KNC1

Class 1, 5th May, 2009:
This new class in Kingswood is being run for the Sydwest Multicultural Services Inc. Today we had 5 students in the class and we covered the usual first class material including computer parts, keyboard layout and mouse operations. We also did an excercise to type out a sentence in the notepad and a short excerse in paint. It was a rather productive class and we covered a lot of material.
Class Hours: 1.5
Instructors: 1 (Geetha)
Participants: 5( Yasotha, Abdullah, Spozmai, Shima, Kyung)
Course Handouts: 4 pp
Computers Used: 5

Class 2, 12th May, 2009: In todays class we had a number of new students. Again, it is hard to back track and accomodate new students - especially those who miss the first class. There are two big challenges in running these classes and both of them proved to be the case today: How do you keep those who are more advanced interested and how do you deal with people with real learnign difficulties without hampering other students' progress? We did an exercise with cut copy and paste. The set up of the class is such that it makes it very hard to show students how to do certain things since we don't have a projector. However, the students had the chance to learn how to use edit functions and open and save their files.
Class Hours: 1.5
Instructors: 1 (Geetha)
Participants: 8( Yasotha, Abdullah, Shima, Kim, Kathy, Ruth, Vimal, Shinkay)
Course Handouts: 2 pp Computers Used: 8

Class 3, 19th May, 2009:
We covered formatting functions and worked on the excercise to type in the national anthem and format it.
Class Hours: 1.5
Instructors: 1 (Geetha)
Participants: 5( Abdullah, Spozmai, Shima, Shinkay, Kim)
Course Handouts: 2pp
Computers Used: 5

Class 4, 26th May, 2009:

The course we are conducting at Kingswood is a six class set and this was our fourth class. We talked about the internet and used the dummy internet pages. The students in this class are an interesting group. I was worried that they weren't progressing much but they surprised me by typing up the bullets excercise in about 25 minutes flat.

Class Hours: 1.5 Instructors: 1 (Geetha) Participants: 5( Abdullah, Spozmai, Shima, Shinkay, Kim) Course Handouts: 2pp Computers Used: 5

Class 5, 2nd June, 2009:

In today's class, the students created presentations using OpenOffice Impress. They also used the internet to try a few english vocabulary quizzes. They seemed to enjoy this experience since it was useful to improve their english. This quiz has mixed results but it is often a big favourite with those who are trying to improve their english.

Class Hours: 1.5 Instructors: 1 (Geetha) Participants: 6( Abdullah, Spozmai, Shima, Shinkay, Kim, Ruth) Course Handouts: 2pp Computers Used:6

Class 6, 9th June, 2009:

Today was the final class for this course. Although a shorter course, it was quite a worthwhile experience and the students definitely enjoyed themselves. Today, we worked on internet activities. This centre is quite a find since the internet connection works really well. The students used 131500.com, cityrail and jetstar websites. We looked up train timetables and this was really useful for some of them.

They also took some time out to practice some of the older excercises. We had an evaluation session where the general consensus was that the course had been useful and well run.

Class Hours: 1.5 Instructors: 1 (Geetha) Participants: 5( Abdullah, Spozmai, Shima, Shinkay, Kim) Course Handouts: 2pp Computers Used:5