook page provides relevant, interesting, entertaining?and up to date information to our members but?we do need another editor. So, if you enjoy taking photographs, visiting U3A classes and writing up stories, please consider volunteering to join the team, and help us build up an even stronger sense of community. Interested? then please? contact the president president@u3asunshine.org.au or the communication officer communication@u3asunshine.org.au
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 | Lecture Group back in Community Centre The North Shore Community Centre at 701 David Low Way has eased its restrictions on numbers. The Mudjimba U3A?lecture group meets there at 1pm on Thursdays and there are some vacant?audience spots.?New attendees are most welcome. Please contact?Brian Holliday?bholliday47@gmail.com?for more information prior to attending.
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 | Art and Entertainment Online Although we have not been able to attend most of our U3A activities, there has been an amazing array of offerings from galleries, orchestras, opera, art galleries and on IView for us to indulge in online. With all these wonderful offerings along with online grocery shopping ?during this? isolation period one benefit is that we have been able to hone our technology use skills.
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 | Bike Riders show they have the Right Stuff Richard Schoch?s bike-riding team showed what real cyclists are made of last week, with the group’s third ride back after lockdown. Antarctic temperatures – well, 4 degrees C at the start – punishing hills from Mudjimba to Port Perry and a cracking pace – well, 16kph average and 24kph downhill – had the group of 13 craving for more. So, Captain Schoch grouped the fittest and best and they climbed Mt Coolum after the ride, when the double-shot coffees and mandatory rest period overlooking the ocean were finished.
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 | Date Claimers for Semester 2 The biggest question for us all has been when are we going back to class? Even from this week?s announcement about easing restrictions, Queensland?s dates change by the day. However, where do we stand? It?s all about our venues: the University of the Sunshine Coast, our host, plans to reopen on July 20th?in time for Semester 2. Provided we have approval from USC, we will reopen our office the week before to take registrations for courses ? and Office Volunteers will be contacted to invite them back to work. |
| Captain needed for U3A Lectures Caloundra U3A Lectures Caloundra urgently need a new Captain. These are the duties of the Captain:
If you can help please contact?Lyn Lovell lynlovell@gmail.com |
 | Buderim Discussion Group on Facebook U3A Buderim Discussion Group is doing something different to stay connected.?Anne Lyons?Co-Tutor, says they aren’t ‘zoom’-ing to stay connected. “Instead, we?ve created an online ?whiteboard? using Facebook, where our group can post and comment on topics.” “On the virtual whiteboard, which is a private group page, members may post topics for discussion and?add comments.” To find out more, go to? the Facebook page to join the group or email Anne at lyonroar@icloud.com. |
 | Soup n Soul Exhibition & Art Market – July 11 The Sunshine Coast Art Group?s annual exhibition and art market is going ahead, thanks to easing of COVID regulations.? Come along and meet the artists, enjoy some delicious homemade soups and grab a bargain.?And how?s this for an idea?you can warm up with a bowl of delicious homemade soup and you get to keep the pottery bowl as well!
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| Keep those story leads rolling in… Thank you to those members who sent in story leads for this edition of eVoice. All contributions are appreciated, and please send more material for the July edition. Email to:?communication@u3asunshine.org.au John Armstrong |
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| Monthly Newsletter from U3A Sunshine Coast May 2020 Edition |
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| Tutors turn to video technology With?the suspension of attendance classes because of COVID-19 restrictions, our wonderful U3A tutors have embraced videoconferencing as a means of continuing the education and training for members. Wayne Curran, our Tutors and Courses Coordinator, said the increasing number of classes now using the Zoom and Lifesize video applications shows that tutors and participants alike won’t be held back by COVID-19.
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 | Acting President’s Report – May 2020 In this month’s report to members on topical issues, Acting President, Glyni Cumming, details the situation with?U3A?in continuing to provide members with access to classes and activities: – The increased number of classes being conducted online – Refunds of course fees and tutors’ subscriptions to Zoom/Lifesize – Security issues related to the Zoom app. – Classes now conducted online Please read the Acting President’s report here.
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 | Vale Bruce Dawe – Australian poet and U3a Tutor Bruce Dawe, Australian Poet and U3A Tutor, revered by his students and everyone who met him personally during his lifetime, passed away recently. Bruce was nominated this year as a Life Member of U3A Sunshine Coast and he will be remembered as a poet, teacher and raconteur of international significance. To read more about this outstanding Australian please click below.
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 | Discover and learn about Human Biology Starting 11 May, this unique and informative course looks at the many human bodily systems and provides an understanding of how they are structured and how they work together. The class will also examine the numerous misconceptions about how the body works, and what can be done to help it remain healthy. The course will consist of nine lectures held on a Monday and Thursday over a five week period via Zoom.
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 | Using Skype to call family and friends Feeling isolated and finding it harder to keep in touch with your loved ones??Cathy Ewald has put together some useful resources for those who want to learn about Skype, which has the advantage that it is available on a very wide range of devices. Click the ‘READ MORE’ button below to find out more. Cathy still has some places on her ‘Tablets and Smart Phones’ course. Interested? Then go to the U3A website and register.
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 | Management Committee self isolating Our Management Committee is coping with their duties as committee members through meetings on Zoom and plenty of emails between them. But how do they cope personally with self isolating as a result of the COVID-19 restrictions. Here’s a sneak peek at what they do at home to keep active and interested.
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 | Carer Gateway available through Wellways Lyn Harris is the new Coordinator Community Engagement & Volunteering for the Sunshine Coast. Seven years ago, Lyn began working with mental health Carers. ?Frequently, there was a dual diagnosis so I quickly learned about disabilities, the NDIS and aged care systems. As a Carer myself, I?m excited about the new Carer Gateway service and that I can continue working in this field.? Lyn welcomes any enquiries regarding support for family/carers. Email lharris@wellways.org or call Wellways on 1300 111 400. |
 | Training resources – videoconferencing While videoconferencing is the catch-phrase these days for meetings online, many people may need some training in the use of applications such as Zoom, Lifesize and Skype. For beginners, here’s an easy to follow video on using Zoom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9isp3qPeQ0E For Lifesize users here’s a good starting point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8pK24zh8VQ&t=2s Skype users may find this video informing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRcb3uB3Jac |
| Last day for Management Committee nominations Nominations for the U3A Sunshine Coast Management Committee close on Tuesday April 28th, and biographical details of all nominees will be posted on the U3A webpage. If you would like to nominate then please complete the form on the website.
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| Keep those story leads rolling in Thank you to those members who sent in story leads for this edition of eVoice. The contributions were appreciated and I would like more material for the June edition. Please send to communication@u3asunshine.org.auJohn Armstrong Editor |
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