WINDOWS 7 BEGINNERS COURSE

Trainer Dawne's Windows 7 for Beginners Course started today, and it was her Assistant Trainer Christina's first experience of helping conduct a training course.

Student Lorraine looks like she is wasting time playing Solitaire, but she is not. Lorraine has a bit of trouble using the mouse, so playing Solitaire is an excellent way of learning mouse control, with all the clicking and "drag and dropping" that is involved in playing this game.

Dawne's course preparation is excellent  -  today she

wore this very small usb ear ring......

....... just so she could show it to her students with other large usbs!  That's real class, Dawne

Dawne with her students Robyn and Lorrained at the end of Day 1 of the 5 week course....and a happy Christina who survived her first day as an Assistant Trainer.,...well done, Christina!

LEARNING HOW TO MAKE SIMPLE PHOTOBOOKS

Another Photobook Course was commenced today, with five students who are learning how to make a photobook.

Because of our computers "Deep Freeze", it is not possible to download various available photobook progams to our training computers. Therefore, our Club can only use "cloud computing", because the program resides online, and students upload their photos to where the program is located, and then create their book. The program used by Hazel for training is www.snapfish.com.au 

Hazel showing some finer points of the Snapfish program to Keith

                 Our new computers and screens are ideal to make and view photobooks

Jan has made photobooks before, and is keen to learn more about creating bigger and better photobooks.

The course runs for another four weeks, Hazel and I look forward to seeing their completed photobooks....and we are sure you would like to see their photobooks too?

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PHOTOGRAPHS FOR OUR ARCHIVES

Helen Nagiel, a regular attendee at our field trips, recently provided our Club with her photographs of the recent trip to Darling Harbour Maritime Museum and also our 2012 bus trip to the Hunter.

Helen is a keen photographer and is aware that our Club wants members' photographs for our archives.

Here are a couple of the photos that Helen uploaded to our Club computers  ---

If you have photographs of members attending Club activities, please contact me or any of the Committee. Its a simple process to copy and paste pics from your camera's card to our computers. Or you can do it yourself, just copy and paste to a USB and bring it into the club, and we will preserve your photos in our club external hard drives.

Thanks Helen for your donation...............................

ANDROID SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP MEETING

I spent this afternoon at the Android SIG with Deborah and Peter assisting thirteen (unlucky?) members to learn lots of things about their tablets and phones.

After a while, this is what I saw -

Everybody was looking at tablets! 

Then we broke up for afternoon tea.

They couldn't get away from tablets, looked at them even while drinking coffee during the break!

What is the attraction with tablets? Some members even take them to bed at night!

Well, if you are considering buying a tablet/smart phone and want to know, book for our Club's FREE (except for $4 towards room hire) 2 hour "Introduction to tablets and smart phones" on Friday 25 October from 1.15pm to 3.30pm to hear the good news about tablets and smart phones from Margaret, Deborah and Peter.

If you can't make it on the 25th, come along to the next regular Android SIG on Friday 1 November. Once you get used to a tablet you will be hooked on them.....................

OCTOBER 2013 MEMBERS' SOCIAL LUNCH

Two tables of the 20 happy members who enjoyed our regular outing today at Merrylands Bowling Club for an "all you can eat" lunch.

"Young" Hazel 1 looked great wearing her double string of pearls....and her sister Beryl closed her eyes for the camera!

Oh, I don't wear pearls.................I don't need them!

Term 4 starts next week, our Trainers, volunteers and members are ready to meet again at our Club for courses, meetings
 and social contact...........................................

VACANCIES IN COURSES STARTING OCTOBER

Have you been considering enrolling for a course this term but haven't quite got around to putting your name down?

Our trainers are ready and waiting -

-as of today we have vacancies in the following courses during the first half of the term:

 

Mondays:  

Oct 14, 21, 28, Nov 4       Windows 8 Beginners                   9.15 – 12.00  Trainer: Deborah Martin

Oct 14, 21, 28, Nov 4       Windows 7 Beginners                   1.00 – 3.45    Trainer: Dawne Zotz

Tuesdays:   

Oct 8, 15, 22, 29, Nov 5  Windows 7 Beyond the Basics    1.15 – 3.30     Trainer: Michael Myers

Wednesdays:

Oct 9, 16, 23, 30, Nov 6   Hallmark Cards – Beginners        9.30 – 11.45   Trainer: Lily Patterson

Oct 9                                     Skype                                              1.15 – 3.30      Trainer: Bing Kinsey

Oct 16, 23, 30, Nov 6        Facebook                                       1.00 – 3.30      Trainer: Deborah Martin

Thursdays

Oct 10, 17, 24, Nov 7        Word 2010                                     9.15 – 11.45   Trainer Hazel Labka

So, if you are interested in enrolling into any of these courses don’t delay, give us a ring and let us know that you would like to join us.

 

You can ring the club on 9806 5030, or Michael on 9801 1686 – leave a message if no answer -(or mobile: 0432 223 383)

 

We are all looking forward to hearing from you

Michael Myers

Training Co-ordinator

SEPTEMBER MEMBERS' MEETING

Another large mob of members were present at our regular monthly meeting held today to laugh with  our guest speaker Joe Moreno of Smarter Digital Photography.

Joe gave a very entertaining and informative presentation of the latest developments in digital photography. Joe was glad to hear that our Club members use Picasa to crop and improve our digital photos.

Joe spoke about the various ways to transfer pics from your camera to a computer or tablet by cables and cards, and then told us that wi-fi is fast becoming the way to transfer your photos, by way of a Eye-Fi SD 8gb card that is now available with built in wi-fi and makes connecting a camera to your computer/tablet so exciting.

   

A small www.lytro.com/  digital camera that does amazing things in-camera-

like playing around with focus, water painting, have a coloured

subject on a black and white photograph-was demonstrated

by Joe.                                                     

 He played a video that demonstrated new NFC (Near Field Connection) that is used by Sony to separate the lens and body of  their latest digital camera.

Joe brought the members again to laughter when he demonstrated the "Shoe Zoom" technique.....just.walk towards the subject!

Joe was so good, we are going to recommend he speak at next years ASCCA Conference!

The "Mug of the Month was presented to our Club's Foundation Treasurer Jan Gathercole, who is moving to Bowral.

Enjoy youe rural life, Jan!

Secretary Margaret gave members a tour of our club's new website, that is located at

http://parramattacps.org.au/


Go to the website and explore it






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