This impromptu workshop is mainly for people who came to our last Posterous workshop, and would now like some help on what to do next. Of course, everyone else is welcome too. It is essential to have an email address that you know how to use – but you don’t need much more experience than that.
In a nutshell.
How to make your own website with photos and anything else you want to put there – and do it all just by sending emails.
Citrus fruit, sending email attachments, YouTube, recording audio files, finding free photos on the web..
What do you know about citrus fruit?
Do you know how nutritious citrus fruits are?
Would you like to share your citrus fruit recipes and knowledge?
Would you like to know how to find citrus fruit recipes and other information on the World Wide Web?
Come to the next Hackney Healthy Eating Project at The Lawns, Thursday 2 February (2 to 5 pm).
Every Thursday afternoon session is different, but from 2 to 5 pm …
We talk about healthy food, recipes and shopping.
We record what we say, and make audio files that we can send by email and post on a web site.
We take digital photographs and we scan drawings or paintings.
So our focus is on food, but we are learning more about the Internet too.
Each person is doing something a bit different, according to their own background and skills.
There is room for you to join in as well.
How to join us.
If you want to, you can just turn up next Thursday 2 February at 2 pm. But it would be better to tell us in advance that you are interested, so we can reserve a place for you. You can do that in an email to hep@lawns.org.uk, or a phone call to 020 7254 2183 (leave a very clear message if there is no answer).
Eligibility.
All Hackney residents aged 50 or better.
By the way.
We do a lot of digital photography and sound recording, and sometimes filming too. It’s all part of our digital learning. Some of those photographs and videos will be on our web site. So we ask everybody who comes to Talking Food (including visitors) to sign a photo consent form.
A course for Agewell beginners: Email Essentials with Henry.
Agewell super-volunteer Henry has been persuaded to lead a five-week email course at The Lawns.
When, exactly.
Five Tuesday afternoons, 2.30 to 5 pm.
Started: Tuesday 31 January 2012.
Ends: Tuesday 28 February 2012.
Enrolment finished: Tuesday 24 January –
the course is now full.
Course Content.
Understand email better.
Get a better of idea of where emails are stored, how it all works, different ways to access emails. Find out how your email is sent through ‘thin air’!
Overcome common problems.
Such as “Why didn’t my email send?”, ‘Where has my email disappeared to?’ ‘This computer is different to what I am used to’, and more.
Completely master attachments.
We’ll practice attaching music, video clips, text documents, or a variety of different things attached to one email. Also we will learn great tips for tracking down the picture or file which you want to attach! And anything else you want to know about attachments.
Privacy and spam.
Make sure your email is not at risk in any way, and learn how to make sure you are not receiving too many junk emails.
Make emails look pretty.
Try out different coloured text in your emails, highlighting text, using bullet points, making text bigger and smaller, using different fonts and text styles.
Taking it further.
Get to grips with forwarding, emailing multiple recipients, reply to all and other useful techniques.
Get under the bonnet.
Learn how to change the settings to suit you! – the way your inbox looks, the size of the text on the screen, how to ‘label’ emails to make your inbox more easy to keep track of.
Any questions.
If we are making good progress, we can cover any aspects of email people are baffled by, or keen to learn more about. That way everyone can impress their ‘email contacts’ by sending fantastic messages all around the globe from the comfort of The Lawns!
Who it’s for.
It’s for Agewell beginners who already know a bit about email, but sometimes still get stuck or even baffled. So that means not absolute beginners, but also not people who have been using email for years. Most Agewellers are in between, so we expect most Agewellers to be interested.
Also, you should be able to commit yourself to those five Tuesday afternoons from 2.30 to 5 pm.
Help and support for beginners. No need to reserve a place – just come.
Workshop: Grooveshark for beginners (3.30 to 5 pm).
Grooveshark is an international online music search engine and music streaming service, allowing users to search for, and stream, music that can be played immediately or added to a playlist. Unlike other music streaming services (for example – Spotify, We7, Deezer) Grooveshark does not require you to login through a Facebook account.
At the workshop, we will …
Show you how to get started with Grooveshark.
Search for and play music you like.
Create a Grooveshark account so you can make your own playlists.
TV film crew at The Lawns, Monday 30 January 2012.
