Friday 27 May 2011

I visited the Outreach Center for the 13th time on the 25th of May, i went with 4 other people from my class, Fiona Lee, Hannah Pring, Emily Crane and Rebecca Davidson. The main thing i did today was to help John to print out his work that he'd done on 2D-Design, but we experienced problems as it printed out too small or too big and when it was the right size it wouldn't work as the page margin was too big so instead of using Adobe Photoshop i used Paint as i know that you can change the size easier and from past experiences it is a lot easier to use. After printing it off succestully i then helped Marian to set up Spider Solitare as she couldn't remember how to. Then Martin arrived and i set up the DVD player for him as he wanted to watch Toy Story 3.
I visited the Outreach Center for the 12th time on the 11th of May, i went with 3 other people from my class, Fiona Lee, Hannah Pring and Emily Crane. The first thing i did today was help set up all the computers and get the logged on and ready to use. The next thing i did was help Hazel set up her laptop and help her get started. This week was very quiet and not many people wen't so there wasn't much to do but we helped take orders for sandwhitches and then hand them out, this was a good task for us to do as we were able to learn the newer people's names and test ourselves when it came to giving them out.
I visited the Outreach Center for the 11th time on the 27th of April, i went with 4 other people from my class, Fiona Lee, Hannah Pring, Emily Crane and Becky Davidson. The first thing i did today was help set up all the computers and also helped Hazel set up her computer and get her started with her e-mails. I then i helped helped people use movie maker and helped them add pictures and taught them how to add an effect on it so that it wouldn't just appear picture after picture but it will fade in or another effect.I also set up Martins DVD so that he would be able to watch his DVD.

Thursday 31 March 2011

I visited the Outreach Center for the 10th time on the 30th of March, i went with 4 other people from my class, Fiona Lee, Hannah Pring, Emily Crane and Becky Davidson. The first thing i did today was help Cyril starting from the basics of just logging onto the computer as he doesn't have much experience with computers to he isn't familar with them enough to know how to do it. I then transfered his work that he did the week before onto his own memory stick as everyone has their own. after doing that i helped him learn how to then open up the files he had done by going through "my computer" and he then tried to do it on his own, opening up the files he did last lesson then he carried on with writting up his work and i went and helped Margret and Janet as they were experiencing problems with photoshop. Margret couldn't work out how to add the photos to her collage so i taught her that you double on the photo that she wanted to go on the bottom and then to drag the photos onto the background. and then Janet wasn't able to see the pictures that she wanted to add so i had to try and find out why it wasn't showing her them and it was because she didn't tick the box to show open files so then from then she could work out what she needed to do. And then i helped pack away the laptops as people started to leave.
I visited the Outreach Center for the 9th time on the 16th of March, i went with 4 other people from my class, Fiona Lee, Hannah Pring, Emily Crane and Becky Davidson. The main thing i did today was help Derek use Microsoft Excell, he is familiar with the software from past experiences but wanted me to help in use it, i showed him how he could work out the money he had from a (not accurate) amount, then taking away the amount that he spent and then how much money he would have left. I also helped Eric as he was experiencing some troubles using Microsoft Word. And the end of the day i helped pack everything up.

Friday 4 March 2011

I visited the Outreach Center for the 8th time on the 2nd of March, i went with 3 other people from my class, Fiona Lee, Hannah Pring and Becky Davidson. The first thing i did was help Marjory and Hazel set up her computers. And then set up the rest of the computers, plugging them in, connecting the mouse and connecting them to the internet. for the majority of the time i was helping Peter to write out a paragraph which at first he struggled to find the letters but after a while he became more familiar with them and finished his work which he was really happy about. Eric also had some problems with his laptop as a he kept getting a pop up message so i told him that he just needed to press the x button and it would go. I also helped Dave crop a picture on paint as he didn't know how to, so i taught him how to. We also had a new member join today so we made him feel welcome. 

Thursday 10 February 2011

I visited the Outreach Center for the 7th time on the 9th of February, i went with 4 other people from my class, Fiona Lee, Hannah Pring, Becky Davidson and Emily Crane. The main thing that i did was go into another room and watched a dvd explaining how to use photoshop as there are some people at outreach that want to use but don't know how to do certain things and as we also didn't know how to do anything as we aren't familiar with the software but Fiona and I went and watched the dvd as we should now be able to help them do simple tasks. I also helped Mayble set up her computer and then when she had finished i helped her close up her laptop.