Monday, February 22, 2010

Computer Lessons for the senior citizens.

We have an old adage from where I come. It goes " if you couldn't bend the seedling, bending the tree is out of question". This adage manifested itself in front of me more than once as I was trying to teach my double-graduate soft skills challenged mom the basic use of computers. The mistake we do is we 'assume' they have to know some basic stuff. It blows yours mind at the way they struggle with some things which are allegedly simple like say keyboard and mouse use.

I am starting this blog as an ongoing journal of the small baby steps to take to achieve complete computer literacy for the generation that missed out on the wonderful world of computers and internet.

Pre-requirements are:

1>The course assumes you right-handed. My mom is, so ..
2>Ability to read and understand instructions in English.
3> Ofcourse access to a computer with an external mouse.

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