GRADUATION 2nd time around

WHOOPEEE!!. Thank you Computers In Homes Participants in Herekino, Whangape, Manukau, Broadwood, Diggers Valley, Pawarenga, Panguru, Mitimiti. You have all done yourselves proud, by attending, the classes, and putting yourself up against the COMPUTER. Classes were held on a Wednesday afternoon and evening, and also on Thursday morning and afternoon. The classes were fun, the students interacted with each other, they learnt off each other as well as what they were taught from the tutors. Personally i thoroughly enjoyed the digital lesson, where I downloaded photos I had taken of the participants onto one of the participants computers, showed her how to put it onto her nano(flashdrive), then she in turn showed another classmate, they were rapt( so was I, for remembering how to do it) and so on until they had all had a turn and the photos were on their flashdrives. That is practical learning, and showing them NOT DOING it FOR THEM, is a far better way for the participants to"CLICK" . After an interesting 10 full-on weeks of learning the basics, and tripping over the basics, the participants graduated, with "flying" colours, and were presented with their well-deserved computer, a certificate, and a bag containing their Parent Pack- along with other computer goodies.Kelvin Davis, prospective MP for Labour, John Carter (and wife) MP for National, Colin Hogg, representative for the Mayor, all attended and expressed to the audience how important it is to keep and be in touch with family and friends via the computer, so even playing "SOLITAIRE" will definitely upgrade your skills, giving you those motor-skills we all need. The participants who were the V.I.P'S of the night, were very very shy, but humbled and excited and ecstatic all rolled into one on the grad night. Doug Greaves, (who first got Janine, Denise into going to Wellington), was also an invited guest, commented on what an "achievement" he has seen tonight and that most of the graduates were his relations. It has been a valuable and excellent learning experience for the graduates we have helped, to become computer game, and not scared any more of pushing the delete button. So, on behalf of the project Co-ordinators and all personnel connected to Computers In Homes Herekino, THANK YOU to all the above communities for getting behind your children-mokopuna and slowly closing the digital-divide, that affects so many families across the globe. We have achieved our roll-out of 50 (fifty) Computers In Homes families, thanks to the many people who want to become learners along with their whanau. TENA KOUTOU, TENA KOUTOU, TENA KOUTOU KATOA.