inherIT kicked off its first class in Rooty Hill this week. It is a new location and publicity has been done through a combination of posters at libraries and community organisations as well as mail outs. The response has been moderate and is perhaps a good outcome given the amount of publicity used. The class composition was very interesting. We had our oldest participant till date. Roberta Cacapit is 76 years old and absolutely lovely. It was a priveledge and a delight to have her in our class today. Unfortunately, no photos were taken today!
Class Hours: 1.5
Instructors: 1 (Geetha)
Participants: 4 ( Melissa Kellett, Roberta Cacapit, Rosario Nuque, Halina Kazar)
Course Handouts: 4 pp
Computers Used: 4
Class 2, 10th March, 2009
The Rooty Hills Class is in stark contrast to the earlier on in Toongabbie. It is extremely subdued an very streamlined. Our class worked on using notepad and paint today. Roberta was back today and I have her on the front right in the photo.
Class Hours: 1.5
Instructors: 1 (Geetha)
Participants: 4 ( Melissa Kellett, Roberta Cacapit, Rosario Nuque, Halina Kazar)
Course Handouts: N/A
Computers Used: 4
Class 3, 17th March, 2009
It was another productive class with this group of 4 women. Everyone arrives on the dot and leaves on the dot - and we seem to get so much done. Roberta came despite some eye problems and seemed to try as hard as she could given her limitations. Madelina also joined us for this class and it was an interesting experience for her since it was so much more disciplined than the other classes. THe class worked on edit functions: Cut, Copy & Paste
Class Hours: 1.5
Instructors: 1 (Geetha)
Participants: 5 ( Melissa Kellett, Roberta Cacapit, Rosario Nuque, Halina Kazar, Madelina Ary)
Course Handouts: N/A
Computers Used: 5
Class 4, 24th March, 2009
Our class today was quite productive. The students worked on OpenOffice Impress (PowerPoint equivalent) and OpenOffice Calc (excel equivalent). It was an interesting class and the students did reasonably well. The excel and powerpoint excercises are normally not clubbed together in one class but with this class, it was fairly straight forward to work through both excercises due to the small group and speed of the class.
Class Hours: 1.5
Instructors: 1 (Geetha)
Participants: 5 ( Madelina Ary, Melissa Kellett, Roberta Cacapit, Rosario Nuque, Halina Kazar)
Course Handouts: N/A
Computers Used: 5
Class 5, 31st March, 2009We had a brief presentation to go over the concepts we had learnt during the first 4 classes. We discussed Windows, Menus, Editing and Formatting functions. This was followed by a bullets and numbering activity where the ladies had to type up a recipe.
Class Hours: 1.5
Instructors: 1 (Geetha)
Participants: 5 ( Madelina Ary, Melissa Kellett, Roberta Cacapit, Rosario Nuque, Halina Kazar)
Course Handouts: N/A
Computers Used: 5
Class 6, 7th April, 2009: Todays class was quite interesting. We had one internet connection Harlena, a polish lady was absolutely thrilled about the internet. She kept exclaiming, "This is fantastic". She never realised there was such a wealth of information on the internet. Our oldest student, Roberta, practiced one of the old excercises - to type up a greeting card - and wrote a special note to say thank you for the classes. Although small, this class always feels like a good one - and very efficient for the 1.5 hours we spend together.
Class Hours: 1.5
Instructors: 1 (Geetha)
Participants: 5 ( Madelina Ary, Melissa Kellett, Roberta Cacapit, Rosario Nuque, Halina Kazar)
Course Handouts: N/A
Computers Used: 5
Class 7, 14th April, 2009: This class is just remarkable. We have perfect attendance until now. Todays class saw the students take up and do activities based on their own interest. Halina loves the internet and spent all her time browsing. Roberta would like to play games and I may show her how to look for some good ones when she comes in next week. Rosario ended up doing some animation with power point and Melissa tried using tables in Word. Again, photo taking has been neglected. Hopefully, next week will be better documented.
Class Hours: 1.5
Instructors: 1 (Geetha)
Participants: 5 ( Madelina Ary, Melissa Kellett, Roberta Cacapit, Rosario Nuque, Halina Kazar)
Course Handouts: N/A
Computers Used: 5
Class 8, 28th April, 2009: Our last class at Rooty Hill was a great end to a perfect course. The numbers were perfect, the content covered was satisfactory (although not outstanding) and our students seemed to have progressed considerably. Most of them went over the previous weeks excercises today and they seemed to do remarkably well. They were able to cover about 2-3 excercises from previous weeks. It was good to see that they had improved considerably.
Class Hours: 1.5
Instructors: 1 (Geetha)
Participants: 4 ( Madelina Ary, Melissa Kellett, Roberta Cacapit, Rosario Nuque)
Course Handouts: N/A
Computers Used:4
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