Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Computers - the good bits!

We asked you to tell us the good things that you had discovered about computers and here are your responses:

  • learning to send email
  • connect to family - keeping in touch
  • speed of communication
  • price stays the same for mail
  • fast email - instant
  • good communication tool
  • creating - creative
  • portable entertainment
  • unlimited
  • the course has been good as weve met people with similar interests
  • fun
  • letterwriting
  • makes your brain work - brain pain - keeps mind active
  • find people
  • the computer is a great resource
  • internet
  • knowledge - always learning
  • shopping
  • access to information
  • games
  • get a job
  • gaining skills - how to operate a computer
  • pay bills
  • sharing photos
  • everything is computerised now and now we can keep up
  • :-) 15 June 2007

Thursday, May 31, 2007

Tutor


Karen is teaching the morning class.

Sunday, May 27, 2007

Eltham Computers in Homes

Your Contributions!


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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