Windows and Desktop
Date: Tuesday 15th February 2011
Course Leader: Peter Bayliss
Prerequisites: Familiar with computer, keyboard and mouse.
Presentation Topics: The concept of Windows and the Desktop. Desktop: Icons, Start menu, taskbar. Shortcuts - How to make and use them. Windows - Moving and resizing windows. Selecting active window. Using the Desktop as designed. Multiple Windows. Multiple Documents.
Practice Sessions + What you will learn: Using the start menu, icons. How to make shortcuts to Programmes and Documents. Deleting Shortcuts. Opening Windows Minimising and Maximising. Using Multiple Documents.
Get to know more about e-mails
Date: Tuesday 22nd February 2011.
Course Leader: Morris Gray
Presentation Topics: Email providers. Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo etc. Message receipts.
Practice Sessions: Tidy up your Inbox, empty “Deleted” folder
What you will learn: What Web Mail is. How to keep your Inbox free for incoming mail. Create a ‘Message Rule’
Using Outlook Express, Windows Mail
Date: Tuesday 1st March 2011
Course Leader: Morris Gray
Presentation Topics: Outlook Express, Windows Live. Advantages of using an Email programme. Import/Export your contacts.
Practice Sessions: Add sender to your Contacts. How to put your email account into Outlook Express / Windows Live.
What you will learn: How to set up your computer to check your emails.
Folders and Libraries
Date: Tuesday 8th March 2011
Course Leader: Morris Gray
Presentation Topics: Importance of keeping documents in Folders. Find folders. Create folders, copy/move documents to folders. Saving new items in a folder. Libraries, what are they and how do they work.
Practice Sessions: How to make folders, How to move items into folders. How to save new items in a Folder.
What you will learn: To understand how folders work and how to use them.
E-mail photos and attachments
Date: Tuesday 15th March 2011
Course Leader: Peter Bayliss
Presentation Topics: locating photos. Pictures and links from websites. Adding attachments and photos to emails. Resizing photos. Sending photos using Vista/Win7 and Windows Mail. Sending photos using WinXP and Outlook Express. Sending photos using Picasa and Gmail/ Windows Mail/ Outlook Express
Practice Sessions: send hyperlink in email. Send photos in email.
What you will learn: Locating files. Resizing photos. Copy and Paste Text. Put a Hyperlink into an email or document.
Using a scanner
Date: Tuesday 22nd March 2011
Course Leader: Bob Jarvis
Presentation Topics: How to scan printed photos and documents. File formats and sizes. What Optical Character recognition does.
What you will learn:
Word Processing basics
Date: Tuesday 29th March 2011
Course Leader: Eveline Adams
Presentation Topics: Basics of word processing. Including changing fonts, colours, cutting, copying and pasting, and inserting photos/graphics into text.Cut & Paste. Shortcuts, Saving documents.
What you will learn: How to produce, edit and save a simple letter.
Data Backup
Date: Tuesday 5th April 2011
Course Leader: Peter Bayliss
Presentation Topics: What to backup. Separating programs and data. Where is data. Evaluating how much data. Choose backup medium – Online/USB/Ext HD. Simple online backup. Simple backup using SyncToy.
Practice Sessions: Identifying data location and quantity. Basic backup
What you will learn: How to set up simple backup
Genealogy
Date: Tuesday 12th April 2011
Course Leader: Elaine Wareham
Presentation Topics: A look at some more sources of information for researching your family tree.
Clean up your PC
Date: Tuesday 19th April 2011
Course Leader: Peter Bayliss
Presentation Topics: How to clean up loose ends on your PC using CCLeaner
Managing your photos
Date: Tuesday 26th April 2011
Course Leader: Bob Jarvis
Presentation Topics: Downloading pictures from your camera, finding them on the hard disk. Simple editing, cropping etc. Sharing photos on the web. Advanced features such as face recognition, collages, slideshows etc..
What you will learn:
Using Powerpoint to make a presentation
Date: Tuesday 3rd May 2011
Course Leader: Morris Gray
Presentation Topics: Using Powerpoint to make a presentation
25th Anniversary Celebration
Date: Tuesday 10th May 2011
Do I need the cloud?
Date: Tuesday 17th May 2011
Course Leader: Peter Bayliss
Presentation Topics: A discussion about how we can use cloud computing to our advantage today and in the future.
What you will learn: How to share your pictures and documents on several PCs and how to avoid buying, loading and updating so many programs on your PC.
Welcome to our New Members
Date: Tuesday 24th May 2011
Course Leader: Morris Gray
"Getting to know you and what you require".
The Windows Desktop
Date: Tuesday 31st May 2011
Course Leader: Peter Bayliss
Presentation Topics: An explanation of your Desktop, using XP or Vista or Windows 7.
Genealogy. Guest Speaker
Date: Tuesday 7th June 2011
Presenter: Mike Rendell
Presentation Topics: How Mike became a book author after researching his family tree. His book 'The Journal of a Georgian Gentleman' is a factual account of the life of his 4X great grandfather compiled from family papers and includes many illustrations from the original pages of his diaries and includes his commentaries on many of the events that we look upon as history but were current news events for him.
The Internet
Date: Tuesday 14th June 2011
Course Leader: Peter Bayliss
Presentation Topics: More about your Browser. Searching the Internet. Hyperlinks. Browser buttons and options. Bookmarks. Toolbars. Internet Safety.
ISPs,Gmail and Windows Mail
Date: Tuesday 21st June 2011
Course Leader: Morris Gray
Presentation Topics: What is an ISP? How to get a Gmail account. Getting the best out of Windows Mail.
WEBMAIL
Date: Tuesday 28th June 2011
Course Leader: Peter Bayliss
Presentation Topics: Using Gmail, Yahoo Mail and Hotmail.
