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.

I visited the Outreach Center for the 6th time on the 26th of Janruary, i went with 4 other people from my class, Fiona Lee, Hannah Pring, Becky Davidson and Emily Crane. The main thing i had to do make cards on publisher for Peter and Eric as it was their birthday. After i had made them they were passed around the room for everyone to sign and at the end of the day i gave Eric his card. When Ian turned up i helped him to set up his laptop and got him started in word where he continued to do his work. I also sat with Martin and watched some of the film with him. After that Teresa asked me to make sure that everyone there had signed in and if they hadn't to ask them to.

I visited the Outreach Center for the 5th time on the 12th of Janruary, i went with 4 other people from my class, Fiona Lee, Hannah Pring, Becky Davidson and Emily Crane. The main thing i had to do was to help make a plan for Margret as she was going to be using Movie Maker the following week, so i had to help her chose what photo's she woud be using in her 'Grandchildren' slide show and what effect she would be using. i also taught her how to make a picture, dragging the corner in but she usualy dragged the picture in from the side which made the photo thinner rather than smaller so she was glad that she now knew how to do it. Then i helped John to make a front cover for his calendar that he made the week before and i tought him how copy the picture and paste it to the word document. I also taught him how to add a header where he would put his name. I then hapled Heather and Mayble to use photoshop.

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.

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.

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.