Thursday 16 December 2010

I visited the Outreach Center for the 4th time on the 15th of December, i went with 3 other people from my class, Fiona Lee, Hannah Pring and Becky Davidson. The main thing i had to do was to make a calendar for Jackie as she wasn't able to as she didn't have her memory stick so i had to get pictures of Barn Owls for her calendar as she likes Owls and i had to apply the pictures of barn owls onto the calendar and some of the pictures were the wrong shape so i added a black background so that i didn't need to stretch the picture out of shape. When Ian arrived i helped him to set up his computer. I also helped Anne make her calendar, teaching how to re-size the picture to fit into the box and how to insert the picture, she was putting her own pictures onto her calendar that were of her family.

Thursday 25 November 2010

i visted the Outreach Centre for the third time on the 23rd November 2010. i went with 4 other people from my class: Fiona Lee, Rebecca Davidson, Hannah Pring and Emily Crane.The first thing i had to do with Fiona was to set up Martins DVD as he would be watching 'The Dark Night' in that session and then i helped Margerie set up her laptop. I then went and sat with Mayble again and from the notes that i had writen for her two weeks before i watched her go on to marks and spencer website she then wanted to know the weather forecast so i helped her get onto BBC Weather where she found out the weather forecast for the week. after that i was asked to help a lady with photoshop as she was having trouble. And at the end i was asked to help a man who needed help saving his work.
I vistited the outreach centre for the second time on the 10th of November 2010. I went with 3 other people from my class, Rebecca Davidson, Hannah Pring and Emily Crane. The first task i had to do was help two people set up their laptop and get onto the internet. the task i had to do was just to get them familair with using the internet. I helped both Pat and Mayble use google translate which they were very impressed by, showing them how you can translate any word or phrase into another language. I then went on to helping Pat use google maps and showed her where her friend lives that she goes to visit on occastions and found it very useful as she always misses the turn in point. I then helped Mayble, who was 90 years old to look at websites which she would be interested in, first M&S and then BHS and she was also interesed in looking at sailsburry's website as that is where she used to live and she enjoyed seeing the pictures on the website.

Thursday 14 October 2010

Outreach Centre

The outreach centre was created to help the older generation impove and learn new computer skills, using a range of different softwares for example: adobe photoshop, microsoft word, microsoft puplisher and internet explorer. We did this because it gives us work experiance. Fiona and i visited the outreach centre at St Phillips Church on the 29th of September 2010. The main things that i helped with were: editing on adobe photoshop, helping with the layout on microsoft word and i also helped a lady called Stella send an email to her daughter and taught her how to attatch a photo to the message and helped her with any troubles she came across. I found this to be a very good experience, because as as well as teaching them to do things that i already knew how to do i also learnt new skill along the way and i my teaching skills have been further developed.