"Libraries, Files and Folders"
Date: Tuesday 5th July 2011
Course Leader: Morris Gray
Presentation Topics: What are Libraries? How to use Windows Explorer. Finding Files. Copy and Paste.
"Malware and How to Avoid it"
Date: Tuesday 12th July 2011
Course Leader: Peter Bayliss
Presentation Topics: Anti Virus software. Anti-Spyware. Firewalls.
"Understanding Your Photos"
Date: Tuesday 19th July 2011
Course Leader: Bobv Jarvis
Presentation Topics: Loading your Photos from your camera to your PC. Storing them. Simple editing. Viewing photos as a slide show.. Sharing photo albums.
"WORD PROCESSING BASICS"
Date: Tuesday 26th July 2011
Course Leader: Peter Bayliss
Presentation Topics: How to produce a simple, but professional-looking, formatted letter. Fonts. Formatting.
Date: Tuesday 13th September 2011
OOps… I've got a problem !
What to do when things go wrong. Some common problems. Undoing your mistakes. Restoring your PC back to the way it was.
Course Leader: Peter Bayliss
Date: Tuesday 20th September 2011
Buying online
Buying from Amazon, Marks & Spencer etc. Buying on Ebay. Using Paypal. How to do it. How safe is buying over the internet.
Course Leader: Morris Gray
Date: Tuesday 27th September 2011
N.B. Workshop 10-11 a.m.Genealogy group presentation 11-12 a.m.
Keyboard Shortcuts
Sometimes you can do something much easier by pressing a combination of keys. This workshop examines some of the most useful Keyboard Shortcuts. Bring your laptop to practice!
Course Leader: Peter Bayliss
Date: Tuesday 4th October 2011
Translating documents
How to get a quick and easy translation of a document or web page from one language to another.
Course Leader: Peter Bayliss
Date: Tuesday 11th October 2011
Build a quick web site
This wokshop will demonstrate how to build a free website for you family, community, club or hobby using the same tools we use for the JCC website
Course Leader: Morris Gray
Date: Tuesday 18th October 2011
N.B. Workshop 10-11 a.m.Genealogy group presentation 11-12 a.m.
Video Clips Join together all those magical video clips captured with your still camera and make a professional production for next year´s Cannes Film Festival. Well we can dream but making a film with Titles, transitions, background music etc can be easier than you think. This workshop linked to JCC video tutorials on Youtube will guide you through each stage.
Course Leader: Sylvia Winterbottom
Date: Tuesday 25th October 2011
Managing Favorites and Bookmarks
How to manage your saved internet bokmarks and favorites including using the Bookmarks Bar.
Course Leader: Morris Gray
Date: Tuesday 1st November 2011
ebooks and ereaders
What are the advantages of ebooks and and ereaders such as the Kindle? How can you manage your ebook library
Course Leader: Jackie Pamflett
Date: Tuesday 8th November 2011
Provisional - Get the best from your camera
How to get the best from your digital camera. Some photography tips to help you capture the best image.
Course Leader: Bob Jarvis
Date: Tuesday 15th November 2011
Making a presentation album from your digital photographs
Following on from the previous session this workshop will examine more aspects of digital photograpy.
Intro to Digital Photography SIG
Course Leader: Sylvia Winterbottom
Date: Tuesday 22nd November 2011
N.B. Workshop 10-11 a.m.Genealogy group presentation 11-12 a.m.
Create an Address book for Xmas cards using Excel
Following on from the earlier presenation about using Excel to store tables, this workshop will revise the sort of things you might use Excel for and move on to using Excel to store a list of addresses for Christmas cards.
Course Leader: Peter Bayliss
Date: Tuesday 29nd November 2011
Mail merge for Christmas cards
This workshop will show how to print address labels for your Christmas cards, using an address list stored in Excel
Course Leader: Peter Bayliss
Date: Tuesday 6th December 2011
Desktop Publishing - Christmas newsletter
This workshop will show how to produce a Christmas Newsletter using a desktop publishing package.
Course Leader: Reg Cutts
2012
Tuesday 17th January
Getting started with your Kindle
Get some help in starting to use your Kindle and share your experiences. Jacki Pamflett .
Tuesday 24th January
Web site building
Do you have a web site? Want to share tips and tricks with other members?
For more info see the Website Dabblers page.
Tuesday 31st January
Worskhop/Lecture: A revision of the most important tips and tricks for your PC
Leader: Peter Bayliss
Tuesday 7th February
Getting the best out of Windows 7
New to Windows 7?. Peter Bayliss
Tuesday 14th February
WORKSHOP……."General Help"
Please contact a member of the committee in advance to arrange for someone with suitable experience to be available to help you.
Tuesday 21st February
Getting started with your Kindle
Due to popular demand Jacki Pamflett will run another session for those who want some help in starting to use their Kindles. An addition one of our members will recount his experience of getting his book published on Amazon.
Tuesday 28th February
WORKSHOP……."General Help"
Please contact a member of the committee in advance to arrange for someone with suitable experience to be available to help you. Also
Genealogy Presentation - Dating old photographs - by Jill Nixon
Tuesday 6th March
What is the Windows Control Panel?
This is the "ship's bridge" of your computer. Probably an unfortunate analogy but Morris Gray will show you how to control the engine room of your computer.
Tuesday 13th March
WELCOME to new members"
Tuesday 20th March
A Introduction to an Android Tablet - PROVISIONAL"
Scotty will show how these little devices that are rapidly becoming more popular and taking over "computing" tasks for people on the move.
Tuesday 27th March
WORKSHOP……."General Help"
Please contact a member of the committee in advance to arrange for someone with suitable experience to be available to help you. Also
Genealogy - Presentation
