Day 4 Personal Profiles

Personal profiles; something I would hate to do, yet I get the class to make one, why you say, because I want them to use the skills they have been learning and I also want them to learn new skills like inserting photos into documents and being able to move those photos around. No easy task I must say. Most of the parents are so willing to get their photo taken by me. If I was one of them I would be fighting it tooth and nail, I can tell you. Most of the class is getting good at the simple things like saving, save as and using the keyboard more smarter (I hope this is from good teaching, LOL). We have three parents who are just so on to it that I am not sure if there is anything I can teach them. I hope I do them some justice. We had two new people join our group today; one a pro and a new teacher who is yet to find a job somewhere (anyone out there need a BT?) and a real newbie. When this woman came to me she told me that she knows nothing about computers. Welll I beg to differ, this woman is brilliant. Not only did she set up her email address, on Google, but she managed to send me an email and start her profile and insert a picture. Big ups for her. I don't think there was a language barrier there at all I say, or maybe it was because my brilliant assistant Tania was helping her. When the session finished this wonderful woman gave me a bar of chocolate mousse chocolate from Cadbury. How lucky could I be, not only did I need a boost to keep me going til I got home but it was such a lovely surprise for all concerned. Today in class our computers were all going and there was no hassles at all. Everyone just got on with the tasks at hand and as usual no complaints. One of our parents is so lovely that everything I say she just soaks it all up, so much so that she quickly finished her vocab document so she could get on and do her profile. However, she is not wearing her glasses and this is a shame because she would do well if she could see the keys properly. You remember the new lady I said was a teacher well she is helping the wonderful lady I spoke about previously with her vocab list (fantastic, teachers are so wonderful). One of our parents that started on Monday has already finished her profile and is now manipulating her photo. Did ou know that she wrote all her profile in te reo Maori, oh how wonderful. Well we only have about three weeks of sessions left before each and everyone of our students in class will graduate and get to take their computers home with them and start learning and teaching along side their children. I am so excited about this because I feel that computers are the way of the future for our children and that they learn more using them. Hopefully this is true, anyone have any ideas or thoughts?