Libraries I.T. Services

Taster Sessions

Information Technology (I.T.) taster sessions are run by Thurrock Libraries for people who would like to begin to use a computer. We have trained over 1300 older people. Thurrock Libraries run the following tasters:

• Wiser for IT (sessions for beginners over 50).
• IT for young parents who want to return to work.

Our I.T. Tasters are organised into five sessions (two hours per week for five weeks).

Guidelines for organising and running sessions

We provide guidelines to the people who organise and run the sessions:

• Facilitator guidelines
• Library manager or supervisor guidelines
• People's Network Manager guidelines

If any of the guidelines apply to you, please read them carefully.

Agreement and assessment forms

The following forms are all PDF files - please see how to access PDF files.

• Volunteer Facilitators' agreement form (PDF 66.7kB)
• Assessment form to be filled in by facilitators once per series (PDF 58.1kB)
• Assessment form to be filled in by attendees after each session (PDF 50.4kB)

We do offer other computer taster sessions e.g.

• Designing of greeting/invitiation cards.
• Saving documents and burn onto a CD.
• scanning, photocopying, and laminate documents.
• Using digital camera and downloading pictures.

Also our popular half term activites available from time to time e.g. designing your web sites (school children aged 10-16).

Please do contact your nearest library for future events.

Contact us

If you are interested in joining a taste session?
Do you have ideas about other introductory sessions we could run?
If you do then email libraries.it@thurrock.gov.uk.

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