On Thursdays beginning in mid-September, the Merrill Enrichment Center will host Sip & Swipe Cafe, a program designed to help older adults learn their way around a tablet. A tablet is a small computer, with everything inside one little unit. It is compact, portable, and allows for the ability to browse the internet and turn pages, literally at your fingertips.
Key concepts of the program will include:
•The basics – Tapping a touchscreen, enlarging and shrinking a page, scrolling up and down, where icons/buttons are located, how to get keyboard to appear AND disappear.
•Internet Safety and Searching
•Communicating – texting, video-calling, email by either getting a Gmail account (or if learner has an email account how to access on tablet).
• How to use YouTube, the camera, attaching photo to email, apps (what are they, how to download them and how to delete).
Sip & Swipe Cafe will run in two sessions. The first session begins Thursday Sep.12, Sep. 19, Sep. 26 and Oct. 4. The second sessions runs Thursdays Oct, 10- Thursday, Nov. 7. Each session will be an hour long, 10 a.m.-11 a.m. and participation in the program is free. The Merrill Enrichment Center is currently seeking volunteers to assist in coaching program participants in learning more about tablet use. Those inteested in becoming a volunteer coach, to encourage, support and help answer questions, are asked to call the Merrill Enrichment Center for more information at (715) 536-4226.
Sip & Swipe Cafe is made possible through Generations on Line, a 19-year-old grant-funded, national nonprofit.