Meeting Details
| Frequency |
Weekly (Autumn and Winter terms only) |
| Time | 3.45 pm on Wednesday |
| Duration | 2 hours |
| Location | Queen Katherine Lower School |
| Coordinator | Fieke Harteveld |
What we do
Our aim is to encourage members to discover the potential of a personal computer (PC) and to use it with confidence.
We do not offer taught courses but provide one to one support for finding your way around a PC, basic word processing, spread sheets, data bases, desk top publishing, using the internet including e mails, and the opportunity to experiment with digital imagery. Members work at their own pace either on their own projects or using workbook materials that we provide. We have a team of tutors who are on hand to help.
Favourite activities include: writing letters, keeping your money in order, building an address book and producing address labels, making cards or calendars, shopping, keeping in touch, and playing around with your photos.
The Computing group at work
Our meeting room is equipped with PCs running Windows XP and Microsoft Office, and with a fast internet connection.
Members range from complete beginners to experienced users wanting to learn something new or brush up their skills. It is possible to join the group at any stage of the term, and we can also sometimes offer a short notice place for one or two weeks in the absence of a regular member. We draw up a waiting list if the group becomes over-subscribed.
There is a charge of £1 per session, and we ask members to pay for each half-term session in advance to ensure we make a consistent contribution to the high cost of hiring the computer room.
Reports
July 2010
We are thinking about the best way forward for the Computer Group. Meetings at schools can only start at 4 o’clock in the afternoon and people don’t like to be out in winter time in the dark. So we are trying to find a new location where we can meet earlier in the day. We would also like to know what your preferences are.
If you would like to continue in or join the group in September, please help us by filling in the questionnaire that will be in the August edition of the Newsletter so we can anticipate your needs.
We (tutors and coordinator) hope to hear from you.
Fieke Harteveld
March 2010:
Our last meeting was on the 24th March. As our attendances go down by the end of the Spring term we have a long summer recess until September. I would like to give a big thank you to our dedicated tutors. More news of our group in the September Newsletter.
Fieke Harteveld
November 2009:
At the start of the autumn term, we were allocated a different room at the Queen Katherine School, in the Lower School. This gave us some limitations at first especially in the use of email and some technical challenges, which have now mostly been overcome, thanks to the persistence of out tutor group.
These sessions are informal and the aim of the tutors, who are all volunteers from the SLU3A membership, is to help at the level of each individual from complete beginners to those who want to revise or consolidate their skills.
Balancing the number of tutors to students is a weekly exercise; however at the time of writing we have no waiting list and warmly invite new members – please get in touch!
Fieke Harteveld
