With the closure of all face to face learning sessions due to Covid 19, Bayswater SeniorNet instituted regular Zoom sessions. These have proved very popular for members and visitors, and we have been fortunate to have many members from MSNAI(Mac SeniorNet Auckland Inc) attend as well. Zoom sessions planned for the next few weeks are[…]
Category: Success Stories
Skills and Confidence
With the skills and confidence I gained at SeniorNet I achieved more than I could ever have imagined. At the end of my first year at High School my teacher wrote on my report ‘Ruth has shown the ability to write short stories that capture the interest of the reader’ (or words to that effect!)[…]
SeniorNet has enriched my life
By Noeline Taylor Join SeniorNet at least that is what the article said. As a rather inexperienced user of the computer these words caught my eye. Bravely I rang the number given and was immediately asked if I would like to tutor. Panic!! However this was soon sorted out and I attended the next meeting.[…]
OPEN DAY AT SENIORNET NELSON
Every year Seniornet Nelson holds an Open day early in February. It is always held on a Saturday between 10am – 1 pm. A lot of preparation goes into making the day a success. This year was no different. The weather was fine and sunny, the preparation was complete and the crowds turned up in[…]
Nelson Botanical Society appreciates our facilities.
Recently the Nelson Botanical Society hired the SeniorNet Learning Centre to learn how to use a new interactive computer based key, which will enable identification of any of the 53 species of Coprosma currently recognized in New Zealand. Lindsay Hunter also attended, not just to keep a watchful eye on the computers, but also out[…]
Computer Lessons a Real God-send
By Olga Fleming When I went along to the first meeting of SeniorNet at Wintec, Te Kuiti, in May 2001, there were four other people I knew so I decided to join. The age limit was 55 and over and as I was so much older I thought I had a bit of a cheek[…]
SeniorNet Horowhenua hosts Scaredy Cats
A very sharp lady from the Waiopehu Women’s Institure Travel Section (age 92) phoned me to see if we could come and speak to her group about computers as their families were bullying them to ‘get with it’ and most were scaredy cats about technology. She said there were about 12 of them – so[…]
SeniorNet Mac. Christchurch
By Margaret Hatton The good news is that since Friday 1st April, SeniorNet Mac has been up and running. thanks to the generosity of our treasurer Margaret Harvey. Our Learning Centre is situated in the pool house at the Cranmer Centre [Old Christchurch Girl’s High campus.] This solid concrete block edifice, built in the middle[…]
You are never too old to learn
Pictured is Mrs Doris Williamson from Toko, who at the age of 91, is currently learning computing at SeniorNet Stratford. Mrs Williamson was a librarian at the National Library in Wellington for twenty years. In 1984, she retired to Newtown, and in the late 1990’s, moved to Toko to be near to her family.At the[…]
Horowhenua SeniorNet Success Story
My wife has been unwell for some time which is not unusual for us all as we get older. Her condition now confines her to bed which makes it more difficult for her to keep in touch with family events and celebrations. I try to keep her up to date with photos which I can[…]
