This workshop is designed for Seniors 60+ (or ATSI 50+) who have heard of the Internet but are not sure what it can offer them. You will learn how to get online, surf the net, do effective searches, and find the right Internet plan for you. Learn how to navigate and scroll through websites effectively, download files, using and storing pages in your favourites folder, change your internet browser‘s home page, enlarge a webpage, watch movies online, how to create your own email account, read and send your own emails, attaching files and replying and forwarding emails, as well as staying safe online. Completion of a Computers for Beginners course or basic windows and mouse skills required before enrolling. The Tech Savvy Seniors program is an initiative of the NSW Ageing Strategy and is funded through a partnership between the NSW Government and Telstra. Because there has been a high incidence of people enrolling and then not attending, we may charge you a nominal fee upon enrolment. If you are unable to attend any session or a whole course, or you decide not to continue, please contact the College Office and advise accordingly.

Agenda

Internet: how to get online, how to surf the net, do effective searches, and find the right Internet plan for you. Then you will be shown how to navigate and scroll through websites effectively, how to download files, using and storing pages in your favourites folder. Participants will also learn how to change their internet browser‘s home page, enlarge a webpage, watch movies online, as well as staying safe online.

Emails: Learn in detail what is email and how it works, what is the difference between an email address and website address, how to create your own email account, read and send your own emails, as well as attaching files and replying and forwarding emails.

Materials

Bring pen and paper (tea and coffee available).
Because there has been a high incidence of people enrolling and then not attending, we may charge you a nominal fee upon enrolment. If you are unable to attend any session or a whole course, or you decide not to continue, please contact the College Office and advise accordingly.

Venue

403 HUME HIGHWAY LIVERPOOL
The College office (Suite 5) and Training Rooms (Suite 8) are located at 403 Hume Highway, above Aussie Home Loans between Brinlay Paints and Little Kingdom Child Care Centre. For disabled access and those with mobility issues there is a Platform Stairlift provided contact the College office on 8080 2121 for more information.
Parking underneath the building is limited to evening and weekends with a maximum of 12 non-stacker spaces accessed via an unnamed lane off Boundary Road (behind Brinlay Paints). Unrestricted parking is available in Reilly Street, Alderson Avenue, Gill Avenue and Boundary Road west of Gill Avenue on the College (western) side of the Hume Highway and in Congressional Drive and the Collingwood Museum (including 3 disabled parking spaces) on the eastern side of the highway.
Public Transport (Go to transportnsw.info for more details). Buses connect from railway stations - the closest being Liverpool station.
Bus Routes: 851, 852, 855, 856, 857, 870, 871, 872. Going North: Bus stop on Hume Hwy (outside College - after Boundary Road). Going South: 2 Bus stops on Hume Hwy: 1. near Monteclair Avenue and 2. opposite Boundary Road.

Comments from previous students of this class

Thoroughly enjoyed the course. Lubi explained everything in detail with clarity. Lubi took her time.