SMS10

We had a small class today and our four students worked on the basic first course material. Topics covered: Parts of the computer, keyboard layout and and important keys, mouse usage.

Class Hours: 2
Instructors: 1 (Geetha)
Participants: 4( Malini Thevey, Nyanchol, Wahiba Elnour, Finda Gbanda)
Course Handouts: 4 pp

Computers Used: 4

Class 2, August 6th, 2009:

The afternoon class saw us covering the excercises related to notepad and paint. Some of the women enjoyed themselves and others found the excercises cumbersome. This is a more difficult class as many of the participants find it harder to read english. however, most of them are able to do the work relatively easily once it has been demonstrated.

Class Hours: 2
Instructors: 1 (Geetha)
Participants: 6( Malini Thevey, Nyanchol, Judy Fernando, Ashay, Halima Tawoor, Andonusia yel)
Course Handouts: 4 pp

Computers Used: 6

Class 3, August 13th, 2009:
In today's class we discussed files, programs and did an excercise working on cut, copy and paste. The students managed to complete this task fairly easily.

Class Hours: 2
Instructors: 1 (Geetha)
Participants: 9( Malini Thevey, Finda Gbanda, Achold dieng, Ashay Deng, Susan Lulun Elias, Mariam Araz, Rebecca Langauaya, Andonusia Yen, Ashay)
Course Handouts: 4 pp

Computers Used: 9

Class 4, August 20th, 2009:
In today's class we discussed formatting and completed the excercise on fonts and formatting. We also introduced the internet and started to look at webpages and use links.

Class Hours: 2
Instructors: 1 (Geetha)
Participants: 8( Malini Thevey, Finda Gbanda, Achold dieng, Susan Lulun Elias, Rebecca Langauaya, Mary, Judy Fernando, Nyanchol)
Course Handouts: 4 pp

Computers Used: 8

Class 5, August 27th, 2009:

The class worked on power point and excel today. Some of the women already seem quite familiar with using the internet but we worked through the 131500 website in order to introduce them to forms and drop down boxes. Its hard to gather whether the women understand why they are doing these things or if they just find it confusing. Hopefully they understood my explanations on the usefulness of knowing how to use forms online.

Class Hours: 2
Instructors: 1 (Geetha)
Participants: 6( Malini Thevey, Finda Gbanda, Achold dieng, Mariama Bangura, Wahiba, Nyanchol)
Course Handouts: 4 pp

Computers Used: 6

Class 6, 3rd September, 2009:
We discussed the physical and conceptual layout of a computer as well as discussing files and folders. with this class, we also had a look at the control panel and learnt how to configure the desktop picture and change the double click speed. Lastly, the class started off on the bullets and numbering excercise.

Class Hours: 2
Instructors: 1 (Geetha)
Participants: 7( Judy Fernando, Finda Gbanda, Achold dieng, Wahiba, Nyanchol, Ashay Rebecca Languaya)
Course Handouts: 4 pp

Computers Used: 7

Class 7, 10th September, 2009:
The class completed an excercise to configure various settings using their control panel. They also started work on an excercise to type up a document with tables and text. They found this quite tough but it was heartening to see some of them have progressed considerably since they first started!

Class Hours: 2
Instructors: 1 (Geetha)
Participants: 5( Achold dieng, Wahiba, Nyanchol, Ashay, Susan Elias)
Course Handouts: 4 pp

Computers Used: 5

Class 8, 17th September, 2009:
During our final class, we went through a whole array of websites. Departing from the norm, I asked the ladies what they were interested in before we launched into the browsing acitivity. It turns out that flight tickets to Africa was the most prominent thing on their minds. So thats what we discussed and looked at webjet.com.au. We also covered 131500, cityrail, the ATO website, seek.com and carguide (For car buying).
By the end of it all, they understood that no matter what theyy wanted informatoin on they needed to search using google or some search engine and then use the links to find what they needed. A good class overall.

Class Hours: 2
Instructors: 1 (Geetha)
Participants: 5( Wahiba, Nyanchol, Susan Elias)
Course Handouts: 4 pp

Computers Used: 5