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Class 1, 12 March, 2009,

We kicked off yet another class at Sydwest Multicultural Services Inc. Our class today was exclusively for women and the centre had arranged for childcare for this class. It was a tremendously mixed group with people from all kinds of places and backgrounds. I hope the class attendance remains regular as I'd really like to work more with these women. We did the standard first class material: Computer parts, mouse operation, typing in a notepad.

Class Hours: 1.5
Instructors: 1 (Geetha)
Participants: 9 ( Ines, Neomi, Susan, Leticia, Navdeep, Almarina, Jane, Joanne, Susan) Course Handouts: 4 pp , Computers Used: 8

Class 2, 19 March, 2009,

This was a chaotic class. We had a large number of participants and it was difficult to manage the group. However, we worked through the notepad and paint excercise. The group was very diverse and varied but more thought and organisation is needed to facilitate better learning. An extra teacher may be in order. Maybe some better use of hte overhead projector as well so that they can follow what I am doing and then try it on their own.

Class Hours: 1.5
Instructors: 1 (Geetha)
Participants: 11 ( Susan, Leticia, Navdeep, Jane, Joanne, Qudsia, Valeria, Karimeh, Zoya, Bibi, Shamin Akthar)
Course Handouts: 4 pp ,
Computers Used: 10

Class 3, 26 March, 2009
In todays class we learnt how to type up some text in Word and then use the edit functions to cut, copy and paste. The class was very streamlined and progressed a lot easier than last week.

Class Hours: 2
Instructors: 1 (Geetha)
Participants: 8( Susan, Leticia, Navdeep, Jane, Joanne, Valeria, Shamin Akthar, Abida)
Handouts: 4 pp
Computers Used: 8

Class 4, 2 April 2009: Our class today focussed primarily on formatting functions in word. The class went over edit functions once again and then went on to use the bold, italic, underline formatting functions as well as using the font name and size drop boxes to modify text.
It was a large class but was just about manageable.

Class Hours: 2
Instructors: 1 (Geetha)
Participants: 10( Mahbuba, Susan, Leticia, Navdeep, Jane, Joanne, Nafisa, Karime, Shamin Akthar, Abida)
Handouts: 4 pp
Computers Used: 10

Class 5, 9 April, 2009: In what turned out to be a very productive class, the students learnt about bullets and numbering and did an excercise based on this. Some of them also went on to try a more advanced excercise with table insertion. An interesting experience. Again, this is an erratic class with a small and regular core.

Class Hours: 2,
Instructors: 1 (Geetha)
Participants: 5 (Navdeep, Leticia, Joanne, Mahbuba, Karime)
Handouts: 4pp
Computers used: 5

Class 6, 16 April, 2009: Another productive class but a very small one (2 women!). We did three excercises today - an introductory and advanced excel activity and an introductory power point activity. SInce both students were quite advanced, the progress was very fast and we finished our work in less than the allocated 2 hours.
Class Hours: 2,
Instructors: 1 (Geetha)
Participants: 2 (Leticia, Navdeep)
Handouts: 4pp
Computers used: 2

Class 7, 23 April, 2009: A fairly small class again. Some of the women who came had not been in class for over 2 weeks so they did some of the activities they had missed out on. Leticia is at a fairly advanced stage so she worked on typing and formatting her own resume as well as h andling attatchments in email.Class Hours: 2,
Instructors: 1 (Geetha)
Participants: 2 (Leticia, Karime, Susan)
Handouts: 4pp
Computers used: 3
Class 8 + 8.5, 7 May, 2009: In todays class, the participants received emails explaining what we were going to do in class today. We did a fair amount of internet research today. We used 131500 to find directions to go from Blacktown to Sydney aquarium and calculated the total ticket charge using cityrail.
We also looked up the price of tickets from sydney to brisbane on jetstar and virgin blue.
The students then sent a response to the class activity email providing the cost of the tickets for the Sydney aquarium and the cheapest return fare for brisbane.
Overall a very interesting class which focussed on trying to use more specific internet related activities.
Class Hours: 2, Instructors: 1 (Geetha) Participants: 2 (Leticia, Karime, Susan, Joanne) Handouts:0 Computers used: 4