SETC was formed on 9 June, 2010 in Sequim Washington.  The founding director, Thomas Pitre, Ph.D. is a retired educator and adult trainer, having served in the U.S. Coast Guard, and having worked in various educational organizations and institutions since 1968. 

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A list of classes that have been written and developed for presentation at The Center, Sequim or other, acceptable venues.  Legend: ID = in development

Fables and Flash Fiction Writing Workshops
Advanced search techniques and the hidden web
Back Room Management (for small businesses)
The Blogosphere- BLOGGING with BLOGGER
Digital Cameras and PowerPoint
The Digital Camera Workshop with hands on camera work (2 sessions)
Excel - advanced and overview
Front Page Web Page - making web pages
Googlesearch; basics
Mindmapping and Brainstorming: ver2 - mindmapping workshop (hands on making    maps and presentation overview with PPT) ID
Powerpoint - how to make the best of the tool
Scanners; How and Why, Special and Utilitarian Use
The 3D Show - 3 D photography - $1.00 chg. extra for 3D glasses
Gizmodom presentation - gadgets and gizmos
The Newbie Papers- Newbie overview for PC users
Finding Things on your computer with local tools
Training The Older Student  ID
Using The Digital Darkroom
Personal and Internet Security  ID
Poetry Workshop  ID
Creative Juijitsu; Creative Thinking and Problem Solving  ID
Podcasting and Audio for Marketing  ID
Buzz; Word of Mouth Marketing  ID
Expressive Drawing  ID

Watch the local newspapers for class announcements.
 

LINKS:

Our BLOG: http://setconsortium.blogspot.com/
Our Twitter page:
http://twitter.com/SETconsortium
Our Sister Site - The Cascadian
http://thecascadian.net [See the EDUCATION pages]

Link to: Marcus Zillman's August 2010 Awareness Watch Newsletter. It is a freely available 106 page .pdf document (2.422MB) from the below URL. This month's featured report covers Research Resources that are part of the Subject Tracer^TM Information Blog titled Research Resources available from the Virtual Private Library^TM. Research Resources covers a plethora of sources, resources, sites and associated links covering every aspect of research. August 2010 V8N8 Awareness Watch Newsletter http://zillman.blogspot.com/2010/07/awareness-watch-newsletter-v8n8-august.html

 
Thomas Pitre Associates
designed the e-Pack
for education and training applications.
This was an added service to our clients and associates.
 

Founding Members:  Thomas Pitre, retired educator, author, editor and adult trainer; Jessica Burroughs, President Sequim PC Users Group, IT Manager, Olycap, and accomplished graphic artist; Susan Davis, President of AMERICAS BEST Real Estate Education,  background in magazine editing, freelance writing, as a newspaper columnist and special features writer, producer and host of REAL TALK on REAL ESTATE, a 30-minute cable television show that aired in Southern California. Susan created over 200 hours of distance education specific to the state of Colorado and used the medium of video to bring those courses to students. To date, she has developed more than 500 hours of distance education. A member of REEA, a former member of the National Speakers Association and a NLP (NeuroLinguistic Programming) Practitioner, Certified Distance Education Instructor^TM, she has received numerous awards in several states for her contributions to the real estate industry.

Visit our Technology Pages and our business friends. Our working group publishes on several BLOGs and web sites, and we maintain a Non-Profit group association with SPCUG (Sequim PC Users Group) in Sequim, WA - on the Olympic Peninsula at: http://www.spcug.net 

SETC has been established as a Educational  Think Tank in conjunction with The Sequim Institute and The Cascadian Group,  located on the Northern Olympic Peninsula, in downtown Sequim, we reach out to our friends and colleagues via the Internet and find answers to your questions and solutions to your education and training-related problems.  

It is the first virtual organization of its kind in this geographic area. We help organizations like yours become more innovative and more creative. However, unlike many other companies, we help you harness the innovative and creative potential of the people in your organization, your clients, students, customers, your suppliers and other  partners. 

We believe that every organization has a huge reservoir of creative talent. But, in many organizations innovative ideas are not being fully realized and communicated across the firm. 

We offer articles, tools and experts who can help you find and evaluate and implement  ideas. We do this with on line training, publications (including newsletters, list mailings, websites, video, graphics, slide shows, PowerPoint presentations, whitepapers or marketing pieces. We are not afraid to NOT take ourselves to seriously. Humor is an effective way to open the mind.  It is disarming, yet it gives people perspective.

Functioning as a network of education and technology workers, business men and women,  SETC is an idea incubator and a reactive body that picks up the thread, researches the topic, synthesizes the information and shares it with others.

We emphasize the use and application of informatics.

Informatics is the "...interdisciplinary study of information content, representation, technology and applications, and the methods and strategies by which information is used in organizations, networks, cultures and societies."

Group participants and partners are linked together by the Internet, the telephone or closed circuit video conferencing.

Our purpose is to enforce and demonstrate our belief in collaboration and formation of ad-hoc, peer to peer and "smart mobs" to solve problems, innovate and share knowledge in order to build our businesses and help others do the same.  

We do this work for public, private and nonprofit entities, stressing low-cost and easily maintained documentation and tools.

We specialize in Research, Creative Intelligence and Electronic Communications.