Shoutbox

explain how computers work to your grandparent[s)?
i dunno how to explain mine...

it is impossible i have tried i have to go over there every other week to fix the computer for them.

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Originally posted by nimicitor
first off, tell them you charge by the hour

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be a millionaire by the time they understand
Must be possible though, we all had to learn at one stage.

1.Tell them how to turn on the pc

2.Tell them how to open Solitaire

3.Tell them how to use the mouse

4.Sit back and relax

(this isent a joke as this is how I taugh my grandma how to use the  pc...its the only thing she can do )

my grandparents cant even use a dvd player...

Would be a complete waste of time because they are quite the opposite. Computer have memory, they don't........

if you could see myt face rite now it would look like this

On both sides of my family my nan's seem really interested to learn on computers. They both talk to me on msn.
One downloads her old people music and makes her own custom cds. She also knows how to burn dvds.
The other one uses her digital camera and scanner almost daily to email to friends the art type stuff they do in classes.
Through both myself and my dads explaining plus their eagerness to learn they have gained quite some knowledge. Sure everynow and then we still have to go over and fix stuff. but thats expected.
I also found showing them how to do something and writing the steps down on paper so they could follow them later works really well.

im gonna try to teach em..
but they know i can get almost any info but i dunno how to explain them from where it comes
thanks 4 links beamy

There's usually free classes for OAP's to go to which teaches them to use computers, my grandparents went before. It's completely free. They have classes at my school and usually in community places which have computers

Look in local newspaper