Eldorado Library offers beginners computer class

Eldorado Library offers beginners computer class

Starts from the basic basics

Tom Kane

tkane@dailyregister.com

Eldorado

Have you ever been in a basic computer class and wished there was a class even more basic?

If so, then Eldorado Library has the perfect class for you.

"I did not know how to turn my computer on when I started this class two years ago," said Linda Morrissette of Eldorado. "Now, I am on Facebook, I send and receive email and I can download and transmit photos."

The class is taught by Donna Barnett, a former teacher at Eldorado Elementary. Retired now, she teaches the class mainly for the fun of it.

"This is the very basic basics. I want to get people comfortable with computers. Here at the library the computers are Windows based but I am not afraid to teach the Macintosh computers. If someone brought in a laptop I am not afraid to work with it," she said.

Homer Pinkley, 75, is also from Eldorado and a student in the class.

"When I started I had no skills at all. That was two years ago. Now I am importing photos and transferring images from old Kodachrome slides to digital."

He has a lab convert the slides to digital files on a disc. Then he takes it from there, importing the files of the Kodachromes to his computer and sending them to Facebook or anywhere he wants.

"I have slide from 1965-66 when I was studying the Kofan tribe on the Ecuador-Columbia border in South America. I was doing a paper for my Ph.D. at Harvard. I got the doctorate in biology partly because of that study."

Teacher Barnett said the course title is "Real Beginners Computer Class." Students may join at any time and the open lab class is offered 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Monday.

There are more formal classes from 10 a.m. to noon and 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

On Tuesdays and Wednesdays lab is offered from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m., 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.