Joan Bakewell, Patricia Routledge, Angela Rippon and Martyn Lewis have all joined in: why not you?
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Message from The SSD Team!
SSD 09 is all about participating and standing up (or, indeed, sitting down comfortably at your computer!) to be counted! The great thing about computers is you can be entertained and be counted all the same time! Click on any of the short YouTube videos scrolling below and find out why you should be a Silver Surfer and what computers can do for you…
Silver Surfers TV is a brand-new You Tube channel full of inspiring bits of film made for us by Form Media about Silver Surfers, famous, outspoken, quiet and retiring: llama trainers, cake-bakers and happiness-makers as well Joan, Angela, etc, ‘having their say’:
Patricia Routledge, who says: ‘I had a niggle; it said “catch-up”.’
Angela Rippon, who says: ‘I was very anti computers.’
Joan Bakewell, who says: ‘Pleasure, work, friendship, who would hesitate?’
Martyn Lewis, who says: ‘A computer is a doorway.’
Add comments to the channel if you can; even better, upload a film of yourself Telling a Joke and put the link in our Joke Roll .
For an overview of this and other SSD09 Live Online Events, including some little guides on the mechanics of getting involved, go here .
May 13th, 2009 gilladams | 7 Comments »
May 13th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
A great way of participating online is horsesmouth.co.uk. You can become an online mentor and use your life/work experience to help others or you can seek advice from our wide pool of mentors who can help with anything from using digital media to family problems. Horsesmouth also has a partnership with Fifty Forward who provide life development resources for the over 50s and who contribute mentors to the site.
May 14th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
I have been involved with Silver Surfers for just over two years. Thursday mornings the day we hold out sessions at the local library are the highlight of the week. As a volnteer the joy of helping people master computers. emails and the internet is great. To meet and be able to help people by passing on a little bit of knowledge is very rewarding. And when they eventually pluck up the courage to buy a computer and hook up to the internet then all one can say to oneself is “Job Done”, with a great deal of satisfaction.
May 14th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
I should like to add my support and best wishes for SSD 2009. The British Computer Society is proud to be associated with initiatives such as the Silver Surfers’Day that help to bring the power and fun of information technology to everybody.
Have a great day!
May 15th, 2009 at 7:33 am
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May 15th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Hope the day goes really well for all involved. Great too see online initiatives that can promote and sustain inclusion and community online
Best wishes
Tony
Knowledge and Website Management
Equalities in Mental Health Programme
http://www.nmhdu.org.uk
May 15th, 2009 at 7:01 pm
Thanks folks, what a truly fantastic day it’s been across the UK, online and offline so many people took SSD on and made a difference. We’ve been delighted at the energy, generosity and creativity shown in this year’s SSD. We’ll get some reporting together and keep you posted.