Janet Elizabeth's computing activities

I enjoy helping people use computers, especially beginners. I particularly want to help disabled and older people, and here are the activities through which I do this ...

I have created a web page offering computer help for beginners. To visit my computer help page, click on the blue writing (blue clickie) in this paragraph or on the picture of a laptop computer shown on the left.

I help at the local Age Concern / Age UK computer drop-in centre. Local older people come to the computer centre to learn how to do internet browsing and e-mail. Some are regular visitors, some come as beginners.

I work as a volunteer for the BCS programme IT Can Help (punning on Information Technology Can Help), giving computer help to disabled people in their own homes.

I am running a fortnightly Beginners' Computing class for my local U3A (University of the Third Age) in 2011. We have between 6 and 15 beginners and two, three or four more experienced people helping out. Everyone seems to enjoy it.

I have been accepted as a tutor for "You Can Do Information Technology" or UCanDoIT, helping disabled people to learn to use their computers in their own homes. Because I believe in their subtitle: Behind a computer, everyone is equal.

In 2009 I created and ran a short computer training course for beginners, on behalf of the MS Society Brighton Hove and Sussex. I enjoyed running the beginners' course very much and I would like to do another one.

When I took on the RSCDS Brighton Branch Scottish dance pages in 2007, I wanted to make use of the fact, often overlooked, that the web is actually a network. I added web links to help readers find out about our venues and bands and provide instant maps for them with one click of a mouse button. The more recent dance programmes have links to videos you can watch to see how the dances are done.
The branch logo was created for me, to look like the one used by RSCDS HQ, by my friend Charles.

My first web site was in 2006, for UCU Brighton. I used the colours of the UCU logo and a menu and looking like the UCU.org.uk pages of that time. I wanted a very clear content area, no more frames and as few tables as possible. (The UCU Brighton site is no longer run by me.)