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Anne Donnelly, DU Tutor, Northumberland here: I was lucky enough to be involved in four Silver Surfers’ events spread over four weeks – it would have been less but we had technical problems!

It began with a one-to-one session with an experienced surfer in Cramlington and ended with a group of nine people learning about Google Maps and Street View at Blyth Library.

Along the way the learners from one of the Virgin Media PTAP schemes were keen to show off their skills to residents of other local sheltered housing schemes and McCarthy & Stone invited some visitors to improve their online skills.

Read more details of the events on my blog.

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We won the prize draw!

All thanks go to Sally, who with her organizational skills and enthusiasm has made it a day to remember here at Brecon Library in Powys, Wales.

Everyone has gone home with that wonderful feeling of learning something new, and wanting to know more.

My thanks to all the staff, who are fantastic!

Jan Holmes

Across Hampshire we’ve got loads of events going on thanks to GREAT work by volunteers in libraries, schools, community centres, colleges and our record office.

There’s been a super team working on our SS2009 campaign over the last 6 months our first goal was to meet around bonfire night!  A lot of our venues have been holding silver surfer events for the last 6 years and they really enjoy helping people to connect – thanks everyone.

Our launch event at Romsey School was Read the rest of this entry »

Eagerly anticipating the arrival of our next group of Silver Surfers (has anybody got suggestions for a good collective noun?)

It’s always a buzz to open up the Internet world to the uninitiated!

Today we’ll be using’my guide’ (http://www.myguide.gov.uk) to demonstrate + practise email – this is an excellent site for beginners; but … we do have problems accessing it sometimes – can anybody out there recommend any other really good, free email providers, specially suitable for beginners? Read the rest of this entry »

Morning! Happy Silver Surfers’ Day – Digital Unite Team (Gill version) here: Hope the day goes well for all of you. The video below (another triumph for Flip Mino in spite of my slightly shaky hand in the paparazzi hubbub!) was edited in Windows Moviemaker (standard on a Windows machine; I’d never used it before so it must be highly intuitive), then uploaded to YouTube after yesterday’s celebration of Silver Surfers’ Day at Greenlawns sheltered housing in Woolwich which is also home to a vibrant UK online centre. Greenlawns invited Minister of State, DWP (special responsibility for ‘Positive Attitudes to Ageing’), Rosie Winterton who had a little lesson from Daniel…watch the results, below. (For other fine silver surfers’ films, including Joan Bakewell, Angela Rippon, Martyn Lewis and Patricia Routledge, see here.)
 

Hi, Great to watch from Ireland where Bealtaine, Ireland’s nationwide celebration of creativity in older age is in full swing. Look here; http://www.bealtaine.com or peek at a project here http://www.themagpiesnest.ie that features an amazing family tree. Bealtaine’s in its 14th year, takes place in every County. Read the rest of this entry »

Silver Surfers’ Day Event at Sainsbury’s Park Farm, Folkestone Kent on Friday 15th May

Channel Chamber of Commerce and the business community in Folkestone are holding a free taster session for Silver Surfers’ Day on Friday 15th May at Sainsbury’s in Park Farm Folkestone.

This event on National Silver Surfers day (SSD09) sees the launch of our Folkestone Digital Mentoring programme. We will be setting up laptops with mobile internet (thanks to chamber members o2) at Sainsbury in Park Farm, Folkestone from 10am until 4.00pm on Friday 15th May.

The aim is to Read the rest of this entry »

Chesham High School‘s commitment to older learners and IT, goes from strength to strength (see earlier posting here ).

This report from Siobhan Bygate, Head of Humanities at Chesham High School, Bucks, talks of a school working with sheltered housing, a local older person’s group and with schools in Africa and Paris, using live webcam debate: Read the rest of this entry »

It’s all getting very exciting watching the SSD events getting logged on the site: just have a look for yourself using the drop down on SSD pages

Hampshire is in the lead with an amazing SEVENTY THREE EVENTS yes that’s right, 73. But that’s not to diminish the turn out all over the UK, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales all waving their flags too.

Where are the good folk of Beds., Read the rest of this entry »

This might be useful for event-holders who want publicity in local Press/media: just cut and paste what follows into an email and send to local Press. Find your local press contact details here. (For more advice on publicising your event, go here.) Read the rest of this entry »