Eleven Ormond Chapter members showed up for the Newsletter Workshop held in the Ormond library on July 13th. Mary Gaspary from the library conducted the class with some assistance from Cece Dougherty and me. Mary had eight computers available for the class plus one for herself that was connected to a wall projector. She led the group through various procedures with the goal of enabling each member to make a personal comment within the Newsletter. These procedures include getting on the net, adding the Newsletter to their Favorites for easy access, Linking to National headquarters by the use of the logo provided, and surfing the NARFE web site. Mary also made sure that every participant had made at least one Comment within the Newsletter. They were encouraged to copy something within the newsletter and then paste that information into Word. Everyone also explored the Archives which is part of the Newsletter.
The group responded with enthusiasm and requested more information. The Workshop was a great success!
As always there are unexpected rewards. Some were use to using a mouse to negotiate the screen, but in this case we had a touch pad. A very few had problems with the touch pad and some favored the pad over the mouse. Some found the material shown on the screen slightly different from their machine at home. This didn’t raise a serious problem.
Mary also showed us the library blog which was slightly different but gave everyone another prospective. As stated before the whole experience was very informative and a success.
Those attending the Workshop were: Cece Dougherty, John lowe. Marguerite Hiemenz, Mary Araya, Lee Sherman, Marie Donahue, Ron Richardson, Freeda Dowson and John Dowson. See the pictures above.
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The workshop was a huge success. We all learned from it. Thanks Bob for going to so much trouble.
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