A film crew from the Daybreak TV program will visit Agewell Computer Club next Monday afternoon. They want to include us in a wider piece about digital inclusion. They especially want to talk to people who are learning about the Internet for the first time. So …
If you are up for a TV show, come to The Lawns a bit earlier than usual. The front shutter will stay down until 2 pm, but the back door will be open from 1:30 pm.
If you are nervous about being on TV, come anyway as usual. They will not film or interview anyone who is reluctant.
If you are really keen to be interviewed, you can reserve a place by sending an email to acc@lawns.org.uk .
Do you know where to buy it? Do you know how to cook it? Do you have any favourite pumpkin recipes?
Do you know how nutritious pumpkin is?
Would you like to share your pumpkin recipes and knowledge?
Do you know good places to buy pumpkin in Hackney?
Would you like to know how to find pumpkin recipes and other information on the World Wide Web?
Come to the next Hackney Healthy Eating Project at The Lawns, Thursday 26 January (2 to 5 pm).
Every Thursday afternoon session is different, but from 2 to 5 pm …
We talk about healthy food, recipes and shopping.
We record what we say, and make audio files that we can send by email and post on a web site.
We take digital photographs and we scan drawings or paintings.
So our focus is on food, but we are learning more about the Internet too.
Each person is doing something a bit different, according to their own background and skills.
There is room for you to join in as well.
How to join us.
If you want to, you can just turn up next Thursday 26 January at 2 pm. But it would be better to tell us in advance that you are interested, so we can reserve a place for you. You can do that in an email to hep@lawns.org.uk, or a phone call to 020 7254 2183 (leave a very clear message if there is no answer).
Agewell Community Computing: Tuesday 24 January 2012 (2.30 to 5 pm).
About Soundcloud.
Soundcloud is a way of recording sound directly from your computer to the Internet, and then sharing the audio file with your friends, family, or (if you want to) everybody. It’s free, very easy to use, and perfect for sending spoken messages across the Internet.
At the workshop, you will learn how to …
Create your own Soundcloud account.
How to record your voice on the Soundcloud site, for example – a message to your family (a lot easier for some people than having to type it). You can add a photo too, if you want to.
Save your audio recording (as private or public) with its own web link.
Share your audio recording in an email, so that the person you are emailing to can listen to you, instead of reading you.
Share your audio recording in a personal blog, or on Facebook.
Here’s an example Soundcloud audio.
Click on the triangular ‘play’ button to play the audio track.
This YouTube video explains a bit more.
Click on the triangular ‘play’ button to start the video.
Hackney Silver Surfers City & Guilds courses have been very popular for many years. They are free to learners, funded by the Hackney Learning Trust.
The City & Guilds ‘StartIT’ certificate is a basic qualification for beginners – designed and taught specifically for older people with little or no previous experience of computers or the Internet. It is one of the most successful and popular activities Hackney Silver Surfers have offered at The Lawns. The next StartIT could be the best ever – with more time and resources dedicated to Hackney Silver Surfer learners.
Help and support for beginners. No need to reserve a place – just come.
Workshop: YouTube Disco for beginners (3.30 to 5 pm).
YouTube Disco is a simple way to find music on YouTube. We will show you how to use it at the workshop. If you can’t wait, watch the YouTube video below.
Click on the triangular ‘play’ button to start the video.
Agewell members can reserve a place at the YouTube Disco workshop by sending an email to acc@lawns.org.uk .
Agewell Community Computing: Tuesday 17 January 2012 (2.30 to 5 pm).
About PDF.
PDF means Portable Document Format. PDF documents have been part of Internet everyday life since 1993. They are all over the World Wide Web, and frequently appear in the email inbox – but few of our members know what they are, what to do with them, or how to make them.
Here is an example of a PDF document. Click on this link » Agewell Computer Club January 2012 «. Most links open a web page, but that link opens a document. Unlike a web page, a PDF document should always look exactly the same – whatever kind of computer you are using.
Most people read PDF documents with free software from Adobe. It is often already installed on new computers.
At the workshop, you will learn …
Different ways to read a PDF document.
How to save a PDF document attached to your email.
How to send a PDF document as an email attachment.
At least one way to make a PDF document yourself.
How to download PDF e-books from Bookboon – including their free textbooks on how to use MS Word, MS Excel and MS Powerpoint.
