Adult Learners Week

Hey guys,

Anyone got any good ideas for Adult Learners Week?? I am thinking of a day's session that has a few elements within it, that I can then replicate in other venues across the county... i have a few thoughts, but would like to come up with something that isn't going to be provided by other IT providers during this week.

Cheers guys,

Extension Activity Task 1 - facebook slides

Facebook. Everything you wanted to know about it and nobody has told you from Jordi Graells

This is a really good slide show of facebook - security and settings, a 'how to' approach.

First Task (Task 1) - 27 March 2013 - Face Book Closed Group

My project is to get a group of keen residents of an ‘extra care’ residency in Prestatyn, where I am volunteering at the moment, onto Facebook and to create a ‘Closed Group’ page for their sole use.

My idea is that they could use their ‘closed group’ page as a meeting area for chat, sharing of photos/links, and to discuss their hobbies and interests.  With the residents being of ‘extra care’ they sometimes perhaps don’t feel like coming down to the public lounge area, this page would mean they could keep in touch with their friends and up to date with any news without it being on full view on facebook.

I will be creating a Blog and posting information on how a ‘Closed Group’ is beneficial and the safety of using social network sites, this information will be aimed at the residents, but you may also find it of benefit.

(hopefully I have done this right, fingers crossed) 

First Task - Deadline 27th March

I will use Screencast to create a "How-To" for YouTube.
This will guide the user through the processes involved with creating a YouTube account, uploading video clips, maintaining copyright, promoting their channel and potentially generating income. 

First task - Alex Fairclough, idea 2

My second project idea is a blog dedicated to teaching people how to play basic musical instruments. It is a collation of useful sites, blogs, forums, videos and tutorials.
I taught myself to play guitar and banjo using Internet forums but found I had to research and constantly go back and forth between sites so I felt by embedding useful media within this blog would make it easier to get around.

First task - Alex Fairclough

My project idea is to create a group page on Facebook which is a help page for users. Beneficiaries will learn how to sign up and use a Facebook account within their training, and will add the help page as a group. This help page will be used by all project beneficiaries and therefore when people post problems they encounter with their digital technology, there will be a wealth of knowledge shared. Not only will this encourage interaction and improve self confidence, but it will also reinforce the learning from the training session. 

First Task Deadline 27th March - Steve Robinson

Here is my brainstorm of what will be covered in my introduction Facebook course that I can deliver to beneficiaries in Wrexham and Flintshire to enable them to get started with using Facebook.

If demand was there this could also be extended to provide an introduction to Twitter.

Ideally I would deliver this using a projector and screen so that everyone can see exactly what I am doing as I go along and follow on their laptops or tablets.