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Biddeford Adult Education



Personal Enrichment

YouTube for Business

$245

with Rob Lee

Calendar Next available session starts May 5, 2025
2 additional sessions through Jul 7, 2025

Learn how to get your YouTube video on the first page of Google Search. Just like Facebook, YouTube is a social network that needs to be set-up, optimized, and used regularly to be effective. Your patters of behavior on YouTube may be working against you. Learn how YouTube can compliment your current marketing and social media strategy and how to maximize your YouTube Channel to get the greatest return.

How it Works click HERE.

Paranormal Investigation Fundraiser

$49

with Paranormal Five

Calendar Next available session starts May 10, 2025 at 6 pm
Paranormal Five is hosting a fundraiser for Biddeford Adult Education. Come and investigate with Maine paranormal investigators. See how paranormal investigating is done in real life versus what you see on TV. You will be able to see equipment and be able to see a different side to the J. Richard Martin Community Center. The building is extremely interesting with spirits that love to chat and let you know they are there. We cannot guarantee paranormal activity but any experience that you may have during the investigation is a real experience.

Decoupage Seashell Trinket Dishes

$25

with Dawn Burns

Calendar Next available session starts May 13, 2025 at 6 pm

Join us for a fun and creative class where you’ll transform two beautiful shells into stunning trinket dishes using napkins and decoupage! With a variety of gorgeous designs to choose from, you can personalize your piece to match your style-whether you prefer a scallop shell or a clam shell. No experience is needed-just bring your creativity and enjoy a relaxing time crafting. You’ll leave with one unique keepsake for yourself and another to gift to someone special!

There is a $10 material fee due to the instructor the night of class.

Walking Tour of Laurel Hill

$15

with Ron Romano

Calendar Next available session starts May 17, 2025 at 12 pm
1 additional session on May 17, 2025

Laurel Hill Cemetery in Saco was designed in the middle 1800s to encourage visitation. Its inviting pathways, sloping landscapes, and lush plantings (including an incredible display of daffodils each spring) provide a backdrop for a fine variety of gravestone styles, materials, and symbols. Our stroll through this beloved cemetery will take about 90 minutes. Two identical tours will run the same day, at noon and again at 2:00pm. Register early…this tour usually sells out.

The Narcissists Among Us

$35

with Donna Accettullo, Med

Calendar Next available session starts May 22, 2025 at 6 pm

Narcissists are everywhere! They may be our friends, family members, romantic partners, or co-workers. They will undermine your confidence, and wreak havoc on your health, career, friendships or finances. In this course, we will examine the 7 types of narcissists, their patterns of behavior, and the tactics they use. This course will arm you with the information you need to spot narcissists quickly and avoid them, or strategies to cope with them in situations where you can’t. Please check for an email (could be in your Spam folder) from the instructor with the Zoom link in the days before the class.”

Walking Tour of Greenwood Cemetery

$15

with Ron Romano

Calendar Next available session starts May 24, 2025 at 12 pm
1 additional session on May 24, 2025

Greenwood Cemetery is a hidden gem! Established in the mid-1800s when other “garden” cemeteries arose, Greenwood offers a wide variety of gravestone materials, monument forms, symbolism, and epitaphs from the nineteenth century. Cemetery historian Ron Romano will share the best that Greenwood has to offer, pausing to visit the graves of some who were lost at sea, taken down by disease, died by suicide, and even murder. The stroll along the winding pathways of this pleasant burial space will take about 90 minutes. Two identical tours will run the same day, at noon and again at 2:00pm.

Adobe InDesign Essentials

$225

with Andi Helmi

Calendar Next available session starts Jun 2, 2025
1 additional session on Aug 4, 2025

Adobe InDesign is the industry standard page-layout program that works with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop seamlessly. InDesign allows you to create simple to complex multi-page documents such as brochures, flyers, books and magazines. This course is a comprehensive exploration of InDesign tools and capabilities to create professional documents. You will learn how to manage the InDesign environment, create, setup, design, enhance and finalize multi-page documents.

Access to Adobe InDesign software required.

How it Works click HERE.

Integrating Social Media in Your Organization

$195

with Jo-Carolyn Goode

Calendar Next available session starts Jun 2, 2025
1 additional session on Aug 4, 2025

Take away a practical strategy and techniques for implementing a social strategy for your organization or business.  Learn the top five considerations when starting a social network as well as tips to manage an online community. Discover how to create your own private social network using the Ning platform. Discuss the top tools to use to manage your social media life and build integration into your website. See how Google Docs and Calendars work and how to use online video to further your business goals. Hear about mobile check-in applications and how companies are using coupon and deal sites. Get your company listed properly on local search engines so more customers can find you. Discuss how web design has changed and get feedback on your website while discovering usability testing and user interface design. Finally, learn how to manage this influx of information created by the new media revolution. Develop a manageable workflow and get productivity tips to be more efficient.  Learn what you might be doing wrong in social media as well as essential policies to have in place for your employees and company. See what trends are on the horizon and where your goals fit with those new trends.

How it Works click HERE.





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