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.