A FACEBOOK TRAINING COURSE - July 2013

I had to go to the Office today to collect membership and course monies, there were so many receipts issued over the past week I needed help.....and it was forthcoming from our regular Wednesday office volunteer Aileen!

"I'll help you John", said Aileen. So she did...here is Aileen transcribing heaps of receipts onto a recording form (designed for me by another volunteer, Dawne!)....then Aileen donned her warm clothes and walked down Church Street to the Bank for me. Saved me lots of time...thanks again Aileen.

And...seeing now that I now had more time, I looked into our Training Room and found it was full of six students and trainers Deborah and Margaret..their first day of a two day course on Facebook.

 There were "old hands" Noelene, Anne and Laura, as well as new members Connie, Maureen, James and Kathryn doing their first course at our Club......they have a couple of beaut trainers, so they will soon be regular Facebookers!

MEMBERS' MONTHLY MEETING - July 2013

President Deborah was pleased to welcome to the meeting  new members who had joined at the recent Open Day, and to also present Trainer and IT helper Bing with the Mug of the Month.

Deborah reported she had purchased the iPad4, Samsung Galaxy2 Android and Microsoft Surface RT Windows 8  tablets that were part of the recent Parramatta City Council's Community Grant to our Club.
Deborah also spoke about an Excursion on Friday 30 August to the Museum of Sydney and the Custom House. Members going on the excursion should tell Deborah asap, so she can book the numbers.

           During morning tea, many members joined Deborah to inspect the tablets.


Jon Bayley took members online to view Telstra Tech Savvy Seniors training videos on using tablets, social networking and security, and also played a sample of short talks by the Gadget Guy Peter Blasina.

 You can see all the videos online at http://www.telstra.com.au/telstra-seniors/

 The bountiful home-baked cakes were very popular at morning tea, our Club has a great mob of volunteers that cater for our activities and appetites.

The usual Q and A session was replaced with an open forum to help the Committee plan future training courses, and the participation by members was outstanding.

JON BAYLEY'S Course - Managing Your Digital Photos - July 2013

It's the first day for these students doing Jon's popular course on managing digital photos and they are learning the finer points of their digital cameras...like setting the correct time and date, how to set up the various types of flash - auto, always on, always off, etc and how to set the number of pixels, picture quality and aspect.

Jon and me, his Assistant Trainer, have been conducting this popular course for nearly six years and, with up to 6 students each time,  a lot of students have passed through the course.

This is just the first day, and it is obvious from the above photo that the students are keen, and are involved in setting their digital cameras correctly.

The students were then given an introduction to Picasa3, a  photo management application from Google.com thats free to download and use.

Next week they will be shown how to download their photos from their camera to a computer-after that they will try out Picasa3 and its photo editing processes. This is when the course gets really interesting!

WORKING BEES AT OUR COMPUTERPALS

Our training courses are not conducted during school holidays. But this does not mean that nothing happens in our club....its the time when our volunteers have working bees to carry out various housekeeping activities.
Here is Dawne, organising our
course notes and folders
in our Training Room

And our President Deborah printing brochures..............................

                      ......and our Secretary Margaret 
                    preparing Welcoming Letters to new members, and entering them onto our data base
                              ...and filing her recent Advertiser article

     ......and Ron is compiling brochures with Anne, pictured below

.....and

me balancing the cash receipt book.

And also, there are our IT experts, Deborah, John and Bing who spent hours updating and also configuring the Win 7 platform to the HP printer. Vista was removed from our old computers and now they still work in both XP and Windows 7. Robert Delvecchio also attended to look at card reader and USB problems.

So, even though there are no students in our club rooms, there are lots of busy bees at the Working Bees

OPEN DAY - Tuesday 2 July 2013

Our Open Day was highly succesful with attendance of around 30 throughout the day.





Secretary Margart was kept busy handling new members,
annual subscription renewals and Term 3 course bookings

Ten new members joined our Club, many of them had the article that recently appeared in the Advertiser.

 
Card and photobook displays
 were popular








A number of 20 minute talks were conducted by Trainers Jon, John and Judy and Lilly., followed by an interesting presentation of a wonderfully, easy way for Seniors to use Tablets for a simple way to connect online with family while ensuring privacy, and also to search the Web was made by Phil Willis from Tapestry.