Eltham Computers in Homes
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Friday 18th May, 2007
Your comments:
Questions we asked, and what you answered.
1. What have you learned?
How to read email, understand what email is, and learnt more about the internet
How to start up the computer and open documents, word processing
Learnt to email each other
A little about computing and email
Finding out what we all like doing in spare time
meeting and making new mates
sending email
Learning the power of words
learning to turn on your computer
TO be able to turn on the computer
to be able to send an e-mail
finding out what other people like
2. What new words have you learned?
email, hyperlink, surfing-browsing, website, password, pscishing, gmail
Still learning more words all the time
How to scan using ad-aware
cursor
seach engine
browsers
mouse
hardware
desktop
screensaver
Parts of computer
search the web
hyperlink
icon
software
3. What has been good or bad about your learning experience?
Bad -
sometimes its hard to take in things as we go too fast.
Confusing when boxes come up why do they come up and what do we push and why - please explain more
confusion
Poor set up
Learning seems to be slow
Not aware
Good -
nothing is too serious and we are made to feel that we can do it
Can ask anything
incredibly patient tutor
Good tuition
All the learning has been good
Having somewhere to go on Friday
Getting away from some house chores
learning at your own pace
Tutors are pretty good - in the short time I've been here
4. How do you feel about your learning?
Hard to verbalise questions about the computer
Learning slowly
I am finding it hard at learning as to having no computer skills
5. How have the teachers helped you?
incredibly patient tutor
Teachers v. helpful & patient
Teachers have been very helpful and patient
tutors v. easy peasy
Teachers have been awesome
tutors are good
6. What can we do to help you better?
small class - one on one
Need to have more often hands on (weekly Kinda forget)
Looking forward to being able to practise at home.
More chocky biscuits @ smoko
Need a laminate handout of all computer jargon
Access to practise
A computer at beginning of course
7. What would you like to learn about? What do you hope to achieve
trade me, downloading music, how to work with films and photography, how to save written work (documents)
Editing photos
Learn to use Trademe site
Learn attachments and photos
Want to be computer literate
Need to have confidence to use the puta
Teach or pass on our knowledge to our families
Increase our employability
ability to search on Internet
Researching on the Internet
Learn, learn, learn
Do papers for social services
Use a computer
And some of your family sayings: -
Wigwam for a goose's bridle.
If you snooze you lose
Stop your shenanagins
She's a great life, if you don't weaken
Don't worry, be happy.
A chip off the old block
A brass razzoo
W. P comes in @ the door
Always wear clean underwear in case you have an accident
Ko au te awa - te awa ko au
