Bramhall

U3A Computer courses 2011/12 Course 1 – Computing for the terrified 4 weeks, total cost £10. Tuesdays 27th Sep – 18th Oct 2011 inclusive. 4pm-5.45pm Aimed at anyone who wishes to learn about computers in a non-threatening, friendly environment. Subjects include: computer terminology, what equipment to buy, where to buy, using the Internet to find information. You do not need to own a computer to attend this but you should be strongly considering one. Week 1 - Hard at work Week 2 Course 2 – Basic Email 2 weeks, total cost £5. Tuesdays 15th and 22nd Nov 2011. 4pm – 5.45pm. Getting your own email account (gmail), sending and receiving emails, dealing with attachments. You must have your own computer and access to the Internet. Course 3 – Basic word processing 4 weeks, total cost £10. Tuesdays 10th Jan – 31st Jan 2012. 4pm – 5.45pm. What is a word processor? What do I need? What the parts of the screen mean. Writing a first letter, spell check, grammar check, word count, bold, italic and underline. Centring and right aligning text. Cut, copy, paste. Changing fonts and sizes. You must have your own computer with a word processor program installed. Course 4 – Managing your home economics with a spreadsheet, 4 weeks, total cost £10. 28th Feb – 20th Mar 2012. 4pm – 5.45pm. Parts of the screen, moving around, entering numbers, entering text, entering formulae, producing graphs. You must have your own computer with a spreadsheet program installed. To take part in courses 3 and 4, you must have an email account and use it regularly so that we can contact you in case of course adjustments. All courses are at Queensgate Primary School, Albany Road, Off Meadway, Bramhall, Stockport, Cheshire SK7 1NE Payment is taken on the first night for the whole course and includes hire of the school facilities, all hand-outs and teaching notes. If you have a laptop, we would encourage you to bring it with you. Courses will only be run on the evenings shown (unless cancelled by the school owing to parents’ evenings) and will not be repeated until later dates. A booking is final. If you reserve a place and do not attend, you will still be charged. Contact Charlie Barker charlie@bramhallu3a.org.uk

Report December 2011

This year saw us move to giving tutorial sessions at Queensgate Primary School using their excellent facilities. We continued with the beginners and intermediate groups until the summer holidays when attendance fell off quite sharply.

After asking the groups how they wished to continue, I developed a series of lessons that would give greater structure to the courses. The first of these, ‘Computing for the terrified’ attracted 16 members, ran for four weeks and seemed popular. As I write this, the second course, email is scheduled to last for two weeks in November.

Two other courses are booked in for next year; both are four weeks duration, one in Word Processing and one in spreadsheets (or may be changed to digital photography).

I am grateful to Michael Lacey, Charlie Barker, Norman Townson and Sue & Bob Preece for their assistance.

Gordon Jackson

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