UWA Extension

Plan Your 2019 Online Marketing

Plan Your 2019 Online Marketing For creatives, bloggers, small business owners and more: get a head start for your social media and blogging plans for 2019 with this half-day workshop. Whether you use Facebook, Instagram, blogging, other platforms or a combination, this workshop will help you analyse how you’ve been doing and make some awesome plans for the future. We will start with a review of 2018 and set some goals for 2019, then talk about how best to use a content calendar to... [More]

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Introduction to digital scrapbooking

This is an online course. To find out how our online courses work, please click here. Learn to use digital editing techniques to show off your photos and memorabilia in Introduction to Digital Scrapbooking! Using Photoshop Elements, this course will teach you how to make the most of your scrapbooking talents and artistic ideas when you combine traditional and digital scrapbooking. Starting with simple projects, you’ll quickly learn how to build pages, use artistic journaling, and... [More]

Social Media Savvy

How do your customers and clients find you and how do they know, like and trust you, and then decide to hire you or buy from you? In most cases, it’s all about social media and your online presence! Stats show that 64% of consumers are more likely to trust a business if they interact positively on social media – and if they can’t find you there, they might give up on you entirely. If you run a small or medium-sized business, the chances are that you’re behind on your social media... [More]

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Introduction to Screenwriting

This is an online course. To find out how our online courses work, please click here. There’s never been a better time to start a career as a screenwriter. With technological breakthroughs bringing the cost of making and distributing movies down to almost nothing, there’s going to be a huge demand for great scripts—and for people who can write them. Whether you want to write micro-budget indie films or Hollywood blockbusters, this course will teach you everything you need to know... [More]

Practical photography (advanced)

This advanced workshop takes you beyond the basics of photography. This workshop is designed to examine and utilise some of the intricate image-adjusting controls buried deep inside your sub-menus. The workshop also provides you with new advanced practical skills, showing you how to test each of your lenses for sharpness, how to accurately copy works of art and how to set a Manual White Balance for precise and accurate colour. The theme is the optimising camera’s functions for low... [More]

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Ten-minute sketches for absolute beginners

Absolute Beginners, enjoy a fast and loose, creative approach capturing the essence of your subject! Fun, easy techniques help you simplify basic art processes. You’ll use a variety of loose media helping you to free up... including markers, coloured pastels, graphite sticks, charcoal, conte, pens, ink. Great for unlocking artistic blocks, with a fun and expressive approach! THINGS TO KNOW Professional art materials provided. Light lunch is provided. If you have any special dietary... [More]

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Mastering mobile phone photography

Your best camera is the one you have with you and these days that’s probably your phone. With ever-improving optics and camera apps, smartphones are capable of producing amazing results. Like any camera however it’s the brain behind the lens that matters. Join Master Photographer Dale Neill on a fun, tip-filled seminar and master the techniques for producing incredible photos to share and enjoy. There are more photographs taken each day on mobile phones than all other camera types... [More]

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DNA and genealogy - what DNA tests can reveal about your family tree

Millions of people around the globe are enthusiastically charting their bloodlines. Genealogy has become a cultural phenomenon! Join Genealogist Mike Murray in our upcoming seminar and learn what DNA tests can reveal about your family tree. We all have two family trees – one that we can build up from family stories and genealogical records, and another that’s hidden within your DNA. Easy access to inexpensive DNA testing is revealing family secrets, breaking down stubborn brick... [More]

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The Gut Brain Connection: How Gut Health Affects Wellbeing

Did you know we are essentially more bacteria than human? – and the microbes in our guts are responsible for 90% of the messaging to our brain rather than brain to gut! Science is beginning to catch up to the crucial impact our gut microbes have on our digestion, overall health and mental well being. In the last few years huge advancements in technology used to measure and detect the microbes that live on and in us has allowed researchers to map and track the diversity and the... [More]

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Uncovering the literary history of the wheatbelt

Dr. Tony Hughes-d’Aeth, author of Like Nothing on this Earth: A Literary History of the Wheatbelt, will examine the creation of the wheatbelt through its creative writing. Some of Australia’s most significant writers used their experiences of this landscape in their writing, providing insights into the human and environmental effects of this experiment of mass-scale agriculture. [More]

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