By Ron Doyle, Administrator | February 16, 2010 - 3:45 pm - Posted in WSVA Show Notes
Mentioned on today’s show:
- Learning curve will be large if you’ve never used computers.
- Courses at BRCC and MTC which are excellent
- I have had students from 16-96
- Retired person 96 who just wanted to learn more
- One woman in 80s who had a hobby and wanted to sell her hobby online.
- I taught her to build her own web site and did a great job and sold her items
- Desktop or Portable?
- Screen Size
- Can change text and graphics in most all programs
- Size of monitor may be hard to navigate if too small
- Still need “room” to move around on the screen.
- Weight
- My backpack weighs 11 lbs. would that be feasible for all?
- How much do you want to carry around for a Notebook (~5-8 lbs.)
- Small Netbook computers (~2 lbs.)
- Tablet – iPad all the rage as of yesterday (~1 lb.)
Tags: citizen, computer, computer help, Jeff Ishee, Jim Britt, newspaper column, Ron Doyle, senior, WVSA
