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Disability. The other believe that we have is that it is important to step back from what we know at listen to our clients. Has to stop putting our beliefs on them. We have to look at where people are coming from with technology. And figure out what the issues are that they are having. The big question that we often asked is, when someone is struggling, is that a disability issue or a learning curve issue . We find that the disability issues are the easy fixes. The small print, hard to use a mouse, all of that is very easy to fix. The learning curve issues are really the hard ones for most peo...

Employment program. You will see his good work here also john boswell, who came in at the last minute and help us pull this together. He did it in exchange for tyne bank hours with the Bay Area Community Exchange Time bank. If you want to know about that, you can learn about that across the hall after lunch. Finally, from the Broadband Technology opportunity program, which provides opportunities for seniors and people with disabilities to teach each other, to learn from each other, and create more connections across all of our communities. Please q the video, and after that, we will dismiss fo...

Sons when they were younger, and it is an amazing experience. My kids will be playing a game, which i am total in not understanding at all, and my kids say, jump, and i go, how . Everything that is intuitive to them is completely foreign to me. The good news is i am at no risk of becoming addicted to video games. The last point i would like to make is that the environment is really changing rapidly. 10 years ago, if we had sat down and talk about seniors and technology, a lot of people would have wondered why seniors would want to use computers, but that has shifted. Over the next few years, a...

Work with them. One of the things we do is we asked people what do you want to use a computer for . I cannot tell you how many people tell us they have never been asked that. They have been told they need to use a computer, but no one has told the what they need it for. Sometimes we hear that people do not have anything they want to use it for, but a lot of times, they have something in particular. We tried to focus on something that will give them early success. So they are going to be able to have some success with the computer. If someone wants to be able to email their grandchildren so the...

Be able to tell you about two things before lunch. As you know, this is the middle of a process to train and teach more people how to use computers. We wanted to showcase a little bit of what folks are learning out there. First, we will show a video, and then wind up linda will explain about lunch. I know a few people have slipped over there, but i ask everyone to be quiet for a few minutes. There is plenty to go around. The video were going to show right now i got a feeling this morning at 4 00 a. M. That tells you how dedicated people were to be able to produce it and have it here today. I w...