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Go to your local Senior Center. The Broadband Technology Grant Program has purchased about 40 systems to be distributed throughout the city. Find out if your local Senior Center is part of that program and has a wii. I am going to be doing training with all of the Senior Center a activity directors in the next couple of weeks so that all of them will know how to supervise and manage and use the system. By this summer, there should be wii at a Senior Center near you. We urge you to try out this new activity. It is really fun to play golf, tennis, baseball, even boxing. Challenge someone you do ...

The wii. Not only will we demonstrate how to use it, but we will doe demonstrate adaptive devices so that it can be an inclusive activity for all adults and children. My name is dr. Chris thompson from the university of San Francisco. Go, dons. 1855. I have not been there that long. I am in the department of exercise and sports science. I think it is a good match for me to be demonstrating the wii, which is a good physical activity. I am joined on the stage by a student, not from usf, but from San Francisco state. We actually talk to each other. This is mackenna. Good morning. Finally, i am jo...

Is we use this little remote. Just by moving our arms, we can control movement on the screen. You will be watching up on the big screen as we play a game of tennis. Are you ready . All right. We will select two players. That is me. Does that look like me . It kind of those of does. Does that look like mackenna . That is not by chance. You can make the person look like anything you want. They can even look like aliens. Interesting. We are going to play some great tennis today. Ok. One thing to tell you, there is a little bar on top of the el it picks up the movement of our arms. Were going to f...

People have commented they cannot afford the wii. Go to your local Senior Center. The Broadband Technology Grant Program has purchased about 40 systems to be distributed throughout the city. Find out if your local Senior Center is part of that program and has a wii. I am going to be doing training with all of the Senior Center a activity directors in the next couple of weeks so that all of them will know how to supervise and manage and use the system. By this summer, there should be wii at a Senior Center near you. We urge you to try out this new activity. It is really fun to play golf, tennis...

We will select two players. That is me. Does that look like me . It kind of those of does. Does that look like mackenna . That is not by chance. You can make the person look like anything you want. They can even look like aliens. Interesting. We are going to play some great tennis today. Ok. One thing to tell you, there is a little bar on top of the television. It picks up the movement of our arms. Were going to face the television as we play. Here we go. How many of you are cheering for me . How many of you are cheering for her . What is up with that . [laughter] that is it. You are going dow...