Older people challenging isolation and exclusion
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A workshop for senior citizens at Mildmay Community Centre – Monday 24 April, 2 to 4 pm
NB: this workshop has finished.
Learn My Way is a website of free online learning for beginners, helping you develop digital skills to make the most of the online world.
This is a new version of Learn My Way. It’s obviously intended for people who don’t have much internet experience, but it’s not just for total beginners. We think you would like it — and it’s definitely a good drop-in activity.
So here is the link » https://learnmyway.com/ «
Workshop organised by MRS – Independent Living (MRS-IL) – Digital Confidence project – 50pd.uk
Friday 28 October
NB: this workshop has finished.
Email is arguably the most important internet technology, because it’s the key that opens the door to everything else that you might need – including all transactions – shopping, health, utilities, work, education, local & national government – and all social media.
Email has been with us for a long time – but it was never intended for a small screen. Although the app designers have done their best, most older people struggle with phone-sized email.
At the workshop we will unpick your experiences — whatever they are — and find solutions – so you can go home at least one rung further up the email ladder, hopefully feeling better about yourself.
Venue: Whitmore Community Centre
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21 October 2022
NB: this workshop has finished.
The primary content of the World-Wide Web is information, advice, opportunities, inspiration, contact and communication — for everyday life as well as education and business. This workshop is about how you can actively search for what you need.
We will start with basic beginner-level web search, and then progress as time allows. We suggest a focus on the cost of living because it is a major concern now, but we can follow up any topic that interests the group.
Search engines have become very sophisticated — but sometimes quite challenging on a small screen. Formulating a good search query requires practice and a basic understanding of how search engines work.
Try these five cost of living search queries in the Google search engine —
Different results of course, but are they the results you would need for your search on cost of living information? If you put the same searches into other search engines (eg: Bing, DuckDuckGo) you might notice even greater differences.
If you use a small screen, you probably want to keep web search as simple as possible, and you might like to feel that you are in control — and perhaps you would appreciate results that are genuinely useful, accurate and unbiased. This workshop will help you get there.
Venue: Whitmore Community Centre
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14 October 2022
NB: this workshop has finished.
This workshop will tackle one of the most common problems for people who take photographs on a smartphone or tablet — what to do when the device is full — and anyway, how to manage hundreds, or even thousands, of photos.
There are many solutions for people who are not professional photographers. We will look at the easy solutions first because there is almost certainly one for you.
Venue: Whitmore Community Centre
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Updated 3 October 2023
Our learning sessions are for small groups of older people, focussing together on one topic that is important to them.
We think Groupwork is a better way to describe what we do — it differentiates us from the common Adult Education model, in which everything is predictable and pre-plannned, with an abrupt ending for learners. Our Groupwork is co-designed, co-produced and delivered entirely by older people — and can be followed up at our weekly Digital Drop-in.