We are going to start these Monday sessions with topics requested by our members. Usually, we we will have 90 minutes for beginners, followed by a workshop at which Agewell members can reserve places.
Agewell Social Network: Monday 16 January 2012.
Internet for beginners (2 to 3.30 pm).
Help and support for beginners. No need to reserve a place – just come.
Workshop: Skype for beginners (3.30 to 5 pm).
This is for beginners who have an email address, and are reasonably confident using it. At the workshop, we will …
Try to answer all your Skype questions.
Show you how to join Skype, and get a Skype name.
Demonstrate Skype in action at The Lawns.
Set up a Skype Premium account so we can do group video calls at The Lawns.
Show you how to run Skype on a flash drive (memory stick), which is possibly the easiest way to do it.
Discuss how we might set up an Agewell Skype network to help people who are stuck at home.
Facebook is a menace to new learners – and not entirely safe for other people who have not investigated and understood what Facebook might do with your private data. The purpose of this workshop is to help you understand how Facebook works, and what you can do to protect yourself. The workshop will have two distinct sessions …
2.30 to 3.15 pm – the Facebook deletion party.
Join us for this if you have a Facebook account that you are not using. Don’t just abandon your Facebook account – delete it permanently! It’s the only sane and sensible thing to do. Once it has gone, you can stop worrying.
3.30 to 5 pm – understanding Facebook privacy.
Join us for this if you have a Facebook account that you have a reason to keep. We will show you how to make it safer.
Internet for Beginners: Monday 9 January 2012 (2 to 5 pm).
Our Monday Agewell Social Network is the best way to start with us – especially if you are a beginner. We think learning about the Internet should always be fun – so we don’t do anything that is boring or difficult. Join us now to start learning about email, the World Wide Web, and everything that has digital in its name.
We don’t have anything specific planned for next Monday 9 January, because it will be our first Agewell Social Network session. We need to give people time to find out about it, and we would like to ask you what you want. Here are some of the ideas we have been discussing …
An Agewell blog, probably a bit like the website being made by the Hackney Healthy Eating Project. All the blog posts can be done by email alone. To contribute, all you have to know is how to send an email. So we can fill it up with digital photographs, audio, links to websites and videos – anything you like. It’s a really good way to learn how to use email, and get a visible result on the web too. We would have a different theme each month.
More First Click sessions, carrying on where we left off with the BBC Food site – and then investigating BBC Wildlife and BBC Gardening sites.
Internet Radio Disco Party – once a month, not necessarily at The Lawns – combined with our own Internet talk radio (Radio Agewell – it already exists).
A Monday afternoon Skype hub, for people who are stuck at home.
We will probably have some more ideas before Monday, but we would like to have yours too. Please email your brainwave to acc@lawns.org.uk .
We have funding for an extra Agewell Computer Club afternoon session each week, for the whole quarter. Our expanded program will be planned with the expectations of our funders very much in mind – we are aiming for tangible and visible evidence of how we support Hackney residents aged 50 to 65. We hope you will join us on both afternoons.
Monday afternoons (2 to 5 pm) – starting 9 January 2012.
Agewell Social Network.
Monday afternoons will be beginner-friendly, and will be tied much more closely to other Agewell in Hackney events. First Click, Internet for Beginners, and most of the Agewell Computer Club party-like and social activities will happen on Monday afternoons. They won’t all be at The Lawns.
The main new activity on Monday afternoon will be the Agewell Social Network. We will be making a website about Agewell in Hackney, with photographs, audio and video. It will be similar in many ways to the Hackney Healthy Eating Project program, but with a different theme each month.
Tuesday afternoons (2 to 5 pm) .
Agewell Community Computing.
Tuesday afternoon Agewell Computer Club will continue as it is now, but with just one main activity each week, for example – workshops and short courses which work best without a lot of background noise.
Agewell drop-in.
As always, the front area will be reserved for general drop-in by Agewell in Hackney members on both afternoons.
Workshop: 
On the menu, 
We record what we say, and make audio files that we can send by email and post on a web site.
A course for Agewell beginners: Email Essentials with Henry.
Agewell Social Network:
At the workshop, we will …
TV film crew at The Lawns, 
On the menu, 
Agewell Community Computing:
About City & Guilds StartIT.
On the Talking Food menu, 
Come to the Money Workshop.
Agewell Community Computing:
Workshop: 
January to March preview.
