TBC5

Class 1, October 13th:

Our final course at Toongabbie started off on October 13th and was well attended. The group comprised of women from the local area - many of them long time residents but completely unfamiliar with computers and eager to learn. We covered some basic computer parts and how to use the mouse. It was a good class and a nice group of women!

Class Hours: 1.5
Instructors: 1 (Geetha)
Participants: 7( Lorraine, Carmen, Margaret, Vamini, Dianne, Terry, Therese Grech)
Computers Used: 7

Class 2, October 20th:

We covered some basic material on files and programs as well as talking at length about edit functions. The women worked on doing an excercise involving cut, copy and paste functions. The class was a little small due to many absentees but I hope the people who came learnt a little.

Class Hours: 1.5
Instructors: 1 (Geetha)
Participants: 6( Therese Grech, Margaret, Vamini, Dianne, Terry, Selvarani)
Computers Used: 7

Class 3, October 27th:

The class worked on formatting functions today. Many of the women completed two excercises and some of them just about managed to squeeze in one. Overall, a successful class. Yet again, this group is starting to enjoy the classes a lot and tends to go off the beaten path to discuss random things - which is good.
Class Hours: 1.5
Instructors: 1 (Geetha)
Participants: 6( Therese Grech, Margaret, Vamini, Dianne, Terry, Selvarani)
Computers Used: 7

Class 4, November 3rd:

The class worked on formatting and tables today. Some of the class have gone ahead and completed a number of different activities - others are still struggling but are persistant and never stop moving forward.

Class Hours: 1.5
Instructors: 1 (Geetha)
Participants: 7 (Therese Grech, Margaret, Carmen, Vamini, Dianne, Terry, Selvarani)
Computers Used: 7


Class 5, November 10th, 2009:

We looked at two new programs today - open office impress and calc. The ladies enjoyed these small excercises. We also did an activity to practice cut, copy and paste and most of them found themselves stumbling over this one.

Class Hours: 1.5
Instructors: 1 (Geetha)
Participants: 7 (Therese Grech, Margaret, Carmen, Vamini, Dianne, Terry, Selvarani)
Computers Used: 7

Class 6, Nov 18th, 2009:
An interesting class where we covered control panel functions and looked at how we could create folders. We started with a discussion of the conceptual and physical layout of the computer followed by a few configuration changes in windows. This was followed by a simple excercise to create folders. Rather, it is intended to be simple but seems to always confound people. I'm not sure if its just not being taught well enough or its a genuinely difficult concept to handle.
Class Hours: 1.5
Instructors: 1 (Geetha)
Participants: 7 (Therese Grech, Margaret, Carmen, Vamini, Dianne, Terry, Selvarani)
Computers Used: 7

Class 7, Nov 24th, 2009:
It was an odd class. I probably talked more than I should have. We discussed various programs, files and how they are related. We also talked about computers, the way informatoin is structured and accessed on computers and how this is having an impact on society at large. A lot of the ladies in this group found this interesting. We even ended up discussing whether the future generation will have sufficient social skills since many don't have as many opportunities for human interaction as their predecessors. This was followed by a short time spent on doing some excercises which people had been unable to complete at an earlier time.

Class Hours: 1.5 hours
Instructors: 1 (Geetha)
Participants: 7 (Therese Grech, Vamini, Selvarani, Dianne, Terry, Lorraigne, Margeret)
Computers Used: 7