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The Young at Heart Get Connected Seniors Online I teach computer basics and applications at the Lake County Vocational-Technical Center in Florida. Family Circle Computers Made Easy magazine makes my job of explaining how computers work much easier. The population of beginners is aging in proportion to the number of people who learn the basics in school or on the job. Now, at least 60 percent of our students are senior citizens desperate to catch up with a technology that didn't exist during their educational and work years. They want to communicate with their kids and grandchildren using e-mail and go online to explore the Web. For some people, making the attitude adjustment is simply too much. Maybe you could address the senior group in your magazine. The most compelling areas of interest for my students seem to be genealogy, sports and investments. Mary F. Bodanza Here in Sun City Center, Florida, we have over 600 computer-club members who are always on the alert for easy-to- understand information. In my computer beginners' class, the teacher often recommends computer magazines for us to read, but we said that most of the information contained in those magazines is way over our heads. I have told many people here and have also e-mailed friends about your marvelous magazine. Keep up the good work. Bea Horn Before retiring, I was employed at the University of California in Irvine as director of the testing office. Part of my responsibility was to set up a database for placement and language-testing programs. Although I know a little about computer programming, I know nothing about how the machine itself works. Today, I still maintain contact with the university through my laptop. Now that I'm responsible for my own computer problems, I'm forced to learn more about its inner workings in order to solve the problems that in the past would have been solved by calling the university's computer support staff. Thank you for helping to make that learning process a little bit easier. |
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