Monday, February 25, 2013

Monday 25 February

Just a quick reminder that the SCCCC General Meeting is on next week at Kincumber Pub. Or if you fancy coming to the Mac User Group with questions, we meet at 9.30 am in the small computer room.

Otherwise see you in a fortnight for Web Search Skills.

Thursday, February 14, 2013

updated outline for term 1

I am hoping that everyone has had time to digest the changes to our classes and if you are Mac for Word person that you have contacted Beverly (4369 2530) to discuss moving to the PC Word classes.

Here is the outline for the rest of term 1 for the morning Mac group (10 am to 12 noon):

Week 3
18/02/13
Pages
Week 4
25/02/13
File Management: keeping your Mac and files organised.


04/03/13
SCCCC Meeting at Kincumber Pub
or Mac User Group (AM)
Week 5
11/03/13
Web Search Skills
Week 6
18/02/13
Web Search Skills
Week 7
25/03/13
iPhoto


01/04/13
Easter Monday no classes
Week 8
08/04/13
iPhoto


See you all for Pages on Monday.

Sally

Thursday, February 7, 2013

Changes to Mac classes

Hi everyone,

It was great to see everyone on Monday and to see some new faces too. Following extensive discussion with Beverly over lunch we have come up with a plan for the term which will accommodate existing class members and any new people who join us.

The Monday AM class (10 am to 12 noon) will remain as planned, covering topics and applications each week.

If you had planned on attending the Word for Mac classes on 18 and 25 February, please contact Beverly ASAP (4369 2530) to discuss attending the Microsoft Word classes with the PC people instead. Beverly and I think this will work better as Microsoft Word can't really be mastered in 2 weeks and there are only a couple of differences between Word for Mac and PC.

Monday PM class (1-3 pm) will now be a beginners class. We will start with the basics of using a Mac. Everyone is welcome to come along to this class and see if it is right for them. We won't be covering any applications other than Mail and Safari later on in the term.

The Mac User Group will be meeting on the first Monday of every month when the SCCCC meeting is being held. This class will be 10 am to 12 noon.

I'll let everyone digest that information and post again with an updated term outline for the morning class.

If you have any questions, please email me.

Sally

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Change of plans

Hi everyone, I hope you've all had a happy Christmas and New Year and are staying cool and inside today!

Unfortunately I am not going to be available on 11 February for our second week. I've been given the opportunity to attend a conference in Brisbane that I just can't pass up! The second week was scheduled to be Pages. I am happy to come in another time to do a catch up (depending on what is available at the Centre) or to hold the class here at my house on another day. We can discuss this on our first day back which is 5 February.

See you all sometime during the term (depending on which sessions you are coming to!)

Sally

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Feedback for 2012 classes

I'm hoping everyone will have a spare 2 minutes to answer these 3 quick questions which help me with planning for next year.

See you next Monday for our last class of the year.


Monday, November 19, 2012

planning for 2013

Hi everyone,

This morning we talked about what the morning class will be doing in 2013. Now that I have the dates I've put together a rough plan. Please let me know what you think via comments at the bottom of this post.

Term 1

  • Week 1, 4 February: Pages
  • Week 2, 11 February: Pages
  • Week 3, 18 February: Word for Mac
  • Week 4, 25 February: Word for Mac
  • 4 March: SCCCC Meeting
  • Week 5, 11 March: File Management (need to think of a snazzier name for this!)
  • Week 6, 18 March: Web Search Skills
  • 25 March: Easter Monday
  • Week 7, 1 April: iPhoto
  • Week 8, 8 April: iPhoto

For those who weren't able to come this morning, you are welcome to attend all of the classes or just the ones that suit you.

A bit of news from Beverley: the club has received a grant to purchase two Macbooks that we will be able to use!