SeniorNet success by Joanna Manson
Keeping up with today’s youth is no mean feat for the older generation but using technology as a tool to make life easier is proving to be a success with SeniorNet training courses and workshops in Dargaville.
A SeniorNet course in progress
Kaihu Valley School
Gwen Aldersley who is approaching 78 said she has found SeniorNet to be “fun and a great teaching medium.” After learning more about the PowerPoint programme she has found a way to satisfy her artistic wishes. “I use PowerPoint for my holiday photos and to share my message when taking a sermon at church,” she said. Heather Cashin who coordinates the workshops and courses at SeniorNet said the idea is to “teach them it’s not too difficult to do. “Once they have achieved, they feel so proud to take part in today’s society. It is about keeping our age group up
with what is normal for young people,” she said. Westpac have also partnered with SeniorNet throughout New Zealand and have designed a training programme that is generic to all banks to help teach internet banking. Heather says this helps restore confidence in online banking safety. SeniorNet will be offering two workshops in February, one on social media which will look at Facebook and Vlogging, and the other will look at using the Google search engine. They hold a free open day the third Monday of every month at 1pm.
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Passionate about performing by Anna Harding
Maungaturoto teenager Molly Curnow is the recipient of the Otamatea repertory theatre’s senior youth scholarship for 2016. Molly will use the money to help pay for her trip in April to the National Youth Drama School, in Hastings. “The scholarship has been running for about 20 years,” says Maura Flower, the theatre’s treasurer, musical director and vocal coach. The recipient can use the money as they choose “for their arts, such as lessons or buying a good guitar.” Molly says she’s “thrilled, it makes going to NYDS so much easier. I’m really honoured as there were so many that applied to it. “The course that I’ll be doing this year is screen acting for film and television. The course that I did last year was musical theatre.” Molly says she hopes to Molly winning the Heather Blyth Trophy at the “learn about the industry and Northland Performing Arts Festival last year gain the skills that will be beneficial for a successful career in theatre since I was about eight years acting and also make heaps of really old. I was doing singing lessons with good connections. Also meeting other Maura and she suggested that I get people who are really passionate involved with the theatre. As soon as about what I am passionate about. It’s I stepped on stage I just thrived on it, an amazing environment. “I’ve been and basically since that experience I’ve involved with the Otamatea Repertory wanted to do it for the rest of my life.”
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