Awakenings - which inspired the major motion picture - is the remarkable story of a group of patients who contracted sleeping sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I. Frozen for decades in a trance-like state, these men and women were given up as hopeless until 1969, when Dr. Oliver Sacks gave them the then-new drug L-DOPA, which had an astonishing, explosive, "awakening" effect. Dr. Sacks recounts the moving case histories of his patients, their lives, and the extraordinary transformations which went with their reintroduction to a changed world.

Expect a game changer at least once a decade. A technology that disrupts the status quo and ideally improves our lives in terms of efficiencies or general well-being. Blockchain is this decade’s game changer. We’ve past the hype cycle and now both startups and well-established organizations are focusing on practical uses of a replicated general ledger beyond Bitcoin. Learn about blockchain and its three levels of maturity. Play a game to understand blockchain’s benefits. Identify the opportunities available to us within data management. Overcome the challenges that lie ahead to become the next blockchain billionaire!

In this Office 365 course, students will gain familiarity with the features and functionality of Planner. Planner is a new addition to the Office 365 suite of productivity tools that makes it easy for a team to create new plans, organize and assign tasks, share files, chat, and get updates on progress. Students will take a tour of Planner, create new plans, use Boards and Buckets, create and assign tasks, add members, use notifications, and work with the various views. At the end of this course, students will be able to use Planner to organize and manage tasks and projects.

This course covers the features within Microsoft Project 2016 that every project manager needs to know. Students will learn how to update tasks, split tasks, reschedule project work, move a project and set new baselines. In addition, students will learn to use the variance table, display progress lines, edit and create custom tables, create custom views, and sort and filter project information. Students will work with Project reports, create custom reports, and work with visual reports. Finally, students will set default options, save a project template, use the content organizer, compare Project versions and work with Subprojects.